Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 625 643
Rank change year-on-year +118 +18 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 64 140 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 34 109 73
10th Percentile £50,750 £40,000 £52,200
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,783 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -10.95% +17.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £77,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £76,000 £66,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -14.19% -3.13%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -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% -

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +104 29 £65,000 -3.70% 89
North of England +4 26 £63,750 +1.54% 76
North West -13 16 £60,000 -4.43% 35
Yorkshire +46 9 £64,500 +2.74% 32
South West +98 4 - - 39
Midlands +56 3 £42,500 -29.17% 67
East Midlands - 2 - - 29
Scotland +101 1 £80,000 +30.61% 12
West Midlands +58 1 £42,500 -29.17% 34
North East +41 1 £65,000 +3.53% 9
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (65.63%) Azure
2 33 (51.56%) DevOps
3 31 (48.44%) Cloud Security
3 31 (48.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (43.75%) Python
4 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
5 24 (37.50%) Terraform
6 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
6 23 (35.94%) AWS
7 21 (32.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (32.81%) Kubernetes
8 19 (29.69%) Ansible
9 18 (28.13%) SaaS
9 18 (28.13%) High Availability
10 16 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 16 (25.00%) Analytics
10 16 (25.00%) Windows
11 15 (23.44%) PaaS
11 15 (23.44%) PowerShell
11 15 (23.44%) Incident Management
12 14 (21.88%) Linux
12 14 (21.88%) GCP
13 13 (20.31%) Azure Certification
13 13 (20.31%) Degree
14 12 (18.75%) Migration
15 11 (17.19%) Configuration Management
15 11 (17.19%) Firewall
15 11 (17.19%) VPN
15 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering

Senior 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 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.69%) IIS
3 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 42 (65.63%) Azure
2 23 (35.94%) AWS
3 18 (28.13%) SaaS
4 16 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (23.44%) PaaS
6 14 (21.88%) GCP
7 9 (14.06%) Entra ID
8 8 (12.50%) GitHub
8 8 (12.50%) IaaS
8 8 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (7.81%) Serverless
10 5 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (4.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (4.69%) Route 53
12 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.19%) Firewall
1 11 (17.19%) VPN
2 6 (9.38%) DNS
3 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.69%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.69%) WAN
5 2 (3.13%) BGP
5 2 (3.13%) IPsec
5 2 (3.13%) IPv4
5 2 (3.13%) LAN
5 2 (3.13%) Network Security
5 2 (3.13%) OSPF
5 2 (3.13%) SNMP
5 2 (3.13%) SSL
5 2 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.56%) Big Data
2 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.56%) MySQL
2 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.94%) Git
General
1 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Telecoms
3 8 (12.50%) Law
4 5 (7.81%) Finance
5 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Automotive
6 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) ARM Templates
2 8 (12.50%) YAML
3 7 (10.94%) Node.js
4 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
4 5 (7.81%) React
5 4 (6.25%) OAuth
6 3 (4.69%) REST
6 3 (4.69%) Web Services
7 2 (3.13%) JSON
8 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (14.06%) Public Cloud
3 7 (10.94%) Management Information System
4 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
5 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
5 5 (7.81%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.56%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.00%) Windows
2 14 (21.88%) Linux
3 3 (4.69%) Unix
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) DevOps
2 31 (48.44%) Cloud Security
2 31 (48.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
4 21 (32.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (28.13%) High Availability
6 16 (25.00%) Analytics
6 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 15 (23.44%) Incident Management
8 12 (18.75%) Migration
9 11 (17.19%) Configuration Management
9 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
10 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
11 9 (14.06%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (12.50%) Cost Management
12 8 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
12 8 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (12.50%) Task Automation
13 7 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.75%) Python
2 15 (23.44%) PowerShell
3 9 (14.06%) Bicep
3 9 (14.06%) SQL
4 5 (7.81%) Bash
4 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.69%) Java
5 3 (4.69%) Scala
6 2 (3.13%) Go
6 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Azure Certification
1 13 (20.31%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CCNA
5 1 (1.56%) CCNP
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) MCITP
5 1 (1.56%) MCSE
5 1 (1.56%) VCP6
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.56%) GDPR
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.13%) Docker
3 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (37.50%) Terraform
2 21 (32.81%) Kubernetes
3 19 (29.69%) Ansible
4 3 (4.69%) SCCM
5 2 (3.13%) Podman
5 2 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Databricks
3 6 (9.38%) Atlassian
3 6 (9.38%) VMware
4 5 (7.81%) Google
5 4 (6.25%) Ping Identity
6 3 (4.69%) Cisco
7 2 (3.13%) Graphcore
8 1 (1.56%) ConnectWise
8 1 (1.56%) Facebook
8 1 (1.56%) Juniper
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle