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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 334 228
Rank change year-on-year +186 -106 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,036 235 545
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.68% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.76% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 775 142 343
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,525 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,688 £47,064
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,938 £73,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 80,228 30,943 48,641
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 89.58% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,266 17,424 26,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +149 403 £72,500 +26.09% 199
North West +124 245 £74,500 +29.57% 116
South West +62 199 £70,000 +12.00% 84
South East +63 181 £60,000 +11.63% 128
Midlands +55 137 £60,000 +2.13% 91
Yorkshire +63 127 £80,000 +30.61% 49
West Midlands +28 97 £60,000 -7.69% 51
East of England -37 48 £60,000 -20.00% 69
Scotland +16 43 £62,500 +30.21% 89
East Midlands +2 40 £100,000 +81.82% 40
North East -39 31 £60,000 -11.11% 34
Wales -52 23 £55,000 +45.76% 25
Northern Ireland -70 2 £70,000 +27.27% 45
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 340 (32.82%) Azure
2 252 (24.32%) AWS
3 213 (20.56%) DevOps
4 199 (19.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 185 (17.86%) Terraform
6 175 (16.89%) Security Cleared
7 162 (15.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 157 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
9 153 (14.77%) Cloud Security
10 130 (12.55%) CI/CD
11 128 (12.36%) Microsoft
12 112 (10.81%) SC Cleared
13 111 (10.71%) Kubernetes
14 98 (9.46%) Python
15 87 (8.40%) PowerShell
16 84 (8.11%) Agile
17 79 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 77 (7.43%) Cloud Operations
18 77 (7.43%) Collaborative Working
19 67 (6.47%) GCP
20 64 (6.18%) Containerisation
20 64 (6.18%) Entra ID
21 63 (6.08%) Problem-Solving
22 62 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
23 61 (5.89%) AWS CloudFormation
24 60 (5.79%) Cyber Intelligence
25 58 (5.60%) Docker
26 53 (5.12%) Active Directory
27 52 (5.02%) Ansible
28 48 (4.63%) DNS

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 20 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.68%) IIS
4 2 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.097%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (0.58%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 340 (32.82%) Azure
2 252 (24.32%) AWS
3 67 (6.47%) GCP
4 64 (6.18%) Entra ID
5 62 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (5.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (4.54%) PaaS
8 41 (3.96%) SaaS
9 38 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (3.67%) IaaS
10 37 (3.57%) Serverless
11 35 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (3.19%) GitHub
13 28 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (2.51%) Azure AKS
15 25 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (2.32%) Amazon S3
17 21 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.63%) DNS
2 37 (3.57%) Firewall
3 36 (3.47%) VPN
4 16 (1.54%) DHCP
5 11 (1.06%) Network Security
6 6 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.39%) HTTP
7 4 (0.39%) SAN
7 4 (0.39%) VLAN
7 4 (0.39%) WAN
8 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.29%) Wireless
8 3 (0.29%) Wireless Security
9 2 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.097%) Broadband
10 1 (0.097%) LAN
10 1 (0.097%) MQTT
10 1 (0.097%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (0.97%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.48%) MySQL
4 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.29%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.19%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.19%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.19%) Power BI
7 1 (0.097%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.097%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.097%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.097%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (1.83%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.35%) GitLab
3 11 (1.06%) Git
4 3 (0.29%) Maven
4 3 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.097%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 89 (8.59%) Finance
2 53 (5.12%) Social Skills
3 38 (3.67%) Law
4 25 (2.41%) Public Sector
5 19 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 9 (0.87%) Legal
9 8 (0.77%) Retail
10 4 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Marketing
12 1 (0.097%) Banking
12 1 (0.097%) Local Government
12 1 (0.097%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (17.86%) Terraform
2 10 (0.97%) ARM Templates
3 7 (0.68%) AWS CDK
3 7 (0.68%) OpenID
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.68%) Pulumi
3 7 (0.68%) SAML
4 4 (0.39%) Django
4 4 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.39%) JWT
4 4 (0.39%) OAuth
4 4 (0.39%) OAuth2
4 4 (0.39%) Vue
5 3 (0.29%) Kafka
5 3 (0.29%) PySpark
5 3 (0.29%) RESTful
5 3 (0.29%) YAML
6 2 (0.19%) Loki
6 2 (0.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 45 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 17 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 16 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (1.45%) Security Posture
7 13 (1.25%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.16%) Data Centre
9 9 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 7 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
10 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.39%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.29%) Blog
13 3 (0.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (0.29%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.29%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (0.29%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.15%) Windows
2 40 (3.86%) Linux
3 28 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.097%) VMS
5 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (20.56%) DevOps
2 199 (19.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 162 (15.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
5 153 (14.77%) Cloud Security
6 130 (12.55%) CI/CD
7 84 (8.11%) Agile
8 79 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (7.43%) Cloud Operations
9 77 (7.43%) Collaborative Working
10 64 (6.18%) Containerisation
11 63 (6.08%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (5.79%) Cyber Intelligence
13 43 (4.15%) Project Delivery
14 42 (4.05%) Software Engineering
15 41 (3.96%) Infrastructure Automation
16 34 (3.28%) High Availability
17 33 (3.19%) Cybersecurity
18 32 (3.09%) Identity Access Management
19 31 (2.99%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 98 (9.46%) Python
2 87 (8.40%) PowerShell
3 47 (4.54%) Bash
4 26 (2.51%) Bicep
5 18 (1.74%) SQL
6 12 (1.16%) C++
7 10 (0.97%) Go
7 10 (0.97%) Java
8 5 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.39%) C#
9 4 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.19%) Groovy
11 2 (0.19%) Ruby
12 1 (0.097%) PHP
12 1 (0.097%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 175 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 112 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 41 (3.96%) DV Cleared
4 32 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 19 (1.83%) Degree
6 13 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.29%) CISM
10 3 (0.29%) CISSP
10 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.19%) SSCP
12 1 (0.097%) ISACA
12 1 (0.097%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.097%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 10 (0.97%) NIST
4 6 (0.58%) QA
5 4 (0.39%) NCSC
6 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (5.60%) Docker
2 53 (5.12%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.77%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.48%) vSphere
9 3 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.19%) Lustre
11 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 111 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.02%) Ansible
3 36 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.06%) Progress Chef
5 9 (0.87%) Puppet
5 9 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.77%) Grafana
6 8 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.58%) Argo
8 3 (0.29%) Istio
8 3 (0.29%) Nagios
9 2 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.19%) Rancher
9 2 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.63%) VMware
3 26 (2.51%) Oracle
4 20 (1.93%) Google
5 8 (0.77%) Sage
6 7 (0.68%) Cisco
6 7 (0.68%) Okta
7 6 (0.58%) Databricks
7 6 (0.58%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.39%) Splunk
9 3 (0.29%) Citrix
9 3 (0.29%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.29%) New Relic
9 3 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.29%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.19%) SOTI
10 2 (0.19%) Workday
11 1 (0.097%) Meraki
11 1 (0.097%) SonicWALL