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 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 249 234
Rank change year-on-year +30 -15 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 426 303 752
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.11% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.24% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 298 229 439
10th Percentile £46,600 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +3.32% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +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 49,507 24,477 56,283
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 89.98% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 31,410 14,315 42,596
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,304 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,294
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -14 120 £65,000 +23.81% 32
South East -2 104 £58,000 -7.20% 20
North West +7 62 £65,000 +13.04% 15
South West -9 53 £70,000 -1.75% 16
Midlands -1 46 £60,000 +17.20% 6
Yorkshire -33 39 £71,250 +58.33% 14
East of England -21 35 £72,500 +9.29% 5
West Midlands +8 33 £52,500 +2.55% 4
Scotland -14 30 - - 8
North East -9 19 £71,250 +26.11% 3
Wales -1 18 £68,958 +40.43% 1
Northern Ireland -17 15 - -
East Midlands -37 12 £62,500 +4.17% 2
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 19 March 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.

1 215 (50.47%) Azure
2 153 (35.92%) AWS
3 122 (28.64%) DevOps
4 113 (26.53%) Terraform
5 93 (21.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 87 (20.42%) CI/CD
7 84 (19.72%) Microsoft
8 75 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (15.73%) Mentoring
10 62 (14.55%) Coaching
10 62 (14.55%) Security Cleared
11 59 (13.85%) Active Directory
11 59 (13.85%) Agile
11 59 (13.85%) Python
12 58 (13.62%) Windows
13 56 (13.15%) DNS
14 52 (12.21%) VMware
14 52 (12.21%) Windows Server
15 51 (11.97%) Kubernetes
16 50 (11.74%) High Availability
17 49 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
17 49 (11.50%) Disaster Recovery
17 49 (11.50%) Entra ID
18 47 (11.03%) Firewall
19 43 (10.09%) PowerShell
20 42 (9.86%) Business Strategy
20 42 (9.86%) IaaS
20 42 (9.86%) ITSM
21 40 (9.39%) ITIL
21 40 (9.39%) 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 13 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (5.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 215 (50.47%) Azure
2 153 (35.92%) AWS
3 49 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (11.50%) Entra ID
4 42 (9.86%) IaaS
5 37 (8.69%) GitHub
6 33 (7.75%) Nutanix
7 29 (6.81%) PaaS
8 28 (6.57%) OCI
9 27 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (5.87%) GCP
11 24 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (5.40%) Azure AKS
12 23 (5.40%) SaaS
13 20 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (3.99%) Serverless
15 15 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (3.29%) Power Platform
17 12 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.15%) DNS
2 47 (11.03%) Firewall
3 35 (8.22%) DHCP
4 28 (6.57%) Remote Desktop
5 21 (4.93%) VPN
6 11 (2.58%) Network Security
7 10 (2.35%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (2.35%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (2.35%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.35%) Junos
8 9 (2.11%) NX-OS
9 5 (1.17%) DMZ
9 5 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.17%) STUN
9 5 (1.17%) VLAN
9 5 (1.17%) VoIP
10 3 (0.70%) SAN
10 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.70%) WAN
11 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.82%) Power BI
2 10 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (2.35%) Tableau
3 7 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.94%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.70%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.70%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.70%) Metadata
7 3 (0.70%) MySQL
8 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (6.57%) Jenkins
2 27 (6.34%) Git
3 22 (5.16%) Oracle Forms
4 19 (4.46%) GitLab
5 14 (3.29%) JIRA
6 5 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) git-flow
8 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 70 (16.43%) Social Skills
2 36 (8.45%) Finance
3 11 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.35%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.11%) Billing
6 8 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.88%) Law
7 7 (1.64%) Banking
8 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.70%) Advertising
11 2 (0.47%) Automotive
11 2 (0.47%) Legal
11 2 (0.47%) Marketing
11 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Local Government
12 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.87%) RESTful
2 16 (3.76%) JSON
3 14 (3.29%) SOAP
4 12 (2.82%) XML
5 11 (2.58%) OAuth
5 11 (2.58%) OAuth2
6 10 (2.35%) SAML
7 7 (1.64%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.64%) Node.js
8 6 (1.41%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.41%) Loki
9 5 (1.17%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (1.17%) REST
10 4 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.94%) YAML
11 3 (0.70%) Middleware
11 3 (0.70%) NestJS
12 2 (0.47%) .NET
12 2 (0.47%) WAMP
13 1 (0.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 41 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (9.15%) Public Cloud
4 27 (6.34%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.35%) PKI
6 8 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.17%) Replication
9 3 (0.70%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.70%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.47%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.47%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.47%) IoT
10 2 (0.47%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.47%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.62%) Windows
2 52 (12.21%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.99%) Linux
4 7 (1.64%) Debian
5 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (28.64%) DevOps
2 93 (21.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 87 (20.42%) CI/CD
4 75 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (15.73%) Mentoring
6 62 (14.55%) Coaching
7 59 (13.85%) Agile
8 50 (11.74%) High Availability
9 49 (11.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 42 (9.86%) Business Strategy
10 42 (9.86%) ITSM
11 40 (9.39%) ITIL
12 38 (8.92%) Change Management
12 38 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (8.69%) Cloud Security
14 34 (7.98%) Business Continuity
14 34 (7.98%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 32 (7.51%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (6.81%) Knowledge Transfer
16 29 (6.81%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (13.85%) Python
2 43 (10.09%) PowerShell
3 38 (8.92%) SQL
4 27 (6.34%) Java
5 23 (5.40%) Shell Script
6 22 (5.16%) PL/SQL
7 21 (4.93%) Bash
8 17 (3.99%) Bicep
9 10 (2.35%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.41%) Go
11 5 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 62 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.28%) DV Cleared
3 28 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.16%) Azure Certification
5 16 (3.76%) Degree
6 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.17%) CCNP
8 5 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.17%) MCSE
8 5 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.51%) SLA
2 8 (1.88%) NIST
3 6 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.17%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.70%) GDPR
7 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.47%) GRC
7 2 (0.47%) QA
7 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.28%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.99%) Docker
5 10 (2.35%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.11%) Firmware
6 9 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.17%) KVM
8 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (26.53%) Terraform
2 51 (11.97%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.40%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (4.23%) Ansible
5 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (2.35%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.88%) Grafana
8 7 (1.64%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.17%) Argo
9 5 (1.17%) Kibana
10 4 (0.94%) logstash
11 3 (0.70%) Rancher
12 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.47%) Istio
13 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.23%) Graylog
13 1 (0.23%) Nagios
13 1 (0.23%) Scalr
Vendors
1 84 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 52 (12.21%) VMware
3 29 (6.81%) Oracle
4 28 (6.57%) Dell
4 28 (6.57%) Dell Compellent
4 28 (6.57%) HP
4 28 (6.57%) Nimble Storage
5 22 (5.16%) Cisco
6 16 (3.76%) Juniper
7 14 (3.29%) Google
8 12 (2.82%) Okta
9 10 (2.35%) SolarWinds
10 9 (2.11%) Broadcom
11 6 (1.41%) Zerto
12 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.17%) Veeam
13 4 (0.94%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.70%) Citrix
14 3 (0.70%) Databricks
15 2 (0.47%) Salesforce