Cloud Automation Engineer Jobs

Cloud Automation Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Automation Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 682 875 971
Rank change year-on-year +193 +96 +207
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Automation Engineer 9 27 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.027% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.029% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 9 27 12
10th Percentile £49,700 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £72,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.21% +1.92%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £96,000 - £102,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £37,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +38.67% -31.82% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Automation Engineer in the UK

Cloud Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Automation Engineer in the UK

Cloud Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Automation Engineer in the UK

Cloud Automation Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +153 9 £90,000 +20.00%
London +90 5 £90,000 +20.00%
UK excluding London +212 4 £52,000 +38.67%
Work from Home +157 3 £90,000 +20.00%
South West - 3 £51,500 -
Midlands +64 1 £55,000 +46.67%
West Midlands +50 1 £55,000 +46.67%

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Cloud Automation 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 featuring Cloud Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) LAN
3 5 (55.56%) WLAN
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (55.56%) OSPF
3 5 (55.56%) BGP
3 5 (55.56%) CCNP
3 5 (55.56%) TACACS
3 5 (55.56%) Firewall
3 5 (55.56%) Wireless
3 5 (55.56%) BIG-IP
3 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (55.56%) 802.1X
3 5 (55.56%) Palo Alto
3 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (55.56%) F5
3 5 (55.56%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (55.56%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (55.56%) Ansible
4 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) RBAC
5 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 3 (33.33%) PaaS
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) BGP
1 5 (55.56%) BIG-IP
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco ISE
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) LAN
1 5 (55.56%) OSPF
1 5 (55.56%) TACACS
1 5 (55.56%) Wireless
1 5 (55.56%) WLAN
2 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Kanban
3 3 (33.33%) RBAC
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Availability Management
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) CCNP
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CCIE
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
1 5 (55.56%) F5
1 5 (55.56%) LogicMonitor
1 5 (55.56%) Palo Alto
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
4 1 (11.11%) Atlassian