Senior CloudOps Engineer Job Trends

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 638 - 710
Rank change year-on-year - - +374
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior CloudOps Engineer 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.009% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% - 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 - -

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 48,992 60,218 48,170
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.22% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 30,933 33,415 37,549
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,938 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

Senior CloudOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior CloudOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior CloudOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior CloudOps Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior CloudOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior CloudOps Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior CloudOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 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 - 5 £72,500 -
London - 4 - -
South East - 1 £72,500 -
Work from Home - 1 £72,500 -
UK excluding London - 1 £72,500 -

Senior CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 December 2025, Senior CloudOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) CASB
2 4 (80.00%) CCIE
2 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Meraki
2 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation

Senior CloudOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCIE
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (80.00%) Meraki
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft