Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 244 274
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,140 1,576 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.51% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.64% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 689 1,028 1,335
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,829 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,956 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +1.47% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £59,526 £56,000
% change year-on-year - +6.30% +1.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -17 881 £62,783 -5.99% 184
UK excluding London -10 814 £59,526 - 147
Work from Home -73 346 £62,783 -3.41% 92
North of England +29 262 £60,000 +0.80% 38
London -47 254 £81,250 +8.33% 53
Scotland 0 181 £60,000 -7.69% 6
South East -23 122 £52,000 -21.21% 23
North West +13 118 £57,263 -0.41% 18
Yorkshire +39 110 £60,000 - 16
Midlands +35 107 £57,500 +4.55% 28
South West -30 69 £55,000 -8.33% 29
West Midlands +26 59 £60,000 +5.35% 11
East Midlands +14 48 £57,500 +21.05% 17
East of England -19 45 £65,000 +18.18% 13
North East +18 34 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Wales -8 16 £50,685 +8.42% 5
Northern Ireland +34 12 £60,000 +26.32% 6

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 513 (45.00%) Azure
2 483 (42.37%) AWS
3 373 (32.72%) Terraform
4 308 (27.02%) CI/CD
5 276 (24.21%) DevOps
6 271 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 266 (23.33%) Finance
8 254 (22.28%) Agile
9 214 (18.77%) Software Engineering
10 213 (18.68%) Social Skills
11 208 (18.25%) Python
12 205 (17.98%) Microsoft
13 204 (17.89%) Kubernetes
14 191 (16.75%) Roadmaps
15 186 (16.32%) Windows
16 179 (15.70%) Cloud Native
17 176 (15.44%) Linux
18 174 (15.26%) Public Cloud
19 167 (14.65%) Java
20 166 (14.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 162 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 153 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
23 148 (12.98%) Law
24 135 (11.84%) PowerShell
24 135 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
25 134 (11.75%) Operational Stability
26 133 (11.67%) Technology Roadmap
27 129 (11.32%) Docker
28 127 (11.14%) Ansible
29 122 (10.70%) Microsoft 365

Cloud 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 67 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.11%) Confluence
4 17 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.96%) Apache
6 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.088%) IIS
9 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 513 (45.00%) Azure
2 483 (42.37%) AWS
3 122 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
5 108 (9.47%) GCP
6 103 (9.04%) PaaS
7 89 (7.81%) Serverless
8 86 (7.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 77 (6.75%) GitHub
10 74 (6.49%) IaaS
11 70 (6.14%) OCI
12 69 (6.05%) Datadog
13 64 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (5.35%) Entra ID
15 59 (5.18%) Amazon S3
16 56 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
17 52 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
18 50 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
18 50 (4.39%) SaaS
19 45 (3.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 122 (10.70%) Firewall
2 55 (4.82%) DNS
3 48 (4.21%) VPN
4 46 (4.04%) Network Security
5 45 (3.95%) DHCP
6 36 (3.16%) WAN
7 26 (2.28%) LAN
8 17 (1.49%) VLAN
9 16 (1.40%) TCP/IP
10 12 (1.05%) IPv4
10 12 (1.05%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.88%) HTTP
11 10 (0.88%) SAN
12 8 (0.70%) Wireless
13 7 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.53%) WLAN
15 5 (0.44%) DMZ
16 4 (0.35%) BGP
16 4 (0.35%) Internet
16 4 (0.35%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (3.60%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.58%) DynamoDB
4 13 (1.14%) Power BI
5 11 (0.96%) BigQuery
6 8 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (0.70%) MySQL
7 6 (0.53%) DB2
8 5 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.44%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.44%) Tableau
9 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.26%) Airbyte
10 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.26%) Looker
10 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.26%) Redis
11 2 (0.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 84 (7.37%) Git
2 81 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.33%) GitLab
4 24 (2.11%) JIRA
5 21 (1.84%) Artifactory
6 18 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.88%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (0.79%) Spinnaker
8 9 (0.79%) Subversion
9 7 (0.61%) git-flow
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.35%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.088%) Gradle
12 1 (0.088%) Maven
General
1 266 (23.33%) Finance
2 213 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 166 (14.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 148 (12.98%) Law
5 76 (6.67%) Banking
6 50 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (4.21%) Marketing
8 43 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.28%) Private Banking
11 18 (1.58%) Legal
12 17 (1.49%) Retail
13 13 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.96%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.70%) Local Government
