Junior Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Junior Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £24,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 574 543
Rank change year-on-year +55 -31 +242
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Cloud Engineer 5 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.003% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.003% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile - - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +79.31%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £68,000
UK median annual salary £24,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -65.71% +7.69% +62.50%

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 38,295 35,015 29,476
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 93.37% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 23,293 17,499 22,305
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Junior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Junior Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Junior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Junior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Junior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Junior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Junior 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 Junior Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Midlands - 4 £24,000 -
West Midlands - 4 £24,000 -
North of England - 1 £24,000 - 1
North East - 1 £24,000 -
Junior Cloud Engineer
UK

Junior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, Junior 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 Junior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (60.00%) Datadog
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) IaaS
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (60.00%) Datadog
1 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) IaaS
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow