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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 274 282
Rank change year-on-year +71 +8 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 243 158 378
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 1.03% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.12% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 179 115 299
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £46,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,365 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,250 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +0.74% -3.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £76,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £81,250 £92,047
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -4.81%

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 18,758 14,142 33,245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 92.12% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,672 8,631 25,988
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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.

1 107 (44.03%) Azure
2 103 (42.39%) Terraform
3 94 (38.68%) AWS
4 90 (37.04%) DevOps
5 87 (35.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (31.28%) CI/CD
7 60 (24.69%) Kubernetes
8 57 (23.46%) Security Cleared
9 52 (21.40%) GCP
10 46 (18.93%) Python
11 44 (18.11%) SC Cleared
12 42 (17.28%) Containerisation
12 42 (17.28%) Microsoft
13 37 (15.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 34 (13.99%) Agile
14 34 (13.99%) Ansible
15 31 (12.76%) Cloud Security
15 31 (12.76%) Docker
16 28 (11.52%) IaaS
17 27 (11.11%) Bash
17 27 (11.11%) Entra ID
17 27 (11.11%) Linux
17 27 (11.11%) Roadmaps
18 26 (10.70%) Mentoring
19 25 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
20 24 (9.88%) Observability
20 24 (9.88%) PaaS
20 24 (9.88%) PowerShell
21 23 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
21 23 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement

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 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) IIS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.41%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 107 (44.03%) Azure
2 94 (38.68%) AWS
3 52 (21.40%) GCP
4 28 (11.52%) IaaS
5 27 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 24 (9.88%) PaaS
7 23 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (9.47%) GitHub
8 20 (8.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (7.82%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (6.58%) Azure AKS
12 15 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (6.17%) SaaS
13 13 (5.35%) Amazon S3
13 13 (5.35%) Pulumi
14 12 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (4.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.64%) Firewall
2 13 (5.35%) Broadband
2 13 (5.35%) VPN
3 11 (4.53%) DNS
4 6 (2.47%) VoIP
5 5 (2.06%) DHCP
5 5 (2.06%) DMZ
5 5 (2.06%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.06%) STUN
5 5 (2.06%) VLAN
6 3 (1.23%) Network Security
6 3 (1.23%) SAN
6 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.23%) WAN
7 2 (0.82%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.82%) Wireless
8 1 (0.41%) Skype
8 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 9 (3.70%) RDBMS
1 9 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (1.65%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.65%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) Power BI
5 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.17%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.70%) Git
2 9 (3.70%) GitLab
2 9 (3.70%) Jaeger
3 5 (2.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.82%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.41%) JIRA
5 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (12.76%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (4.94%) Finance
4 10 (4.12%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.29%) Billing
6 7 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.65%) Law
9 3 (1.23%) Advertising
9 3 (1.23%) Military
10 2 (0.82%) Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Legal
10 2 (0.82%) Retail
11 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (3.29%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.06%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.65%) Loki
4 4 (1.65%) Node.js
4 4 (1.65%) YAML
5 2 (0.82%) .NET
5 2 (0.82%) JSON
5 2 (0.82%) Middleware
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.82%) RESTful
5 2 (0.82%) WAMP
5 2 (0.82%) Web Services
6 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.41%) PySpark
6 1 (0.41%) REST
6 1 (0.41%) SAML
6 1 (0.41%) SOAP
6 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.06%) Cloud Security Posture
4 5 (2.06%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.06%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.23%) PKI
7 2 (0.82%) Blog
7 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.82%) IoT
7 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.82%) Replication
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.11%) Linux
2 12 (4.94%) Windows
2 12 (4.94%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.12%) Unix
4 5 (2.06%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (37.04%) DevOps
2 87 (35.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (31.28%) CI/CD
4 42 (17.28%) Containerisation
5 37 (15.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (13.99%) Agile
7 31 (12.76%) Cloud Security
8 27 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 26 (10.70%) Mentoring
10 25 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (9.88%) Observability
12 23 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.47%) High Availability
12 23 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
14 17 (7.00%) Cloud Operations
15 15 (6.17%) AI
16 14 (5.76%) Disaster Recovery
16 14 (5.76%) Task Automation
17 13 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.93%) Python
2 27 (11.11%) Bash
3 24 (9.88%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.17%) Go
4 15 (6.17%) SQL
5 13 (5.35%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.94%) Java
7 8 (3.29%) Bicep
8 3 (1.23%) C#
8 3 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.82%) Groovy
9 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.23%) Azure Certification
4 17 (7.00%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.94%) Degree
6 9 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.47%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.82%) CISM
10 2 (0.82%) CISSP
10 2 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.41%) CCNA
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) IISP
11 1 (0.41%) ISACA
11 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.88%) NIST
2 5 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.06%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.06%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.23%) GDPR
3 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) QA
5 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 31 (12.76%) Docker
2 20 (8.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.65%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.82%) vSphere
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (42.39%) Terraform
2 60 (24.69%) Kubernetes
3 34 (13.99%) Ansible
4 18 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.76%) Argo
6 10 (4.12%) Grafana
7 9 (3.70%) Kustomize
8 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.47%) Puppet
10 5 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.82%) Istio
11 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.82%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 42 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.35%) Google
3 10 (4.12%) VMware
4 8 (3.29%) Cisco
5 5 (2.06%) Oracle
6 3 (1.23%) Citrix
6 3 (1.23%) EMC
7 2 (0.82%) Apple
7 2 (0.82%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.82%) Meraki
7 2 (0.82%) Sophos
7 2 (0.82%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.82%) Veeam
8 1 (0.41%) Databricks
8 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.41%) Foundry
8 1 (0.41%) New Relic
8 1 (0.41%) Okta
8 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.41%) Tenable