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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 254 212
Rank change year-on-year +29 -42 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 362 371 623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.07% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.16% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 240 225 435
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,469 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -7.60% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £66,340 £62,641
% change year-on-year +1.75% +5.90% -6.21%

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 40,667 32,051 43,423
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 92.25% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,085 15,459 33,679
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,750 £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 £65,000
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% -8.71%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -17 88 £63,000 +32.63% 18
South East +9 82 £58,000 -10.77% 41
North West +23 54 £61,500 +23.00% 10
Scotland +3 53 £48,000 -12.73% 4
East of England +29 38 £80,000 +20.59% 8
Midlands +22 37 £55,000 +7.43% 11
South West +5 37 £62,500 +4.17% 17
West Midlands +15 27 £50,000 -2.34% 7
Yorkshire -45 23 £60,000 +33.33% 7
Wales +14 18 £68,958 +43.05%
North East -1 11 £82,511 +65.02% 1
Northern Ireland -4 11 - - 2
East Midlands -2 9 £65,000 +23.81% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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.

1 194 (53.59%) Azure
2 135 (37.29%) Terraform
3 128 (35.36%) DevOps
4 127 (35.08%) AWS
5 109 (30.11%) CI/CD
6 94 (25.97%) Microsoft
7 91 (25.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 82 (22.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (19.61%) Python
10 69 (19.06%) Coaching
11 68 (18.78%) Agile
12 67 (18.51%) Active Directory
12 67 (18.51%) Azure DevOps
13 60 (16.57%) Mentoring
14 56 (15.47%) Entra ID
14 56 (15.47%) GitHub
14 56 (15.47%) Windows
15 55 (15.19%) SQL
16 54 (14.92%) DNS
17 52 (14.36%) Security Cleared
18 49 (13.54%) Firewall
18 49 (13.54%) Windows Server
19 46 (12.71%) Kubernetes
19 46 (12.71%) Test Automation
20 45 (12.43%) Java
20 45 (12.43%) Oracle
21 44 (12.15%) Asset Management
21 44 (12.15%) Jenkins
21 44 (12.15%) OCI
22 42 (11.60%) VMware

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 17 (4.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 15 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (10.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 194 (53.59%) Azure
2 127 (35.08%) AWS
3 67 (18.51%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (15.47%) Entra ID
4 56 (15.47%) GitHub
5 44 (12.15%) OCI
6 40 (11.05%) PaaS
7 37 (10.22%) IaaS
8 29 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (7.73%) SaaS
10 25 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (6.35%) Power Platform
12 21 (5.80%) GCP
12 21 (5.80%) Serverless
13 19 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (4.70%) GitHub Copilot
15 16 (4.42%) Nutanix
16 15 (4.14%) Azure AKS
16 15 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 54 (14.92%) DNS
2 49 (13.54%) Firewall
3 34 (9.39%) DHCP
4 29 (8.01%) VPN
5 16 (4.42%) Remote Desktop
6 11 (3.04%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (3.04%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.04%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (3.04%) Junos
7 10 (2.76%) NX-OS
8 9 (2.49%) Network Security
9 7 (1.93%) WAN
10 3 (0.83%) DMZ
10 3 (0.83%) SAN
10 3 (0.83%) STUN
10 3 (0.83%) VLAN
10 3 (0.83%) VoIP
11 2 (0.55%) LAN
11 2 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.25%) Power BI
2 17 (4.70%) Tableau
3 10 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.38%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 44 (12.15%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.22%) Oracle Forms
3 34 (9.39%) Git
4 21 (5.80%) JIRA
5 19 (5.25%) GitLab
6 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.28%) Appium
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.28%) git-flow
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (17.40%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.64%) Finance
3 9 (2.49%) Public Sector
4 7 (1.93%) Billing
5 6 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (1.66%) Law
6 5 (1.38%) Banking
6 5 (1.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.10%) Automotive
7 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.83%) Advertising
9 2 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Legal
10 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.05%) RESTful
2 23 (6.35%) SOAP
3 21 (5.80%) JSON
4 20 (5.52%) XML
5 17 (4.70%) OAuth
5 17 (4.70%) OAuth2
5 17 (4.70%) SAML
6 8 (2.21%) Node.js
7 6 (1.66%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.38%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.38%) Loki
8 5 (1.38%) REST
9 4 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.83%) FreeSWITCH
10 3 (0.83%) Middleware
10 3 (0.83%) React
11 2 (0.55%) .NET
11 2 (0.55%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.55%) Kafka
11 2 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.15%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (6.91%) Public Cloud
4 20 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.76%) PKI
6 8 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.66%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.38%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.83%) Clustering
11 3 (0.83%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.55%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.28%) Cyber Defence
13 1 (0.28%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.47%) Windows
2 49 (13.54%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.97%) Linux
4 7 (1.93%) VMS
5 4 (1.10%) Debian
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (35.36%) DevOps
2 109 (30.11%) CI/CD
3 91 (25.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 82 (22.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (19.06%) Coaching
6 68 (18.78%) Agile
7 60 (16.57%) Mentoring
8 46 (12.71%) Test Automation
9 44 (12.15%) Asset Management
10 40 (11.05%) API Integration
11 39 (10.77%) Identity Access Management
12 38 (10.50%) Business Strategy
12 38 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (10.22%) ERP
14 36 (9.94%) Cloud Security
14 36 (9.94%) Disaster Recovery
14 36 (9.94%) Observability
15 33 (9.12%) Migration
16 31 (8.56%) AI
16 31 (8.56%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 71 (19.61%) Python
2 55 (15.19%) SQL
3 45 (12.43%) Java
4 39 (10.77%) PowerShell
5 38 (10.50%) Shell Script
6 37 (10.22%) PL/SQL
7 23 (6.35%) Bicep
8 15 (4.14%) Bash
9 6 (1.66%) Go
9 6 (1.66%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 52 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.29%) DV Cleared
3 20 (5.52%) Degree
4 18 (4.97%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.52%) SLA
2 13 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.49%) NIST
4 7 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.38%) GDPR
7 4 (1.10%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.55%) GRC
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 67 (18.51%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.80%) Docker
4 19 (5.25%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (3.04%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.76%) Firmware
7 10 (2.76%) vSphere
8 4 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.55%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 135 (37.29%) Terraform
2 46 (12.71%) Kubernetes
3 37 (10.22%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (4.97%) Ansible
5 16 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.04%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.93%) Grafana
9 5 (1.38%) Argo
9 5 (1.38%) Kibana
10 4 (1.10%) logstash
11 3 (0.83%) Rancher
12 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.55%) Istio
13 1 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.28%) Graylog
13 1 (0.28%) Nagios
13 1 (0.28%) SCCM
13 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 94 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.43%) Oracle
3 42 (11.60%) VMware
4 20 (5.52%) Okta
5 19 (5.25%) Cisco
6 17 (4.70%) Juniper
7 16 (4.42%) Dell
7 16 (4.42%) Dell Compellent
7 16 (4.42%) HP
7 16 (4.42%) Nimble Storage
8 12 (3.31%) SolarWinds
9 10 (2.76%) Broadcom
10 9 (2.49%) Google
11 4 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.10%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.10%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.10%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.83%) Salesforce