Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 244 235 268
Rank change year-on-year -9 +33 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 727 1,957 1,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.60% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.68% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 593 1,291 1,339
10th Percentile £46,306 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,786 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +2.75% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,548 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +20.00%

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 49,872 116,646 121,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.43% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36,454 73,520 84,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 December 2023.

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 10 December 2023. 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 -19 625 £65,000 -3.70% 198
UK excluding London +14 406 £60,000 +0.80% 136
Work from Home -20 312 £65,000 -2.67% 86
London -22 273 £75,000 - 78
North of England +51 151 £60,000 - 47
North West +103 93 £65,000 +9.20% 18
Midlands +144 75 £60,000 +4.35% 17
South West +6 68 £59,526 - 10
Scotland +22 59 £59,526 - 10
East Midlands +88 55 £60,000 +4.35% 8
Yorkshire -12 46 £59,526 -10.87% 23
South East +41 40 £67,000 +11.67% 38
West Midlands +102 20 £57,500 - 9
North East +47 12 £55,000 -24.14% 6
Wales +17 12 £47,500 +18.75% 6
East of England -14 8 £100,000 +81.82% 9
Northern Ireland +30 3 £62,500 +19.05% 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2023, 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.

1 476 (65.47%) Azure
2 348 (47.87%) Terraform
3 324 (44.57%) AWS
4 317 (43.60%) DevOps
5 310 (42.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 275 (37.83%) CI/CD
7 253 (34.80%) Kubernetes
8 238 (32.74%) Finance
9 222 (30.54%) Python
10 219 (30.12%) Agile
11 193 (26.55%) Cloud Security
12 185 (25.45%) PowerShell
13 168 (23.11%) GCP
14 164 (22.56%) Docker
15 157 (21.60%) Microsoft
16 152 (20.91%) Azure DevOps
17 148 (20.36%) Linux
18 146 (20.08%) Public Cloud
18 146 (20.08%) Jenkins
19 134 (18.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 130 (17.88%) GitHub
20 130 (17.88%) Windows
21 129 (17.74%) Active Directory
22 128 (17.61%) Banking
23 126 (17.33%) PaaS
24 117 (16.09%) Ansible
25 115 (15.82%) Microsoft 365
26 111 (15.27%) Social Skills
27 102 (14.03%) Google
28 95 (13.07%) Roadmaps

