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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 322 230
Rank change year-on-year +174 -92 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 963 240 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.69% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.77% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 731 163 415
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,086 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,128
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 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

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 75,322 31,231 55,277
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 89.47% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 52,259 18,051 34,989
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 29 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 29 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 +142 359 £70,750 +17.92% 97
North West +111 214 £72,500 +20.83% 51
South East +88 196 £60,000 +4.35% 63
South West +55 187 £75,000 +7.14% 47
Yorkshire +56 119 £80,000 +28.00% 34
Midlands +51 117 £62,000 +12.73% 44
West Midlands +39 79 £60,000 -7.69% 26
East of England +4 61 £60,000 -14.29% 33
East Midlands +1 38 £95,000 +72.73% 18
North East -37 26 £65,000 +46.07% 12
Wales -46 22 £55,000 +8.93% 6
Scotland -6 18 £50,000 -25.93% 50
Northern Ireland -77 2 - - 19
Channel Islands - 1 £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 29 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.

1 367 (38.11%) Azure
2 270 (28.04%) AWS
3 197 (20.46%) Terraform
4 195 (20.25%) DevOps
5 188 (19.52%) Security Cleared
6 170 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 157 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (15.06%) Platform Engineering
9 136 (14.12%) CI/CD
10 128 (13.29%) SC Cleared
11 124 (12.88%) Kubernetes
12 121 (12.56%) Microsoft
13 96 (9.97%) Cloud Security
14 93 (9.66%) PowerShell
15 87 (9.03%) Agile
16 78 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 77 (8.00%) Cloud Operations
17 77 (8.00%) GCP
18 76 (7.89%) Containerisation
18 76 (7.89%) Python
19 64 (6.65%) DNS
20 62 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
21 61 (6.33%) Docker
22 59 (6.13%) Ansible
22 59 (6.13%) Entra ID
22 59 (6.13%) Problem-Solving
23 57 (5.92%) Active Directory
23 57 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
24 52 (5.40%) VMware
25 51 (5.30%) High Availability

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 20 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.93%) IIS
4 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.62%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 367 (38.11%) Azure
2 270 (28.04%) AWS
3 77 (8.00%) GCP
4 62 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (6.13%) Entra ID
6 57 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (4.57%) IaaS
8 41 (4.26%) PaaS
9 40 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (4.15%) SaaS
10 38 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (3.84%) Azure AKS
12 36 (3.74%) GitHub
12 36 (3.74%) Serverless
13 32 (3.32%) Azure Key Vault
14 30 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (3.01%) Azure Storage
16 28 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (2.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 26 (2.70%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.65%) DNS
2 30 (3.12%) Firewall
3 26 (2.70%) VPN
4 21 (2.18%) DHCP
5 11 (1.14%) Network Security
6 9 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (0.42%) HTTP
8 4 (0.42%) SAN
8 4 (0.42%) VLAN
9 3 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.31%) WAN
10 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.21%) LAN
10 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.21%) Wireless
10 2 (0.21%) Wireless Security
11 1 (0.10%) Broadband
11 1 (0.10%) MQTT
11 1 (0.10%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (0.83%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.62%) MySQL
4 5 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.42%) Metadata
5 4 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.21%) Power BI
8 1 (0.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.10%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (1.97%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.56%) GitLab
3 12 (1.25%) Git
4 4 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.21%) Maven
5 2 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.10%) JIRA
6 1 (0.10%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (7.89%) Finance
2 50 (5.19%) Law
3 44 (4.57%) Social Skills
4 21 (2.18%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (1.66%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.14%) Aerospace
6 11 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.04%) Legal
8 8 (0.83%) Retail
9 6 (0.62%) Banking
9 6 (0.62%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.31%) Automotive
11 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.31%) Marketing
12 2 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.21%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.10%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (20.46%) Terraform
2 10 (1.04%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.93%) YAML
4 8 (0.83%) AWS CDK
5 7 (0.73%) OpenID
5 7 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (0.73%) Pulumi
5 7 (0.73%) SAML
6 5 (0.52%) Loki
6 5 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (0.42%) Django
7 4 (0.42%) JSON
7 4 (0.42%) JWT
7 4 (0.42%) OAuth
7 4 (0.42%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.42%) Vue
8 3 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.31%) Kafka
8 3 (0.31%) OpenTofu
8 3 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 100 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 19 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 12 (1.25%) Security Posture
8 9 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.42%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.31%) CCTV
12 3 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.31%) Online Gambling
12 3 (0.31%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.67%) Windows
2 33 (3.43%) Windows Server
3 30 (3.12%) Linux
4 2 (0.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) VMS
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (20.25%) DevOps
2 170 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 157 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 145 (15.06%) Platform Engineering
5 136 (14.12%) CI/CD
6 96 (9.97%) Cloud Security
7 87 (9.03%) Agile
8 78 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (8.00%) Cloud Operations
10 76 (7.89%) Containerisation
11 59 (6.13%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (5.30%) High Availability
13 44 (4.57%) Root Cause Analysis
14 43 (4.47%) Project Delivery
15 42 (4.36%) ITIL
16 41 (4.26%) Observability
17 40 (4.15%) Infrastructure Automation
18 38 (3.95%) Load Balancing
19 37 (3.84%) AI
20 34 (3.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 93 (9.66%) PowerShell
2 76 (7.89%) Python
3 43 (4.47%) Bash
4 21 (2.18%) Bicep
5 20 (2.08%) SQL
6 11 (1.14%) C++
7 9 (0.93%) Java
8 8 (0.83%) Go
9 5 (0.52%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.42%) C#
10 4 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.21%) Groovy
11 2 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.21%) Ruby
12 1 (0.10%) PHP
12 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 188 (19.52%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 39 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 14 (1.45%) Degree
6 12 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.31%) CISM
10 3 (0.31%) CISSP
11 2 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.21%) SSCP
12 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.10%) IISP
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 9 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (0.93%) NIST
4 6 (0.62%) SLA
5 5 (0.52%) QA
6 4 (0.42%) NCSC
7 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.21%) GDPR
9 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 61 (6.33%) Docker
2 57 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.83%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.52%) vSphere
9 3 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.21%) Lustre
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 124 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 59 (6.13%) Ansible
3 30 (3.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.45%) Grafana
5 13 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.83%) Puppet
8 6 (0.62%) Argo
9 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Nagios
11 3 (0.31%) Istio
11 3 (0.31%) Scalr
12 2 (0.21%) Rancher
13 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.40%) VMware
3 29 (3.01%) Oracle
4 25 (2.60%) Google
5 8 (0.83%) Sage
6 7 (0.73%) Cisco
7 6 (0.62%) Databricks
7 6 (0.62%) Dell
7 6 (0.62%) Dell Compellent
7 6 (0.62%) HP
7 6 (0.62%) Nimble Storage
7 6 (0.62%) Okta
8 4 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.31%) Citrix
9 3 (0.31%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.31%) Splunk
9 3 (0.31%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.21%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.21%) Veeam