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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 284 206
Rank change year-on-year +55 -78 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 346 357 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.96% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.03% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 230 211 331
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £49,415
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £78,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -2.67%

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 37,897 34,703 29,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 93.14% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22,949 17,250 22,189
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +1 82 £62,500 +31.58% 23
South East +16 75 £55,000 -15.38% 40
Scotland +20 54 £48,750 -11.36% 4
North West +34 52 £60,000 +26.32% 13
East of England +41 45 £75,000 +6.76% 6
Midlands +13 35 £60,000 +17.20% 15
South West -6 31 £60,000 -9.43% 20
West Midlands +5 26 £62,500 +22.08% 10
Yorkshire -34 21 £60,000 +26.32% 9
Wales +18 18 £68,958 +40.43% 4
North East +7 9 £82,511 +69.25% 1
Northern Ireland 0 8 - - 6
East Midlands -3 8 £62,500 +30.67% 5
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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.

1 201 (58.09%) Azure
2 125 (36.13%) Terraform
3 117 (33.82%) DevOps
4 109 (31.50%) AWS
5 107 (30.92%) Microsoft
6 103 (29.77%) CI/CD
7 95 (27.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 75 (21.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 69 (19.94%) Active Directory
9 69 (19.94%) Windows
10 66 (19.08%) Agile
11 63 (18.21%) Azure DevOps
11 63 (18.21%) Coaching
11 63 (18.21%) Python
11 63 (18.21%) SQL
12 62 (17.92%) Windows Server
13 54 (15.61%) GitHub
14 53 (15.32%) Mentoring
15 51 (14.74%) DNS
16 50 (14.45%) Security Cleared
17 49 (14.16%) Entra ID
18 45 (13.01%) Test Automation
19 44 (12.72%) Asset Management
19 44 (12.72%) Java
19 44 (12.72%) Jenkins
19 44 (12.72%) OCI
19 44 (12.72%) Oracle
20 43 (12.43%) Firewall
21 42 (12.14%) PowerShell
22 41 (11.85%) Kubernetes

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 22 (6.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (3.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (10.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 201 (58.09%) Azure
2 109 (31.50%) AWS
3 63 (18.21%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (15.61%) GitHub
5 49 (14.16%) Entra ID
6 44 (12.72%) OCI
7 35 (10.12%) PaaS
8 33 (9.54%) IaaS
9 31 (8.96%) Power Platform
10 28 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (6.94%) SaaS
12 21 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (5.78%) Serverless
14 19 (5.49%) GCP
15 17 (4.91%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
18 12 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
19 11 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.74%) DNS
2 43 (12.43%) Firewall
3 31 (8.96%) DHCP
3 31 (8.96%) VPN
4 10 (2.89%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (2.89%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (2.89%) Cisco ISE
4 10 (2.89%) Junos
4 10 (2.89%) Remote Desktop
5 9 (2.60%) NX-OS
6 8 (2.31%) Network Security
7 7 (2.02%) WAN
8 5 (1.45%) DMZ
8 5 (1.45%) STUN
8 5 (1.45%) VLAN
8 5 (1.45%) VoIP
9 2 (0.58%) LAN
9 2 (0.58%) SAN
9 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.49%) Power BI
2 17 (4.91%) Tableau
3 6 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.73%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.16%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.58%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 44 (12.72%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.69%) Oracle Forms
3 35 (10.12%) Git
4 21 (6.07%) JIRA
5 18 (5.20%) GitLab
6 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.29%) Appium
8 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.29%) git-flow
8 1 (0.29%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) Snyk
General
1 55 (15.90%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.03%) Finance
3 7 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (1.73%) Law
4 6 (1.73%) Public Sector
5 5 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (0.87%) Advertising
7 3 (0.87%) Automotive
7 3 (0.87%) Banking
7 3 (0.87%) Billing
7 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.29%) Legal
8 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.27%) RESTful
2 25 (7.23%) SOAP
3 21 (6.07%) JSON
4 20 (5.78%) XML
5 18 (5.20%) OAuth
5 18 (5.20%) SAML
6 17 (4.91%) OAuth2
7 8 (2.31%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.73%) Node.js
9 5 (1.45%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (1.45%) REST
10 4 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.87%) Loki
11 3 (0.87%) Middleware
11 3 (0.87%) React
12 2 (0.58%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.58%) Kafka
12 2 (0.58%) Nuxt
12 2 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 65 (18.79%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.72%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (5.20%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.60%) Driving Licence
5 9 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.60%) PKI
6 8 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.87%) Clustering
9 2 (0.58%) IoT
9 2 (0.58%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 69 (19.94%) Windows
2 62 (17.92%) Windows Server
3 15 (4.34%) Linux
4 7 (2.02%) VMS
5 5 (1.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (33.82%) DevOps
2 103 (29.77%) CI/CD
3 95 (27.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 75 (21.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (19.08%) Agile
6 63 (18.21%) Coaching
7 53 (15.32%) Mentoring
8 45 (13.01%) Test Automation
9 44 (12.72%) Asset Management
10 40 (11.56%) API Integration
10 40 (11.56%) Cloud Security
11 39 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (10.69%) ERP
12 37 (10.69%) Identity Access Management
13 36 (10.40%) Observability
14 35 (10.12%) Migration
15 34 (9.83%) AI
16 32 (9.25%) Business Strategy
17 28 (8.09%) Cloud Operations
17 28 (8.09%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 63 (18.21%) Python
1 63 (18.21%) SQL
2 44 (12.72%) Java
3 42 (12.14%) PowerShell
4 37 (10.69%) PL/SQL
4 37 (10.69%) Shell Script
5 22 (6.36%) Bicep
6 11 (3.18%) Bash
7 5 (1.45%) C#
7 5 (1.45%) Go
8 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.09%) DV Cleared
3 19 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.76%) Degree
5 9 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.05%) SLA
3 9 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.60%) NIST
4 6 (1.73%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.45%) GDPR
5 5 (1.45%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.87%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 69 (19.94%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.49%) Docker
3 16 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.34%) vSphere
5 14 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 13 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.18%) Firmware
8 10 (2.89%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.45%) Kamailio
9 5 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 125 (36.13%) Terraform
2 41 (11.85%) Kubernetes
3 37 (10.69%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (4.34%) Ansible
4 15 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.89%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.45%) Argo
7 5 (1.45%) Grafana
7 5 (1.45%) Kibana
8 4 (1.16%) logstash
9 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.58%) Rancher
10 1 (0.29%) Istio
10 1 (0.29%) SCCM
10 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 107 (30.92%) Microsoft
2 44 (12.72%) Oracle
3 41 (11.85%) VMware
4 20 (5.78%) Okta
5 19 (5.49%) Cisco
6 16 (4.62%) Juniper
7 11 (3.18%) SolarWinds
8 10 (2.89%) Dell
8 10 (2.89%) Dell Compellent
8 10 (2.89%) Google
8 10 (2.89%) HP
8 10 (2.89%) Nimble Storage
9 9 (2.60%) Broadcom
10 6 (1.73%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.16%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.87%) ServiceNow