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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 295 218
Rank change year-on-year +141 -77 +20
Permanent Cloud Engineer jobs 1,043 262 528
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 0.83% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 769 163 324
10th Percentile £49,800 £41,300 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,875 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
31 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,692 31,645 45,568
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.80% 90.09% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 56,217 18,688 24,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +12.38% -7.89% -5.00%

Cloud Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Cloud Engineer job postings 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 Cloud Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 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 Cloud Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +144 411 £74,750 +24.58% 18
North West +102 247 £73,205 +22.01% 10
South West +56 190 £70,000 +12.00% 11
South East +43 185 £60,000 +11.63% 26
Midlands +31 132 £60,000 - 9
Yorkshire +62 130 £75,000 +7.14% 8
West Midlands +15 88 £56,250 -13.46% 7
Scotland +19 56 £50,000 +4.17% 6
East Midlands -5 44 £100,000 +81.82% 2
East of England -52 39 £55,000 -26.67% 2
North East -42 34 £62,500 -16.67%
Wales -49 28 £55,000 -20.24% 5
Northern Ireland -81 2 £70,000 +27.27%
Cloud Engineer
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Cloud Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, Cloud Engineer job ads cited 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 Cloud Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Azure30.0%313
2AWS23.9%249
3DevOps21.4%223
4Infrastructure Engineering21.3%222
5Terraform16.9%176
6Security Cleared15.7%164
7Cloud Security15.5%162
8Platform Engineering15.4%161
9Infrastructure as Code15.1%158
10Microsoft12.0%125
11CI/CD11.3%118
12SC Cleared9.8%102
13Kubernetes9.7%101
14Python8.9%93
15Cloud Operations8.1%85
16Continuous Improvement7.7%80
16PowerShell7.7%80
18Agile7.4%77
19Collaborative Working7.1%74
20Microsoft 3656.6%69
21Entra ID6.0%63
22AWS CloudFormation5.8%61
23GCP5.6%58
23Problem-Solving5.6%58
25Cyber Intelligence5.4%56
25Docker5.4%56
27Containerisation5.3%55
28Active Directory5.0%52
29Ansible4.8%50
30Software Engineering4.6%48

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Cloud Engineer21.0%219
2Cloud Infrastructure Engineer19.2%200
3Azure Engineer13.6%142
4Security Engineer13.1%137
5AWS Engineer12.0%125
6Lead Cloud Engineer10.7%112
7Cloud Security Engineer10.6%111
8Cloud Platform Engineer10.2%106
9DevOps Engineer7.3%76
10CloudOps Engineer6.4%67
11Operations Engineer5.2%54
12Cloud Native Engineer4.7%49
12Senior Infrastructure Engineer4.7%49
14Systems Engineer4.0%42
15Senior Security Engineer3.4%35
15Support Engineer3.4%35
17Azure Infrastructure Engineer3.1%32
17Cloud Software Engineer3.1%32
19Senior Systems Engineer2.9%30
19Server Engineer2.9%30
76 Cloud Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London