Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 688 665 759
Rank change year-on-year -23 +94 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 208 336 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 162 233 197
10th Percentile £54,920 £56,219 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £60,713 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.60% +6.84% +4.00%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
England -4 167 £67,500 -10.00% 18
UK excluding London -9 134 £62,783 -9.60% 14
Work from Home +87 98 £62,783 -3.41% 14
London +20 59 £90,000 +12.50% 6
North of England +27 57 £62,783 -8.37% 4
Yorkshire +78 26 £62,783 -8.37% 1
North West +1 24 £62,783 -14.87% 3
South West -12 24 £40,000 -38.46% 2
Scotland -63 24 £62,500 -30.56% 1
South East +19 15 £67,500 -3.57% 3
West Midlands +19 7 £60,000 -20.00% 1
North East +6 7 £62,783 +14.15%
Midlands +4 7 £60,000 -17.24% 1
East of England +31 4 £68,750 - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 108 (51.92%) Azure
2 102 (49.04%) AWS
3 100 (48.08%) Terraform
4 84 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (30.29%) DevOps
6 61 (29.33%) Kubernetes
6 61 (29.33%) Linux
7 59 (28.37%) Python
8 50 (24.04%) Finance
9 47 (22.60%) Windows
10 46 (22.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 43 (20.67%) Ansible
12 41 (19.71%) Microsoft
13 40 (19.23%) Public Cloud
14 35 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (16.83%) Cloud Security
15 34 (16.35%) Docker
16 32 (15.38%) Mentoring
16 32 (15.38%) Cloud Native
17 30 (14.42%) Hybrid Cloud
17 30 (14.42%) GitHub
17 30 (14.42%) PaaS
17 30 (14.42%) Agile
18 28 (13.46%) Software Engineering
19 27 (12.98%) Security Cleared
19 27 (12.98%) ITIL
19 27 (12.98%) Cybersecurity
20 26 (12.50%) Migration
20 26 (12.50%) CI/CD
20 26 (12.50%) Public Sector

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 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.40%) Apache
3 5 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 108 (51.92%) Azure
2 102 (49.04%) AWS
3 35 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (14.42%) GitHub
4 30 (14.42%) PaaS
5 25 (12.02%) GCP
6 24 (11.54%) Amazon S3
7 19 (9.13%) Serverless
8 18 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (8.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.25%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.25%) IaaS
11 11 (5.29%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (4.33%) CloudFront
13 9 (4.33%) Route 53
13 9 (4.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.13%) Firewall
2 8 (3.85%) VPN
3 7 (3.37%) HTTP
3 7 (3.37%) IPv4
4 5 (2.40%) DNS
5 4 (1.92%) DHCP
5 4 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.92%) Wireless
6 3 (1.44%) MQTT
6 3 (1.44%) Network Security
7 1 (0.48%) Internet
7 1 (0.48%) LAN
7 1 (0.48%) OSPF
7 1 (0.48%) VLAN
7 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.40%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.96%) Power BI
5 2 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.96%) Star Schema
5 2 (0.96%) Tableau
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.48%) Big Data
6 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (11.06%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.10%) Artifactory
2 21 (10.10%) GitLab
3 10 (4.81%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.37%) Git
5 1 (0.48%) Spinnaker
General
1 50 (24.04%) Finance
2 26 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.17%) Banking
3 17 (8.17%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.96%) Legal
6 2 (0.96%) Retail
7 1 (0.48%) Advertising
7 1 (0.48%) Games
7 1 (0.48%) Law
7 1 (0.48%) Marketing
7 1 (0.48%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.29%) .NET
1 11 (5.29%) Node.js
2 8 (3.85%) React
2 8 (3.85%) Svelte
3 7 (3.37%) HTML
4 4 (1.92%) OpenID
4 4 (1.92%) SAML
5 3 (1.44%) CSS
6 2 (0.96%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.96%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.96%) JWT
6 2 (0.96%) OAuth
6 2 (0.96%) web3js
7 1 (0.48%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.48%) JDBC
7 1 (0.48%) Kafka
7 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.48%) Swagger
7 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.23%) Public Cloud
2 32 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 30 (14.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (9.13%) Legacy Code
5 18 (8.65%) Product Ownership
6 14 (6.73%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.81%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.88%) Blog
9 5 (2.40%) Cyberattack
9 5 (2.40%) PKI
10 4 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.96%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.96%) Life Science
12 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.96%) Web3
13 1 (0.48%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 61 (29.33%) Linux
2 47 (22.60%) Windows
3 10 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.37%) Unix
5 5 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 63 (30.29%) DevOps
3 46 (22.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (16.83%) Cloud Security
5 32 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 30 (14.42%) Agile
7 28 (13.46%) Software Engineering
8 27 (12.98%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (12.98%) ITIL
9 26 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 26 (12.50%) Migration
10 25 (12.02%) Coaching
11 24 (11.54%) Roadmaps
12 22 (10.58%) Operational Stability
13 21 (10.10%) Containerisation
13 21 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (10.10%) Service Management
13 21 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 17 (8.17%) Use Case
15 14 (6.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 59 (28.37%) Python
2 24 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.06%) Go
4 22 (10.58%) SQL
5 16 (7.69%) Bash
6 13 (6.25%) Rust
7 11 (5.29%) C
7 11 (5.29%) C++
8 10 (4.81%) Java
8 10 (4.81%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.85%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.40%) C#
11 4 (1.92%) Ruby
12 3 (1.44%) Perl
13 2 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.96%) Lua
13 2 (0.96%) PHP
14 1 (0.48%) AWK
14 1 (0.48%) sed
14 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.58%) AWS Certification
2 22 (10.58%) Degree
3 13 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.96%) CEH
10 2 (0.96%) CISM
10 2 (0.96%) CISSP
10 2 (0.96%) VCP6
10 2 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.92%) Solvency II
2 2 (0.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (16.35%) Docker
2 9 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.44%) Firmware
5 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 100 (48.08%) Terraform
2 61 (29.33%) Kubernetes
3 43 (20.67%) Ansible
4 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.40%) Grafana
5 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.40%) Puppet
6 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.48%) CASB
Vendors
1 41 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.62%) Google
3 5 (2.40%) VMware
4 4 (1.92%) Cisco
4 4 (1.92%) Palo Alto
4 4 (1.92%) Remedy
4 4 (1.92%) SolarWinds
4 4 (1.92%) Zscaler
5 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.48%) Citrix
6 1 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.48%) Meraki
6 1 (0.48%) Twitter