Cloud Engineer Job Trends

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 leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 228 233
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 531 767 733
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.23% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.31% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 366 489 609
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £82,188 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £104,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +0.80%

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 50,704 58,391 48,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.00% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,404 32,367 37,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

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 7 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
England -39 423 £65,000 -3.70% 327
UK excluding London +22 333 £60,000 +5.26% 313
Work from Home +6 194 £62,500 -1.19% 210
London -41 149 £80,000 -5.88% 47
South East +22 74 £54,375 -16.35% 87
North of England -9 69 £60,000 +26.32% 82
Scotland +8 51 £48,750 -11.36% 9
East of England +32 47 £75,000 +11.11% 33
North West +40 45 £60,000 +26.32% 46
Midlands +16 41 £65,000 +18.18% 54
South West -13 32 £62,500 -3.85% 44
West Midlands +15 29 £67,500 +22.73% 33
Yorkshire -41 18 £61,250 +28.95% 26
Wales +11 14 £80,000 +62.92% 9
East Midlands +13 11 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Northern Ireland +3 7 £55,000 - 2
North East +3 6 £78,755 +61.55% 10

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, 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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 297 (55.93%) Azure
2 225 (42.37%) Terraform
3 202 (38.04%) DevOps
4 185 (34.84%) CI/CD
5 181 (34.09%) AWS
6 161 (30.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 155 (29.19%) Microsoft
8 144 (27.12%) Kubernetes
9 138 (25.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 131 (24.67%) Python
11 118 (22.22%) Cloud Security
12 114 (21.47%) Windows
13 95 (17.89%) PowerShell
14 89 (16.76%) Agile
15 87 (16.38%) GitHub
16 83 (15.63%) Active Directory
16 83 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
17 81 (15.25%) Windows Server
18 76 (14.31%) SQL
19 72 (13.56%) Security Cleared
20 70 (13.18%) Jenkins
21 69 (12.99%) Firewall
21 69 (12.99%) Linux
21 69 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
22 68 (12.81%) GCP
23 63 (11.86%) Java
24 59 (11.11%) Ansible
24 59 (11.11%) VMware
25 54 (10.17%) Migration
26 52 (9.79%) Entra ID

