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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 588 698 695
Rank change year-on-year +110 -3 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 124 214 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.22% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 83 171 187
10th Percentile £58,750 £50,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,597 £62,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £66,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -14.19% -3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,625 £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% +17.50%

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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Top 15 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 28 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 +108 122 £76,000 +12.59% 62
UK excluding London +118 64 £65,000 +3.53% 38
London +122 60 £90,000 - 36
Work from Home +74 51 £70,000 +11.50% 38
South East +104 29 £65,000 -3.70% 14
North of England +4 26 £63,750 +1.54% 9
North West -13 16 £60,000 -4.43% 5
Yorkshire +46 9 £64,500 +2.74% 3
South West +98 4 - - 3
Midlands +56 3 £42,500 -29.17% 7
East Midlands - 2 - - 5
Scotland +101 1 £80,000 +30.61%
West Midlands +58 1 £42,500 -29.17% 2
North East +41 1 £65,000 +3.53% 1
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 77 (62.10%) Azure
2 56 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (42.74%) DevOps
3 53 (42.74%) Kubernetes
4 48 (38.71%) Terraform
4 48 (38.71%) CI/CD
5 46 (37.10%) Microsoft
6 45 (36.29%) AWS
6 45 (36.29%) Cloud Security
7 43 (34.68%) Python
8 42 (33.87%) Linux
9 34 (27.42%) Ansible
10 31 (25.00%) SaaS
11 30 (24.19%) GCP
12 28 (22.58%) Software Engineering
13 27 (21.77%) Law
14 26 (20.97%) Windows
14 26 (20.97%) PaaS
14 26 (20.97%) High Availability
14 26 (20.97%) PowerShell
15 25 (20.16%) Analytics
16 24 (19.35%) Cloud Native
16 24 (19.35%) Incident Management
17 22 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 21 (16.94%) Microsoft 365
18 21 (16.94%) Degree
19 20 (16.13%) Azure Certification
20 19 (15.32%) Go
20 19 (15.32%) Jenkins
20 19 (15.32%) Public Cloud

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 16 (12.90%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.42%) IIS
4 2 (1.61%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 77 (62.10%) Azure
2 45 (36.29%) AWS
3 31 (25.00%) SaaS
4 30 (24.19%) GCP
5 26 (20.97%) PaaS
6 21 (16.94%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (12.90%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (9.68%) IaaS
10 11 (8.87%) Entra ID
11 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (6.45%) GitHub
14 7 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (5.65%) OneDrive
14 7 (5.65%) Serverless
14 7 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.48%) Firewall
1 13 (10.48%) VPN
2 10 (8.06%) DNS
3 5 (4.03%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.03%) WAN
4 4 (3.23%) IPsec
4 4 (3.23%) LAN
5 3 (2.42%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.61%) BGP
6 2 (1.61%) DHCP
6 2 (1.61%) IPv4
6 2 (1.61%) Network Security
6 2 (1.61%) OSPF
6 2 (1.61%) SNMP
6 2 (1.61%) SSL
6 2 (1.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.61%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.81%) Big Data
3 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.81%) MySQL
3 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (15.32%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.10%) Git
3 7 (5.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (21.77%) Law
2 18 (14.52%) Finance
2 18 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.71%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.45%) Legal
5 4 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.23%) Banking
6 3 (2.42%) Automotive
6 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.10%) Node.js
2 11 (8.87%) ARM Templates
3 8 (6.45%) YAML
4 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
4 7 (5.65%) React
5 5 (4.03%) OAuth
6 4 (3.23%) REST
6 4 (3.23%) Web Services
7 2 (1.61%) JSON
7 2 (1.61%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.81%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 19 (15.32%) Public Cloud
3 18 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (12.10%) Legacy Code
4 15 (12.10%) Management Information System
5 10 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.03%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.61%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 42 (33.87%) Linux
2 26 (20.97%) Windows
3 3 (2.42%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 53 (42.74%) DevOps
3 48 (38.71%) CI/CD
4 45 (36.29%) Cloud Security
5 28 (22.58%) Software Engineering
6 26 (20.97%) High Availability
7 25 (20.16%) Analytics
8 24 (19.35%) Incident Management
9 22 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (15.32%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (14.52%) Computer Science
12 16 (12.90%) Cloud Operations
12 16 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
13 15 (12.10%) Continuous Delivery
13 15 (12.10%) Migration
14 11 (8.87%) Configuration Management
14 11 (8.87%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (8.06%) Agile
15 10 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.68%) Python
2 26 (20.97%) PowerShell
3 19 (15.32%) Go
4 15 (12.10%) C
4 15 (12.10%) C++
4 15 (12.10%) Rust
5 13 (10.48%) Bicep
6 9 (7.26%) Bash
6 9 (7.26%) SQL
7 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.42%) Java
8 3 (2.42%) Scala
9 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.61%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (16.94%) Degree
2 20 (16.13%) Azure Certification
3 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.42%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.81%) CCNA
7 1 (0.81%) CCNP
7 1 (0.81%) CCSK
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) MCITP
7 1 (0.81%) MCSE
7 1 (0.81%) VCP6
7 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) GDPR
2 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.61%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (8.87%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.45%) Docker
3 7 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (42.74%) Kubernetes
2 48 (38.71%) Terraform
3 34 (27.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.42%) SCCM
5 2 (1.61%) Podman
5 2 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (37.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) VMware
3 7 (5.65%) Databricks
4 6 (4.84%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.84%) Google
4 6 (4.84%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.42%) Cisco
6 2 (1.61%) Graphcore
6 2 (1.61%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.81%) ConnectWise
7 1 (0.81%) Facebook
7 1 (0.81%) Juniper
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle