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 £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 310 229
Rank change year-on-year +147 -81 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 820 268 733
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.79% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.88% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 606 199 461
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,300 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
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 69,196 30,436 61,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.68% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,796 17,494 42,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 25 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 25 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 +131 286 £71,500 +19.17% 79
South East +53 174 £65,000 +13.04% 47
North West +98 173 £70,000 +16.67% 50
South West +44 159 £75,000 +3.45% 26
Midlands +30 103 £61,000 +10.91% 29
Yorkshire +37 98 £80,000 +52.38% 24
West Midlands +24 69 £62,000 -4.62% 18
East of England +2 64 £60,000 -9.57% 14
East Midlands -10 34 £60,000 +9.09% 11
North East -37 15 £47,000 -27.69% 5
Scotland +16 14 £50,000 -47.37% 13
Wales -46 10 £55,000 +8.93% 7
Northern Ireland -63 5 - -
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 25 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.

1 346 (42.20%) Azure
2 238 (29.02%) AWS
3 163 (19.88%) Security Cleared
3 163 (19.88%) Terraform
4 162 (19.76%) DevOps
5 137 (16.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 133 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 121 (14.76%) Microsoft
8 116 (14.15%) CI/CD
9 110 (13.41%) SC Cleared
10 109 (13.29%) Kubernetes
11 102 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
12 86 (10.49%) PowerShell
13 80 (9.76%) Cloud Security
14 78 (9.51%) Agile
15 75 (9.15%) Containerisation
16 72 (8.78%) GCP
17 64 (7.80%) Cloud Operations
17 64 (7.80%) Python
18 62 (7.56%) DNS
19 61 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
20 58 (7.07%) High Availability
21 56 (6.83%) Active Directory
21 56 (6.83%) VMware
22 54 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
23 53 (6.46%) Entra ID
23 53 (6.46%) IaaS
24 52 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
25 46 (5.61%) Ansible
25 46 (5.61%) Azure Certification

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 18 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.73%) IIS
4 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.73%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 346 (42.20%) Azure
2 238 (29.02%) AWS
3 72 (8.78%) GCP
4 54 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (6.46%) Entra ID
5 53 (6.46%) IaaS
6 42 (5.12%) Azure AKS
7 39 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (4.02%) GitHub
10 31 (3.78%) Azure Key Vault
10 31 (3.78%) PaaS
11 30 (3.66%) SaaS
12 29 (3.54%) Azure Storage
13 28 (3.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 23 (2.80%) Serverless
15 22 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.56%) DNS
2 34 (4.15%) Firewall
3 21 (2.56%) DHCP
3 21 (2.56%) VPN
4 12 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
5 11 (1.34%) Network Security
5 11 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.98%) VLAN
7 5 (0.61%) SAN
8 4 (0.49%) DMZ
8 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.49%) STUN
8 4 (0.49%) VoIP
9 3 (0.37%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.24%) LAN
11 1 (0.12%) Broadband
11 1 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.12%) HTTP
11 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (1.34%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.73%) MySQL
3 5 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 5 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.37%) Metadata
6 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.24%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.12%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (1.95%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.83%) GitLab
3 9 (1.10%) Git
4 4 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.12%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (6.34%) Finance
2 47 (5.73%) Social Skills
3 39 (4.76%) Law
4 16 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.34%) Manufacturing
6 9 (1.10%) Aerospace
7 7 (0.85%) Public Sector
8 6 (0.73%) Banking
8 6 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.73%) Legal
8 6 (0.73%) Retail
8 6 (0.73%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.49%) Automotive
10 3 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.37%) Marketing
11 2 (0.24%) Billing
11 2 (0.24%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.12%) Advertising
12 1 (0.12%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.12%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.34%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.10%) YAML
3 7 (0.85%) OpenID
3 7 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.85%) SAML
4 6 (0.73%) Loki
5 5 (0.61%) JWT
5 5 (0.61%) OAuth
5 5 (0.61%) OAuth2
5 5 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (0.49%) AWS CDK
6 4 (0.49%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (0.49%) JSON
7 3 (0.37%) Django
7 3 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.37%) RESTful
7 3 (0.37%) Vue
7 3 (0.37%) WAMP
8 2 (0.24%) Node.js
8 2 (0.24%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.22%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (3.29%) Public Cloud
4 11 (1.34%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.34%) Driving Licence
5 10 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 8 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (0.98%) Security Posture
7 6 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.61%) Replication
9 3 (0.37%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.24%) Clustering
10 2 (0.24%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.37%) Windows
2 35 (4.27%) Windows Server
3 31 (3.78%) Linux
4 6 (0.73%) Debian
5 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (19.76%) DevOps
2 137 (16.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 133 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (14.15%) CI/CD
5 102 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
6 80 (9.76%) Cloud Security
7 78 (9.51%) Agile
8 75 (9.15%) Containerisation
9 64 (7.80%) Cloud Operations
10 61 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (7.07%) High Availability
12 52 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (5.37%) Root Cause Analysis
14 40 (4.88%) Disaster Recovery
15 39 (4.76%) Mentoring
16 38 (4.63%) ITIL
17 36 (4.39%) Observability
18 35 (4.27%) Load Balancing
19 32 (3.90%) Project Delivery
20 29 (3.54%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 86 (10.49%) PowerShell
2 64 (7.80%) Python
3 30 (3.66%) Bash
4 24 (2.93%) SQL
5 18 (2.20%) Bicep
6 10 (1.22%) C++
7 9 (1.10%) Java
8 7 (0.85%) Go
8 7 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.37%) C#
11 2 (0.24%) Groovy
11 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.24%) Ruby
12 1 (0.12%) PHP
12 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 163 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.61%) Azure Certification
4 32 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.59%) Degree
5 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.61%) CCNP
9 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.61%) MCSE
9 5 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.37%) CISM
10 3 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.24%) SSCP
12 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.12%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.46%) PCI DSS
1 12 (1.46%) SLA
2 10 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.10%) NIST
4 8 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.73%) QA
6 5 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.24%) GDPR
8 2 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (6.83%) Active Directory
2 42 (5.12%) Docker
3 37 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.85%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.61%) KVM
7 5 (0.61%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 163 (19.88%) Terraform
2 109 (13.29%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.61%) Ansible
4 24 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.95%) Grafana
6 14 (1.71%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.49%) Argo
8 4 (0.49%) Nagios
8 4 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.49%) Puppet
9 3 (0.37%) Istio
9 3 (0.37%) Scalr
10 2 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.12%) Graylog
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.83%) VMware
3 30 (3.66%) Oracle
4 26 (3.17%) Google
5 12 (1.46%) Dell
5 12 (1.46%) Dell Compellent
5 12 (1.46%) HP
5 12 (1.46%) Nimble Storage
6 7 (0.85%) Cisco
7 6 (0.73%) Databricks
7 6 (0.73%) Veeam
7 6 (0.73%) Zerto
8 5 (0.61%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.37%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.37%) Okta
9 3 (0.37%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.24%) Citrix
11 1 (0.12%) Commvault
11 1 (0.12%) EMC