Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 244 255
Rank change year-on-year -94 +11 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 260 833 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.13% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.19% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 184 484 450
10th Percentile £43,825 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -0.79% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,846 £67,968 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,875 £77,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -6.02% +2.31%

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 35,218 70,245 51,745
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.92% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,732 49,603 29,711
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer 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 29 May 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 29 May 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
North of England -100 75 £60,000 - 223
South East +47 74 £60,000 +20.00% 227
East of England +37 48 £66,340 +2.06% 120
North West -62 46 £65,000 +18.18% 113
South West +73 32 £71,250 +35.71% 106
Yorkshire -27 26 £52,500 -12.50% 82
Midlands -32 17 £46,000 -20.00% 160
Scotland -17 13 £95,000 +58.33% 47
West Midlands +5 10 £46,750 -22.08% 89
East Midlands -9 7 £32,500 -40.91% 63
Wales +33 3 £37,733 -25.55% 25
North East +15 3 £65,000 +6.12% 29
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (52.31%) Azure
2 122 (46.92%) DevOps
3 108 (41.54%) Terraform
3 108 (41.54%) AWS
4 97 (37.31%) Python
5 95 (36.54%) Cloud Security
6 92 (35.38%) Microsoft
7 79 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 70 (26.92%) Social Skills
9 67 (25.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 65 (25.00%) CI/CD
11 61 (23.46%) Windows
12 58 (22.31%) Roadmaps
13 55 (21.15%) Active Directory
14 49 (18.85%) PowerShell
15 48 (18.46%) Firewall
16 46 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (17.31%) SaaS
18 44 (16.92%) Degree
18 44 (16.92%) Finance
19 43 (16.54%) NIST
20 41 (15.77%) Linux
20 41 (15.77%) SQL
21 40 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
21 40 (15.38%) Serverless
22 39 (15.00%) Azure Certification
22 39 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
23 37 (14.23%) Kubernetes
24 36 (13.85%) Management Information System
25 34 (13.08%) VPN

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (7.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.54%) IBM Domino
3 4 (1.54%) IIS
4 3 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (6.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.77%) Simulink
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 136 (52.31%) Azure
2 108 (41.54%) AWS
3 45 (17.31%) SaaS
4 40 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (15.38%) Serverless
5 32 (12.31%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (10.77%) GCP
7 28 (10.77%) PaaS
8 23 (8.85%) Entra ID
8 23 (8.85%) IaaS
9 14 (5.38%) GitHub
10 11 (4.23%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.46%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (3.46%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 48 (18.46%) Firewall
2 34 (13.08%) VPN
3 28 (10.77%) SSL
4 26 (10.00%) Broadband
4 26 (10.00%) SSH
5 16 (6.15%) Network Security
6 14 (5.38%) DNS
6 14 (5.38%) WAN
7 11 (4.23%) SAN
8 9 (3.46%) SD-WAN
9 8 (3.08%) DHCP
9 8 (3.08%) TCP/IP
9 8 (3.08%) VLAN
10 6 (2.31%) Multicast
10 6 (2.31%) NAS
11 5 (1.92%) VSAN
12 4 (1.54%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.54%) IPv4
12 4 (1.54%) OSPF
13 3 (1.15%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.08%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.31%) DB2
3 6 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.15%) MySQL
5 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.23%) Git
3 6 (2.31%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.54%) GitLab
5 2 (0.77%) JIRA
General
1 70 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.92%) Finance
3 17 (6.54%) Banking
4 14 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.00%) Law
5 13 (5.00%) Legal
6 12 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.69%) Advertising
7 7 (2.69%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Automotive
9 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
9 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Aviation
10 1 (0.38%) Electronics
10 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.38%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.15%) Web Services
2 26 (10.00%) RESTful
3 18 (6.92%) HTML
4 13 (5.00%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.46%) Node.js
5 9 (3.46%) YAML
6 5 (1.92%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.92%) Middleware
6 5 (1.92%) React
7 4 (1.54%) JSON
7 4 (1.54%) OAuth
7 4 (1.54%) REST
8 2 (0.77%) .NET
8 2 (0.77%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.77%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.77%) gRPC
9 1 (0.38%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.38%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.38%) ModSecurity
9 1 (0.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.85%) Management Information System
2 28 (10.77%) PKI
3 27 (10.38%) Cyber Threat
3 27 (10.38%) Cyberattack
4 26 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 21 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (7.69%) Public Cloud
7 19 (7.31%) Cloud Native
8 11 (4.23%) Product Ownership
8 11 (4.23%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.85%) Data Centre
10 9 (3.46%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (2.31%) Replication
12 4 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (1.15%) IoT
14 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (23.46%) Windows
2 41 (15.77%) Linux
3 32 (12.31%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.69%) Windows 10
4 7 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.15%) Unix
6 3 (1.15%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (46.92%) DevOps
2 95 (36.54%) Cloud Security
3 79 (30.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (25.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 65 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 58 (22.31%) Roadmaps
7 46 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (11.92%) Deployment Automation
10 29 (11.15%) Artificial Intelligence
10 29 (11.15%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (10.38%) Use Case
11 27 (10.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 26 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (10.00%) Key Management
12 26 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
13 25 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (9.62%) Software Engineering
14 24 (9.23%) High Availability
14 24 (9.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 97 (37.31%) Python
2 49 (18.85%) PowerShell
3 41 (15.77%) SQL
4 21 (8.08%) C#
5 20 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.31%) C++
7 14 (5.38%) Bicep
8 13 (5.00%) Bash
9 7 (2.69%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.92%) Java
11 4 (1.54%) R
12 3 (1.15%) Scala
13 2 (0.77%) Go
13 2 (0.77%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 44 (16.92%) Degree
2 39 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 20 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (7.31%) Security Cleared
5 16 (6.15%) CISSP
6 12 (4.62%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.62%) CISM
6 12 (4.62%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (2.31%) CCNA
10 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.77%) CCNP
13 2 (0.77%) CEH
13 2 (0.77%) MCSA
13 2 (0.77%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.54%) NIST
2 32 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.00%) NCSC
4 12 (4.62%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.92%) GDPR
6 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.38%) QA
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (21.15%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.46%) Docker
3 19 (7.31%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.46%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.31%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.15%) vSphere
8 2 (0.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (41.54%) Terraform
2 37 (14.23%) Kubernetes
3 29 (11.15%) Ansible
4 12 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.92%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.54%) Puppet
6 4 (1.54%) SCCM
7 3 (1.15%) Argo
7 3 (1.15%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.77%) Grafana
8 2 (0.77%) Podman
9 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.38%) SCOM
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (35.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.00%) Thales
3 21 (8.08%) VMware
4 18 (6.92%) PayPal
5 13 (5.00%) Cisco
5 13 (5.00%) Google
5 13 (5.00%) Oracle
6 9 (3.46%) Databricks
7 6 (2.31%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.31%) IBM
7 6 (2.31%) Veeam
8 4 (1.54%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.15%) Juniper
9 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.77%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.77%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (0.77%) Graphcore
10 2 (0.77%) Tenable
10 2 (0.77%) Varonis