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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 335 224
Rank change year-on-year +184 -111 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 925 242 669
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 0.70% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 0.78% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 694 172 428
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,398 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,094 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -2.22%

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 73,108 31,009 56,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 89.45% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 50,512 17,790 37,230
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,191 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +140 338 £70,000 +16.67% 115
North West +113 203 £70,750 +17.92% 70
South East +85 191 £60,000 +4.35% 51
South West +51 176 £75,000 - 54
Midlands +49 113 £65,000 +18.18% 30
Yorkshire +59 112 £80,000 +52.38% 30
West Midlands +29 75 £62,250 -4.23% 21
East of England +4 63 £60,000 -14.29% 34
East Midlands +3 38 £95,000 +72.73% 9
North East -39 23 £58,750 -9.62% 15
Wales -37 20 £55,000 +8.93% 2
Scotland +4 18 £50,000 -42.86% 51
Northern Ireland -68 3 - - 14
Channel Islands - 3 £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 15 August 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.

1 370 (40.00%) Azure
2 273 (29.51%) AWS
3 194 (20.97%) Terraform
4 183 (19.78%) DevOps
5 182 (19.68%) Security Cleared
6 164 (17.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 153 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 137 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
9 133 (14.38%) CI/CD
10 124 (13.41%) Kubernetes
11 123 (13.30%) SC Cleared
12 122 (13.19%) Microsoft
13 94 (10.16%) PowerShell
14 88 (9.51%) Cloud Security
15 87 (9.41%) Agile
16 78 (8.43%) GCP
17 77 (8.32%) Containerisation
18 74 (8.00%) Cloud Operations
19 73 (7.89%) Python
20 72 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
21 63 (6.81%) DNS
22 61 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
23 59 (6.38%) Active Directory
24 58 (6.27%) Ansible
24 58 (6.27%) Docker
25 57 (6.16%) Entra ID
26 56 (6.05%) High Availability
27 55 (5.95%) Problem-Solving
28 54 (5.84%) VMware
29 53 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation

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 19 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.97%) IIS
4 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.65%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 370 (40.00%) Azure
2 273 (29.51%) AWS
3 78 (8.43%) GCP
4 61 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (6.16%) Entra ID
6 53 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (5.19%) IaaS
8 41 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (4.32%) SaaS
10 39 (4.22%) PaaS
11 38 (4.11%) Azure AKS
12 37 (4.00%) GitHub
13 34 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (3.46%) Azure Key Vault
15 31 (3.35%) Serverless
16 29 (3.14%) Azure Storage
17 28 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 26 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
19 24 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
20 22 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.81%) DNS
2 30 (3.24%) Firewall
3 24 (2.59%) VPN
4 21 (2.27%) DHCP
5 11 (1.19%) Network Security
6 9 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
6 9 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.65%) VLAN
8 4 (0.43%) HTTP
8 4 (0.43%) SAN
9 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.32%) WAN
10 2 (0.22%) DMZ
10 2 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
10 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.22%) STUN
10 2 (0.22%) VoIP
10 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.08%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.65%) MySQL
4 5 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.43%) Metadata
5 4 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.32%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.32%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.32%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.22%) Power BI
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (1.84%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.51%) GitLab
3 12 (1.30%) Git
4 4 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.11%) JIRA
6 1 (0.11%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (7.46%) Finance
2 45 (4.86%) Law
2 45 (4.86%) Social Skills
3 18 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (1.30%) Public Sector
5 11 (1.19%) Aerospace
5 11 (1.19%) Manufacturing
6 8 (0.86%) Legal
6 8 (0.86%) Retail
7 6 (0.65%) Banking
7 6 (0.65%) Retail Banking
8 4 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.32%) Automotive
9 3 (0.32%) Marketing
10 2 (0.22%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.11%) Advertising
11 1 (0.11%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.11%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.08%) ARM Templates
2 9 (0.97%) AWS CDK
2 9 (0.97%) YAML
3 7 (0.76%) OpenID
3 7 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.76%) SAML
4 5 (0.54%) Loki
4 5 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.43%) Django
5 4 (0.43%) JSON
5 4 (0.43%) JWT
5 4 (0.43%) OAuth
5 4 (0.43%) OAuth2
5 4 (0.43%) Vue
6 3 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.32%) Kafka
6 3 (0.32%) RESTful
7 2 (0.22%) FreeSWITCH
7 2 (0.22%) Node.js
7 2 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 102 (11.03%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (2.59%) Public Cloud
4 15 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.30%) Driving Licence
7 9 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (0.97%) Security Posture
8 7 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.43%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.32%) Blog
11 3 (0.32%) Online Gambling
11 3 (0.32%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.32%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.08%) Windows
2 36 (3.89%) Windows Server
3 31 (3.35%) Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Debian
4 2 (0.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (19.78%) DevOps
2 164 (17.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 153 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
5 133 (14.38%) CI/CD
6 88 (9.51%) Cloud Security
7 87 (9.41%) Agile
8 77 (8.32%) Containerisation
9 74 (8.00%) Cloud Operations
10 72 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (6.05%) High Availability
12 55 (5.95%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
14 43 (4.65%) Observability
15 41 (4.43%) ITIL
16 39 (4.22%) Project Delivery
17 38 (4.11%) Load Balancing
18 36 (3.89%) Disaster Recovery
18 36 (3.89%) Mentoring
19 35 (3.78%) AI
Programming Languages
1 94 (10.16%) PowerShell
2 73 (7.89%) Python
3 40 (4.32%) Bash
4 23 (2.49%) SQL
5 22 (2.38%) Bicep
6 11 (1.19%) C++
7 9 (0.97%) Java
8 8 (0.86%) Go
9 6 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.43%) C#
12 2 (0.22%) Groovy
12 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.22%) Ruby
13 1 (0.11%) PHP
13 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 182 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 123 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 37 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.30%) Degree
6 11 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.32%) CCNP
8 3 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.32%) CISM
8 3 (0.32%) CISSP
8 3 (0.32%) MCSE
8 3 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.22%) SSCP
10 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (1.19%) PCI DSS
2 9 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (0.97%) NIST
2 9 (0.97%) SLA
3 5 (0.54%) QA
4 4 (0.43%) NCSC
5 3 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 58 (6.27%) Docker
3 29 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.59%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.86%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.54%) vSphere
8 3 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.32%) KVM
9 2 (0.22%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 194 (20.97%) Terraform
2 124 (13.41%) Kubernetes
3 58 (6.27%) Ansible
4 27 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.51%) Grafana
6 13 (1.41%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.86%) Puppet
8 6 (0.65%) Argo
8 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.43%) Nagios
10 3 (0.32%) Istio
10 3 (0.32%) Scalr
11 2 (0.22%) Rancher
12 1 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 122 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.84%) VMware
3 29 (3.14%) Oracle
4 26 (2.81%) Google
5 9 (0.97%) Cisco
5 9 (0.97%) Dell
5 9 (0.97%) Dell Compellent
5 9 (0.97%) HP
5 9 (0.97%) Nimble Storage
6 6 (0.65%) Databricks
6 6 (0.65%) Okta
7 5 (0.54%) Sage
8 4 (0.43%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.43%) Veeam
9 3 (0.32%) Citrix
9 3 (0.32%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.32%) Splunk
9 3 (0.32%) Ubiquiti
9 3 (0.32%) Zerto