Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 287 264
Rank change year-on-year +56 -23 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 721 557 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.16% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.29% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 451 391 610
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,121 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,515 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.13% +5.41% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +30 207 £60,000 -7.69% 12
Midlands +24 123 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Scotland +4 114 £60,000 -13.60% 4
South East +27 103 £58,750 -12.31% 9
South West +23 96 £52,500 -19.23% 9
North West +2 95 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Yorkshire +64 88 £62,783 +4.64% 6
West Midlands +15 66 £65,000 +18.18% 7
East Midlands +6 57 £57,500 +15.00% 2
East of England +1 50 £65,000 -7.14% 1
North East -3 24 £58,750 +2.17%
Wales +8 15 £55,000 +17.65% 2
Northern Ireland +22 13 £75,000 +50.00% 6
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 335 (46.46%) Azure
2 263 (36.48%) AWS
3 240 (33.29%) Terraform
4 173 (23.99%) CI/CD
5 166 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 159 (22.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 155 (21.50%) DevOps
8 128 (17.75%) Microsoft
9 124 (17.20%) Finance
10 119 (16.50%) Agile
11 115 (15.95%) Social Skills
12 92 (12.76%) Kubernetes
12 92 (12.76%) Windows
13 90 (12.48%) Linux
14 88 (12.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 86 (11.93%) Software Engineering
16 85 (11.79%) Python
16 85 (11.79%) Public Cloud
17 84 (11.65%) Docker
18 83 (11.51%) PowerShell
19 76 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
20 75 (10.40%) Ansible
21 74 (10.26%) Java
22 73 (10.12%) Microsoft 365
22 73 (10.12%) Roadmaps
23 71 (9.85%) Cloud Native
24 70 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
25 67 (9.29%) Splunk
25 67 (9.29%) Operational Stability
26 65 (9.02%) Machine Learning

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (5.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.66%) Confluence
4 5 (0.69%) IBM Domino
5 4 (0.55%) IIS
5 4 (0.55%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.42%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.14%) Moodle
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 335 (46.46%) Azure
2 263 (36.48%) AWS
3 73 (10.12%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (8.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 57 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (7.63%) Datadog
7 54 (7.49%) OCI
8 44 (6.10%) SaaS
9 40 (5.55%) Entra ID
10 38 (5.27%) OneDrive
11 37 (5.13%) GCP
12 36 (4.99%) Dropbox
12 36 (4.99%) Google Drive
12 36 (4.99%) IaaS
13 34 (4.72%) PaaS
14 26 (3.61%) Serverless
15 25 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (2.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.80%) Firewall
2 21 (2.91%) WAN
3 17 (2.36%) Network Security
4 15 (2.08%) VPN
5 14 (1.94%) DHCP
6 13 (1.80%) DNS
7 12 (1.66%) LAN
8 6 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.83%) VLAN
9 5 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.55%) BGP
10 4 (0.55%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.42%) HTTP
11 3 (0.42%) MPLS
11 3 (0.42%) MQTT
12 2 (0.28%) DMZ
12 2 (0.28%) Wireless
13 1 (0.14%) HSRP
13 1 (0.14%) Multicast
13 1 (0.14%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.25%) MySQL
4 6 (0.83%) Power BI
5 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.28%) DB2
6 2 (0.28%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.14%) Event Store
7 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (8.88%) Git
2 15 (2.08%) GitLab
3 12 (1.66%) Artifactory
3 12 (1.66%) JIRA
4 9 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.42%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.42%) JMeter
6 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.14%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Gradle
7 1 (0.14%) Maven
7 1 (0.14%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 124 (17.20%) Finance
2 115 (15.95%) Social Skills
3 64 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 61 (8.46%) Law
5 42 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (4.44%) Aerospace
7 26 (3.61%) Marketing
8 19 (2.64%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.08%) Tech for Good
10 12 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.25%) Legal
12 6 (0.83%) Local Government
12 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.83%) Retail
13 4 (0.55%) Banking
14 3 (0.42%) Automotive
14 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.28%) Advertising
15 2 (0.28%) Games
15 2 (0.28%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.21%) OpenTelemetry
2 22 (3.05%) ARM Templates
3 11 (1.53%) YAML
4 9 (1.25%) .NET
5 7 (0.97%) Node.js
6 4 (0.55%) AWS CDK
6 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.42%) ADO
7 3 (0.42%) CSS
7 3 (0.42%) HTML
8 2 (0.28%) JSON
