Cloud Software Engineer Jobs

Cloud Software Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Software 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 636 742 935
Rank change year-on-year +106 +193 +149
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Software Engineer 55 160 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 54 38 19
10th Percentile £62,000 £50,000 £55,050
25th Percentile £78,795 £61,180 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £115,000 £113,125 £92,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,274 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.57% +6.84% -23.53%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Software 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 +183 55 £90,000 - 10
London +124 39 £110,000 +15.79% 7
UK excluding London +94 14 £66,274 -4.57% 3
Work from Home +174 13 £66,274 -4.57% 6
East of England +56 6 £66,274 +26.24% 2
South East +113 3 £60,000 - 1
North of England +87 3 £60,000 -13.60%
North West +15 3 £60,000 -13.60%
South West - 2 £85,253 -

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

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

1 55 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 44 (80.00%) C++
3 40 (72.73%) Linux
3 40 (72.73%) Kubernetes
3 40 (72.73%) Cloud Native
4 39 (70.91%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (69.09%) Legacy Code
5 38 (69.09%) Rust
5 38 (69.09%) C
5 38 (69.09%) Go
6 15 (27.27%) Python
7 8 (14.55%) SQL
7 8 (14.55%) Agile
7 8 (14.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (12.73%) AWS
8 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
8 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.91%) Cloud Security
9 6 (10.91%) Conversational UI
9 6 (10.91%) Chatbot
9 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
9 6 (10.91%) PayPal
9 6 (10.91%) C#
9 6 (10.91%) HTML
9 6 (10.91%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (10.91%) Degree
9 6 (10.91%) Code Quality
10 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (9.09%) Web Services
10 5 (9.09%) DevOps

Cloud Software 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:

Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.64%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) AWS
2 6 (10.91%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (7.27%) GCP
4 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.45%) GitHub
4 3 (5.45%) Serverless
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.64%) Azure
5 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.64%) OCI
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) MQTT
1 2 (3.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.82%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.45%) Advertising
3 2 (3.64%) Banking
3 2 (3.64%) Finance
3 2 (3.64%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) HTML
2 5 (9.09%) Web Services
3 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.27%) React
4 3 (5.45%) REST
5 2 (3.64%) gRPC
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.64%) Spring
5 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.82%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.82%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.82%) RESTful
6 1 (1.82%) SOAP
6 1 (1.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 40 (72.73%) Cloud Native
2 39 (70.91%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (69.09%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 40 (72.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (14.55%) Agile
2 8 (14.55%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
4 6 (10.91%) Cloud Security
4 6 (10.91%) Code Quality
4 6 (10.91%) Conversational UI
5 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (9.09%) DevOps
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (7.27%) Microservices
6 4 (7.27%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (7.27%) Scrum
7 3 (5.45%) Containerisation
7 3 (5.45%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (5.45%) Observability
8 2 (3.64%) Incident Management
8 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (3.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (80.00%) C++
2 38 (69.09%) C
2 38 (69.09%) Go
2 38 (69.09%) Rust
3 15 (27.27%) Python
4 8 (14.55%) SQL
5 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.91%) C#
6 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.45%) Java
8 2 (3.64%) MATLAB
8 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.64%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) Grafana
3 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) PayPal
2 3 (5.45%) Ping Identity
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle