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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 320 215
Rank change year-on-year +163 -105 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 875 261 695
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.17% 0.76% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.85% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 652 189 429
10th Percentile £48,875 £40,950 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -5.13%

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 71,020 30,795 56,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.61% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 49,062 17,779 38,279
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £38,250 £32,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +138 308 £70,000 +16.67% 84
South East +76 187 £65,000 +13.04% 47
North West +110 184 £70,000 +16.67% 56
South West +50 171 £75,000 - 36
Midlands +44 110 £62,500 +13.64% 26
Yorkshire +46 106 £80,000 +52.38% 20
West Midlands +15 74 £62,250 -4.23% 17
East of England -8 62 £60,000 -10.35% 17
East Midlands -6 36 £82,500 +50.00% 9
North East -38 18 £52,500 -19.23% 8
Scotland +6 15 £50,000 -47.37% 11
Wales -52 13 £55,000 +8.93% 7
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland -70 4 - - 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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.

1 363 (41.49%) Azure
2 258 (29.49%) AWS
3 178 (20.34%) DevOps
3 178 (20.34%) Security Cleared
3 178 (20.34%) Terraform
4 148 (16.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 144 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 126 (14.40%) CI/CD
7 123 (14.06%) Microsoft
8 118 (13.49%) Kubernetes
8 118 (13.49%) Platform Engineering
8 118 (13.49%) SC Cleared
9 90 (10.29%) PowerShell
10 85 (9.71%) Agile
11 84 (9.60%) Cloud Security
12 77 (8.80%) Containerisation
13 76 (8.69%) GCP
14 72 (8.23%) Cloud Operations
15 68 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (7.77%) Python
16 63 (7.20%) DNS
17 57 (6.51%) Active Directory
17 57 (6.51%) High Availability
17 57 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
18 55 (6.29%) Entra ID
18 55 (6.29%) VMware
19 53 (6.06%) IaaS
19 53 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
20 52 (5.94%) Ansible
20 52 (5.94%) Docker

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 18 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.91%) IIS
4 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 363 (41.49%) Azure
2 258 (29.49%) AWS
3 76 (8.69%) GCP
4 57 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (6.29%) Entra ID
6 53 (6.06%) IaaS
7 45 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 42 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (4.69%) Azure AKS
10 38 (4.34%) GitHub
11 37 (4.23%) PaaS
12 36 (4.11%) SaaS
13 32 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
14 29 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (3.31%) Azure Storage
15 28 (3.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 25 (2.86%) Serverless
17 24 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
19 21 (2.40%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.20%) DNS
2 33 (3.77%) Firewall
3 24 (2.74%) VPN
4 21 (2.40%) DHCP
5 12 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
6 11 (1.26%) Network Security
7 9 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.80%) VLAN
9 4 (0.46%) SAN
10 3 (0.34%) DMZ
10 3 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.34%) STUN
10 3 (0.34%) VoIP
10 3 (0.34%) WAN
11 2 (0.23%) HTTP
11 2 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.23%) LAN
11 2 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.11%) MQTT
12 1 (0.11%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (1.26%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.69%) MySQL
3 5 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.34%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.34%) Metadata
6 2 (0.23%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.23%) Power BI
6 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.71%) GitLab
3 11 (1.26%) Git
4 4 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.11%) JIRA
7 1 (0.11%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (6.86%) Finance
2 50 (5.71%) Social Skills
3 40 (4.57%) Law
4 16 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.26%) Public Sector
7 10 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 8 (0.91%) Retail
9 7 (0.80%) Legal
10 6 (0.69%) Banking
10 6 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.34%) Automotive
12 3 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.23%) Billing
13 2 (0.23%) Marketing
13 2 (0.23%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.11%) Advertising
14 1 (0.11%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.26%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.03%) YAML
3 7 (0.80%) AWS CDK
3 7 (0.80%) OpenID
3 7 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.80%) SAML
4 5 (0.57%) JWT
4 5 (0.57%) Loki
4 5 (0.57%) OAuth
4 5 (0.57%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.46%) Django
5 4 (0.46%) JSON
5 4 (0.46%) Vue
6 3 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.34%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (0.34%) Kafka
6 3 (0.34%) RESTful
6 3 (0.34%) WAMP
7 2 (0.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (3.09%) Public Cloud
4 13 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.37%) Driving Licence
6 11 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (1.03%) Security Posture
8 8 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.57%) Replication
11 5 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.34%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.23%) Clustering
13 2 (0.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.37%) Windows
2 37 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 31 (3.54%) Linux
4 4 (0.46%) Debian
5 2 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (20.34%) DevOps
2 148 (16.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 144 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 126 (14.40%) CI/CD
5 118 (13.49%) Platform Engineering
6 85 (9.71%) Agile
7 84 (9.60%) Cloud Security
8 77 (8.80%) Containerisation
9 72 (8.23%) Cloud Operations
10 68 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (6.51%) High Availability
12 53 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (5.03%) Root Cause Analysis
14 40 (4.57%) Disaster Recovery
15 39 (4.46%) ITIL
15 39 (4.46%) Mentoring
15 39 (4.46%) Observability
16 37 (4.23%) Load Balancing
17 34 (3.89%) Project Delivery
18 31 (3.54%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 68 (7.77%) Python
3 33 (3.77%) Bash
4 24 (2.74%) SQL
5 21 (2.40%) Bicep
6 11 (1.26%) C++
7 9 (1.03%) Java
8 8 (0.91%) Go
8 8 (0.91%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.57%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.46%) C#
11 2 (0.23%) Groovy
11 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.11%) PHP
12 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 178 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 118 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.14%) Azure Certification
4 34 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.26%) Degree
7 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.57%) CCNP
8 5 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.57%) MCSE
8 5 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.34%) CISM
9 3 (0.34%) CISSP
10 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.37%) PCI DSS
1 12 (1.37%) SLA
2 11 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.14%) NIST
4 9 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.69%) QA
6 5 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.34%) NCSC
7 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.23%) GDPR
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 57 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 52 (5.94%) Docker
3 34 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.09%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.91%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.57%) KVM
7 5 (0.57%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 178 (20.34%) Terraform
2 118 (13.49%) Kubernetes
3 52 (5.94%) Ansible
4 25 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.60%) Grafana
6 13 (1.49%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.57%) Puppet
9 4 (0.46%) Argo
9 4 (0.46%) Nagios
10 3 (0.34%) Istio
10 3 (0.34%) Scalr
11 2 (0.23%) Rancher
12 1 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 123 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.29%) VMware
3 29 (3.31%) Oracle
4 27 (3.09%) Google
5 12 (1.37%) Dell
5 12 (1.37%) Dell Compellent
5 12 (1.37%) HP
5 12 (1.37%) Nimble Storage
6 7 (0.80%) Cisco
7 6 (0.69%) Databricks
7 6 (0.69%) Veeam
8 5 (0.57%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.57%) Zerto
9 4 (0.46%) Okta
10 3 (0.34%) ConnectWise
10 3 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.34%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (0.23%) New Relic
12 1 (0.11%) Meraki
12 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft