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 12 December 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 248 229
Rank change year-on-year +22 -19 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 333 443 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.84% 1.04% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.10% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 213 264 320
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £44,975
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,626 40,138 27,761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 93.79% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 21,807 21,180 21,084
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 2025. 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
South East +22 74 £54,375 -16.35% 40
North of England -9 69 £60,000 +26.32% 33
Scotland +8 51 £48,750 -11.36% 8
East of England +32 47 £75,000 +11.11% 9
North West +40 45 £60,000 +26.32% 21
Midlands +16 41 £65,000 +18.18% 19
South West -13 32 £62,500 -3.85% 28
West Midlands +15 29 £67,500 +22.73% 15
Yorkshire -41 18 £61,250 +28.95% 8
Wales +11 14 £80,000 +62.92% 7
East Midlands +13 11 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Northern Ireland +3 7 £55,000 - 3
North East +3 6 £78,755 +61.55% 4
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 December 2025, 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.

1 196 (58.86%) Azure
2 120 (36.04%) Microsoft
3 118 (35.44%) Terraform
4 113 (33.93%) DevOps
5 102 (30.63%) CI/CD
6 101 (30.33%) AWS
7 90 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 78 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 68 (20.42%) Windows
10 67 (20.12%) Active Directory
11 61 (18.32%) Agile
12 60 (18.02%) Python
13 59 (17.72%) SQL
14 58 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
14 58 (17.42%) Windows Server
15 53 (15.92%) Cloud Security
16 51 (15.32%) GitHub
17 49 (14.71%) Coaching
18 45 (13.51%) Entra ID
19 43 (12.91%) DNS
19 43 (12.91%) Security Cleared
20 42 (12.61%) PowerShell
21 41 (12.31%) Firewall
21 41 (12.31%) Oracle
21 41 (12.31%) Test Automation
22 40 (12.01%) Asset Management
22 40 (12.01%) Jenkins
22 40 (12.01%) Kubernetes
22 40 (12.01%) Mentoring
22 40 (12.01%) OCI

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 24 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 12 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (9.91%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 196 (58.86%) Azure
2 101 (30.33%) AWS
3 58 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (15.32%) GitHub
5 45 (13.51%) Entra ID
6 40 (12.01%) OCI
7 35 (10.51%) PaaS
8 31 (9.31%) IaaS
8 31 (9.31%) Power Platform
9 28 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (8.11%) SaaS
11 22 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (6.31%) Serverless
13 19 (5.71%) GCP
14 16 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 43 (12.91%) DNS
2 41 (12.31%) Firewall
3 30 (9.01%) VPN
4 28 (8.41%) DHCP
5 10 (3.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 10 (3.00%) Cisco IOS
5 10 (3.00%) Cisco ISE
5 10 (3.00%) Junos
6 9 (2.70%) NX-OS
7 8 (2.40%) Network Security
8 7 (2.10%) WAN
9 5 (1.50%) DMZ
9 5 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (1.50%) STUN
9 5 (1.50%) VLAN
9 5 (1.50%) VoIP
10 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.60%) LAN
11 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.30%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.11%) Power BI
2 15 (4.50%) Tableau
3 8 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.30%) MySQL
8 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (12.01%) Jenkins
2 33 (9.91%) Oracle Forms
3 26 (7.81%) Git
4 20 (6.01%) JIRA
5 12 (3.60%) GitLab
6 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.30%) Appium
7 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.30%) git-flow
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) Snyk
General
1 53 (15.92%) Finance
2 46 (13.81%) Social Skills
3 9 (2.70%) Law
4 7 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (2.10%) Public Sector
5 6 (1.80%) Automotive
6 5 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Advertising
9 1 (0.30%) Legal
9 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.30%) Marketing
9 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.21%) RESTful
2 23 (6.91%) SOAP
3 19 (5.71%) JSON
4 18 (5.41%) OAuth
4 18 (5.41%) SAML
4 18 (5.41%) XML
5 15 (4.50%) OAuth2
6 8 (2.40%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.80%) Node.js
8 5 (1.50%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.50%) REST
9 4 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.90%) React
11 2 (0.60%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.60%) Kafka
11 2 (0.60%) Loki
11 2 (0.60%) Middleware
11 2 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 39 (11.71%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.70%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.70%) PKI
7 8 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.90%) Clustering
10 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 68 (20.42%) Windows
2 58 (17.42%) Windows Server
3 15 (4.50%) Linux
4 9 (2.70%) VMS
5 5 (1.50%) Debian
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (33.93%) DevOps
2 102 (30.63%) CI/CD
3 90 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 78 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (18.32%) Agile
6 53 (15.92%) Cloud Security
7 49 (14.71%) Coaching
8 41 (12.31%) Test Automation
9 40 (12.01%) Asset Management
9 40 (12.01%) Mentoring
10 38 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (10.81%) API Integration
12 35 (10.51%) Identity Access Management
13 33 (9.91%) AI
13 33 (9.91%) ERP
13 33 (9.91%) Migration
14 31 (9.31%) Observability
15 28 (8.41%) Cloud Operations
16 27 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
17 26 (7.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.02%) Python
2 59 (17.72%) SQL
3 42 (12.61%) PowerShell
4 38 (11.41%) Java
5 33 (9.91%) PL/SQL
5 33 (9.91%) Shell Script
6 20 (6.01%) Bicep
7 11 (3.30%) Bash
8 6 (1.80%) C#
9 5 (1.50%) Go
10 4 (1.20%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.30%) Groovy
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (12.91%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.51%) DV Cleared
3 15 (4.50%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.50%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.60%) Degree
5 11 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.30%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (3.00%) NIST
3 9 (2.70%) SLA
4 7 (2.10%) GDPR
4 7 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.50%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.90%) GRC
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 67 (20.12%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.41%) vSphere
3 16 (4.80%) Docker
4 12 (3.60%) Firmware
4 12 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (3.00%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.00%) VMware NSX
7 7 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.50%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (35.44%) Terraform
2 40 (12.01%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.91%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (4.50%) Ansible
4 15 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.00%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.40%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.50%) Argo
7 5 (1.50%) Kibana
8 4 (1.20%) Grafana
8 4 (1.20%) logstash
9 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.60%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.30%) SCCM
10 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 120 (36.04%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.31%) Oracle
3 40 (12.01%) VMware
4 19 (5.71%) Cisco
5 18 (5.41%) Okta
6 15 (4.50%) Juniper
7 11 (3.30%) SolarWinds
8 10 (3.00%) Broadcom
9 9 (2.70%) Google
10 7 (2.10%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.80%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.50%) Dell
12 5 (1.50%) Dell Compellent
12 5 (1.50%) HP
12 5 (1.50%) Nimble Storage
13 4 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.20%) Foundry
13 4 (1.20%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.20%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.20%) Palo Alto