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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 230 240
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 312 512 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.10% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.17% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 196 315 324
10th Percentile £42,125 £42,500 £44,825
25th Percentile £49,938 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £74,759 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -2.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 33,771 43,941 28,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.17% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 21,356 23,426 21,272
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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
South East +15 72 £55,000 -15.38% 54
North of England -24 68 £60,000 +25.32% 13
Scotland +6 47 £48,000 -12.73% 8
North West +42 46 £60,000 +26.32% 9
East of England +24 43 £75,000 +11.94% 8
Midlands +26 37 £65,000 +8.33% 22
West Midlands +29 28 £66,250 +2.28% 14
South West -37 28 £62,500 -3.85% 21
Yorkshire -24 17 £60,000 +23.08% 2
Wales +15 13 £74,479 +51.68% 8
East Midlands +13 8 £55,000 -8.33% 8
Northern Ireland +4 6 £55,000 -38.89% 1
North East +1 5 £75,000 +50.00% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, 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.

1 183 (58.65%) Azure
2 117 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 104 (33.33%) Terraform
4 102 (32.69%) DevOps
5 93 (29.81%) CI/CD
6 90 (28.85%) AWS
7 82 (26.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 73 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 65 (20.83%) Windows
10 63 (20.19%) Active Directory
11 55 (17.63%) Windows Server
12 52 (16.67%) Cloud Security
12 52 (16.67%) Python
12 52 (16.67%) SQL
13 51 (16.35%) Agile
13 51 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
14 45 (14.42%) GitHub
15 42 (13.46%) Entra ID
15 42 (13.46%) Firewall
16 41 (13.14%) Security Cleared
17 40 (12.82%) PowerShell
18 39 (12.50%) Coaching
18 39 (12.50%) DNS
19 38 (12.18%) Kubernetes
19 38 (12.18%) VMware
20 36 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
21 35 (11.22%) Oracle
21 35 (11.22%) PaaS
21 35 (11.22%) Test Automation
22 34 (10.90%) Asset Management

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 24 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 27 (8.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 183 (58.65%) Azure
2 90 (28.85%) AWS
3 51 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (14.42%) GitHub
5 42 (13.46%) Entra ID
6 35 (11.22%) PaaS
7 34 (10.90%) OCI
8 31 (9.94%) IaaS
9 28 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (8.97%) Power Platform
10 27 (8.65%) SaaS
11 22 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (6.41%) Serverless
13 17 (5.45%) GCP
14 16 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
16 10 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (2.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.46%) Firewall
2 39 (12.50%) DNS
3 29 (9.29%) VPN
4 27 (8.65%) DHCP
5 12 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
5 12 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (3.85%) Junos
6 11 (3.53%) NX-OS
7 7 (2.24%) Network Security
7 7 (2.24%) WAN
8 5 (1.60%) DMZ
8 5 (1.60%) STUN
8 5 (1.60%) VLAN
8 5 (1.60%) VoIP
9 4 (1.28%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.64%) LAN
11 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.32%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.49%) Power BI
2 12 (3.85%) Tableau
3 8 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.32%) MySQL
7 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (10.90%) Jenkins
2 27 (8.65%) Oracle Forms
3 20 (6.41%) Git
4 17 (5.45%) JIRA
5 9 (2.88%) GitLab
6 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.64%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Appium
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) git-flow
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) Snyk
General
1 48 (15.38%) Finance
2 42 (13.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (3.21%) Law
4 7 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (1.92%) Automotive
5 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (1.92%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.64%) Advertising
7 2 (0.64%) Marketing
8 1 (0.32%) Legal
8 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.97%) RESTful
2 20 (6.41%) SOAP
3 16 (5.13%) JSON
4 15 (4.81%) OAuth
4 15 (4.81%) SAML
4 15 (4.81%) XML
5 12 (3.85%) OAuth2
6 8 (2.56%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.92%) Node.js
8 5 (1.60%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.60%) REST
9 4 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.96%) React
11 2 (0.64%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.64%) Kafka
11 2 (0.64%) Middleware
11 2 (0.64%) Nuxt
11 2 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.58%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.53%) PKI
6 10 (3.21%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.88%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.24%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.96%) Clustering
11 3 (0.96%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.32%) Cyber Defence
13 1 (0.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 65 (20.83%) Windows
2 55 (17.63%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.49%) Linux
4 9 (2.88%) VMS
5 5 (1.60%) Debian
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (32.69%) DevOps
2 93 (29.81%) CI/CD
3 82 (26.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 73 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 51 (16.35%) Agile
7 39 (12.50%) Coaching
8 36 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (11.22%) Test Automation
10 34 (10.90%) Asset Management
11 33 (10.58%) Mentoring
12 32 (10.26%) Identity Access Management
13 30 (9.62%) API Integration
14 29 (9.29%) ERP
14 29 (9.29%) Migration
15 28 (8.97%) AI
15 28 (8.97%) Cloud Operations
16 26 (8.33%) Observability
17 24 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
18 23 (7.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.67%) Python
1 52 (16.67%) SQL
2 40 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 32 (10.26%) Java
4 27 (8.65%) PL/SQL
4 27 (8.65%) Shell Script
5 20 (6.41%) Bicep
6 8 (2.56%) Bash
7 6 (1.92%) C#
8 5 (1.60%) Go
9 3 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.32%) Groovy
10 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 16 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.21%) Degree
7 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.32%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (3.21%) NIST
3 8 (2.56%) SLA
4 7 (2.24%) GDPR
4 7 (2.24%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.60%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.28%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.96%) GRC
8 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 63 (20.19%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.77%) vSphere
3 15 (4.81%) Docker
4 14 (4.49%) Firmware
5 12 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (3.85%) VMware NSX
6 11 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (2.88%) Hyper-V
8 7 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.60%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (33.33%) Terraform
2 38 (12.18%) Kubernetes
3 27 (8.65%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.17%) Ansible
6 12 (3.85%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.92%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.60%) Argo
8 5 (1.60%) Kibana
9 4 (1.28%) logstash
10 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.64%) Grafana
10 2 (0.64%) Istio
11 1 (0.32%) Rancher
11 1 (0.32%) SCCM
11 1 (0.32%) WSUS
11 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 117 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.18%) VMware
3 35 (11.22%) Oracle
4 21 (6.73%) Cisco
5 17 (5.45%) Juniper
6 15 (4.81%) Okta
7 13 (4.17%) SolarWinds
8 12 (3.85%) Broadcom
9 9 (2.88%) Google
10 7 (2.24%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.28%) Dell
12 4 (1.28%) Dell Compellent
12 4 (1.28%) Foundry
12 4 (1.28%) HP
12 4 (1.28%) Nimble Storage
12 4 (1.28%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.28%) PagerDuty
12 4 (1.28%) Palo Alto