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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 305 241
Rank change year-on-year +130 -64 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 673 245 808
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.01% 0.84% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.94% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 491 201 459
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +9.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -7.41%

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 62,505 26,055 65,708
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 89.13% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 41,409 14,263 47,844
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,159 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,729 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +3.46% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +73 217 £70,000 +16.67% 27
South East +67 163 £60,000 - 52
North West +88 138 £70,000 +16.67% 19
South West +21 116 £75,000 +7.14% 38
Midlands +33 80 £60,000 +30.43% 20
Yorkshire -6 64 £60,000 +14.29% 4
East of England +9 58 £65,000 -2.03% 12
West Midlands +1 53 £60,000 +23.08% 12
East Midlands -3 26 £60,000 +84.62% 8
Scotland +3 16 £77,500 -18.42% 12
North East -28 15 £45,000 -29.69% 4
Northern Ireland -28 11 - - 2
Wales -27 7 £80,000 +26.48% 2
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 21 May 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.

1 317 (47.10%) Azure
2 222 (32.99%) AWS
3 149 (22.14%) Terraform
4 136 (20.21%) DevOps
5 129 (19.17%) Security Cleared
6 116 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 109 (16.20%) CI/CD
8 107 (15.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 95 (14.12%) Microsoft
10 90 (13.37%) SC Cleared
11 82 (12.18%) Agile
12 77 (11.44%) DNS
12 77 (11.44%) Kubernetes
13 73 (10.85%) PowerShell
14 70 (10.40%) High Availability
15 69 (10.25%) Python
16 65 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
17 63 (9.36%) Windows
18 60 (8.92%) VMware
19 59 (8.77%) Active Directory
19 59 (8.77%) Containerisation
20 57 (8.47%) IaaS
20 57 (8.47%) Mentoring
21 55 (8.17%) Windows Server
22 54 (8.02%) Cloud Security
23 53 (7.88%) GCP
24 50 (7.43%) Entra ID
25 49 (7.28%) Azure AKS
26 48 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
26 48 (7.13%) Firewall

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 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.59%) IIS
5 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Lightworks
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 317 (47.10%) Azure
2 222 (32.99%) AWS
3 57 (8.47%) IaaS
4 53 (7.88%) GCP
5 50 (7.43%) Entra ID
6 49 (7.28%) Azure AKS
7 48 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (5.94%) GitHub
9 37 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (5.05%) Nutanix
11 29 (4.31%) Azure Key Vault
12 28 (4.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 28 (4.16%) Azure Storage
13 23 (3.42%) OCI
13 23 (3.42%) PaaS
14 22 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.82%) SaaS
17 17 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 77 (11.44%) DNS
2 48 (7.13%) Firewall
3 32 (4.75%) DHCP
4 25 (3.71%) Remote Desktop
5 16 (2.38%) VPN
6 10 (1.49%) Network Security
7 8 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.04%) SAN
9 6 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (0.89%) Junos
9 6 (0.89%) NX-OS
10 5 (0.74%) DMZ
10 5 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.74%) STUN
10 5 (0.74%) VLAN
10 5 (0.74%) VoIP
11 4 (0.59%) WAN
12 2 (0.30%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.04%) Power BI
5 6 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (0.89%) MySQL
5 6 (0.89%) Tableau
6 5 (0.74%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.59%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.45%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.45%) Metadata
9 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.15%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 25 (3.71%) Git
2 24 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.27%) GitLab
4 12 (1.78%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (1.04%) JIRA
6 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.15%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (9.96%) Social Skills
2 35 (5.20%) Finance
3 32 (4.75%) Law
4 11 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (1.63%) Banking
5 10 (1.49%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.34%) Billing
7 8 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 6 (0.89%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.59%) Automotive
10 4 (0.59%) Legal
10 4 (0.59%) Marketing
11 3 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.30%) Advertising
12 2 (0.30%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.15%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.38%) RESTful
2 10 (1.49%) OAuth
2 10 (1.49%) OAuth2
3 9 (1.34%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.34%) JSON
3 9 (1.34%) SAML
4 8 (1.19%) AWS CDK
4 8 (1.19%) Loki
4 8 (1.19%) SOAP
5 7 (1.04%) YAML
6 6 (0.89%) XML
7 5 (0.74%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.74%) REST
8 4 (0.59%) JWT
8 4 (0.59%) Node.js
9 3 (0.45%) .NET
9 3 (0.45%) NestJS
9 3 (0.45%) OpenID
9 3 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (0.45%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.70%) Cloud Native
2 61 (9.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (6.09%) Public Cloud
4 16 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.04%) PKI
6 6 (0.89%) Data Centre
6 6 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.74%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 5 (0.74%) Replication
7 5 (0.74%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.45%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.45%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.30%) IoT
10 2 (0.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.36%) Windows
2 55 (8.17%) Windows Server
3 28 (4.16%) Linux
4 7 (1.04%) Debian
5 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (20.21%) DevOps
2 116 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 109 (16.20%) CI/CD
4 107 (15.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (12.18%) Agile
6 70 (10.40%) High Availability
7 65 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
8 59 (8.77%) Containerisation
9 57 (8.47%) Mentoring
10 54 (8.02%) Cloud Security
11 48 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (6.98%) Coaching
12 47 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
13 46 (6.84%) Root Cause Analysis
14 42 (6.24%) ITIL
15 40 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (5.20%) ITSM
16 35 (5.20%) Observability
17 33 (4.90%) Business Continuity
17 33 (4.90%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 73 (10.85%) PowerShell
2 69 (10.25%) Python
3 36 (5.35%) SQL
4 23 (3.42%) Bash
5 17 (2.53%) Java
6 15 (2.23%) Bicep
7 13 (1.93%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.78%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.34%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.04%) C++
10 7 (1.04%) Go
11 5 (0.74%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.15%) Groovy
13 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 129 (19.17%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.69%) Azure Certification
4 31 (4.61%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.23%) Degree
6 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.74%) CCNP
8 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.74%) MCSE
8 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.30%) SSCP
11 1 (0.15%) CISM
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
11 1 (0.15%) IISP
11 1 (0.15%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.71%) SLA
2 7 (1.04%) PCI DSS
3 6 (0.89%) NIST
4 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.59%) QA
6 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.30%) GDPR
7 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 47 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (4.46%) Hyper-V
4 28 (4.16%) Docker
5 6 (0.89%) Firmware
5 6 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.89%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.74%) KVM
7 4 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.30%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 149 (22.14%) Terraform
2 77 (11.44%) Kubernetes
3 33 (4.90%) Ansible
4 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (2.08%) Grafana
5 14 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.78%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.89%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.59%) Nagios
8 4 (0.59%) Rancher
9 3 (0.45%) Scalr
10 2 (0.30%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Argo
11 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.15%) Graylog
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 95 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.92%) VMware
3 25 (3.71%) Dell
3 25 (3.71%) Dell Compellent
3 25 (3.71%) HP
3 25 (3.71%) Nimble Storage
4 24 (3.57%) Oracle
5 16 (2.38%) Cisco
6 14 (2.08%) Google
7 9 (1.34%) Juniper
8 6 (0.89%) Broadcom
8 6 (0.89%) Okta
8 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.89%) SolarWinds
8 6 (0.89%) Zerto
9 5 (0.74%) Databricks
9 5 (0.74%) Veeam
10 3 (0.45%) Citrix
11 2 (0.30%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.30%) SAP