Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 333 228
Rank change year-on-year +187 -105 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 989 229 614
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.22% 0.67% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.75% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 751 152 399
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,398 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% +2.92% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 76,456 30,703 53,516
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.33% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 53,184 17,577 33,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +148 373 £74,500 +24.17% 99
North West +123 225 £75,000 +27.66% 54
South East +86 196 £60,000 +3.90% 50
South West +55 193 £75,000 +7.14% 48
Yorkshire +53 122 £80,000 +28.00% 33
Midlands +54 119 £61,000 +10.91% 41
West Midlands +29 81 £60,000 -7.69% 17
East of England -21 59 £60,000 -20.00% 25
East Midlands -5 38 £95,000 +81.38% 24
North East -38 26 £65,000 +46.07% 12
Scotland +3 24 £50,000 +1.01% 51
Wales -43 23 £55,000 +45.76% 3
Northern Ireland -80 2 - - 19
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 September 2026, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 364 (36.80%) Azure
2 272 (27.50%) AWS
3 200 (20.22%) DevOps
4 199 (20.12%) Terraform
5 192 (19.41%) Security Cleared
6 173 (17.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 161 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
9 136 (13.75%) CI/CD
10 129 (13.04%) SC Cleared
11 120 (12.13%) Kubernetes
11 120 (12.13%) Microsoft
12 107 (10.82%) Cloud Security
13 91 (9.20%) PowerShell
14 85 (8.59%) Agile
15 80 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 79 (7.99%) Python
17 78 (7.89%) GCP
18 76 (7.68%) Cloud Operations
19 73 (7.38%) Containerisation
20 62 (6.27%) DNS
20 62 (6.27%) Docker
20 62 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
20 62 (6.27%) Problem-Solving
21 60 (6.07%) Ansible
21 60 (6.07%) Entra ID
22 57 (5.76%) Active Directory
22 57 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
23 53 (5.36%) VMware
24 48 (4.85%) High Availability

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.91%) IIS
4 2 (0.20%) Apache
4 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.61%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 364 (36.80%) Azure
2 272 (27.50%) AWS
3 78 (7.89%) GCP
4 62 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
5 60 (6.07%) Entra ID
6 57 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (4.25%) PaaS
8 41 (4.15%) IaaS
8 41 (4.15%) SaaS
9 38 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (3.64%) GitHub
10 36 (3.64%) Serverless
11 34 (3.44%) Azure AKS
12 30 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (2.93%) Azure Key Vault
14 28 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (2.63%) Amazon S3
15 26 (2.63%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.27%) DNS
2 31 (3.13%) Firewall
3 28 (2.83%) VPN
4 21 (2.12%) DHCP
5 10 (1.01%) Network Security
6 9 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (0.40%) HTTP
8 4 (0.40%) SAN
8 4 (0.40%) VLAN
8 4 (0.40%) WAN
9 3 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.20%) LAN
10 2 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.20%) Wireless
10 2 (0.20%) Wireless Security
11 1 (0.10%) Broadband
11 1 (0.10%) MQTT
11 1 (0.10%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (0.91%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.61%) MySQL
4 4 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.40%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.30%) Metadata
5 3 (0.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.20%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.20%) Power BI
7 1 (0.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.10%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 20 (2.02%) Jenkins
2 16 (1.62%) GitLab
3 12 (1.21%) Git
4 4 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.20%) Maven
5 2 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.10%) JIRA
6 1 (0.10%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 80 (8.09%) Finance
2 47 (4.75%) Law
2 47 (4.75%) Social Skills
3 22 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 13 (1.31%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.11%) Aerospace
7 10 (1.01%) Legal
8 8 (0.81%) Retail
9 6 (0.61%) Banking
9 6 (0.61%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.30%) Automotive
11 3 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.30%) Marketing
12 2 (0.20%) Local Government
12 2 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (20.12%) Terraform
2 10 (1.01%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.91%) YAML
4 8 (0.81%) AWS CDK
5 7 (0.71%) OpenID
5 7 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (0.71%) Pulumi
5 7 (0.71%) SAML
6 5 (0.51%) Loki
6 5 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (0.40%) Django
7 4 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.40%) JWT
7 4 (0.40%) OAuth
7 4 (0.40%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.40%) Vue
8 3 (0.30%) JSON
8 3 (0.30%) Kafka
8 3 (0.30%) OpenTofu
8 3 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 100 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (2.02%) Public Cloud
4 19 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.31%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.31%) Driving Licence
6 13 (1.31%) Security Posture
7 9 (0.91%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.51%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.30%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.45%) Windows
2 33 (3.34%) Windows Server
3 32 (3.24%) Linux
4 3 (0.30%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) VMS
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (20.22%) DevOps
2 173 (17.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 161 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
5 136 (13.75%) CI/CD
6 107 (10.82%) Cloud Security
7 85 (8.59%) Agile
8 80 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (7.68%) Cloud Operations
10 73 (7.38%) Containerisation
11 62 (6.27%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (4.85%) High Availability
13 47 (4.75%) Collaborative Working
14 43 (4.35%) Project Delivery
15 42 (4.25%) ITIL
16 41 (4.15%) Infrastructure Automation
16 41 (4.15%) Observability
16 41 (4.15%) Root Cause Analysis
17 37 (3.74%) AI
18 35 (3.54%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 91 (9.20%) PowerShell
2 79 (7.99%) Python
3 45 (4.55%) Bash
4 21 (2.12%) Bicep
5 20 (2.02%) SQL
6 12 (1.21%) C++
7 9 (0.91%) Java
8 8 (0.81%) Go
9 5 (0.51%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.40%) C#
10 4 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.20%) Groovy
11 2 (0.20%) Ruby
12 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.10%) PHP
12 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 192 (19.41%) Security Cleared
2 129 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.04%) DV Cleared
4 38 (3.84%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.42%) Degree
6 11 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.30%) CISM
8 3 (0.30%) CISSP
9 2 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.20%) SSCP
10 1 (0.10%) ISACA
10 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (1.11%) PCI DSS
3 9 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (0.91%) NIST
4 7 (0.71%) SLA
5 6 (0.61%) QA
6 4 (0.40%) NCSC
7 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.20%) GDPR
9 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 62 (6.27%) Docker
2 57 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.81%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.51%) vSphere
8 3 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.20%) Lustre
10 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 120 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 60 (6.07%) Ansible
3 31 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.52%) Grafana
5 14 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.91%) Puppet
8 6 (0.61%) Argo
8 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.40%) Nagios
10 3 (0.30%) Istio
10 3 (0.30%) Scalr
11 2 (0.20%) Rancher
12 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 120 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.36%) VMware
3 28 (2.83%) Oracle
4 24 (2.43%) Google
5 8 (0.81%) Sage
6 7 (0.71%) Cisco
7 6 (0.61%) Databricks
7 6 (0.61%) Dell
7 6 (0.61%) Dell Compellent
7 6 (0.61%) HP
7 6 (0.61%) Nimble Storage
7 6 (0.61%) Okta
8 4 (0.40%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.30%) Citrix
9 3 (0.30%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.30%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.30%) Splunk
9 3 (0.30%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.20%) New Relic