8 2 (0.28%) REST
9 1 (0.14%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.14%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.14%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.14%) jQuery
9 1 (0.14%) React
9 1 (0.14%) RESTful
9 1 (0.14%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.79%) Public Cloud
2 71 (9.85%) Cloud Native
3 64 (8.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (4.99%) iPad
5 26 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.19%) Data Centre
7 15 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (1.53%) Replication
9 10 (1.39%) IoT
10 7 (0.97%) Handset
10 7 (0.97%) Product Ownership
11 6 (0.83%) Blog
12 5 (0.69%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.69%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.55%) Clustering
13 4 (0.55%) PKI
14 3 (0.42%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.42%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.42%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.76%) Windows
2 90 (12.48%) Linux
3 57 (7.91%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.97%) Unix
5 7 (0.97%) VMS
6 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.55%) CentOS
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.42%) SUSE
9 3 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (23.99%) CI/CD
2 166 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 159 (22.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 155 (21.50%) DevOps
5 119 (16.50%) Agile
6 88 (12.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 86 (11.93%) Software Engineering
8 76 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (10.12%) Roadmaps
10 70 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
11 67 (9.29%) Operational Stability
12 65 (9.02%) Machine Learning
13 60 (8.32%) Technology Roadmap
14 59 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
15 58 (8.04%) Identity Access Management
15 58 (8.04%) Platform Engineering
15 58 (8.04%) SDLC
16 57 (7.91%) Containerisation
17 56 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
17 56 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (11.79%) Python
2 83 (11.51%) PowerShell
3 74 (10.26%) Java
4 55 (7.63%) Bicep
5 54 (7.49%) Bash
6 21 (2.91%) Perl
7 18 (2.50%) C#
8 14 (1.94%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.94%) SQL
9 11 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (1.25%) PHP
11 8 (1.11%) Go
12 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.69%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.42%) AWK
14 3 (0.42%) C++
14 3 (0.42%) sed
15 2 (0.28%) Rust
16 1 (0.14%) Groovy
16 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (6.24%) Degree
2 36 (4.99%) Azure Certification
3 27 (3.74%) AWS Certification
4 19 (2.64%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.36%) SC Cleared
7 14 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.25%) CCNA
9 9 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.11%) MCSE
11 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.55%) MCITP
12 3 (0.42%) CCNP
12 3 (0.42%) PhD
13 2 (0.28%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.28%) MCSA
14 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (1.66%) QA
3 9 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.42%) GDPR
4 3 (0.42%) NIST
4 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.28%) NCSC
5 2 (0.28%) SLA
6 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.14%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 84 (11.65%) Docker
2 62 (8.60%) Active Directory
3 42 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (2.64%) Hyper-V
6 17 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (1.66%) XenDesktop
8 11 (1.53%) XenApp
9 6 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.83%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.42%) Ceph
10 3 (0.42%) Firmware
10 3 (0.42%) Gluster
10 3 (0.42%) KVM
10 3 (0.42%) oVirt
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 240 (33.29%) Terraform
2 92 (12.76%) Kubernetes
3 75 (10.40%) Ansible
4 64 (8.88%) Grafana
5 40 (5.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (2.64%) Puppet
7 17 (2.36%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.08%) Prometheus
9 13 (1.80%) Salt
10 11 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (1.39%) SCCM
12 8 (1.11%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.97%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.42%) Graylog
15 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
15 3 (0.42%) Observium
15 3 (0.42%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.29%) Splunk
3 59 (8.18%) Oracle
4 52 (7.21%) Dynatrace
5 51 (7.07%) Google
6 45 (6.24%) VMware
7 17 (2.36%) Cisco
8 16 (2.22%) Citrix
9 9 (1.25%) NetApp
10 8 (1.11%) HP
11 7 (0.97%) Dell
11 7 (0.97%) Veeam
12 5 (0.69%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.55%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.55%) Symantec
14 3 (0.42%) New Relic
15 2 (0.28%) Extreme Networks
15 2 (0.28%) LogicMonitor
15 2 (0.28%) PagerDuty
15 2 (0.28%) SolarWinds