Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 695 700
Rank change year-on-year +126 +5 +84
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 142 202 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.22% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 98 162 195
10th Percentile £58,750 £52,741 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,597 £62,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £65,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -12.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,783 £70,500
% change year-on-year +3.53% -10.95% +8.46%

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 50,303 93,916 91,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.69% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27,096 67,168 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £80,559
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +131 138 £76,000 +12.59% 62
London +123 72 £90,000 - 33
UK excluding London +127 69 £65,000 +3.53% 38
Work from Home +83 59 £73,000 +16.27% 39
South East +117 32 £67,500 - 18
North of England +19 25 £63,750 +1.54% 11
North West -4 15 £60,000 -4.43% 4
Yorkshire +52 9 £64,500 +2.74% 4
Midlands +62 5 £48,750 -18.75% 1
South West +95 4 - - 6
East Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands +52 2 £48,750 -18.75% 1
Scotland +87 1 £80,000 +30.61%
North East +39 1 £65,000 +3.53% 3
Northern Ireland +38 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 93 (65.49%) Azure
2 60 (42.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (40.14%) DevOps
4 56 (39.44%) Kubernetes
5 54 (38.03%) Microsoft
6 53 (37.32%) CI/CD
7 52 (36.62%) Python
7 52 (36.62%) AWS
8 51 (35.92%) Terraform
8 51 (35.92%) Cloud Security
9 45 (31.69%) Linux
10 38 (26.76%) SaaS
11 36 (25.35%) GCP
12 35 (24.65%) Ansible
13 33 (23.24%) PaaS
13 33 (23.24%) Windows
14 32 (22.54%) Law
14 32 (22.54%) PowerShell
15 29 (20.42%) Microsoft 365
16 28 (19.72%) High Availability
16 28 (19.72%) Cloud Native
16 28 (19.72%) Software Engineering
17 27 (19.01%) Analytics
18 26 (18.31%) Incident Management
19 23 (16.20%) Degree
19 23 (16.20%) Public Cloud
19 23 (16.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 22 (15.49%) Jenkins
20 22 (15.49%) Finance
20 22 (15.49%) SharePoint

Senior 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 22 (15.49%) SharePoint
2 17 (11.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.11%) IIS
4 2 (1.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 93 (65.49%) Azure
2 52 (36.62%) AWS
3 38 (26.76%) SaaS
4 36 (25.35%) GCP
5 33 (23.24%) PaaS
6 29 (20.42%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (13.38%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (11.97%) IaaS
10 15 (10.56%) Entra ID
11 13 (9.15%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Copilot
13 11 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (7.04%) OneDrive
15 8 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (5.63%) GitHub
16 7 (4.93%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (4.93%) Serverless
17 6 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
17 6 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.97%) VPN
2 15 (10.56%) Firewall
3 12 (8.45%) DNS
4 7 (4.93%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.93%) WAN
5 6 (4.23%) IPsec
5 6 (4.23%) LAN
6 5 (3.52%) Network Security
7 4 (2.82%) DHCP
8 3 (2.11%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.41%) BGP
9 2 (1.41%) IPv4
9 2 (1.41%) OSPF
9 2 (1.41%) SAN
9 2 (1.41%) SNMP
9 2 (1.41%) SSL
9 2 (1.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.41%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.70%) Big Data
3 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.70%) MySQL
3 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (15.49%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.97%) Git
3 7 (4.93%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 32 (22.54%) Law
2 22 (15.49%) Finance
2 22 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.38%) Telecoms
4 11 (7.75%) Legal
5 7 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Banking
8 3 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Automotive
9 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.97%) Node.js
2 10 (7.04%) ARM Templates
3 8 (5.63%) YAML
4 7 (4.93%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.93%) React
5 5 (3.52%) OAuth
6 4 (2.82%) REST
6 4 (2.82%) Web Services
7 3 (2.11%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (1.41%) JSON
8 2 (1.41%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 23 (16.20%) Public Cloud
3 18 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (11.97%) Management Information System
5 15 (10.56%) Legacy Code
6 11 (7.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.52%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.52%) Private Cloud
7 5 (3.52%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.41%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 45 (31.69%) Linux
2 33 (23.24%) Windows
3 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (40.14%) DevOps
3 53 (37.32%) CI/CD
4 51 (35.92%) Cloud Security
5 28 (19.72%) High Availability
5 28 (19.72%) Software Engineering
6 27 (19.01%) Analytics
7 26 (18.31%) Incident Management
8 23 (16.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (14.08%) Computer Science
10 18 (12.68%) Cloud Operations
10 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (12.68%) Performance Monitoring
11 17 (11.97%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (10.56%) Migration
13 13 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (8.45%) Disaster Recovery
15 11 (7.75%) Agile
15 11 (7.75%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.62%) Python
2 32 (22.54%) PowerShell
3 19 (13.38%) Go
4 15 (10.56%) C
4 15 (10.56%) C++
4 15 (10.56%) Rust
5 13 (9.15%) Bash
5 13 (9.15%) Bicep
6 9 (6.34%) SQL
7 7 (4.93%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.11%) Java
8 3 (2.11%) Scala
9 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.41%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (16.20%) Degree
2 20 (14.08%) Azure Certification
3 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.11%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.70%) CCNA
7 1 (0.70%) CCNP
7 1 (0.70%) CCSK
7 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.70%) MCITP
7 1 (0.70%) MCSE
7 1 (0.70%) VCP6
7 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) GDPR
2 7 (4.93%) NIST
3 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.82%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (10.56%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (5.63%) Docker
4 7 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (39.44%) Kubernetes
2 51 (35.92%) Terraform
3 35 (24.65%) Ansible
4 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.11%) CASB
5 3 (2.11%) Puppet
5 3 (2.11%) SCCM
6 2 (1.41%) Podman
7 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (38.03%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.15%) VMware
3 10 (7.04%) Google
4 7 (4.93%) Atlassian
4 7 (4.93%) Databricks
5 6 (4.23%) Ping Identity
6 5 (3.52%) Cisco
7 2 (1.41%) Graphcore
7 2 (1.41%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.41%) Intel
8 1 (0.70%) ConnectWise
8 1 (0.70%) Facebook
8 1 (0.70%) Juniper
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle