Junior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Junior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £33,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 959 1200
Rank change year-on-year +74 +241 -343
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Cloud Engineer 4 19 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.018% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.020% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 14
10th Percentile £25,950 £35,500 £29,800
25th Percentile £28,875 £40,000 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% -14.29% +61.54%
75th Percentile £37,500 £51,875 £59,688
90th Percentile - £54,750 £74,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,500 £45,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -25.56% -16.28% +65.38%

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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Junior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Junior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Junior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Junior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Junior Cloud Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
UK excluding London -3 4 £33,500 -25.56% 5
Scotland -58 3 £32,000 -14.67%
England +101 1 £35,000 -22.22% 4
Work from Home +77 1 £35,000 -30.00% 4
Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £35,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Junior 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 Junior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware