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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 241 218
Rank change year-on-year +18 -23 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 387 364 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.12% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.22% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 259 223 457
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,231 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £69,479 £66,350 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.72% +5.68% -5.99%

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 43,407 29,892 47,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 91.63% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 27,114 14,631 36,882
10th Percentile £28,027 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -15 94 £65,000 +34.00% 20
South East +1 92 £58,000 -10.77% 29
North West +15 53 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Scotland +9 50 £48,000 -12.73% 5
South West -8 43 £60,000 -9.43% 25
Midlands +13 39 £55,000 +4.76% 9
East of England +12 39 £75,000 +13.05% 10
West Midlands +17 29 £50,000 -4.30% 6
Yorkshire -49 27 £60,000 +33.33% 7
Wales +16 18 £68,958 +43.05%
North East -6 14 £78,755 +57.51% 2
Northern Ireland -8 12 - -
East Midlands -11 9 £65,000 +23.81% 3
Channel Islands - 2 £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 14 February 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.

1 210 (54.26%) Azure
2 138 (35.66%) DevOps
3 137 (35.40%) AWS
3 137 (35.40%) Terraform
4 112 (28.94%) CI/CD
5 97 (25.06%) Microsoft
6 93 (24.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 85 (21.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (19.12%) Python
9 69 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
9 69 (17.83%) Coaching
10 68 (17.57%) Active Directory
11 66 (17.05%) Agile
12 64 (16.54%) Mentoring
13 60 (15.50%) Entra ID
14 55 (14.21%) Windows
15 54 (13.95%) DNS
15 54 (13.95%) GitHub
15 54 (13.95%) Security Cleared
16 53 (13.70%) Firewall
17 51 (13.18%) SQL
18 49 (12.66%) Kubernetes
19 48 (12.40%) Windows Server
20 45 (11.63%) VMware
21 43 (11.11%) Jenkins
21 43 (11.11%) PaaS
21 43 (11.11%) Test Automation
22 42 (10.85%) Disaster Recovery
22 42 (10.85%) IaaS
22 42 (10.85%) Java

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 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (4.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 35 (9.04%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 210 (54.26%) Azure
2 137 (35.40%) AWS
3 69 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (15.50%) Entra ID
5 54 (13.95%) GitHub
6 43 (11.11%) PaaS
7 42 (10.85%) IaaS
8 41 (10.59%) OCI
9 31 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (7.49%) SaaS
11 26 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (6.20%) GCP
13 21 (5.43%) Nutanix
13 21 (5.43%) Power Platform
13 21 (5.43%) Serverless
14 20 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (4.65%) Azure AKS
16 17 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (4.13%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 54 (13.95%) DNS
2 53 (13.70%) Firewall
3 35 (9.04%) DHCP
4 28 (7.24%) VPN
5 19 (4.91%) Remote Desktop
6 11 (2.84%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (2.84%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (2.84%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (2.84%) Junos
7 10 (2.58%) Network Security
7 10 (2.58%) NX-OS
8 7 (1.81%) WAN
9 3 (0.78%) DMZ
9 3 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.78%) SAN
9 3 (0.78%) STUN
9 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.78%) VLAN
9 3 (0.78%) VoIP
10 2 (0.52%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.65%) Power BI
2 16 (4.13%) Tableau
3 9 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.29%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.03%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.78%) MySQL
9 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 35 (9.04%) Oracle Forms
3 33 (8.53%) Git
4 20 (5.17%) JIRA
5 19 (4.91%) GitLab
6 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.26%) Appium
8 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.26%) git-flow
8 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 66 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.18%) Finance
3 10 (2.58%) Public Sector
4 9 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.33%) Billing
5 7 (1.81%) Law
6 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.29%) Banking
7 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.03%) Automotive
8 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.78%) Advertising
10 2 (0.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Legal
11 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.82%) RESTful
2 21 (5.43%) SOAP
3 20 (5.17%) JSON
4 19 (4.91%) XML
5 17 (4.39%) OAuth
5 17 (4.39%) OAuth2
6 16 (4.13%) SAML
7 8 (2.07%) Node.js
8 7 (1.81%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.29%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.29%) Loki
10 4 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.03%) REST
11 3 (0.78%) FreeSWITCH
11 3 (0.78%) Middleware
11 3 (0.78%) React
12 2 (0.52%) Hugging Face
12 2 (0.52%) NestJS
12 2 (0.52%) Nuxt
12 2 (0.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 69 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (7.75%) Public Cloud
4 26 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.58%) PKI
6 8 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.29%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.03%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.78%) Clustering
11 2 (0.52%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.52%) IoT
11 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.52%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.21%) Windows
2 48 (12.40%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.65%) Linux
4 6 (1.55%) VMS
5 5 (1.29%) Debian
6 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (35.66%) DevOps
2 112 (28.94%) CI/CD
3 93 (24.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 85 (21.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (17.83%) Coaching
6 66 (17.05%) Agile
7 64 (16.54%) Mentoring
8 43 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 42 (10.85%) Disaster Recovery
10 41 (10.59%) Asset Management
11 40 (10.34%) Business Strategy
11 40 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (10.08%) API Integration
13 38 (9.82%) Cloud Security
13 38 (9.82%) Identity Access Management
14 35 (9.04%) ERP
14 35 (9.04%) Observability
15 34 (8.79%) High Availability
15 34 (8.79%) ITSM
16 31 (8.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 74 (19.12%) Python
2 51 (13.18%) SQL
3 42 (10.85%) Java
4 39 (10.08%) PowerShell
5 36 (9.30%) Shell Script
6 35 (9.04%) PL/SQL
7 23 (5.94%) Bicep
8 17 (4.39%) Bash
9 9 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.07%) Go
11 4 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (7.75%) DV Cleared
3 20 (5.17%) Degree
3 20 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.52%) CCNP
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.52%) MCSE
8 2 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.94%) SLA
2 11 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.58%) NIST
4 8 (2.07%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.29%) GDPR
6 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.52%) GRC
7 2 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 68 (17.57%) Active Directory
2 28 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.68%) Docker
3 22 (5.68%) Hyper-V
4 13 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.84%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.58%) Firmware
7 7 (1.81%) vSphere
8 4 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.52%) KVM
Systems Management
1 137 (35.40%) Terraform
2 49 (12.66%) Kubernetes
3 35 (9.04%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (4.91%) Ansible
5 17 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.84%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.07%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.81%) Grafana
9 5 (1.29%) Argo
9 5 (1.29%) Kibana
10 4 (1.03%) logstash
11 3 (0.78%) Rancher
12 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.52%) Istio
13 1 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.26%) Graylog
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) SCCM
13 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 97 (25.06%) Microsoft
2 45 (11.63%) VMware
3 42 (10.85%) Oracle
4 21 (5.43%) Cisco
5 19 (4.91%) Dell
5 19 (4.91%) Dell Compellent
5 19 (4.91%) HP
5 19 (4.91%) Nimble Storage
5 19 (4.91%) Okta
6 17 (4.39%) Juniper
7 12 (3.10%) SolarWinds
8 10 (2.58%) Broadcom
8 10 (2.58%) Google
9 5 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.03%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.03%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.03%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.78%) Zerto