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 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 252 230
Rank change year-on-year +28 -22 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 430 305 752
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.11% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.23% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 300 226 444
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,750 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +2.06% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,625 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £78,750 £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 49,264 24,844 56,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 90.08% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 31,253 14,379 42,541
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,861 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,375
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% -8.33%

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 17 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 17 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 -9 119 £65,000 +23.81% 29
South East +8 104 £58,000 -7.20% 27
North West +4 63 £65,000 +15.56% 10
South West -2 55 £63,750 -12.07% 11
Midlands 0 46 £60,000 +17.20% 6
Yorkshire -37 37 £61,250 +36.11% 16
East of England -21 35 £72,500 +9.29% 4
West Midlands +20 34 £51,250 +0.11% 4
Scotland -11 33 - - 9
North East -11 19 £71,250 +26.11% 3
Wales -2 18 £68,958 +40.43%
Northern Ireland -18 15 - -
East Midlands -26 11 £62,500 +4.17% 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 17 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.

1 219 (50.93%) Azure
2 156 (36.28%) AWS
3 126 (29.30%) DevOps
4 116 (26.98%) Terraform
5 94 (21.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 90 (20.93%) CI/CD
7 87 (20.23%) Microsoft
8 75 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 69 (16.05%) Mentoring
10 65 (15.12%) Coaching
11 62 (14.42%) Agile
11 62 (14.42%) Python
12 61 (14.19%) Active Directory
12 61 (14.19%) Security Cleared
13 59 (13.72%) Windows
14 56 (13.02%) DNS
15 53 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
15 53 (12.33%) Windows Server
16 52 (12.09%) VMware
17 51 (11.86%) Entra ID
18 50 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
18 50 (11.63%) High Availability
18 50 (11.63%) Kubernetes
19 49 (11.40%) Firewall
20 45 (10.47%) PowerShell
21 44 (10.23%) Business Strategy
22 42 (9.77%) IaaS
22 42 (9.77%) ITSM
23 41 (9.53%) SQL
24 40 (9.30%) GitHub

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 13 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 10 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 25 (5.81%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 219 (50.93%) Azure
2 156 (36.28%) AWS
3 53 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (11.86%) Entra ID
5 42 (9.77%) IaaS
6 40 (9.30%) GitHub
7 33 (7.67%) Nutanix
8 31 (7.21%) OCI
9 29 (6.74%) PaaS
10 28 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (5.81%) GCP
12 24 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (5.35%) Azure AKS
13 23 (5.35%) SaaS
14 20 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (3.95%) Serverless
16 15 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (3.49%) Power Platform
17 12 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 56 (13.02%) DNS
2 49 (11.40%) Firewall
3 35 (8.14%) DHCP
4 28 (6.51%) Remote Desktop
5 21 (4.88%) VPN
6 11 (2.56%) Network Security
7 10 (2.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.33%) Junos
8 9 (2.09%) NX-OS
9 5 (1.16%) DMZ
9 5 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.16%) STUN
9 5 (1.16%) VLAN
9 5 (1.16%) VoIP
10 3 (0.70%) SAN
10 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.70%) WAN
11 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.02%) Power BI
2 11 (2.56%) Tableau
3 10 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.63%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.70%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.70%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.70%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.70%) Metadata
8 3 (0.70%) MySQL
9 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 31 (7.21%) Jenkins
2 28 (6.51%) Git
3 25 (5.81%) Oracle Forms
4 19 (4.42%) GitLab
5 15 (3.49%) JIRA
6 5 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) git-flow
8 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 70 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 39 (9.07%) Finance
3 10 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (2.33%) Public Sector
4 9 (2.09%) Billing
5 8 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (1.86%) Law
6 7 (1.63%) Banking
7 5 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 4 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.70%) Advertising
10 2 (0.47%) Automotive
10 2 (0.47%) Legal
10 2 (0.47%) Marketing
10 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.23%) Local Government
11 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.51%) RESTful
2 18 (4.19%) JSON
3 16 (3.72%) SOAP
4 14 (3.26%) XML
5 12 (2.79%) OAuth
5 12 (2.79%) OAuth2
6 11 (2.56%) SAML
7 7 (1.63%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.63%) Node.js
8 6 (1.40%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.40%) Loki
9 5 (1.16%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (1.16%) REST
10 4 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.93%) YAML
11 3 (0.70%) Middleware
11 3 (0.70%) NestJS
12 2 (0.47%) .NET
12 2 (0.47%) WAMP
13 1 (0.23%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 65 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 41 (9.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (8.84%) Public Cloud
4 30 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.33%) PKI
6 8 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.16%) Replication
9 4 (0.93%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.70%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.47%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.47%) IoT
11 2 (0.47%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.47%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.47%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.72%) Windows
2 53 (12.33%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.95%) Linux
4 7 (1.63%) Debian
5 3 (0.70%) VMS
6 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (29.30%) DevOps
2 94 (21.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 90 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 75 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (16.05%) Mentoring
6 65 (15.12%) Coaching
7 62 (14.42%) Agile
8 50 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
8 50 (11.63%) High Availability
9 44 (10.23%) Business Strategy
10 42 (9.77%) ITSM
11 40 (9.30%) ITIL
12 38 (8.84%) Change Management
12 38 (8.84%) Cloud Security
12 38 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (7.91%) Business Continuity
13 34 (7.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 32 (7.44%) Platform Engineering
15 30 (6.98%) Test Automation
16 29 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 62 (14.42%) Python
2 45 (10.47%) PowerShell
3 41 (9.53%) SQL
4 30 (6.98%) Java
5 26 (6.05%) Shell Script
6 25 (5.81%) PL/SQL
7 21 (4.88%) Bash
8 17 (3.95%) Bicep
9 10 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.40%) Go
11 5 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 61 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.21%) DV Cleared
3 27 (6.28%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.12%) Azure Certification
5 16 (3.72%) Degree
6 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.16%) CCNP
8 5 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.16%) MCSE
8 5 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.44%) SLA
2 8 (1.86%) NIST
3 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.70%) GDPR
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.47%) GRC
8 2 (0.47%) QA
8 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (14.19%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.21%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.95%) Docker
5 10 (2.33%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.09%) Firmware
6 9 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (26.98%) Terraform
2 50 (11.63%) Kubernetes
3 26 (6.05%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (4.42%) Ansible
5 12 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (2.33%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.86%) Grafana
7 8 (1.86%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.16%) Argo
8 5 (1.16%) Kibana
9 4 (0.93%) logstash
10 3 (0.70%) Rancher
11 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.47%) Istio
12 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.23%) Graylog
12 1 (0.23%) Nagios
12 1 (0.23%) Scalr
Vendors
1 87 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 52 (12.09%) VMware
3 32 (7.44%) Oracle
4 28 (6.51%) Dell
4 28 (6.51%) Dell Compellent
4 28 (6.51%) HP
4 28 (6.51%) Nimble Storage
5 22 (5.12%) Cisco
6 16 (3.72%) Juniper
7 14 (3.26%) Google
7 14 (3.26%) Okta
8 10 (2.33%) SolarWinds
9 9 (2.09%) Broadcom
10 6 (1.40%) Zerto
11 5 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.16%) Veeam
12 4 (0.93%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.70%) Citrix
13 3 (0.70%) Databricks
14 2 (0.47%) SAP