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 £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 320 236
Rank change year-on-year +148 -84 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 700 235 894
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.05% 0.80% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.90% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 499 182 536
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,775 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £78,232
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 62,756 26,244 73,201
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 89.12% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 43,359 14,181 52,598
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £34,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,310 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,325
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +94 232 £70,000 +12.00% 20
South East +71 165 £65,000 +10.17% 37
North West +99 151 £70,750 +13.20% 15
South West +41 130 £75,000 +7.14% 20
Midlands +47 88 £60,000 +26.32% 7
Yorkshire +3 68 £60,000 +14.29% 5
West Midlands +30 63 £55,000 -2.22% 6
East of England +4 57 £61,250 -7.67% 5
East Midlands -6 25 £60,000 +84.62% 1
North East -33 13 £45,000 -30.77%
Scotland +11 12 £77,500 -18.42% 1
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -41 3 £68,500 +81.54%
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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.

1 316 (45.14%) Azure
2 227 (32.43%) AWS
3 149 (21.29%) Terraform
4 135 (19.29%) DevOps
5 130 (18.57%) Security Cleared
6 118 (16.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 113 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 110 (15.71%) CI/CD
9 99 (14.14%) Microsoft
10 92 (13.14%) SC Cleared
11 84 (12.00%) Kubernetes
12 80 (11.43%) PowerShell
13 72 (10.29%) Agile
14 70 (10.00%) DNS
15 68 (9.71%) Containerisation
16 66 (9.43%) Cloud Security
17 65 (9.29%) High Availability
17 65 (9.29%) Python
18 63 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
19 61 (8.71%) IaaS
20 60 (8.57%) GCP
21 53 (7.57%) VMware
22 52 (7.43%) Active Directory
23 51 (7.29%) Windows
24 49 (7.00%) Azure AKS
24 49 (7.00%) Problem-Solving
25 47 (6.71%) Entra ID
25 47 (6.71%) Windows Server
26 46 (6.57%) Azure Certification
27 45 (6.43%) Firewall

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 15 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.57%) IIS
4 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 316 (45.14%) Azure
2 227 (32.43%) AWS
3 61 (8.71%) IaaS
4 60 (8.57%) GCP
5 49 (7.00%) Azure AKS
6 47 (6.71%) Entra ID
7 43 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (5.00%) GitHub
10 30 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 29 (4.14%) Azure Storage
11 29 (4.14%) Nutanix
12 28 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 27 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (3.71%) PaaS
15 24 (3.43%) SaaS
16 20 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 15 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.00%) DNS
2 45 (6.43%) Firewall
3 27 (3.86%) DHCP
4 20 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
5 17 (2.43%) VPN
6 9 (1.29%) Network Security
6 9 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.71%) DMZ
7 5 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.71%) SAN
7 5 (0.71%) STUN
7 5 (0.71%) VLAN
7 5 (0.71%) VoIP
8 4 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (0.57%) Junos
8 4 (0.57%) NX-OS
9 3 (0.43%) WAN
10 2 (0.29%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.86%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.71%) MySQL
4 5 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.43%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.43%) Metadata
6 3 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.43%) Power BI
7 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.29%) Tableau
8 1 (0.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (2.71%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.57%) GitLab
3 15 (2.14%) Git
4 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.43%) JIRA
7 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.14%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (8.57%) Social Skills
2 35 (5.00%) Law
3 27 (3.86%) Finance
4 11 (1.57%) Banking
5 10 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.29%) Billing
6 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.14%) Public Sector
8 6 (0.86%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.71%) Legal
10 4 (0.57%) Automotive
10 4 (0.57%) Marketing
11 3 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.29%) Advertising
12 2 (0.29%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.43%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.29%) YAML
3 8 (1.14%) AWS CDK
3 8 (1.14%) Loki
3 8 (1.14%) RESTful
4 7 (1.00%) OAuth
4 7 (1.00%) OAuth2
5 6 (0.86%) JSON
5 6 (0.86%) SAML
6 5 (0.71%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (0.71%) JWT
6 5 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (0.71%) REST
7 4 (0.57%) Node.js
7 4 (0.57%) OpenID
7 4 (0.57%) SOAP
8 3 (0.43%) .NET
8 3 (0.43%) Middleware
8 3 (0.43%) NestJS
8 3 (0.43%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (0.86%) Data Centre
5 6 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (0.86%) Security Posture
5 6 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (0.71%) PKI
6 5 (0.71%) Product Ownership
6 5 (0.71%) Replication
7 4 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.57%) Driving Licence
7 4 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.57%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.43%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.29%) Windows
2 47 (6.71%) Windows Server
3 27 (3.86%) Linux
4 7 (1.00%) Debian
5 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (19.29%) DevOps
2 118 (16.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 113 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 110 (15.71%) CI/CD
5 72 (10.29%) Agile
6 68 (9.71%) Containerisation
7 66 (9.43%) Cloud Security
8 65 (9.29%) High Availability
9 63 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
10 49 (7.00%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (6.29%) Root Cause Analysis
12 43 (6.14%) Cloud Operations
12 43 (6.14%) Disaster Recovery
12 43 (6.14%) Mentoring
13 41 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (5.29%) ITIL
15 33 (4.71%) Load Balancing
15 33 (4.71%) Observability
16 29 (4.14%) Coaching
17 28 (4.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 80 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 65 (9.29%) Python
3 26 (3.71%) SQL
4 25 (3.57%) Bash
5 16 (2.29%) Bicep
6 11 (1.57%) Java
7 8 (1.14%) C++
7 8 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.86%) Go
8 6 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.29%) Groovy
11 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.14%) C#
12 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 130 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 92 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.57%) Azure Certification
4 29 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.14%) Degree
6 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.71%) CCNP
8 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.71%) MCSE
8 5 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.29%) CISM
10 2 (0.29%) CISSP
10 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) SSCP
11 1 (0.14%) IISP
11 1 (0.14%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.86%) SLA
2 9 (1.29%) NIST
2 9 (1.29%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.71%) QA
5 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 43 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (4.86%) Docker
4 26 (3.71%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.71%) KVM
7 4 (0.57%) Firmware
7 4 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.43%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 149 (21.29%) Terraform
2 84 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 32 (4.57%) Ansible
4 17 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.29%) Grafana
6 14 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.57%) Nagios
8 4 (0.57%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.43%) Argo
9 3 (0.43%) Istio
9 3 (0.43%) Rancher
9 3 (0.43%) Scalr
10 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.14%) Graylog
11 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 99 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.57%) VMware
3 20 (2.86%) Dell
3 20 (2.86%) Dell Compellent
3 20 (2.86%) HP
3 20 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
4 18 (2.57%) Google
4 18 (2.57%) Oracle
5 11 (1.57%) Cisco
6 6 (0.86%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.86%) Zerto
7 5 (0.71%) Databricks
7 5 (0.71%) Veeam
8 4 (0.57%) Broadcom
8 4 (0.57%) Juniper
8 4 (0.57%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.43%) Citrix
10 2 (0.29%) Pega
10 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.29%) SAP