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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 302 239
Rank change year-on-year +123 -63 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 637 258 812
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.97% 0.90% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.01% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 457 208 458
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,625 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +6.89% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,375 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -7.41%

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 61,261 25,599 65,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 89.06% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40,321 14,589 47,499
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,446
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.74% -12.42%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +60 194 £70,000 +19.15% 41
South East +68 159 £60,000 - 47
North West +61 120 £70,000 +16.67% 23
South West +19 107 £75,000 +3.45% 26
Midlands +22 73 £60,000 +30.43% 24
Yorkshire -24 59 £60,000 +14.29% 14
East of England +4 57 £65,000 -2.02% 8
West Midlands +15 52 £62,000 +27.18% 17
East Midlands -19 20 £60,000 +84.62% 7
Scotland +5 18 £77,500 -18.42% 10
North East -25 15 £45,000 -29.69% 4
Northern Ireland -23 13 - -
Wales -19 11 £74,250 +32.17% 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 12 May 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.

1 300 (47.10%) Azure
2 217 (34.07%) AWS
3 140 (21.98%) Terraform
4 133 (20.88%) DevOps
5 126 (19.78%) Security Cleared
6 109 (17.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 104 (16.33%) CI/CD
8 99 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 92 (14.44%) Microsoft
10 79 (12.40%) SC Cleared
11 78 (12.24%) Agile
12 75 (11.77%) DNS
13 70 (10.99%) Kubernetes
14 67 (10.52%) High Availability
14 67 (10.52%) PowerShell
14 67 (10.52%) Python
15 62 (9.73%) Windows
16 59 (9.26%) VMware
17 57 (8.95%) Mentoring
18 56 (8.79%) Active Directory
18 56 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
19 54 (8.48%) Containerisation
19 54 (8.48%) IaaS
19 54 (8.48%) Windows Server
20 52 (8.16%) Cloud Security
21 50 (7.85%) Coaching
21 50 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
22 49 (7.69%) GCP
23 48 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
24 47 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure

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 16 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.63%) IIS
5 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.31%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 14 (2.20%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 300 (47.10%) Azure
2 217 (34.07%) AWS
3 54 (8.48%) IaaS
4 49 (7.69%) GCP
5 48 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.22%) Azure AKS
7 45 (7.06%) Entra ID
8 37 (5.81%) GitHub
9 35 (5.49%) Nutanix
10 33 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
12 26 (4.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 26 (4.08%) Azure Storage
13 22 (3.45%) OCI
14 21 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (3.30%) PaaS
15 20 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.14%) SaaS
16 15 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.77%) DNS
2 45 (7.06%) Firewall
3 33 (5.18%) DHCP
4 26 (4.08%) Remote Desktop
5 16 (2.51%) VPN
6 10 (1.57%) Network Security
7 8 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (0.94%) Junos
8 6 (0.94%) NX-OS
8 6 (0.94%) SAN
9 5 (0.78%) DMZ
9 5 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.78%) STUN
9 5 (0.78%) VLAN
9 5 (0.78%) VoIP
10 4 (0.63%) WAN
11 2 (0.31%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.26%) MongoDB
2 8 (1.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.10%) Power BI
3 7 (1.10%) Tableau
4 6 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (0.94%) MySQL
5 5 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.63%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.47%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.47%) Metadata
8 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 26 (4.08%) Git
2 23 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.30%) GitLab
4 14 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (1.41%) JIRA
6 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.16%) git-flow
9 1 (0.16%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (10.52%) Social Skills
2 36 (5.65%) Finance
3 28 (4.40%) Law
4 12 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.73%) Banking
5 11 (1.73%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.41%) Billing
7 7 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 6 (0.94%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.47%) Automotive
10 3 (0.47%) Legal
10 3 (0.47%) Marketing
11 2 (0.31%) Advertising
11 2 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.31%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.83%) RESTful
2 10 (1.57%) JSON
2 10 (1.57%) OAuth
2 10 (1.57%) OAuth2
3 9 (1.41%) SAML
3 9 (1.41%) SOAP
4 8 (1.26%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.26%) AWS CDK
4 8 (1.26%) Loki
5 7 (1.10%) XML
5 7 (1.10%) YAML
6 5 (0.78%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (0.78%) REST
7 3 (0.47%) .NET
7 3 (0.47%) JWT
7 3 (0.47%) Middleware
7 3 (0.47%) NestJS
7 3 (0.47%) Node.js
7 3 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.47%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.77%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (6.59%) Public Cloud
4 18 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.10%) PKI
6 6 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (0.94%) Data Centre
6 6 (0.94%) Security Posture
6 6 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 5 (0.78%) Replication
8 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.47%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.47%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.31%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.73%) Windows
2 54 (8.48%) Windows Server
3 25 (3.92%) Linux
4 7 (1.10%) Debian
5 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (20.88%) DevOps
2 109 (17.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 104 (16.33%) CI/CD
4 99 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (12.24%) Agile
6 67 (10.52%) High Availability
7 57 (8.95%) Mentoring
8 56 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
9 54 (8.48%) Containerisation
10 52 (8.16%) Cloud Security
11 50 (7.85%) Coaching
11 50 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (7.06%) Root Cause Analysis
13 44 (6.91%) Disaster Recovery
14 43 (6.75%) ITIL
15 36 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (5.65%) ITSM
16 35 (5.49%) Business Strategy
17 33 (5.18%) Observability
17 33 (5.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 67 (10.52%) PowerShell
1 67 (10.52%) Python
2 37 (5.81%) SQL
3 22 (3.45%) Bash
4 20 (3.14%) Java
5 16 (2.51%) Bicep
6 15 (2.35%) Shell Script
7 14 (2.20%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.57%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.10%) Go
10 6 (0.94%) C++
11 5 (0.78%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 126 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 79 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.28%) Azure Certification
3 40 (6.28%) DV Cleared
4 14 (2.20%) Degree
4 14 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.78%) CCNP
6 5 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (0.78%) MCSE
6 5 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.31%) SSCP
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.16%) IISP
9 1 (0.16%) ISACA
9 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.08%) SLA
2 7 (1.10%) PCI DSS
3 6 (0.94%) NIST
4 5 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.47%) QA
6 2 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (4.87%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.92%) Docker
5 6 (0.94%) Firmware
5 6 (0.94%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.78%) KVM
6 5 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.31%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 140 (21.98%) Terraform
2 70 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 30 (4.71%) Ansible
4 15 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (2.20%) Grafana
6 13 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.88%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.94%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.63%) Nagios
9 4 (0.63%) Rancher
10 3 (0.47%) Scalr
11 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.16%) Graylog
11 1 (0.16%) Istio
11 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 92 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.26%) VMware
3 26 (4.08%) Dell
3 26 (4.08%) Dell Compellent
3 26 (4.08%) HP
3 26 (4.08%) Nimble Storage
4 23 (3.61%) Oracle
5 17 (2.67%) Cisco
6 14 (2.20%) Google
7 11 (1.73%) Juniper
8 7 (1.10%) Okta
9 6 (0.94%) Broadcom
9 6 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.94%) SolarWinds
9 6 (0.94%) Zerto
10 5 (0.78%) Databricks
10 5 (0.78%) Veeam
11 3 (0.47%) Citrix
12 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.31%) SAP