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 20 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.79%) Apache
4 11 (1.51%) MS Exchange
5 8 (1.10%) Confluence
6 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.96%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.41%) CMS
8 3 (0.41%) IIS
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 476 (65.47%) Azure
2 324 (44.57%) AWS
3 168 (23.11%) GCP
4 152 (20.91%) Azure DevOps
5 130 (17.88%) GitHub
6 126 (17.33%) PaaS
7 115 (15.82%) Microsoft 365
8 84 (11.55%) IaaS
9 78 (10.73%) Entra ID
10 60 (8.25%) SaaS
10 60 (8.25%) Serverless
11 59 (8.12%) Cloud Computing
12 48 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (3.44%) Amazon S3
17 23 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (3.03%) Azure Storage
19 19 (2.61%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (11.83%) Firewall
2 64 (8.80%) DNS
3 37 (5.09%) VPN
4 26 (3.58%) Network Security
5 25 (3.44%) TCP/IP
5 25 (3.44%) WAN
6 24 (3.30%) DHCP
7 19 (2.61%) LAN
7 19 (2.61%) SAN
8 14 (1.93%) Internet
9 12 (1.65%) HTTP
9 12 (1.65%) SD-WAN
9 12 (1.65%) VLAN
10 10 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (1.10%) MPLS
11 8 (1.10%) SMTP
12 6 (0.83%) IPv4
13 4 (0.55%) SNMP
13 4 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.75%) NoSQL
3 18 (2.48%) MySQL
4 17 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.20%) Big Data
5 16 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.65%) DynamoDB
6 12 (1.65%) InterSystems Cache
7 11 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.24%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.24%) Power BI
10 8 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.10%) Tableau
11 7 (0.96%) Bigtable
11 7 (0.96%) Looker
11 7 (0.96%) Oracle ODI
11 7 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 146 (20.08%) Jenkins
2 67 (9.22%) Git
3 36 (4.95%) Bitbucket
4 24 (3.30%) Spinnaker
5 15 (2.06%) GitLab
6 12 (1.65%) JIRA
7 11 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (1.10%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (0.83%) git-flow
12 5 (0.69%) Gradle
12 5 (0.69%) Maven
12 5 (0.69%) Subversion
13 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
15 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
General
1 238 (32.74%) Finance
2 128 (17.61%) Banking
3 111 (15.27%) Social Skills
4 55 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (5.78%) Law
6 35 (4.81%) Retail
7 33 (4.54%) Public Sector
8 26 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (1.79%) Legal
10 10 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.38%) Marketing
11 9 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.10%) Billing
12 8 (1.10%) Private Banking
13 7 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.55%) Games
14 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.68%) JSON
1 34 (4.68%) YAML
2 33 (4.54%) Kafka
3 22 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 19 (2.61%) REST
5 17 (2.34%) React
6 16 (2.20%) AWS CDK
6 16 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (2.06%) Spring Boot
8 13 (1.79%) RESTful
9 11 (1.51%) Node.js
9 11 (1.51%) SAML
10 9 (1.24%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.24%) Web Services
11 8 (1.10%) Spring
11 8 (1.10%) Svelte
12 7 (0.96%) .NET
13 6 (0.83%) OpenID
13 6 (0.83%) Swagger
14 5 (0.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (20.08%) Public Cloud
2 73 (10.04%) Cloud Native
3 42 (5.78%) Data Centre
4 40 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 34 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (3.99%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (3.44%) Management Information System
9 23 (3.16%) Legacy Code
9 23 (3.16%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.75%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.24%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.10%) PKI
16 5 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
17 4 (0.55%) Cyberattack
17 4 (0.55%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 148 (20.36%) Linux
2 130 (17.88%) Windows
3 78 (10.73%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.34%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.79%) Unix
7 9 (1.24%) Mac OS
8 8 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.69%) CentOS
9 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.55%) VMS
11 2 (0.28%) Debian
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (43.60%) DevOps
2 310 (42.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 275 (37.83%) CI/CD
4 219 (30.12%) Agile
5 193 (26.55%) Cloud Security
6 134 (18.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 95 (13.07%) Cybersecurity
7 95 (13.07%) Roadmaps
8 83 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
9 79 (10.87%) Migration
10 78 (10.73%) Software Engineering
11 65 (8.94%) Use Case
12 63 (8.67%) Containerisation
13 60 (8.25%) Platform Engineering
14 58 (7.98%) ITIL
15 53 (7.29%) DevSecOps
16 44 (6.05%) Configuration Management
17 40 (5.50%) Architectural Design
17 40 (5.50%) Disaster Recovery
17 40 (5.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 222 (30.54%) Python
2 185 (25.45%) PowerShell
3 94 (12.93%) Bash
4 76 (10.45%) SQL
5 73 (10.04%) Java
6 45 (6.19%) Go
7 32 (4.40%) Shell Script
8 26 (3.58%) Bicep
9 25 (3.44%) C++
10 20 (2.75%) Groovy
11 19 (2.61%) JavaScript
12 17 (2.34%) C#
13 16 (2.20%) Ruby
13 16 (2.20%) Rust
14 15 (2.06%) C
15 14 (1.93%) TypeScript
16 13 (1.79%) Perl
17 2 (0.28%) Lua
17 2 (0.28%) PHP
17 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (9.90%) Azure Certification
2 69 (9.49%) AWS Certification
3 57 (7.84%) Security Cleared
4 56 (7.70%) Degree
5 38 (5.23%) SC Cleared
6 23 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.51%) MCSA
10 10 (1.38%) CISSP
11 9 (1.24%) CISM
12 8 (1.10%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.69%) CCNA
14 5 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.69%) MCSE
15 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.41%) CEH
15 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.34%) NCSC
3 12 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 11 (1.51%) NIST
5 8 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.10%) GDPR
6 7 (0.96%) SLA
7 5 (0.69%) QA
8 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.14%) DICOM
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 164 (22.56%) Docker
2 129 (17.74%) Active Directory
3 36 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (4.26%) Hyper-V
5 28 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 6 (0.83%) vSphere
9 5 (0.69%) XenApp
10 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.14%) Ceph
13 1 (0.14%) KVM
13 1 (0.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 348 (47.87%) Terraform
2 253 (34.80%) Kubernetes
3 117 (16.09%) Ansible
4 43 (5.91%) Puppet
5 29 (3.99%) Istio
6 28 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 19 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (2.34%) Grafana
9 16 (2.20%) SCCM
10 13 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.65%) Salt
12 10 (1.38%) Packer
13 7 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.55%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.55%) SolarWinds Orion
15 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
15 3 (0.41%) SCOM
15 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
16 2 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 157 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 102 (14.03%) Google
3 63 (8.67%) VMware
4 23 (3.16%) Citrix
5 16 (2.20%) Oracle
5 16 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.06%) Cisco
7 12 (1.65%) Confluent
7 12 (1.65%) New Relic
8 11 (1.51%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.24%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.24%) Meraki
10 8 (1.10%) Splunk
11 7 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.96%) Databricks
11 7 (0.96%) Hyperion
12 6 (0.83%) McAfee
13 5 (0.69%) Aruba
13 5 (0.69%) HP
13 5 (0.69%) IBM