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 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 313 223
Rank change year-on-year +154 -90 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 862 261 711
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 0.76% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.85% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 643 189 443
10th Percentile £47,750 £40,950 £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 £95,000 £95,000 £84,624
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -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 70,386 30,606 59,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.59% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 48,618 17,587 40,465
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £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 30 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 30 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 +133 300 £70,000 +16.67% 63
South East +70 185 £65,000 +18.18% 41
North West +101 178 £70,000 +16.67% 39
South West +47 168 £75,000 - 29
Midlands +37 109 £62,250 +13.18% 22
Yorkshire +49 103 £80,000 +52.38% 17
West Midlands +26 73 £62,000 -4.62% 15
East of England -10 65 £60,000 -10.35% 19
East Midlands +2 36 £82,500 +50.00% 7
North East -35 19 £49,750 -23.46% 7
Scotland +12 14 £50,000 -47.37% 9
Wales -49 12 £55,000 +8.93% 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland -64 4 - - 4
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 360 (41.76%) Azure
2 255 (29.58%) AWS
3 175 (20.30%) DevOps
4 174 (20.19%) Terraform
5 171 (19.84%) Security Cleared
6 149 (17.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 141 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 125 (14.50%) CI/CD
9 121 (14.04%) Microsoft
10 117 (13.57%) Platform Engineering
11 115 (13.34%) Kubernetes
12 113 (13.11%) SC Cleared
13 88 (10.21%) PowerShell
14 84 (9.74%) Cloud Security
15 82 (9.51%) Agile
16 76 (8.82%) Containerisation
17 75 (8.70%) GCP
18 71 (8.24%) Cloud Operations
19 67 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
19 67 (7.77%) Python
20 61 (7.08%) DNS
21 57 (6.61%) High Availability
22 56 (6.50%) Active Directory
23 54 (6.26%) Entra ID
23 54 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
23 54 (6.26%) VMware
24 53 (6.15%) IaaS
25 52 (6.03%) Problem-Solving
26 51 (5.92%) Docker
27 50 (5.80%) Ansible

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 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.81%) IIS
4 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 360 (41.76%) Azure
2 255 (29.58%) AWS
3 75 (8.70%) GCP
4 54 (6.26%) Entra ID
4 54 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (6.15%) IaaS
6 43 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (4.76%) Azure AKS
9 38 (4.41%) GitHub
10 36 (4.18%) PaaS
11 35 (4.06%) SaaS
12 32 (3.71%) Azure Key Vault
13 29 (3.36%) Azure Storage
14 28 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (3.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 26 (3.02%) Serverless
16 24 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
18 21 (2.44%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 61 (7.08%) DNS
2 34 (3.94%) Firewall
3 23 (2.67%) VPN
4 20 (2.32%) DHCP
5 12 (1.39%) Network Security
5 12 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
6 10 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.93%) VLAN
8 4 (0.46%) DMZ
8 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.46%) SAN
8 4 (0.46%) STUN
8 4 (0.46%) VoIP
9 3 (0.35%) WAN
10 2 (0.23%) HTTP
10 2 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.23%) LAN
11 1 (0.12%) Broadband
11 1 (0.12%) MQTT
11 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.70%) MySQL
4 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.35%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.35%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.35%) Metadata
6 2 (0.23%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.23%) Power BI
6 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.09%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.74%) GitLab
3 11 (1.28%) Git
4 4 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.12%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (6.84%) Finance
2 49 (5.68%) Social Skills
3 40 (4.64%) Law
4 16 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.28%) Manufacturing
6 10 (1.16%) Aerospace
6 10 (1.16%) Public Sector
7 7 (0.81%) Retail
8 6 (0.70%) Banking
8 6 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (0.70%) Legal
8 6 (0.70%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.35%) Automotive
9 3 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.23%) Billing
10 2 (0.23%) Marketing
10 2 (0.23%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.12%) Advertising
11 1 (0.12%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.12%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.28%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.04%) YAML
3 7 (0.81%) OpenID
3 7 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.81%) SAML
4 6 (0.70%) AWS CDK
5 5 (0.58%) JWT
5 5 (0.58%) Loki
5 5 (0.58%) OAuth
5 5 (0.58%) OAuth2
5 5 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (0.46%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (0.46%) JSON
7 3 (0.35%) Django
7 3 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.35%) Kafka
7 3 (0.35%) RESTful
7 3 (0.35%) Vue
7 3 (0.35%) WAMP
8 2 (0.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 13 (1.51%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 11 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (1.04%) Security Posture
8 8 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.58%) Replication
11 5 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.35%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.23%) Clustering
13 2 (0.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.34%) Windows
2 36 (4.18%) Windows Server
3 32 (3.71%) Linux
4 5 (0.58%) Debian
5 2 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (20.30%) DevOps
2 149 (17.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 141 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (14.50%) CI/CD
5 117 (13.57%) Platform Engineering
6 84 (9.74%) Cloud Security
7 82 (9.51%) Agile
8 76 (8.82%) Containerisation
9 71 (8.24%) Cloud Operations
10 67 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (6.61%) High Availability
12 52 (6.03%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (5.10%) Root Cause Analysis
14 39 (4.52%) Mentoring
15 38 (4.41%) Disaster Recovery
15 38 (4.41%) ITIL
15 38 (4.41%) Observability
16 36 (4.18%) Load Balancing
17 33 (3.83%) Project Delivery
18 31 (3.60%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (10.21%) PowerShell
2 67 (7.77%) Python
3 33 (3.83%) Bash
4 25 (2.90%) SQL
5 19 (2.20%) Bicep
6 10 (1.16%) C++
7 9 (1.04%) Java
8 7 (0.81%) Go
8 7 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.35%) C#
11 2 (0.23%) Groovy
11 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.12%) PHP
12 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 171 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.22%) Azure Certification
4 34 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.28%) Degree
7 8 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.58%) CCNP
9 5 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.58%) MCSE
9 5 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.35%) CISM
10 3 (0.35%) CISSP
11 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.23%) SSCP
12 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.12%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.39%) PCI DSS
1 12 (1.39%) SLA
2 11 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.16%) NIST
4 8 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.70%) QA
6 5 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.23%) GDPR
8 2 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 56 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 51 (5.92%) Docker
3 35 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.02%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.81%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.58%) KVM
7 5 (0.58%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 174 (20.19%) Terraform
2 115 (13.34%) Kubernetes
3 50 (5.80%) Ansible
4 24 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.62%) Grafana
6 13 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.46%) Argo
8 4 (0.46%) Nagios
8 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.46%) Puppet
9 3 (0.35%) Istio
9 3 (0.35%) Scalr
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.26%) VMware
3 29 (3.36%) Oracle
4 27 (3.13%) Google
5 12 (1.39%) Dell
5 12 (1.39%) Dell Compellent
5 12 (1.39%) HP
5 12 (1.39%) Nimble Storage
6 8 (0.93%) Cisco
7 6 (0.70%) Databricks
7 6 (0.70%) Veeam
8 5 (0.58%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.58%) Zerto
9 4 (0.46%) Okta
10 3 (0.35%) ConnectWise
10 3 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.35%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (0.23%) Citrix
11 2 (0.23%) New Relic
12 1 (0.12%) EMC