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.13%) IIS
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (6.21%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 297 (55.93%) Azure
2 181 (34.09%) AWS
3 87 (16.38%) GitHub
4 83 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
5 68 (12.81%) GCP
6 52 (9.79%) Entra ID
6 52 (9.79%) PaaS
7 51 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
8 49 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (8.85%) Power Platform
10 44 (8.29%) IaaS
10 44 (8.29%) SaaS
11 42 (7.91%) OCI
12 33 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (5.84%) Serverless
14 29 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (5.46%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (3.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (12.99%) Firewall
2 50 (9.42%) DNS
3 43 (8.10%) VPN
4 32 (6.03%) DHCP
5 21 (3.95%) WAN
6 17 (3.20%) Network Security
7 12 (2.26%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.88%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (1.88%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (1.88%) Junos
9 9 (1.69%) NX-OS
10 8 (1.51%) SAN
10 8 (1.51%) SSL
10 8 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.32%) LAN
11 7 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (1.13%) VLAN
13 5 (0.94%) DMZ
13 5 (0.94%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.90%) Power BI
2 15 (2.82%) Tableau
3 13 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.69%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (0.94%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.38%) MySQL
10 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.19%) Big Data
11 1 (0.19%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.19%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 70 (13.18%) Jenkins
2 42 (7.91%) Git
3 33 (6.21%) Oracle Forms
4 22 (4.14%) GitLab
5 20 (3.77%) JIRA
6 7 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.32%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.75%) Selenium
8 3 (0.56%) Appium
8 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.19%) git-flow
10 1 (0.19%) JMeter
10 1 (0.19%) Locust
10 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.19%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.19%) Snyk
10 1 (0.19%) Spinnaker
General
1 88 (16.57%) Finance
2 70 (13.18%) Social Skills
3 22 (4.14%) Law
4 15 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (1.88%) Banking
5 10 (1.88%) Public Sector
6 8 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.13%) Automotive
8 6 (1.13%) Retail
9 5 (0.94%) Back Office
9 5 (0.94%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.56%) Legal
11 3 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.38%) Advertising
12 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.19%) Electronics
13 1 (0.19%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.78%) RESTful
2 23 (4.33%) SOAP
3 20 (3.77%) JSON
3 20 (3.77%) OAuth
3 20 (3.77%) SAML
4 19 (3.58%) XML
5 16 (3.01%) Node.js
6 15 (2.82%) OAuth2
7 9 (1.69%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.69%) React
8 7 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (1.32%) REST
9 6 (1.13%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.13%) YAML
10 5 (0.94%) FreeSWITCH
10 5 (0.94%) Kafka
10 5 (0.94%) Vue
11 3 (0.56%) AWS CDK
11 3 (0.56%) Loki
11 3 (0.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 107 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.90%) Public Cloud
5 24 (4.52%) Data Centre
6 22 (4.14%) Legacy Code
7 20 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.45%) PKI
9 12 (2.26%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.69%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.13%) Blog
13 6 (1.13%) CMDB
13 6 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
15 4 (0.75%) AI Agents
15 4 (0.75%) Hedge funds
16 3 (0.56%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 114 (21.47%) Windows
2 81 (15.25%) Windows Server
3 69 (12.99%) Linux
4 12 (2.26%) VMS
5 5 (0.94%) Debian
5 5 (0.94%) Unix
6 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (38.04%) DevOps
2 185 (34.84%) CI/CD
3 161 (30.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (25.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 118 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 89 (16.76%) Agile
7 69 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (10.17%) Migration
9 50 (9.42%) AI
9 50 (9.42%) Coaching
10 49 (9.23%) Identity Access Management
11 48 (9.04%) Disaster Recovery
12 47 (8.85%) Containerisation
12 47 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (8.85%) Mentoring
12 47 (8.85%) Test Automation
13 43 (8.10%) Observability
14 42 (7.91%) Software Engineering
15 41 (7.72%) Asset Management
16 39 (7.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 131 (24.67%) Python
2 95 (17.89%) PowerShell
3 76 (14.31%) SQL
4 63 (11.86%) Java
5 46 (8.66%) Bash
6 36 (6.78%) Go
7 34 (6.40%) Bicep
7 34 (6.40%) PL/SQL
7 34 (6.40%) Shell Script
8 25 (4.71%) C++
9 24 (4.52%) C
10 22 (4.14%) Rust
11 17 (3.20%) C#
12 15 (2.82%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.56%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.38%) Ruby
16 1 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 72 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 43 (8.10%) Azure Certification
3 35 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.40%) DV Cleared
5 33 (6.21%) Degree
6 32 (6.03%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.94%) CISSP
9 5 (0.94%) HND
10 4 (0.75%) CCIE
10 4 (0.75%) CCNP
10 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.56%) CCSK
12 2 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.38%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (3.39%) GDPR
4 13 (2.45%) SLA
5 11 (2.07%) NIST
5 11 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.32%) GRC
9 5 (0.94%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.56%) QA
11 2 (0.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 83 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 50 (9.42%) Docker
3 26 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (4.33%) Virtual Servers
4 23 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (3.58%) Hyper-V
6 18 (3.39%) vSphere
7 12 (2.26%) Firmware
8 10 (1.88%) VMware NSX
9 8 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.94%) Kamailio
11 3 (0.56%) KVM
12 1 (0.19%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 225 (42.37%) Terraform
2 144 (27.12%) Kubernetes
3 59 (11.11%) Ansible
4 34 (6.40%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (4.71%) Grafana
5 25 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (4.33%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.88%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.51%) Argo
9 7 (1.32%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.94%) Kibana
11 4 (0.75%) CASB
11 4 (0.75%) Cilium
11 4 (0.75%) logstash
12 3 (0.56%) Istio
12 3 (0.56%) Puppet
13 2 (0.38%) Rancher
13 2 (0.38%) SCCM
14 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.19%) linkerd
Vendors
1 155 (29.19%) Microsoft
2 59 (11.11%) VMware
3 46 (8.66%) Oracle
4 31 (5.84%) Google
5 28 (5.27%) Cisco
6 19 (3.58%) Okta
7 15 (2.82%) Juniper
8 12 (2.26%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.07%) Fortinet
9 11 (2.07%) Palo Alto
9 11 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.88%) Broadcom
11 7 (1.32%) Dell
11 7 (1.32%) Dell Compellent
11 7 (1.32%) HP
11 7 (1.32%) Nimble Storage
12 6 (1.13%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.13%) SonicWALL
13 4 (0.75%) SAP
13 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow