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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 331 222
Rank change year-on-year +183 -109 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,043 231 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.66% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 0.74% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 783 139 360
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,147 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,563 £47,096
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £76,000 £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.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 80,453 31,096 49,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.47% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 55,617 17,341 28,040
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,125 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £54,987 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.20% -0.02% -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 4 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 4 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 +158 400 £72,500 +26.09% 263
North West +125 246 £74,750 +39.72% 153
South West +66 206 £75,000 +20.00% 127
South East +74 189 £62,500 +14.94% 163
Midlands +58 135 £60,000 +4.35% 124
Yorkshire +58 123 £80,000 +28.00% 65
West Midlands +35 95 £60,000 -7.69% 68
East of England -26 51 £60,000 -20.00% 81
East Midlands -15 40 £100,000 +81.82% 56
Scotland +2 37 £62,500 +30.21% 145
North East -31 31 £60,000 +31.15% 45
Wales -50 23 £55,000 +45.76% 40
Northern Ireland -79 2 £70,000 +27.27% 51
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 356 (34.13%) Azure
2 262 (25.12%) AWS
3 219 (21.00%) DevOps
4 195 (18.70%) Terraform
5 194 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 187 (17.93%) Security Cleared
7 170 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 160 (15.34%) Platform Engineering
9 152 (14.57%) Cloud Security
10 139 (13.33%) CI/CD
11 136 (13.04%) Microsoft
12 122 (11.70%) SC Cleared
13 114 (10.93%) Kubernetes
14 101 (9.68%) Python
15 92 (8.82%) PowerShell
16 85 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 82 (7.86%) Agile
18 79 (7.57%) Cloud Operations
19 74 (7.09%) GCP
20 71 (6.81%) Collaborative Working
20 71 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
21 68 (6.52%) Containerisation
21 68 (6.52%) Entra ID
22 66 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
23 63 (6.04%) Docker
24 62 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
25 55 (5.27%) Active Directory
26 54 (5.18%) Ansible
26 54 (5.18%) Cyber Intelligence
27 50 (4.79%) Bash

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 21 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.77%) IIS
4 2 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.096%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (0.58%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 356 (34.13%) Azure
2 262 (25.12%) AWS
3 74 (7.09%) GCP
4 68 (6.52%) Entra ID
5 66 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (4.51%) PaaS
8 41 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (3.93%) SaaS
9 39 (3.74%) IaaS
10 37 (3.55%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (3.55%) Serverless
11 35 (3.36%) GitHub
12 29 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (2.59%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (2.40%) Amazon S3
16 23 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (2.01%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.70%) DNS
2 38 (3.64%) Firewall
3 37 (3.55%) VPN
4 16 (1.53%) DHCP
5 11 (1.05%) Network Security
6 7 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.38%) HTTP
7 4 (0.38%) SAN
7 4 (0.38%) VLAN
7 4 (0.38%) WAN
8 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.29%) Wireless
8 3 (0.29%) Wireless Security
9 2 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.096%) Broadband
10 1 (0.096%) LAN
10 1 (0.096%) MQTT
10 1 (0.096%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.58%) MySQL
4 5 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (0.38%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.29%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.29%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.19%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.19%) Power BI
8 1 (0.096%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.096%) Metadata
8 1 (0.096%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.096%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (2.01%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.44%) GitLab
3 12 (1.15%) Git
4 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.29%) Maven
4 3 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
General
1 93 (8.92%) Finance
2 55 (5.27%) Social Skills
3 38 (3.64%) Law
4 24 (2.30%) Public Sector
5 20 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (1.34%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.15%) Aerospace
8 10 (0.96%) Legal
9 8 (0.77%) Retail
10 4 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Marketing
12 2 (0.19%) Banking
12 2 (0.19%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.096%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (18.70%) Terraform
2 13 (1.25%) ARM Templates
3 8 (0.77%) AWS CDK
4 7 (0.67%) OpenID
4 7 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (0.67%) Pulumi
4 7 (0.67%) SAML
5 4 (0.38%) Django
5 4 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.38%) JWT
5 4 (0.38%) OAuth
5 4 (0.38%) OAuth2
5 4 (0.38%) RESTful
5 4 (0.38%) Vue
6 3 (0.29%) Kafka
6 3 (0.29%) Loki
6 3 (0.29%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.29%) PySpark
6 3 (0.29%) YAML
7 2 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 46 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 18 (1.73%) Public Cloud
5 17 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (1.63%) Security Posture
6 13 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 9 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
8 8 (0.77%) Private Cloud
9 7 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.38%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.29%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.29%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (0.29%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.31%) Windows
2 41 (3.93%) Linux
3 30 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.096%) VMS
5 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (21.00%) DevOps
2 194 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 170 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (15.34%) Platform Engineering
5 152 (14.57%) Cloud Security
6 139 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 85 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (7.86%) Agile
9 79 (7.57%) Cloud Operations
10 71 (6.81%) Collaborative Working
10 71 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (6.52%) Containerisation
12 54 (5.18%) Cyber Intelligence
13 45 (4.31%) Project Delivery
14 43 (4.12%) Infrastructure Automation
14 43 (4.12%) Software Engineering
15 37 (3.55%) Cybersecurity
16 36 (3.45%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (3.36%) AI
17 35 (3.36%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 101 (9.68%) Python
2 92 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 50 (4.79%) Bash
4 27 (2.59%) Bicep
5 21 (2.01%) SQL
6 13 (1.25%) C++
7 11 (1.05%) Go
7 11 (1.05%) Java
8 5 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.38%) C#
9 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.19%) Groovy
11 2 (0.19%) Ruby
12 1 (0.096%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.096%) PHP
12 1 (0.096%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 187 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 122 (11.70%) SC Cleared
3 41 (3.93%) DV Cleared
4 33 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 19 (1.82%) Degree
6 13 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.29%) CISM
10 3 (0.29%) CISSP
10 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.19%) SSCP
12 1 (0.096%) IISP
12 1 (0.096%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.096%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (1.34%) PCI DSS
3 12 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.05%) NIST
5 6 (0.58%) QA
6 4 (0.38%) NCSC
7 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.19%) GDPR
9 1 (0.096%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (6.04%) Docker
2 55 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.73%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.77%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.48%) vSphere
8 3 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.19%) Lustre
10 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (10.93%) Kubernetes
2 54 (5.18%) Ansible
3 38 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.15%) Grafana
5 11 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 11 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.86%) Puppet
6 9 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.58%) Argo
8 4 (0.38%) Nagios
9 3 (0.29%) Istio
9 3 (0.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.19%) SCOM
11 1 (0.096%) Scalr
Vendors
1 136 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.70%) VMware
3 27 (2.59%) Oracle
4 22 (2.11%) Google
5 8 (0.77%) Sage
6 7 (0.67%) Cisco
6 7 (0.67%) Okta
7 6 (0.58%) Databricks
7 6 (0.58%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.38%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.38%) Splunk
9 3 (0.29%) Citrix
9 3 (0.29%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.29%) New Relic
9 3 (0.29%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.19%) SOTI
10 2 (0.19%) Workday
11 1 (0.096%) BeyondTrust
11 1 (0.096%) Meraki