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 £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 280 244
Rank change year-on-year +98 -36 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 620 260 812
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.92% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.03% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 441 212 458
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £63,125 £59,263
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% +6.52% -1.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £70,000 £62,641
% change year-on-year +2.14% +11.75% -7.20%

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 61,752 25,208 64,488
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 88.95% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 39,756 14,676 47,087
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,283 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +37 185 £70,000 +27.27% 33
South East +50 157 £60,000 - 44
North West +34 111 £70,000 +16.67% 16
South West +11 104 £75,000 +3.45% 27
Midlands +12 68 £61,000 +30.48% 24
Yorkshire -20 59 £60,000 +20.00% 13
East of England 0 52 £65,000 -2.02% 8
West Midlands +16 50 £70,000 +40.00% 16
Scotland -7 21 £77,500 -18.42% 5
East Midlands -32 17 £60,000 +84.62% 8
North East -19 15 £45,000 -28.57% 4
Wales -18 14 £68,958 +22.75%
Northern Ireland -23 14 - -
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 6 May 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.

1 292 (47.10%) Azure
2 220 (35.48%) AWS
3 139 (22.42%) Terraform
4 135 (21.77%) DevOps
5 122 (19.68%) Security Cleared
6 106 (17.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 105 (16.94%) CI/CD
8 97 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 93 (15.00%) Microsoft
10 74 (11.94%) SC Cleared
11 73 (11.77%) Agile
12 72 (11.61%) DNS
13 66 (10.65%) Python
14 63 (10.16%) Kubernetes
15 62 (10.00%) High Availability
15 62 (10.00%) Windows
16 61 (9.84%) PowerShell
17 60 (9.68%) Active Directory
18 59 (9.52%) Mentoring
18 59 (9.52%) VMware
19 54 (8.71%) Coaching
19 54 (8.71%) Windows Server
20 51 (8.23%) Cloud Security
20 51 (8.23%) Platform Engineering
20 51 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
21 50 (8.06%) IaaS
22 49 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
22 49 (7.90%) Entra ID
23 48 (7.74%) GCP
24 47 (7.58%) Firewall

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 15 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.65%) IIS
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.32%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 16 (2.58%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 292 (47.10%) Azure
2 220 (35.48%) AWS
3 50 (8.06%) IaaS
4 49 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (7.90%) Entra ID
5 48 (7.74%) GCP
6 40 (6.45%) Azure AKS
7 37 (5.97%) GitHub
8 36 (5.81%) Nutanix
9 32 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.71%) OCI
11 22 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (3.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 22 (3.55%) PaaS
12 21 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (3.39%) SaaS
13 20 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 20 (3.23%) Azure Storage
14 15 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.61%) DNS
2 47 (7.58%) Firewall
3 34 (5.48%) DHCP
4 27 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
5 18 (2.90%) VPN
6 11 (1.77%) Network Security
7 8 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.13%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (1.13%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (1.13%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (1.13%) Junos
8 7 (1.13%) NX-OS
9 5 (0.81%) DMZ
9 5 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.81%) SAN
9 5 (0.81%) STUN
9 5 (0.81%) VLAN
9 5 (0.81%) VoIP
10 4 (0.65%) WAN
11 2 (0.32%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.29%) MongoDB
2 8 (1.29%) Power BI
2 8 (1.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.29%) Tableau
3 7 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (0.97%) MySQL
5 5 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.48%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.48%) Metadata
8 2 (0.32%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (4.19%) Git
2 25 (4.03%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.55%) GitLab
4 16 (2.58%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (1.77%) JIRA
6 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.16%) git-flow
9 1 (0.16%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (11.13%) Social Skills
2 39 (6.29%) Finance
3 22 (3.55%) Law
4 13 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.77%) Banking
6 10 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.45%) Billing
8 8 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.97%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.81%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.48%) Advertising
11 3 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.48%) Legal
12 2 (0.32%) Automotive
12 2 (0.32%) Marketing
12 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.16%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.23%) RESTful
2 11 (1.77%) JSON
3 10 (1.61%) OAuth
3 10 (1.61%) OAuth2
3 10 (1.61%) SOAP
4 9 (1.45%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.45%) SAML
5 8 (1.29%) AWS CDK
5 8 (1.29%) Loki
5 8 (1.29%) XML
6 7 (1.13%) YAML
7 5 (0.81%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.81%) Node.js
7 5 (0.81%) REST
8 4 (0.65%) Middleware
9 3 (0.48%) .NET
9 3 (0.48%) NestJS
9 3 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (0.48%) WAMP
10 2 (0.32%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.42%) Cloud Native
2 57 (9.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (7.10%) Public Cloud
4 20 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.29%) PKI
7 7 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.13%) Security Posture
8 6 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.81%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.81%) Replication
10 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.48%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.48%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.48%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.32%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 62 (10.00%) Windows
2 54 (8.71%) Windows Server
3 25 (4.03%) Linux
4 7 (1.13%) Debian
5 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Unix
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (21.77%) DevOps
2 106 (17.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 105 (16.94%) CI/CD
4 97 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (11.77%) Agile
6 62 (10.00%) High Availability
7 59 (9.52%) Mentoring
8 54 (8.71%) Coaching
9 51 (8.23%) Cloud Security
9 51 (8.23%) Platform Engineering
9 51 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (7.42%) Containerisation
10 46 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
10 46 (7.42%) ITIL
11 40 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
12 38 (6.13%) ITSM
13 37 (5.97%) Business Strategy
14 36 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (5.65%) Change Management
16 34 (5.48%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 66 (10.65%) Python
2 61 (9.84%) PowerShell
3 39 (6.29%) SQL
4 25 (4.03%) Bash
5 22 (3.55%) Java
6 17 (2.74%) Shell Script
7 16 (2.58%) Bicep
7 16 (2.58%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.61%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.13%) Go
10 5 (0.81%) C++
10 5 (0.81%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 122 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 74 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.61%) DV Cleared
4 34 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.26%) Degree
7 6 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.81%) CCNP
8 5 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.81%) MCSE
8 5 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.16%) IISP
11 1 (0.16%) ISACA
11 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.16%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.52%) SLA
2 7 (1.13%) NIST
3 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.48%) GDPR
6 3 (0.48%) QA
7 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.32%) GRC
7 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (5.16%) Hyper-V
4 24 (3.87%) Docker
5 7 (1.13%) Firmware
5 7 (1.13%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.81%) KVM
7 5 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.32%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 139 (22.42%) Terraform
2 63 (10.16%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.35%) Ansible
4 17 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (2.26%) Grafana
6 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.13%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.65%) Rancher
9 3 (0.48%) Argo
9 3 (0.48%) Nagios
9 3 (0.48%) Scalr
10 2 (0.32%) Istio
11 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.16%) Graylog
11 1 (0.16%) Kibana
11 1 (0.16%) logstash
11 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 93 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.52%) VMware
3 27 (4.35%) Dell
3 27 (4.35%) Dell Compellent
3 27 (4.35%) HP
3 27 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
4 24 (3.87%) Oracle
5 18 (2.90%) Cisco
6 15 (2.42%) Google
7 12 (1.94%) Juniper
8 8 (1.29%) Okta
9 7 (1.13%) Broadcom
9 7 (1.13%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.13%) SolarWinds
10 6 (0.97%) Zerto
11 5 (0.81%) Veeam
12 4 (0.65%) Databricks
13 3 (0.48%) Citrix
14 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.32%) SAP