Cloud Engineer Job Trends in West Sussex

Cloud Engineer
South East > West Sussex

The median Cloud Engineer salary in West Sussex is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 38 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 6 9 5
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 1.44% 2.85% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 3.03% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile - - £34,000
25th Percentile - £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -18.52% +13.45%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,875 - £70,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +16.07% -8.20%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 391 297 407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 93.99% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 267 152 267
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,418
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,125 £71,875
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £75,100
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% -4.55%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in West Sussex.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in West Sussex

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Worthing -2 4 £70,000 -
Chichester - 2 £70,000 - 2
Cloud Engineer
South East

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Cloud 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 across the West Sussex region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) IaaS
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) PaaS
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Bicep
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) FinOps
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) IaaS
1 6 (100.00%) PaaS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Billing
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (50.00%) FinOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft