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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 312 227
Rank change year-on-year +155 -85 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 831 267 720
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.13% 0.78% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.87% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 618 196 451
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £95,000 £83,121
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -5.13%

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 69,609 30,629 60,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 89.63% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 48,115 17,622 41,337
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 27 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 27 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 +131 292 £71,500 +19.17% 71
North West +98 175 £70,000 +16.67% 43
South East +69 175 £65,000 +13.04% 42
South West +47 162 £75,000 +3.45% 23
Midlands +36 105 £62,000 +12.73% 29
Yorkshire +40 101 £80,000 +52.38% 21
West Midlands +24 71 £62,250 -4.23% 19
East of England +2 63 £60,000 -10.35% 17
East Midlands -6 34 £60,000 +9.09% 10
North East -37 16 £47,000 -27.69% 7
Scotland +11 14 £50,000 -47.37% 14
Wales -46 11 £55,000 +8.93% 7
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland -63 4 - - 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 352 (42.36%) Azure
2 242 (29.12%) AWS
3 166 (19.98%) DevOps
3 166 (19.98%) Security Cleared
4 165 (19.86%) Terraform
5 140 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 134 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 121 (14.56%) Microsoft
8 116 (13.96%) CI/CD
9 112 (13.48%) SC Cleared
10 110 (13.24%) Kubernetes
11 105 (12.64%) Platform Engineering
12 86 (10.35%) PowerShell
13 79 (9.51%) Agile
13 79 (9.51%) Cloud Security
14 76 (9.15%) Containerisation
15 73 (8.78%) GCP
16 66 (7.94%) Cloud Operations
17 63 (7.58%) Python
18 62 (7.46%) DNS
19 61 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
20 56 (6.74%) Active Directory
20 56 (6.74%) High Availability
21 55 (6.62%) VMware
22 54 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
23 53 (6.38%) Entra ID
23 53 (6.38%) IaaS
24 51 (6.14%) Problem-Solving
25 48 (5.78%) Ansible
26 46 (5.54%) Azure Certification

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 18 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.72%) IIS
4 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 352 (42.36%) Azure
2 242 (29.12%) AWS
3 73 (8.78%) GCP
4 54 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (6.38%) Entra ID
5 53 (6.38%) IaaS
6 42 (5.05%) Azure AKS
7 40 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (4.09%) GitHub
10 32 (3.85%) PaaS
11 31 (3.73%) Azure Key Vault
12 30 (3.61%) SaaS
13 29 (3.49%) Azure Storage
14 28 (3.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 25 (3.01%) Serverless
16 21 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.53%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.46%) DNS
2 35 (4.21%) Firewall
3 22 (2.65%) VPN
4 21 (2.53%) DHCP
5 12 (1.44%) Network Security
5 12 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
6 11 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.96%) VLAN
8 4 (0.48%) DMZ
8 4 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.48%) SAN
8 4 (0.48%) STUN
8 4 (0.48%) VoIP
9 3 (0.36%) WAN
10 2 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.24%) LAN
11 1 (0.12%) Broadband
11 1 (0.12%) HTTP
11 1 (0.12%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.72%) MySQL
4 5 (0.60%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.36%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.36%) Metadata
7 2 (0.24%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.24%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.24%) Power BI
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.12%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.81%) GitLab
3 9 (1.08%) Git
4 4 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.12%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (6.74%) Finance
2 46 (5.54%) Social Skills
3 39 (4.69%) Law
4 15 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 9 (1.08%) Aerospace
7 8 (0.96%) Public Sector
8 7 (0.84%) Retail
9 6 (0.72%) Banking
9 6 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.72%) Legal
9 6 (0.72%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.36%) Automotive
10 3 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.24%) Billing
11 2 (0.24%) Marketing
11 2 (0.24%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.12%) Advertising
12 1 (0.12%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.12%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.32%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.08%) YAML
3 7 (0.84%) OpenID
3 7 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.84%) SAML
4 5 (0.60%) JWT
4 5 (0.60%) Loki
4 5 (0.60%) OAuth
4 5 (0.60%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.48%) AWS CDK
5 4 (0.48%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (0.48%) JSON
6 3 (0.36%) Django
6 3 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.36%) RESTful
6 3 (0.36%) Vue
6 3 (0.36%) WAMP
7 2 (0.24%) Node.js
7 2 (0.24%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 94 (11.31%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 11 (1.32%) Driving Licence
4 11 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 10 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (0.96%) Security Posture
7 7 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.60%) Replication
10 3 (0.36%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.24%) Clustering
11 2 (0.24%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.42%) Windows
2 35 (4.21%) Windows Server
3 30 (3.61%) Linux
4 6 (0.72%) Debian
5 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (19.98%) DevOps
2 140 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 134 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (13.96%) CI/CD
5 105 (12.64%) Platform Engineering
6 79 (9.51%) Agile
6 79 (9.51%) Cloud Security
7 76 (9.15%) Containerisation
8 66 (7.94%) Cloud Operations
9 61 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (6.74%) High Availability
11 51 (6.14%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (5.29%) Root Cause Analysis
13 40 (4.81%) Mentoring
14 38 (4.57%) Disaster Recovery
15 37 (4.45%) ITIL
16 35 (4.21%) Load Balancing
16 35 (4.21%) Observability
17 32 (3.85%) Project Delivery
18 29 (3.49%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 86 (10.35%) PowerShell
2 63 (7.58%) Python
3 29 (3.49%) Bash
4 24 (2.89%) SQL
5 18 (2.17%) Bicep
6 10 (1.20%) C++
7 9 (1.08%) Java
8 7 (0.84%) Go
8 7 (0.84%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.36%) C#
11 2 (0.24%) Groovy
11 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.24%) Ruby
12 1 (0.12%) PHP
12 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 166 (19.98%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.54%) Azure Certification
4 33 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.44%) Degree
7 11 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.72%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.60%) CCNP
10 5 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.60%) MCSE
10 5 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.36%) CISM
11 3 (0.36%) CISSP
12 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.24%) SSCP
13 1 (0.12%) IISP
13 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.44%) PCI DSS
1 12 (1.44%) SLA
2 11 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.20%) NIST
4 8 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.72%) QA
6 5 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.24%) GDPR
8 2 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 42 (5.05%) Docker
3 36 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.84%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.60%) KVM
7 5 (0.60%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 165 (19.86%) Terraform
2 110 (13.24%) Kubernetes
3 48 (5.78%) Ansible
4 24 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.68%) Grafana
6 13 (1.56%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.48%) Argo
8 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.48%) Puppet
9 3 (0.36%) Istio
9 3 (0.36%) Nagios
9 3 (0.36%) Scalr
10 2 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.62%) VMware
3 29 (3.49%) Oracle
4 26 (3.13%) Google
5 12 (1.44%) Dell
5 12 (1.44%) Dell Compellent
5 12 (1.44%) HP
5 12 (1.44%) Nimble Storage
6 7 (0.84%) Cisco
7 6 (0.72%) Databricks
7 6 (0.72%) Veeam
8 5 (0.60%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.60%) Zerto
9 3 (0.36%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.36%) Okta
9 3 (0.36%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.24%) Citrix
11 1 (0.12%) EMC
11 1 (0.12%) Sage