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 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 311 227
Rank change year-on-year +138 -84 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 775 274 833
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.09% 0.81% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.91% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 559 206 525
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 67,320 30,051 69,641
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.38% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 46,635 17,139 49,418
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 July 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 July 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 +115 260 £72,500 +18.37% 38
South East +65 175 £65,000 +13.04% 44
North West +93 165 £70,000 +16.67% 22
South West +40 150 £75,000 - 11
Midlands +26 96 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Yorkshire +35 85 £80,000 +39.13% 12
West Midlands +26 67 £61,000 -6.15% 11
East of England +1 64 £60,000 -9.56% 8
East Midlands -13 29 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Scotland +3 13 £50,000 -47.37% 10
North East -42 10 £45,000 -30.77% 4
Wales -43 6 £55,000 +45.76% 6
Northern Ireland -56 6 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £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 11 July 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.

1 329 (42.45%) Azure
2 240 (30.97%) AWS
3 156 (20.13%) Terraform
4 154 (19.87%) Security Cleared
5 149 (19.23%) DevOps
6 127 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 126 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (14.58%) Microsoft
9 109 (14.06%) CI/CD
10 106 (13.68%) Kubernetes
11 104 (13.42%) SC Cleared
12 84 (10.84%) PowerShell
13 81 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
14 77 (9.94%) Agile
14 77 (9.94%) Cloud Security
15 76 (9.81%) Containerisation
16 73 (9.42%) GCP
17 64 (8.26%) DNS
18 63 (8.13%) Python
19 62 (8.00%) Cloud Operations
20 59 (7.61%) High Availability
21 58 (7.48%) VMware
22 57 (7.35%) IaaS
23 55 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
24 54 (6.97%) Active Directory
25 50 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
26 49 (6.32%) Problem-Solving
27 47 (6.06%) Entra ID
28 46 (5.94%) Azure Certification
29 45 (5.81%) Azure AKS

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 16 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.52%) IIS
4 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 329 (42.45%) Azure
2 240 (30.97%) AWS
3 73 (9.42%) GCP
4 57 (7.35%) IaaS
5 50 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (6.06%) Entra ID
7 45 (5.81%) Azure AKS
8 39 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (4.26%) GitHub
10 30 (3.87%) Azure Key Vault
11 29 (3.74%) Azure Storage
12 28 (3.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 27 (3.48%) SaaS
14 24 (3.10%) Nutanix
14 24 (3.10%) PaaS
15 21 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.45%) OCI
16 19 (2.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.26%) DNS
2 38 (4.90%) Firewall
3 23 (2.97%) DHCP
4 20 (2.58%) VPN
5 15 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
6 12 (1.55%) Network Security
6 12 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.03%) VLAN
8 5 (0.65%) DMZ
8 5 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.65%) SAN
8 5 (0.65%) STUN
8 5 (0.65%) VoIP
9 3 (0.39%) WAN
10 2 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.26%) LAN
11 1 (0.13%) Broadband
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.13%) HTTP
11 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.42%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (0.90%) MySQL
2 7 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.39%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.39%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.39%) Metadata
5 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.26%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.26%) Power BI
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (2.19%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.94%) GitLab
3 8 (1.03%) Git
4 5 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.13%) JIRA
8 1 (0.13%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (6.71%) Social Skills
2 42 (5.42%) Finance
3 36 (4.65%) Law
4 11 (1.42%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (1.42%) Manufacturing
5 8 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (0.90%) Aerospace
6 7 (0.90%) Banking
7 6 (0.77%) Public Sector
7 6 (0.77%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.65%) Automotive
8 5 (0.65%) Legal
9 4 (0.52%) Billing
9 4 (0.52%) Marketing
10 3 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.39%) Retail
11 2 (0.26%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.13%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.13%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.13%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.42%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.16%) YAML
3 6 (0.77%) Loki
3 6 (0.77%) OpenID
3 6 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.77%) SAML
4 5 (0.65%) AWS CDK
4 5 (0.65%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (0.65%) JWT
4 5 (0.65%) OAuth
4 5 (0.65%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (0.65%) REST
5 4 (0.52%) JSON
5 4 (0.52%) Node.js
5 4 (0.52%) RESTful
6 3 (0.39%) Django
6 3 (0.39%) NestJS
6 3 (0.39%) Vue
6 3 (0.39%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (3.87%) Public Cloud
4 10 (1.29%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.03%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.03%) Security Posture
6 7 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 6 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.65%) Replication
9 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.39%) PKI
10 3 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.55%) Windows
2 36 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 31 (4.00%) Linux
4 7 (0.90%) Debian
5 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (19.23%) DevOps
2 127 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 126 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (14.06%) CI/CD
5 81 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
6 77 (9.94%) Agile
6 77 (9.94%) Cloud Security
7 76 (9.81%) Containerisation
8 62 (8.00%) Cloud Operations
9 59 (7.61%) High Availability
10 55 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (6.32%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (5.55%) Root Cause Analysis
13 40 (5.16%) Disaster Recovery
13 40 (5.16%) Mentoring
14 36 (4.65%) ITIL
15 34 (4.39%) Load Balancing
15 34 (4.39%) Observability
16 28 (3.61%) Project Delivery
17 27 (3.48%) AI
Programming Languages
1 84 (10.84%) PowerShell
2 63 (8.13%) Python
3 25 (3.23%) Bash
4 24 (3.10%) SQL
5 16 (2.06%) Bicep
6 10 (1.29%) C++
6 10 (1.29%) Java
7 9 (1.16%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.90%) Go
9 6 (0.77%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.39%) C#
11 2 (0.26%) Groovy
11 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.13%) PHP
12 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 154 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.94%) Azure Certification
4 31 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.94%) Degree
6 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.65%) CCNP
9 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.65%) MCSE
9 5 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.39%) CISM
11 3 (0.39%) CISSP
12 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.26%) SSCP
13 1 (0.13%) IISP
13 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.94%) SLA
2 12 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 10 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.16%) NIST
5 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.90%) QA
6 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 54 (6.97%) Active Directory
2 42 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (4.90%) Docker
4 29 (3.74%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.77%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.65%) KVM
9 4 (0.52%) vSphere
10 1 (0.13%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 156 (20.13%) Terraform
2 106 (13.68%) Kubernetes
3 41 (5.29%) Ansible
4 20 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.06%) Grafana
6 14 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.52%) Argo
8 4 (0.52%) Istio
8 4 (0.52%) Nagios
9 3 (0.39%) Rancher
9 3 (0.39%) Scalr
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.26%) Puppet
11 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.13%) Graylog
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.13%) SCOM
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.48%) VMware
3 27 (3.48%) Google
3 27 (3.48%) Oracle
4 15 (1.94%) Dell
4 15 (1.94%) Dell Compellent
4 15 (1.94%) HP
4 15 (1.94%) Nimble Storage
5 8 (1.03%) Cisco
6 6 (0.77%) Databricks
6 6 (0.77%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.77%) Zerto
7 5 (0.65%) Veeam
8 3 (0.39%) Citrix
8 3 (0.39%) ConnectWise
8 3 (0.39%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.26%) Okta
9 2 (0.26%) Salesforce