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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 247 242
Rank change year-on-year +43 -5 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 540 273 811
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.85% 1.03% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.16% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 383 221 457
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £76,750
UK median annual salary £70,750 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +1.07% +11.50% -3.41%

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 59,210 23,547 63,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 88.51% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 37,623 14,624 46,632
10th Percentile £29,120 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +12 166 £70,000 +27.27% 34
South East +21 136 £60,000 - 28
North West +17 97 £70,000 +16.67% 18
South West -15 79 £75,000 - 15
Midlands -5 54 £60,000 +30.43% 10
Yorkshire -37 52 £62,500 +38.89% 10
East of England -29 45 £65,000 -2.02% 7
West Midlands -4 39 £55,000 +15.79% 9
Scotland -15 22 £77,500 -18.42% 6
Wales -15 18 £68,958 +22.75%
North East -26 17 £63,755 +1.20% 6
Northern Ireland -27 15 - - 6
East Midlands -51 14 £60,000 +84.62% 1
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 21 April 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.

1 262 (48.52%) Azure
2 208 (38.52%) AWS
3 136 (25.19%) Terraform
4 135 (25.00%) DevOps
5 104 (19.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 102 (18.89%) CI/CD
7 96 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 94 (17.41%) Security Cleared
9 91 (16.85%) Microsoft
10 65 (12.04%) DNS
11 64 (11.85%) Agile
12 62 (11.48%) Active Directory
12 62 (11.48%) Kubernetes
12 62 (11.48%) Mentoring
12 62 (11.48%) Windows
13 61 (11.30%) Python
14 57 (10.56%) VMware
15 56 (10.37%) Coaching
15 56 (10.37%) SC Cleared
16 54 (10.00%) High Availability
16 54 (10.00%) PowerShell
16 54 (10.00%) Windows Server
17 52 (9.63%) Entra ID
18 50 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
19 49 (9.07%) Firewall
20 47 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
20 47 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
20 47 (8.70%) ITIL
20 47 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
21 46 (8.52%) Platform Engineering

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 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (2.96%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 262 (48.52%) Azure
2 208 (38.52%) AWS
3 52 (9.63%) Entra ID
4 47 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (8.33%) IaaS
6 41 (7.59%) GCP
7 37 (6.85%) GitHub
7 37 (6.85%) Nutanix
8 31 (5.74%) Azure AKS
9 29 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (4.44%) PaaS
11 23 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (4.07%) SaaS
13 21 (3.89%) OCI
14 16 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (2.96%) Serverless
15 15 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
15 15 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (12.04%) DNS
2 49 (9.07%) Firewall
3 35 (6.48%) DHCP
4 28 (5.19%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (3.52%) VPN
6 10 (1.85%) Network Security
7 9 (1.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (1.67%) Junos
7 9 (1.67%) NX-OS
8 8 (1.48%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.11%) WAN
10 5 (0.93%) DMZ
10 5 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.93%) STUN
10 5 (0.93%) VLAN
10 5 (0.93%) VoIP
11 4 (0.74%) SAN
12 2 (0.37%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.67%) Power BI
3 8 (1.48%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.48%) Tableau
4 7 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.93%) MySQL
6 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.56%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.56%) Metadata
9 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (5.00%) Git
2 24 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.07%) GitLab
4 16 (2.96%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (2.41%) JIRA
6 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) git-flow
9 1 (0.19%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (12.22%) Social Skills
2 36 (6.67%) Finance
3 14 (2.59%) Law
4 13 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.04%) Banking
5 11 (2.04%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.67%) Billing
7 8 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.11%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.56%) Advertising
11 3 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.37%) Automotive
12 2 (0.37%) Marketing
12 2 (0.37%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.19%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.19%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.70%) RESTful
2 11 (2.04%) JSON
3 10 (1.85%) SOAP
4 9 (1.67%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.67%) OAuth
4 9 (1.67%) OAuth2
5 8 (1.48%) Loki
5 8 (1.48%) SAML
5 8 (1.48%) XML
6 7 (1.30%) AWS CDK
6 7 (1.30%) Node.js
6 7 (1.30%) YAML
7 5 (0.93%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.93%) REST
8 3 (0.56%) Middleware
8 3 (0.56%) NestJS
8 3 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.37%) .NET
9 2 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.37%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.15%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (8.52%) Public Cloud
4 20 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.85%) PKI
7 7 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (0.93%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.93%) Replication
9 5 (0.93%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.37%) IoT
12 2 (0.37%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (11.48%) Windows
2 54 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 22 (4.07%) Linux
4 7 (1.30%) Debian
5 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (25.00%) DevOps
2 104 (19.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 102 (18.89%) CI/CD
4 96 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (11.85%) Agile
6 62 (11.48%) Mentoring
7 56 (10.37%) Coaching
8 54 (10.00%) High Availability
9 50 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 47 (8.70%) ITIL
11 46 (8.52%) Platform Engineering
12 43 (7.96%) Cloud Security
13 41 (7.59%) ITSM
14 38 (7.04%) Business Strategy
14 38 (7.04%) Change Management
14 38 (7.04%) Containerisation
15 35 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (6.30%) Business Continuity
16 34 (6.30%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 61 (11.30%) Python
2 54 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 39 (7.22%) SQL
4 26 (4.81%) Bash
5 22 (4.07%) Java
6 17 (3.15%) Shell Script
7 16 (2.96%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.78%) Bicep
9 10 (1.85%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.30%) Go
11 5 (0.93%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.56%) C++
13 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 94 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.11%) DV Cleared
4 26 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.41%) Degree
7 6 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.93%) CCNP
8 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.93%) MCSE
8 5 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.19%) IISP
11 1 (0.19%) ISACA
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.74%) SLA
2 8 (1.48%) NIST
3 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.56%) GDPR
5 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.37%) GRC
5 2 (0.37%) QA
5 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (11.48%) Active Directory
2 47 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (5.93%) Hyper-V
4 22 (4.07%) Docker
5 9 (1.67%) Firmware
5 9 (1.67%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.93%) KVM
8 4 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 136 (25.19%) Terraform
2 62 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.63%) Ansible
4 17 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.41%) Grafana
6 12 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.67%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.93%) Argo
10 4 (0.74%) Rancher
11 3 (0.56%) Kibana
11 3 (0.56%) Scalr
12 2 (0.37%) Istio
12 2 (0.37%) logstash
12 2 (0.37%) Nagios
13 1 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.19%) Graylog
Vendors
1 91 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.56%) VMware
3 28 (5.19%) Dell
3 28 (5.19%) Dell Compellent
3 28 (5.19%) HP
3 28 (5.19%) Nimble Storage
4 22 (4.07%) Oracle
5 20 (3.70%) Cisco
6 19 (3.52%) Google
7 14 (2.59%) Juniper
8 9 (1.67%) Broadcom
8 9 (1.67%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.48%) Okta
9 8 (1.48%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.11%) Zerto
11 5 (0.93%) Veeam
12 4 (0.74%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.56%) Citrix
13 3 (0.56%) Databricks
14 2 (0.37%) SAP