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 30 March 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 241 228
Rank change year-on-year +25 -13 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 459 285 798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.09% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.22% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 323 230 451
10th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,000 £50,299 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,625 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +6.89% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £81,625 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -3.41%

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 51,979 23,326 59,748
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 89.44% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 33,419 14,543 44,501
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 30 March 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 March 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 -9 131 £66,500 +20.91% 33
South East +10 116 £60,000 -4.00% 29
North West +2 70 £65,500 +9.17% 17
South West -21 59 £75,000 - 15
Midlands -3 49 £60,000 +18.58% 8
Yorkshire -43 42 £62,500 +38.89% 13
East of England -27 39 £67,500 +1.75% 5
West Midlands +4 34 £60,000 +20.00% 5
Scotland -21 27 - - 5
North East -5 19 £71,250 +12.20% 3
Wales -10 18 £68,958 +22.75% 1
Northern Ireland -20 15 - -
East Midlands -30 14 £60,000 - 3
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 30 March 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.

1 228 (49.67%) Azure
2 175 (38.13%) AWS
3 124 (27.02%) DevOps
4 120 (26.14%) Terraform
5 94 (20.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 89 (19.39%) CI/CD
7 81 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 80 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (14.60%) Security Cleared
10 65 (14.16%) Mentoring
11 63 (13.73%) DNS
12 62 (13.51%) Agile
13 61 (13.29%) Windows
14 59 (12.85%) Active Directory
14 59 (12.85%) Coaching
15 57 (12.42%) Kubernetes
15 57 (12.42%) Python
16 55 (11.98%) VMware
17 54 (11.76%) High Availability
17 54 (11.76%) Windows Server
18 50 (10.89%) PowerShell
19 47 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
19 47 (10.24%) Disaster Recovery
19 47 (10.24%) Entra ID
19 47 (10.24%) Firewall
19 47 (10.24%) IaaS
20 44 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
21 43 (9.37%) ITIL
22 42 (9.15%) ITSM
23 40 (8.71%) Business Strategy

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 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (4.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 228 (49.67%) Azure
2 175 (38.13%) AWS
3 47 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (10.24%) Entra ID
3 47 (10.24%) IaaS
4 35 (7.63%) GitHub
4 35 (7.63%) Nutanix
5 31 (6.75%) GCP
6 29 (6.32%) PaaS
7 28 (6.10%) Azure AKS
8 27 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (5.23%) OCI
10 23 (5.01%) SaaS
11 21 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (4.14%) Serverless
13 15 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 63 (13.73%) DNS
2 47 (10.24%) Firewall
3 35 (7.63%) DHCP
4 28 (6.10%) Remote Desktop
5 21 (4.58%) VPN
6 11 (2.40%) Network Security
7 10 (2.18%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (2.18%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (2.18%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.18%) Junos
8 9 (1.96%) NX-OS
9 5 (1.09%) DMZ
9 5 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.09%) STUN
9 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.09%) VLAN
9 5 (1.09%) VoIP
10 4 (0.87%) WAN
11 3 (0.65%) SAN
12 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (2.18%) Power BI
3 9 (1.96%) Tableau
4 7 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.87%) MySQL
7 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.65%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.65%) Metadata
9 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (5.88%) Git
2 25 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.36%) GitLab
4 19 (4.14%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (3.05%) JIRA
6 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.22%) git-flow
9 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 34 (7.41%) Finance
3 14 (3.05%) Law
4 12 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.18%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.96%) Banking
6 9 (1.96%) Billing
7 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.87%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.65%) Advertising
10 3 (0.65%) Legal
11 2 (0.44%) Automotive
11 2 (0.44%) Marketing
11 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Local Government
12 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.79%) RESTful
2 14 (3.05%) JSON
3 12 (2.61%) SOAP
4 10 (2.18%) OAuth
4 10 (2.18%) OAuth2
4 10 (2.18%) XML
5 9 (1.96%) SAML
6 7 (1.53%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.53%) Loki
6 7 (1.53%) Node.js
7 6 (1.31%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.31%) YAML
8 5 (1.09%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.09%) REST
9 4 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.65%) Middleware
10 3 (0.65%) NestJS
11 2 (0.44%) .NET
11 2 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.44%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 63 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 43 (9.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (8.93%) Public Cloud
4 24 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.18%) PKI
6 8 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.31%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.09%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.09%) Replication
10 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.65%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.65%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.44%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.44%) Clustering
12 2 (0.44%) IoT
12 2 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.29%) Windows
2 54 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.14%) Linux
4 7 (1.53%) Debian
5 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (27.02%) DevOps
2 94 (20.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 89 (19.39%) CI/CD
4 80 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (14.16%) Mentoring
6 62 (13.51%) Agile
7 59 (12.85%) Coaching
8 54 (11.76%) High Availability
9 47 (10.24%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (9.37%) ITIL
11 42 (9.15%) ITSM
12 40 (8.71%) Business Strategy
12 40 (8.71%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (8.28%) Change Management
14 37 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (7.84%) Cloud Security
16 34 (7.41%) Business Continuity
17 33 (7.19%) Containerisation
17 33 (7.19%) Vulnerability Remediation
18 29 (6.32%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 57 (12.42%) Python
2 50 (10.89%) PowerShell
3 38 (8.28%) SQL
4 24 (5.23%) Java
5 22 (4.79%) Bash
6 20 (4.36%) Shell Script
7 19 (4.14%) PL/SQL
8 17 (3.70%) Bicep
9 10 (2.18%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.31%) Go
11 5 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 67 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 32 (6.97%) DV Cleared
2 32 (6.97%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.27%) Degree
5 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.09%) CCNP
7 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.09%) MCSE
7 5 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.97%) SLA
2 8 (1.74%) NIST
3 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.65%) GDPR
6 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.44%) GRC
6 2 (0.44%) QA
6 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (12.85%) Active Directory
2 44 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.97%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.92%) Docker
5 10 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.96%) Firmware
6 9 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.09%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (26.14%) Terraform
2 57 (12.42%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.36%) Ansible
3 20 (4.36%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (2.18%) vCenter Server
5 9 (1.96%) Grafana
5 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.09%) Argo
7 5 (1.09%) Kibana
8 4 (0.87%) logstash
9 3 (0.65%) Rancher
10 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) Scalr
11 1 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.22%) Graylog
11 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 81 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.98%) VMware
3 28 (6.10%) Dell
3 28 (6.10%) Dell Compellent
3 28 (6.10%) HP
3 28 (6.10%) Nimble Storage
4 25 (5.45%) Oracle
5 22 (4.79%) Cisco
6 17 (3.70%) Google
7 16 (3.49%) Juniper
8 10 (2.18%) Okta
8 10 (2.18%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.96%) Broadcom
10 6 (1.31%) Zerto
11 5 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.09%) Veeam
12 4 (0.87%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.65%) Citrix
13 3 (0.65%) Databricks
14 2 (0.44%) Salesforce