Cloud Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 282 242
Rank change year-on-year +27 -40 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 239 380 512
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.18% 1.10% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.14% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 117 301 395
10th Percentile £37,733 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -3.41% -3.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,104 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 18,553 33,224 34,481
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 96.25% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,332 25,070 25,460
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -11.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 157 (65.69%) DevOps
2 156 (65.27%) Terraform
3 134 (56.07%) Python
4 131 (54.81%) AWS
5 121 (50.63%) Social Skills
6 110 (46.03%) Active Directory
7 109 (45.61%) Azure
8 106 (44.35%) Roadmaps
9 95 (39.75%) Serverless
10 93 (38.91%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (38.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 89 (37.24%) Cybersecurity
13 88 (36.82%) Management Information System
13 88 (36.82%) Deployment Automation
14 85 (35.56%) NIST
15 84 (35.15%) Cyber Threat
15 84 (35.15%) Onboarding
16 83 (34.73%) SSL
17 82 (34.31%) Broadband
17 82 (34.31%) Web Services
17 82 (34.31%) SSH
17 82 (34.31%) Vulnerability Assessment
17 82 (34.31%) PKI
17 82 (34.31%) RESTful
17 82 (34.31%) Use Case
17 82 (34.31%) Cyberattack
17 82 (34.31%) Thales
17 82 (34.31%) Key Management
17 82 (34.31%) Programme Delivery
18 70 (29.29%) Microsoft

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.67%) IBM Domino
3 4 (1.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (7.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.84%) Simulink
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 131 (54.81%) AWS
2 109 (45.61%) Azure
3 95 (39.75%) Serverless
4 93 (38.91%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (9.62%) GCP
7 22 (9.21%) SaaS
8 17 (7.11%) PaaS
9 14 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.44%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.77%) IaaS
12 8 (3.35%) GitHub
13 7 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.93%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.51%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 83 (34.73%) SSL
2 82 (34.31%) Broadband
2 82 (34.31%) SSH
3 14 (5.86%) Firewall
4 12 (5.02%) WAN
5 11 (4.60%) VPN
6 10 (4.18%) SAN
7 8 (3.35%) DHCP
7 8 (3.35%) DNS
7 8 (3.35%) VLAN
8 6 (2.51%) Multicast
8 6 (2.51%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.09%) NAS
9 5 (2.09%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.09%) VSAN
10 4 (1.67%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.67%) IPv4
11 3 (1.26%) OSPF
12 2 (0.84%) IPsec
12 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.51%) DB2
2 6 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.09%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.26%) MySQL
5 2 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (5.44%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.60%) Git
3 5 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.84%) GitLab
4 2 (0.84%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 121 (50.63%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.55%) Finance
3 17 (7.11%) Banking
4 11 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (4.60%) Telecoms
5 10 (4.18%) Law
6 4 (1.67%) Advertising
6 4 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.42%) Electronics
8 1 (0.42%) Legal
8 1 (0.42%) Marketing
8 1 (0.42%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (34.31%) RESTful
1 82 (34.31%) Web Services
2 18 (7.53%) HTML
3 12 (5.02%) ARM Templates
4 9 (3.77%) Node.js
5 5 (2.09%) Middleware
6 3 (1.26%) .NET
6 3 (1.26%) JSON
6 3 (1.26%) Spring
6 3 (1.26%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.84%) gRPC
7 2 (0.84%) SAML
8 1 (0.42%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.42%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.42%) LAMP
8 1 (0.42%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.42%) OAuth
8 1 (0.42%) REST
8 1 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (36.82%) Management Information System
2 84 (35.15%) Cyber Threat
2 84 (35.15%) Onboarding
3 82 (34.31%) Cyberattack
3 82 (34.31%) PKI
4 22 (9.21%) Public Cloud
5 19 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (7.53%) Cloud Native
7 10 (4.18%) Security Posture
8 8 (3.35%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.93%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.51%) Replication
11 5 (2.09%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
13 2 (0.84%) IoT
14 1 (0.42%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.92%) Windows
2 37 (15.48%) Linux
3 17 (7.11%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.93%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.67%) Unix
8 3 (1.26%) VMS
9 1 (0.42%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (65.69%) DevOps
2 106 (44.35%) Roadmaps
3 89 (37.24%) Cybersecurity
4 88 (36.82%) Deployment Automation
5 82 (34.31%) Key Management
5 82 (34.31%) Programme Delivery
5 82 (34.31%) Use Case
5 82 (34.31%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 67 (28.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (22.59%) CI/CD
8 44 (18.41%) Cloud Security
9 42 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 38 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (11.72%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (9.21%) Agile
13 19 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (7.53%) Code Quality
14 18 (7.53%) Conversational UI
15 17 (7.11%) High Availability
15 17 (7.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (56.07%) Python
2 32 (13.39%) SQL
3 30 (12.55%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.21%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.79%) C#
6 18 (7.53%) C++
7 13 (5.44%) Bash
8 7 (2.93%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.09%) Bicep
9 5 (2.09%) Go
9 5 (2.09%) Java
10 4 (1.67%) R
11 2 (0.84%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 38 (15.90%) Degree
2 32 (13.39%) Azure Certification
3 19 (7.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.77%) Security Cleared
6 7 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.93%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (2.09%) CCNA
9 4 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.26%) MCSA
11 2 (0.84%) CCNP
12 1 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.42%) CISSP
12 1 (0.42%) MCSE
12 1 (0.42%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (38.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (35.56%) NIST
3 5 (2.09%) GDPR
4 3 (1.26%) QA
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 110 (46.03%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.02%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (4.60%) Docker
4 7 (2.93%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.51%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.84%) vSphere
9 1 (0.42%) Firmware
9 1 (0.42%) KVM
9 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 156 (65.27%) Terraform
2 28 (11.72%) Ansible
3 27 (11.30%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.51%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.09%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.09%) Puppet
7 4 (1.67%) Grafana
7 4 (1.67%) SCCM
8 2 (0.84%) Argo
9 1 (0.42%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.42%) SCOM
9 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (34.31%) Thales
2 70 (29.29%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.53%) PayPal
4 16 (6.69%) VMware
5 10 (4.18%) Cisco
6 8 (3.35%) Google
7 7 (2.93%) Oracle
8 6 (2.51%) IBM
9 4 (1.67%) Veeam
10 2 (0.84%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.84%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (0.84%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.84%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.42%) F5
11 1 (0.42%) Foundry
11 1 (0.42%) Okta
11 1 (0.42%) Rapid7
11 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.42%) Zscaler