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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 October 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 319 221
Rank change year-on-year +169 -98 +21
Permanent Cloud Engineer jobs 1,047 244 533
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.18% 0.71% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.79% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 779 148 331
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,719 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,063 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
24 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 81,991 30,889 46,325
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.07% 89.68% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 56,257 17,814 25,292
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.17% -9.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,300 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +12.95% -7.08% -5.83%

Cloud Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Cloud Engineer job postings 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 Cloud Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 October 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 Cloud Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +156 411 £73,205 +22.01% 198
North West +114 248 £73,205 +27.31% 116
South West +51 195 £70,000 +12.00% 78
South East +43 184 £60,000 +9.09% 135
Midlands +41 141 £60,000 - 85
Yorkshire +68 129 £77,500 +26.53% 55
West Midlands +31 96 £58,750 -9.62% 51
Scotland +10 46 £50,000 +4.17% 96
East Midlands -7 45 £100,000 +81.82% 34
East of England -49 44 £57,500 -23.33% 77
North East -42 34 £62,500 -12.28% 27
Wales -49 24 £55,000 +45.76% 37
Northern Ireland -76 2 £70,000 +27.27% 38
Cloud Engineer
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Cloud Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, Cloud Engineer job ads cited 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 Cloud Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Azure31.6%331
2AWS23.8%249
3DevOps20.9%219
4Infrastructure Engineering20.4%214
5Terraform17.1%179
6Security Cleared16.4%172
7Cloud Security15.7%164
8Infrastructure as Code15.3%160
9Platform Engineering14.8%155
10Microsoft11.9%125
11CI/CD11.7%122
12Kubernetes10.5%110
13SC Cleared10.2%107
14Python9.3%97
15PowerShell8.5%89
16Agile8.2%86
17Cloud Operations7.6%80
18Continuous Improvement7.4%78
19Collaborative Working7.4%77
20Microsoft 3656.5%68
21Entra ID6.1%64
21GCP6.1%64
23Containerisation6.0%63
24AWS CloudFormation5.9%62
25Problem-Solving5.6%59
26Cyber Intelligence5.4%57
26Docker5.4%57
28Active Directory5.0%52
29Ansible4.9%51
30DNS4.7%49

Cloud Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Cloud Engineer20.2%212
2Cloud Infrastructure Engineer18.6%195
3Azure Engineer14.6%153
4Security Engineer13.3%139
5AWS Engineer11.8%124
6Cloud Security Engineer10.7%112
7Lead Cloud Engineer10.1%106
8Cloud Platform Engineer9.5%99
9DevOps Engineer7.0%73
10CloudOps Engineer6.1%64
11Operations Engineer5.2%54
12Cloud Native Engineer4.5%47
13Senior Infrastructure Engineer4.4%46
14Systems Engineer3.8%40
15Support Engineer3.4%36
16Senior Security Engineer3.2%33
17Azure Infrastructure Engineer3.1%32
18Azure Platform Engineer2.7%28
18Senior Systems Engineer2.7%28
18Server Engineer2.7%28
744 Cloud Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London