16 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.26%) Financial Institution
18 2 (0.18%) Games
18 2 (0.18%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
2 43 (3.77%) Kafka
3 42 (3.68%) React
4 38 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 30 (2.63%) RESTful
6 28 (2.46%) Node.js
7 27 (2.37%) AngularJS
7 27 (2.37%) Spring
8 16 (1.40%) Svelte
9 15 (1.32%) .NET
10 14 (1.23%) ARM Templates
11 12 (1.05%) SAML
12 10 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (0.61%) HTML
14 6 (0.53%) ADO
15 5 (0.44%) .NET Core
15 5 (0.44%) AWS CDK
16 4 (0.35%) Django
16 4 (0.35%) GraphQL
16 4 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 179 (15.70%) Cloud Native
2 174 (15.26%) Public Cloud
3 75 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 52 (4.56%) Data Centre
5 50 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.68%) iPad
7 38 (3.33%) Management Information System
8 36 (3.16%) Legacy Code
9 31 (2.72%) Private Cloud
10 27 (2.37%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.23%) Replication
14 11 (0.96%) Blog
14 11 (0.96%) IoT
15 10 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
16 9 (0.79%) PKI
17 8 (0.70%) Onboarding
17 8 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 186 (16.32%) Windows
2 176 (15.44%) Linux
3 118 (10.35%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.05%) Unix
7 9 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.35%) CentOS
10 3 (0.26%) SUSE
10 3 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.26%) VMS
11 1 (0.088%) Debian
11 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (27.02%) CI/CD
2 276 (24.21%) DevOps
3 271 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 254 (22.28%) Agile
5 214 (18.77%) Software Engineering
6 191 (16.75%) Roadmaps
7 162 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 153 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
9 135 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (11.75%) Operational Stability
11 133 (11.67%) Technology Roadmap
12 112 (9.82%) Cloud Security
13 110 (9.65%) SDLC
14 109 (9.56%) Machine Learning
14 109 (9.56%) Platform Engineering
15 100 (8.77%) Artificial Intelligence
16 95 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
17 94 (8.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 90 (7.89%) Architectural Design
19 89 (7.81%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 208 (18.25%) Python
2 167 (14.65%) Java
3 135 (11.84%) PowerShell
4 73 (6.40%) Bash
5 67 (5.88%) Go
6 52 (4.56%) SQL
7 42 (3.68%) Bicep
8 35 (3.07%) JavaScript
9 25 (2.19%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.11%) C#
10 24 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 22 (1.93%) C
11 22 (1.93%) Rust
12 21 (1.84%) C++
13 18 (1.58%) Perl
14 11 (0.96%) PHP
15 6 (0.53%) Ruby
16 4 (0.35%) AWK
16 4 (0.35%) sed
17 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (7.37%) AWS Certification
2 72 (6.32%) Degree
3 61 (5.35%) Security Cleared
4 59 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 40 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.14%) CCNA
10 13 (1.14%) CISSP
11 11 (0.96%) CISM
12 9 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.79%) MCSE
13 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.53%) CCNP
15 6 (0.53%) DV Cleared
16 4 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.42%) SLA
2 27 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (1.23%) QA
4 11 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.79%) NIST
6 8 (0.70%) NCSC
6 8 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.61%) GDPR
8 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.35%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.088%) COBIT
10 1 (0.088%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.088%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 129 (11.32%) Docker
2 114 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 46 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (3.77%) Hyper-V
5 39 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.44%) XenApp
9 4 (0.35%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.26%) Ceph
10 3 (0.26%) Firmware
10 3 (0.26%) Gluster
10 3 (0.26%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 373 (32.72%) Terraform
2 204 (17.89%) Kubernetes
3 127 (11.14%) Ansible
4 65 (5.70%) Grafana
5 52 (4.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (3.16%) Puppet
7 23 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.40%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.40%) Salt
9 9 (0.79%) Packer
10 8 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.70%) SCCM
11 7 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (0.61%) Opsgenie
11 7 (0.61%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.26%) Istio
13 3 (0.26%) Observium
13 3 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 205 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.42%) Google
3 69 (6.05%) VMware
4 67 (5.88%) Oracle
5 60 (5.26%) Splunk
6 58 (5.09%) Dynatrace
7 37 (3.25%) Cisco
8 26 (2.28%) Citrix
9 12 (1.05%) HP
10 11 (0.96%) Zscaler
11 10 (0.88%) Meraki
12 9 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.79%) Dell
13 8 (0.70%) Confluent
13 8 (0.70%) IBM
13 8 (0.70%) NetApp
13 8 (0.70%) New Relic
13 8 (0.70%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.61%) McAfee
14 7 (0.61%) Remedy