Hybrid/Remote Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 289 250
Rank change year-on-year +85 -39 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 306 148 313
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.33% 0.89% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 0.97% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 239 99 217
10th Percentile £51,250 £35,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -2.22%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 21,713 15,328 23,746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.44% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 15,509 9,326 16,966
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Engineer job vacancies

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 154 (50.33%) Azure
2 110 (35.95%) Terraform
3 98 (32.03%) AWS
4 97 (31.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (25.16%) DevOps
6 76 (24.84%) CI/CD
7 71 (23.20%) Platform Engineering
8 68 (22.22%) GCP
9 65 (21.24%) Security Cleared
10 58 (18.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 55 (17.97%) Kubernetes
12 53 (17.32%) SC Cleared
13 51 (16.67%) Microsoft
14 49 (16.01%) PaaS
15 45 (14.71%) PowerShell
16 39 (12.75%) Containerisation
16 39 (12.75%) Python
17 38 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (12.09%) Cloud Security
19 36 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
20 35 (11.44%) Ansible
21 31 (10.13%) Observability
22 28 (9.15%) Agile
23 27 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
24 25 (8.17%) Entra ID
25 24 (7.84%) ITIL
25 24 (7.84%) Mentoring
26 23 (7.52%) Active Directory
27 22 (7.19%) Docker
28 21 (6.86%) IaaS

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.31%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 154 (50.33%) Azure
2 98 (32.03%) AWS
3 68 (22.22%) GCP
4 49 (16.01%) PaaS
5 36 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (8.17%) Entra ID
7 21 (6.86%) IaaS
8 20 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (6.54%) GitHub
9 18 (5.88%) SaaS
10 16 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.27%) Datadog
13 9 (2.94%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.61%) Azure AKS
14 8 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.88%) DNS
2 16 (5.23%) VPN
3 11 (3.59%) Firewall
4 7 (2.29%) DHCP
5 5 (1.63%) Network Security
6 4 (1.31%) Broadband
6 4 (1.31%) Wireless
7 3 (0.98%) SAN
7 3 (0.98%) WAN
8 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.65%) Wireless Security
9 1 (0.33%) Skype
9 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.33%) VoIP
9 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.63%) BigQuery
2 4 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (4.90%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.27%) GitLab
3 9 (2.94%) Git
4 2 (0.65%) Maven
4 2 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.65%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 67 (21.90%) Finance
2 40 (13.07%) Social Skills
3 16 (5.23%) Banking
4 15 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.61%) Law
8 6 (1.96%) Legal
8 6 (1.96%) Retail
9 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Advertising
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (35.95%) Terraform
2 7 (2.29%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.31%) Node.js
3 4 (1.31%) Pulumi
3 4 (1.31%) YAML
4 3 (0.98%) Middleware
5 2 (0.65%) Jinja
5 2 (0.65%) Kafka
5 2 (0.65%) REST
5 2 (0.65%) Web Services
6 1 (0.33%) eBPF
6 1 (0.33%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.33%) Loki
6 1 (0.33%) OpenID
6 1 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.33%) SAML
6 1 (0.33%) Spring
6 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.33%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.59%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.59%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.59%) Security Posture
4 9 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
4 9 (2.94%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.96%) Blog
6 6 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.31%) PKI
9 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.98%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.98%) SystemC
10 2 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.88%) Windows
2 15 (4.90%) Linux
3 10 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (31.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 77 (25.16%) DevOps
3 76 (24.84%) CI/CD
4 71 (23.20%) Platform Engineering
5 58 (18.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 39 (12.75%) Containerisation
7 38 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (12.09%) Cloud Security
9 31 (10.13%) Observability
10 28 (9.15%) Agile
11 27 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (7.84%) ITIL
12 24 (7.84%) Mentoring
13 20 (6.54%) Collaborative Culture
14 19 (6.21%) Cloud Operations
14 19 (6.21%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (5.88%) AI
15 18 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
15 18 (5.88%) Roadmaps
16 17 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.71%) PowerShell
2 39 (12.75%) Python
3 19 (6.21%) Bicep
4 12 (3.92%) Bash
5 10 (3.27%) SQL
6 7 (2.29%) Go
7 6 (1.96%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.65%) C#
8 2 (0.65%) Groovy
9 1 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.33%) Java
9 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.33%) Perl
9 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 53 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.27%) Degree
5 7 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.96%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.31%) CISM
7 4 (1.31%) CISSP
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CCNA
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (2.29%) NIST
3 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.98%) GDPR
5 3 (0.98%) NCSC
5 3 (0.98%) QA
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 23 (7.52%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.19%) Docker
3 10 (3.27%) Hyper-V
3 10 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.61%) VMware Server
5 5 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.65%) vSphere
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (17.97%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.44%) Ansible
3 15 (4.90%) Grafana
4 12 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.29%) Puppet
6 6 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.63%) Argo
8 4 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.98%) Istio
9 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.65%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.33%) Cilium
11 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 51 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.54%) VMware
3 13 (4.25%) Google
4 10 (3.27%) Oracle
5 8 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.98%) Cisco
6 3 (0.98%) EMC
7 2 (0.65%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.65%) Meraki
7 2 (0.65%) Sage
7 2 (0.65%) Sophos
7 2 (0.65%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.65%) Veeam
8 1 (0.33%) Apple
8 1 (0.33%) Databricks
8 1 (0.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.33%) New Relic
8 1 (0.33%) Okta
8 1 (0.33%) Rackspace
8 1 (0.33%) Tenable