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 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 295 232
Rank change year-on-year +121 -63 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 782 278 817
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.09% 0.82% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.92% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 571 210 528
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -5.13%

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 67,793 30,227 69,426
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.42% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 46,899 17,289 49,174
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +115 265 £72,500 +18.37% 53
South East +78 171 £65,000 +13.04% 48
North West +95 166 £70,000 +16.67% 35
South West +47 152 £75,000 - 11
Midlands +43 99 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Yorkshire +30 89 £80,000 +39.13% 14
West Midlands +13 66 £62,000 -4.62% 10
East of England 0 64 £60,000 -9.56% 8
East Midlands -15 33 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Scotland +10 13 £50,000 -47.37% 13
North East -47 10 £45,000 -30.77% 4
Wales -47 8 £55,000 +8.93% 7
Northern Ireland -54 5 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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.

1 331 (42.33%) Azure
2 233 (29.80%) AWS
3 154 (19.69%) Security Cleared
4 153 (19.57%) Terraform
5 149 (19.05%) DevOps
6 131 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 125 (15.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (14.58%) Microsoft
9 107 (13.68%) CI/CD
10 104 (13.30%) Kubernetes
10 104 (13.30%) SC Cleared
11 91 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
12 83 (10.61%) PowerShell
13 76 (9.72%) Cloud Security
14 75 (9.59%) Agile
15 74 (9.46%) Containerisation
16 71 (9.08%) GCP
17 63 (8.06%) Cloud Operations
18 61 (7.80%) DNS
19 59 (7.54%) Python
20 56 (7.16%) High Availability
20 56 (7.16%) IaaS
20 56 (7.16%) VMware
21 54 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
22 52 (6.65%) Active Directory
23 51 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
24 49 (6.27%) Entra ID
25 47 (6.01%) Problem-Solving
26 46 (5.88%) Azure Certification
27 44 (5.63%) Azure AKS

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 17 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.51%) IIS
4 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 331 (42.33%) Azure
2 233 (29.80%) AWS
3 71 (9.08%) GCP
4 56 (7.16%) IaaS
5 51 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (6.27%) Entra ID
7 44 (5.63%) Azure AKS
8 38 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (4.09%) GitHub
10 31 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (3.84%) Azure Key Vault
12 29 (3.71%) Azure Storage
13 28 (3.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 27 (3.45%) PaaS
14 27 (3.45%) SaaS
15 21 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.69%) Nutanix
16 20 (2.56%) OCI
17 19 (2.43%) Serverless
18 18 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (7.80%) DNS
2 37 (4.73%) Firewall
3 20 (2.56%) DHCP
3 20 (2.56%) VPN
4 12 (1.53%) Network Security
4 12 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
4 12 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.02%) VLAN
6 5 (0.64%) DMZ
6 5 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.64%) SAN
6 5 (0.64%) STUN
6 5 (0.64%) VoIP
7 3 (0.38%) WAN
8 2 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.26%) LAN
9 1 (0.13%) Broadband
9 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.13%) HTTP
9 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.77%) MySQL
3 6 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.38%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.38%) Metadata
7 2 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.26%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.26%) Power BI
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (2.05%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.79%) GitLab
3 7 (0.90%) Git
4 5 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.13%) JIRA
7 1 (0.13%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (5.88%) Finance
1 46 (5.88%) Social Skills
2 35 (4.48%) Law
3 11 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (1.41%) Manufacturing
4 7 (0.90%) Aerospace
4 7 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (0.77%) Banking
5 6 (0.77%) Public Sector
5 6 (0.77%) Retail Banking
6 5 (0.64%) Automotive
6 5 (0.64%) Legal
7 4 (0.51%) Billing
7 4 (0.51%) Marketing
7 4 (0.51%) Retail
8 3 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.26%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.13%) Advertising
10 1 (0.13%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.13%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.41%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.15%) YAML
3 7 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.77%) Loki
4 6 (0.77%) OpenID
4 6 (0.77%) SAML
5 5 (0.64%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (0.64%) JWT
5 5 (0.64%) OAuth
5 5 (0.64%) OAuth2
5 5 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (0.51%) AWS CDK
6 4 (0.51%) JSON
7 3 (0.38%) Django
7 3 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.38%) Node.js
7 3 (0.38%) REST
7 3 (0.38%) RESTful
7 3 (0.38%) Vue
7 3 (0.38%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (3.32%) Public Cloud
4 10 (1.28%) Driving Licence
5 9 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.02%) Security Posture
7 6 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.64%) Replication
9 4 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.51%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.38%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.24%) Windows
2 33 (4.22%) Windows Server
3 31 (3.96%) Linux
4 7 (0.90%) Debian
5 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (19.05%) DevOps
2 131 (16.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 125 (15.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (13.68%) CI/CD
5 91 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
6 76 (9.72%) Cloud Security
7 75 (9.59%) Agile
8 74 (9.46%) Containerisation
9 63 (8.06%) Cloud Operations
10 56 (7.16%) High Availability
11 54 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (6.01%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (5.50%) Root Cause Analysis
14 37 (4.73%) Disaster Recovery
14 37 (4.73%) Mentoring
15 35 (4.48%) Observability
16 34 (4.35%) Load Balancing
17 33 (4.22%) ITIL
18 28 (3.58%) Project Delivery
19 27 (3.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 83 (10.61%) PowerShell
2 59 (7.54%) Python
3 25 (3.20%) Bash
4 23 (2.94%) SQL
5 15 (1.92%) Bicep
6 10 (1.28%) C++
7 9 (1.15%) Java
8 7 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.77%) Go
10 5 (0.64%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.38%) C#
12 2 (0.26%) Groovy
12 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.26%) Ruby
13 1 (0.13%) PHP
13 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 154 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 30 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 14 (1.79%) Degree
6 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.64%) CCNP
9 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.64%) MCSE
9 5 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.38%) CISM
11 3 (0.38%) CISSP
12 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.26%) SSCP
13 1 (0.13%) IISP
13 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.53%) PCI DSS
1 12 (1.53%) SLA
2 10 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.15%) NIST
4 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.77%) QA
6 5 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 39 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (4.73%) Docker
4 26 (3.32%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.77%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.64%) KVM
8 5 (0.64%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 153 (19.57%) Terraform
2 104 (13.30%) Kubernetes
3 41 (5.24%) Ansible
4 21 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.05%) Grafana
6 14 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.51%) Argo
8 4 (0.51%) Nagios
9 3 (0.38%) Istio
9 3 (0.38%) Scalr
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.26%) Puppet
10 2 (0.26%) Rancher
11 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.13%) Graylog
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 114 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.16%) VMware
3 29 (3.71%) Oracle
4 26 (3.32%) Google
5 12 (1.53%) Dell
5 12 (1.53%) Dell Compellent
5 12 (1.53%) HP
5 12 (1.53%) Nimble Storage
6 7 (0.90%) Cisco
7 6 (0.77%) Databricks
7 6 (0.77%) Zerto
8 5 (0.64%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.64%) Veeam
9 3 (0.38%) Citrix
9 3 (0.38%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.38%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.26%) Okta
11 1 (0.13%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.13%) New Relic