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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 316 229
Rank change year-on-year +143 -87 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 691 236 908
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.04% 0.80% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.90% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 492 180 549
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £77,922
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £63,891
% change year-on-year - +9.56% -1.71%

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 62,992 26,365 73,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 89.04% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,634 14,253 52,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,340 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +88 227 £70,000 +12.00% 28
South East +76 162 £65,000 +10.17% 35
North West +96 149 £70,750 +8.85% 21
South West +41 133 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Midlands +44 87 £60,000 +28.34% 10
Yorkshire +3 66 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands +25 62 £55,000 +15.79% 9
East of England +4 57 £60,000 -9.56% 6
East Midlands -5 25 £60,000 +84.62% 1
North East -30 12 £45,000 -30.77%
Scotland +10 10 £77,500 -18.42% 2
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -46 2 £68,500 +81.54% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 306 (44.28%) Azure
2 226 (32.71%) AWS
3 138 (19.97%) Terraform
4 130 (18.81%) DevOps
5 129 (18.67%) Security Cleared
6 115 (16.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 107 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 105 (15.20%) CI/CD
9 98 (14.18%) Microsoft
10 92 (13.31%) SC Cleared
11 83 (12.01%) Kubernetes
12 79 (11.43%) PowerShell
13 67 (9.70%) Containerisation
13 67 (9.70%) DNS
14 65 (9.41%) Agile
14 65 (9.41%) Cloud Security
14 65 (9.41%) High Availability
15 63 (9.12%) Platform Engineering
16 61 (8.83%) Python
17 60 (8.68%) GCP
18 58 (8.39%) IaaS
19 56 (8.10%) VMware
20 52 (7.53%) Active Directory
21 50 (7.24%) Windows
22 47 (6.80%) Azure AKS
23 46 (6.66%) Azure Certification
23 46 (6.66%) Entra ID
23 46 (6.66%) Windows Server
24 45 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
25 44 (6.37%) Disaster Recovery

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 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.58%) IIS
4 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 306 (44.28%) Azure
2 226 (32.71%) AWS
3 60 (8.68%) GCP
4 58 (8.39%) IaaS
5 47 (6.80%) Azure AKS
6 46 (6.66%) Entra ID
7 44 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (4.92%) GitHub
10 30 (4.34%) Azure Key Vault
11 29 (4.20%) Azure Storage
11 29 (4.20%) Nutanix
12 28 (4.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 26 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (3.47%) SaaS
15 23 (3.33%) PaaS
16 20 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 16 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 67 (9.70%) DNS
2 43 (6.22%) Firewall
3 28 (4.05%) DHCP
4 20 (2.89%) Remote Desktop
5 16 (2.32%) VPN
6 10 (1.45%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.16%) Network Security
8 6 (0.87%) VLAN
9 5 (0.72%) DMZ
9 5 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.72%) SAN
9 5 (0.72%) STUN
9 5 (0.72%) VoIP
10 4 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.58%) Junos
10 4 (0.58%) NX-OS
11 3 (0.43%) WAN
12 2 (0.29%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.72%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.58%) MySQL
4 4 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.43%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.43%) Metadata
6 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.29%) Power BI
7 1 (0.14%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 13 (1.88%) GitLab
3 8 (1.16%) Git
4 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.29%) JIRA
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.14%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (8.39%) Social Skills
2 35 (5.07%) Law
3 24 (3.47%) Finance
4 11 (1.59%) Banking
5 9 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 8 (1.16%) Billing
6 8 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.16%) Public Sector
7 6 (0.87%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
8 5 (0.72%) Legal
9 4 (0.58%) Automotive
9 4 (0.58%) Marketing
10 3 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.29%) Advertising
11 2 (0.29%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.30%) ARM Templates
1 9 (1.30%) YAML
2 8 (1.16%) AWS CDK
2 8 (1.16%) Loki
3 6 (0.87%) OAuth
3 6 (0.87%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.72%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (0.72%) JSON
4 5 (0.72%) JWT
4 5 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (0.72%) REST
4 5 (0.72%) RESTful
4 5 (0.72%) SAML
5 4 (0.58%) Node.js
5 4 (0.58%) OpenID
6 3 (0.43%) .NET
6 3 (0.43%) Middleware
6 3 (0.43%) NestJS
6 3 (0.43%) SOAP
6 3 (0.43%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.99%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 34 (4.92%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (0.87%) Driving Licence
5 6 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (0.87%) Security Posture
5 6 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (0.72%) PKI
6 5 (0.72%) Product Ownership
6 5 (0.72%) Replication
7 4 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.43%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.24%) Windows
2 46 (6.66%) Windows Server
3 26 (3.76%) Linux
4 7 (1.01%) Debian
5 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (18.81%) DevOps
2 115 (16.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 105 (15.20%) CI/CD
5 67 (9.70%) Containerisation
6 65 (9.41%) Agile
6 65 (9.41%) Cloud Security
6 65 (9.41%) High Availability
7 63 (9.12%) Platform Engineering
8 44 (6.37%) Disaster Recovery
9 43 (6.22%) Cloud Operations
10 42 (6.08%) Root Cause Analysis
11 41 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (5.93%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (5.50%) ITIL
12 38 (5.50%) Mentoring
13 34 (4.92%) Load Balancing
14 33 (4.78%) Observability
15 28 (4.05%) Business Continuity
16 26 (3.76%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 61 (8.83%) Python
3 26 (3.76%) Bash
4 23 (3.33%) SQL
5 14 (2.03%) Bicep
6 8 (1.16%) C++
6 8 (1.16%) Java
6 8 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.72%) Go
9 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.29%) Groovy
10 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.29%) Ruby
11 1 (0.14%) C#
11 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 129 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 92 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.66%) Azure Certification
4 28 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.17%) Degree
6 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.72%) CCNP
8 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.72%) MCSE
8 5 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.29%) CISM
10 2 (0.29%) CISSP
10 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) SSCP
11 1 (0.14%) IISP
11 1 (0.14%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.89%) SLA
2 8 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.01%) NIST
4 5 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.72%) QA
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 45 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (4.78%) Docker
4 29 (4.20%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.72%) KVM
6 5 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.58%) Firmware
7 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.58%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 138 (19.97%) Terraform
2 83 (12.01%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.49%) Ansible
4 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.46%) Grafana
6 15 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.58%) Argo
8 4 (0.58%) Nagios
8 4 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.43%) Istio
9 3 (0.43%) Scalr
10 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.14%) Graylog
11 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 98 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.10%) VMware
3 20 (2.89%) Dell
3 20 (2.89%) Dell Compellent
3 20 (2.89%) HP
3 20 (2.89%) Nimble Storage
4 19 (2.75%) Google
5 16 (2.32%) Oracle
6 11 (1.59%) Cisco
7 6 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.87%) Zerto
8 5 (0.72%) Databricks
8 5 (0.72%) Veeam
9 4 (0.58%) Broadcom
9 4 (0.58%) Juniper
9 4 (0.58%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.43%) Citrix
11 2 (0.29%) Pega
11 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.29%) SAP