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 18 October 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 318 222
Rank change year-on-year +169 -96 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,043 237 535
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 0.69% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.77% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 774 142 334
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,900 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,406 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,938 £73,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,750 £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 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.

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 80,907 30,649 46,936
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 89.72% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 55,756 17,542 25,700
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,725 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +11.90% -6.25% -6.67%

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 18 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 IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +149 406 £72,853 +26.70% 189
North West +106 244 £74,500 +29.57% 106
South West +67 198 £70,000 +12.00% 74
South East +57 185 £60,000 +10.34% 126
Midlands +62 139 £60,000 - 86
Yorkshire +78 130 £80,000 +33.33% 49
West Midlands +32 98 £60,000 -7.69% 49
East of England -37 46 £60,000 -20.00% 74
Scotland +10 44 £55,000 +14.58% 81
East Midlands +4 41 £100,000 +81.82% 37
North East -41 32 £60,000 -11.11% 34
Wales -52 23 £55,000 +45.76% 26
Northern Ireland -76 2 £70,000 +27.27% 33
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Azure32.4%338
2AWS23.9%249
3DevOps20.8%217
4Infrastructure Engineering19.9%208
5Terraform17.7%185
6Security Cleared16.5%172
7Infrastructure as Code15.6%163
8Cloud Security15.2%159
9Platform Engineering15.1%157
10Microsoft12.4%129
11CI/CD12.3%128
12Kubernetes10.6%111
12SC Cleared10.6%111
14Python9.4%98
15PowerShell8.4%88
16Agile8.2%86
17Continuous Improvement7.7%80
18Cloud Operations7.5%78
19Collaborative Working7.4%77
20GCP6.3%66
21Containerisation6.1%64
21Microsoft 3656.1%64
21Problem-Solving6.1%64
24AWS CloudFormation5.9%62
24Entra ID5.9%62
26Docker5.6%58
27Cyber Intelligence5.5%57
28Ansible5.0%52
29Active Directory4.9%51
30VMware4.7%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 Engineer19.7%205
2Cloud Infrastructure Engineer18.1%189
3Azure Engineer15.1%157
4Security Engineer12.9%135
5AWS Engineer11.7%122
6Cloud Security Engineer10.4%108
7Lead Cloud Engineer10.0%104
8Cloud Platform Engineer9.4%98
9DevOps Engineer6.9%72
10CloudOps Engineer6.1%64
11Operations Engineer5.2%54
12Cloud Native Engineer4.4%46
13Systems Engineer3.7%39
14Senior Infrastructure Engineer3.6%38
15Support Engineer3.5%36
16Azure Infrastructure Engineer3.3%34
17Senior Security Engineer3.0%31
18Azure Platform Engineer2.7%28
19Senior Systems Engineer2.6%27
20Server Engineer2.5%26
688 Cloud Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London