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 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 307 227
Rank change year-on-year +134 -80 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 771 266 856
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.09% 0.81% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.91% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 557 200 539
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,314
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 66,738 29,315 71,409
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.40% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,304 16,594 50,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +97 259 £72,500 +16.00% 42
South East +72 176 £65,000 +13.04% 44
North West +90 163 £71,500 +14.40% 28
South West +45 150 £75,000 - 18
Midlands +36 94 £60,000 +9.09% 26
Yorkshire +34 85 £80,000 +52.38% 13
West Midlands +24 67 £60,000 -7.69% 12
East of England 0 63 £60,000 -9.56% 8
East Midlands -8 27 £60,000 +14.56% 14
Scotland +1 12 £50,000 -47.37% 21
North East -39 11 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Northern Ireland -44 7 - - 2
Wales -47 5 £55,000 +45.76% 8
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 7 July 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.

1 330 (42.80%) Azure
2 242 (31.39%) AWS
3 152 (19.71%) Terraform
4 151 (19.58%) Security Cleared
5 148 (19.20%) DevOps
6 124 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 124 (16.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 112 (14.53%) Microsoft
8 108 (14.01%) CI/CD
9 102 (13.23%) Kubernetes
9 102 (13.23%) SC Cleared
10 84 (10.89%) PowerShell
11 78 (10.12%) Platform Engineering
12 77 (9.99%) Cloud Security
13 75 (9.73%) Containerisation
14 73 (9.47%) Agile
14 73 (9.47%) GCP
15 67 (8.69%) DNS
16 64 (8.30%) Python
17 62 (8.04%) High Availability
18 60 (7.78%) VMware
19 59 (7.65%) Cloud Operations
20 57 (7.39%) IaaS
21 56 (7.26%) Active Directory
22 50 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
23 49 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
23 49 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
24 46 (5.97%) Azure Certification
24 46 (5.97%) Entra ID
24 46 (5.97%) Windows

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 15 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.52%) IIS
4 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 330 (42.80%) Azure
2 242 (31.39%) AWS
3 73 (9.47%) GCP
4 57 (7.39%) IaaS
5 49 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (5.97%) Entra ID
7 45 (5.84%) Azure AKS
8 39 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (4.28%) GitHub
10 32 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (3.89%) Azure Key Vault
12 29 (3.76%) Azure Storage
12 29 (3.76%) SaaS
13 28 (3.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 27 (3.50%) Nutanix
15 22 (2.85%) PaaS
16 21 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.33%) Serverless
19 16 (2.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (8.69%) DNS
2 38 (4.93%) Firewall
3 26 (3.37%) DHCP
4 20 (2.59%) VPN
5 18 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
6 12 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.43%) Network Security
8 8 (1.04%) VLAN
9 5 (0.65%) DMZ
9 5 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.65%) SAN
9 5 (0.65%) STUN
9 5 (0.65%) VoIP
10 3 (0.39%) WAN
11 2 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.26%) Junos
11 2 (0.26%) LAN
11 2 (0.26%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.78%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.78%) MySQL
3 6 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.39%) Delta Lake
4 3 (0.39%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.39%) Metadata
4 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.26%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.26%) Power BI
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (2.20%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.95%) GitLab
3 8 (1.04%) Git
4 5 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.13%) JIRA
8 1 (0.13%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (7.13%) Social Skills
2 37 (4.80%) Finance
3 36 (4.67%) Law
4 11 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (1.43%) Manufacturing
5 9 (1.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (0.91%) Banking
8 6 (0.78%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 5 (0.65%) Automotive
9 5 (0.65%) Legal
10 4 (0.52%) Billing
10 4 (0.52%) Marketing
11 3 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.39%) Retail
12 2 (0.26%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.13%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.13%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.13%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.43%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.17%) YAML
3 6 (0.78%) AWS CDK
3 6 (0.78%) Loki
3 6 (0.78%) OpenID
3 6 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.78%) SAML
4 5 (0.65%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (0.65%) JWT
4 5 (0.65%) OAuth
4 5 (0.65%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (0.65%) REST
5 4 (0.52%) JSON
5 4 (0.52%) Node.js
5 4 (0.52%) RESTful
6 3 (0.39%) Django
6 3 (0.39%) NestJS
6 3 (0.39%) Vue
6 3 (0.39%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (4.28%) Public Cloud
4 10 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.04%) Security Posture
6 7 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 7 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.65%) Replication
9 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.52%) PKI
10 3 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.97%) Windows
2 39 (5.06%) Windows Server
3 30 (3.89%) Linux
4 7 (0.91%) Debian
5 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (19.20%) DevOps
2 124 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (16.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 108 (14.01%) CI/CD
4 78 (10.12%) Platform Engineering
5 77 (9.99%) Cloud Security
6 75 (9.73%) Containerisation
7 73 (9.47%) Agile
8 62 (8.04%) High Availability
9 59 (7.65%) Cloud Operations
10 50 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (5.58%) Disaster Recovery
12 43 (5.58%) Root Cause Analysis
13 42 (5.45%) Mentoring
14 38 (4.93%) ITIL
15 34 (4.41%) Load Balancing
16 33 (4.28%) Observability
17 27 (3.50%) AI
18 26 (3.37%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 84 (10.89%) PowerShell
2 64 (8.30%) Python
3 25 (3.24%) Bash
4 24 (3.11%) SQL
5 16 (2.08%) Bicep
6 10 (1.30%) C++
6 10 (1.30%) Java
7 9 (1.17%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.91%) Go
8 7 (0.91%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.39%) C#
10 2 (0.26%) Groovy
10 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.26%) Ruby
11 1 (0.13%) PHP
11 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 151 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 102 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.97%) Azure Certification
4 30 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.95%) Degree
6 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.65%) CCNP
8 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.65%) MCSE
8 5 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.39%) CISM
10 3 (0.39%) CISSP
11 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.26%) SSCP
12 1 (0.13%) IISP
12 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.33%) SLA
2 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
3 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.17%) NIST
5 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.91%) QA
6 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 45 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (4.93%) Docker
4 32 (4.15%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.78%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.65%) KVM
9 3 (0.39%) vSphere
10 2 (0.26%) Firmware
10 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 152 (19.71%) Terraform
2 102 (13.23%) Kubernetes
3 39 (5.06%) Ansible
4 19 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.08%) Grafana
6 14 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.52%) Argo
8 4 (0.52%) Istio
8 4 (0.52%) Nagios
9 3 (0.39%) Rancher
9 3 (0.39%) Scalr
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.26%) Puppet
10 2 (0.26%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.13%) Graylog
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 112 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.78%) VMware
3 26 (3.37%) Google
4 24 (3.11%) Oracle
5 18 (2.33%) Dell
5 18 (2.33%) Dell Compellent
5 18 (2.33%) HP
5 18 (2.33%) Nimble Storage
6 9 (1.17%) Cisco
7 6 (0.78%) Databricks
7 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.78%) Zerto
8 5 (0.65%) Veeam
9 3 (0.39%) Citrix
9 3 (0.39%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.39%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.26%) Juniper
10 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.26%) Okta