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 £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 309 219
Rank change year-on-year +142 -90 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 705 248 930
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.04% 0.82% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.93% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 502 185 563
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,500 £78,543
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -4.81%

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 64,029 26,778 75,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 89.04% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 44,390 14,530 54,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,350 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +99 233 £70,000 +12.00% 28
South East +76 172 £65,000 +12.07% 31
North West +93 155 £72,000 +10.77% 17
South West +33 136 £75,000 - 19
Midlands +33 85 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Yorkshire +5 67 £60,000 +14.29% 10
West Midlands +25 60 £57,500 +9.52% 9
East of England +5 57 £60,000 -9.56% 8
East Midlands -16 25 £60,000 +84.62% 4
North East -41 11 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Scotland +3 8 £77,500 -18.42% 4
Northern Ireland -25 7 - - 10
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -46 2 £68,500 +81.54% 4
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 310 (43.97%) Azure
2 225 (31.91%) AWS
3 141 (20.00%) Terraform
4 135 (19.15%) DevOps
4 135 (19.15%) Security Cleared
5 118 (16.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 108 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 104 (14.75%) CI/CD
7 104 (14.75%) Microsoft
8 96 (13.62%) SC Cleared
9 86 (12.20%) Kubernetes
10 82 (11.63%) PowerShell
11 70 (9.93%) Cloud Security
12 69 (9.79%) Containerisation
13 67 (9.50%) DNS
14 66 (9.36%) Agile
14 66 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
15 62 (8.79%) High Availability
16 61 (8.65%) GCP
16 61 (8.65%) Python
17 59 (8.37%) IaaS
18 56 (7.94%) VMware
19 51 (7.23%) Active Directory
20 48 (6.81%) Azure AKS
21 47 (6.67%) Cloud Operations
21 47 (6.67%) Entra ID
21 47 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
22 46 (6.52%) Azure Certification
22 46 (6.52%) Windows
23 45 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement

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 15 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.57%) IIS
4 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 310 (43.97%) Azure
2 225 (31.91%) AWS
3 61 (8.65%) GCP
4 59 (8.37%) IaaS
5 48 (6.81%) Azure AKS
6 47 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 47 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (4.40%) GitHub
9 30 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
10 29 (4.11%) Azure Storage
11 28 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (3.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 27 (3.83%) Nutanix
13 26 (3.69%) SaaS
14 24 (3.40%) PaaS
15 21 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 67 (9.50%) DNS
2 44 (6.24%) Firewall
3 27 (3.83%) DHCP
4 18 (2.55%) Remote Desktop
4 18 (2.55%) VPN
5 11 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.28%) Network Security
7 7 (0.99%) VLAN
8 5 (0.71%) DMZ
8 5 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.71%) SAN
8 5 (0.71%) STUN
8 5 (0.71%) VoIP
9 4 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (0.57%) Junos
9 4 (0.57%) NX-OS
10 3 (0.43%) WAN
11 2 (0.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (1.42%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.85%) MongoDB
3 5 (0.71%) MySQL
3 5 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.43%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.43%) Metadata
5 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.28%) Power BI
7 1 (0.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (1.99%) GitLab
1 14 (1.99%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.99%) Git
3 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.14%) JIRA
7 1 (0.14%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (8.09%) Social Skills
2 35 (4.96%) Law
3 26 (3.69%) Finance
4 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
5 9 (1.28%) Banking
6 8 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.13%) Billing
6 8 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.13%) Public Sector
7 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.71%) Legal
9 4 (0.57%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.57%) Automotive
9 4 (0.57%) Marketing
10 3 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.28%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.14%) Advertising
12 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.42%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.28%) YAML
3 8 (1.13%) AWS CDK
3 8 (1.13%) Loki
4 5 (0.71%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (0.71%) JWT
4 5 (0.71%) OAuth
4 5 (0.71%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (0.71%) REST
5 4 (0.57%) JSON
5 4 (0.57%) Node.js
5 4 (0.57%) OpenID
5 4 (0.57%) RESTful
5 4 (0.57%) SAML
6 3 (0.43%) .NET
6 3 (0.43%) Middleware
6 3 (0.43%) NestJS
6 3 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.43%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.50%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (4.68%) Public Cloud
4 8 (1.13%) Driving Licence
5 7 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
5 7 (0.99%) Security Posture
6 6 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.71%) PKI
7 5 (0.71%) Product Ownership
7 5 (0.71%) Replication
8 4 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.43%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.28%) IoT
10 2 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.28%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.52%) Windows
2 42 (5.96%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.83%) Linux
4 7 (0.99%) Debian
5 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (19.15%) DevOps
2 118 (16.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 108 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 104 (14.75%) CI/CD
5 70 (9.93%) Cloud Security
6 69 (9.79%) Containerisation
7 66 (9.36%) Agile
7 66 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
8 62 (8.79%) High Availability
9 47 (6.67%) Cloud Operations
10 45 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (6.24%) Disaster Recovery
12 42 (5.96%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (5.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 36 (5.11%) ITIL
13 36 (5.11%) Mentoring
14 34 (4.82%) Load Balancing
15 32 (4.54%) Observability
16 27 (3.83%) Business Continuity
17 25 (3.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (11.63%) PowerShell
2 61 (8.65%) Python
3 26 (3.69%) Bash
4 22 (3.12%) SQL
5 15 (2.13%) Bicep
6 9 (1.28%) C++
7 8 (1.13%) Java
8 7 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.71%) Go
10 2 (0.28%) C#
10 2 (0.28%) Groovy
10 2 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.28%) Ruby
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 135 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 96 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.52%) Azure Certification
4 28 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.27%) Degree
6 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.71%) CCNP
8 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.71%) MCSE
8 5 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.28%) CISM
11 2 (0.28%) CISSP
11 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.28%) SSCP
12 1 (0.14%) IISP
12 1 (0.14%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.55%) SLA
2 10 (1.42%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.13%) NIST
5 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.71%) QA
7 2 (0.28%) GDPR
7 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (7.23%) Active Directory
2 44 (6.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (4.82%) Docker
4 29 (4.11%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.71%) KVM
7 5 (0.71%) VMware Server
8 4 (0.57%) Firmware
8 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 141 (20.00%) Terraform
2 86 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.40%) Ansible
4 18 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.41%) Grafana
6 15 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.57%) Argo
7 4 (0.57%) Nagios
7 4 (0.57%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.43%) Istio
8 3 (0.43%) Rancher
8 3 (0.43%) Scalr
8 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.14%) Graylog
10 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.94%) VMware
3 20 (2.84%) Google
4 18 (2.55%) Dell
4 18 (2.55%) Dell Compellent
4 18 (2.55%) HP
4 18 (2.55%) Nimble Storage
5 16 (2.27%) Oracle
6 11 (1.56%) Cisco
7 6 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.85%) Zerto
8 5 (0.71%) Databricks
8 5 (0.71%) Veeam
9 4 (0.57%) Broadcom
9 4 (0.57%) Juniper
9 4 (0.57%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.43%) Citrix
11 2 (0.28%) Pega
11 2 (0.28%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.28%) SAP