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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 704 705 775
Rank change year-on-year +1 +70 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 210 304 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.32% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 164 206 203
10th Percentile £53,223 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £62,625 £60,000
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 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.31% +12.00% -

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +2 168 £67,500 -10.00% 19
UK excluding London -4 135 £62,783 -10.31% 14
Work from Home +89 100 £62,783 -8.37% 13
London +23 59 £90,000 +12.50% 6
North of England +31 57 £62,783 -9.60% 3
Yorkshire +84 25 £62,783 -8.37% 2
North West +7 25 £62,783 -18.99% 1
Scotland -62 25 £61,250 -31.94% 1
South West -8 24 £40,000 -42.86% 4
South East +15 15 £67,500 -3.57% 1
West Midlands +16 7 £60,000 -20.00%
Midlands +13 7 £60,000 -17.24% 1
North East +3 7 £62,783 +14.15%
East of England +25 4 £68,750 - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 110 (52.38%) Azure
2 102 (48.57%) AWS
3 100 (47.62%) Terraform
4 84 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (30.00%) DevOps
6 62 (29.52%) Kubernetes
7 61 (29.05%) Linux
8 60 (28.57%) Python
9 48 (22.86%) Windows
9 48 (22.86%) Finance
10 47 (22.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 42 (20.00%) Microsoft
11 42 (20.00%) Ansible
12 40 (19.05%) Public Cloud
13 36 (17.14%) Cloud Security
14 35 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (16.19%) Docker
16 32 (15.24%) Mentoring
16 32 (15.24%) Cloud Native
17 31 (14.76%) GitHub
18 30 (14.29%) PaaS
18 30 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
19 29 (13.81%) Agile
20 28 (13.33%) Software Engineering
20 28 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
21 27 (12.86%) Security Cleared
21 27 (12.86%) ITIL
22 26 (12.38%) Migration
22 26 (12.38%) Public Sector
22 26 (12.38%) CI/CD

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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.38%) Apache
3 5 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 110 (52.38%) Azure
2 102 (48.57%) AWS
3 35 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (14.76%) GitHub
5 30 (14.29%) PaaS
6 25 (11.90%) GCP
7 24 (11.43%) Amazon S3
8 19 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (9.05%) Serverless
9 18 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (6.67%) Entra ID
12 13 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (6.19%) IaaS
13 11 (5.24%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.76%) SaaS
14 10 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (4.29%) CloudFront
15 9 (4.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.05%) Firewall
2 8 (3.81%) VPN
3 7 (3.33%) HTTP
3 7 (3.33%) IPv4
4 6 (2.86%) DNS
5 5 (2.38%) DHCP
6 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.90%) Wireless
7 3 (1.43%) MQTT
7 3 (1.43%) Network Security
8 1 (0.48%) DMZ
8 1 (0.48%) Internet
8 1 (0.48%) LAN
8 1 (0.48%) OSPF
8 1 (0.48%) VLAN
8 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.38%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.95%) Power BI
4 2 (0.95%) Tableau
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.48%) Big Data
5 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Redis
5 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (10.95%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 21 (10.00%) GitLab
3 9 (4.29%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.33%) Git
5 1 (0.48%) Spinnaker
General
1 48 (22.86%) Finance
2 26 (12.38%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.10%) Banking
3 17 (8.10%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.95%) Retail
7 1 (0.48%) Advertising
7 1 (0.48%) Games
7 1 (0.48%) Law
7 1 (0.48%) Legal
7 1 (0.48%) Marketing
7 1 (0.48%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.24%) .NET
1 11 (5.24%) Node.js
2 8 (3.81%) React
2 8 (3.81%) Svelte
3 7 (3.33%) HTML
4 4 (1.90%) OpenID
4 4 (1.90%) SAML
5 3 (1.43%) CSS
6 2 (0.95%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.95%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.95%) JWT
6 2 (0.95%) OAuth
6 2 (0.95%) 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 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 32 (15.24%) Cloud Native
3 30 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (9.05%) Legacy Code
5 18 (8.57%) Product Ownership
6 15 (7.14%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.76%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.86%) Blog
8 6 (2.86%) PKI
9 5 (2.38%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.90%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.95%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.95%) Life Science
11 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.95%) Web3
12 1 (0.48%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 61 (29.05%) Linux
2 48 (22.86%) Windows
3 11 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.33%) Unix
5 6 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 63 (30.00%) DevOps
3 47 (22.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 36 (17.14%) Cloud Security
5 32 (15.24%) Mentoring
6 29 (13.81%) Agile
7 28 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 27 (12.86%) ITIL
9 26 (12.38%) CI/CD
9 26 (12.38%) Migration
10 25 (11.90%) Coaching
11 24 (11.43%) Roadmaps
12 22 (10.48%) Containerisation
12 22 (10.48%) Operational Stability
13 21 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (10.00%) Service Management
13 21 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 17 (8.10%) Use Case
15 14 (6.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.57%) Python
2 24 (11.43%) PowerShell
3 23 (10.95%) Go
4 21 (10.00%) SQL
5 17 (8.10%) Bash
6 13 (6.19%) Rust
7 11 (5.24%) C
7 11 (5.24%) C++
7 11 (5.24%) Java
8 10 (4.76%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.81%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.86%) C#
11 4 (1.90%) Perl
11 4 (1.90%) Ruby
12 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.95%) Lua
12 2 (0.95%) PHP
13 1 (0.48%) Scala
13 1 (0.48%) sed
13 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.48%) AWS Certification
2 22 (10.48%) Degree
3 13 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) CEH
10 2 (0.95%) CISM
10 2 (0.95%) CISSP
10 2 (0.95%) VCP6
10 2 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.90%) Solvency II
2 2 (0.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) NCSC
3 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (16.19%) Docker
2 10 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.43%) Firmware
5 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 100 (47.62%) Terraform
2 62 (29.52%) Kubernetes
3 42 (20.00%) Ansible
4 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.38%) Grafana
5 5 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.38%) Puppet
6 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.48%) CASB
Vendors
1 42 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.52%) Google
3 6 (2.86%) VMware
4 5 (2.38%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.90%) Cisco
5 4 (1.90%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.90%) Remedy
5 4 (1.90%) Zscaler
6 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.48%) Citrix
7 1 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.48%) Dell
7 1 (0.48%) Meraki
7 1 (0.48%) NetApp
7 1 (0.48%) Twitter