Hybrid/Remote Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 198 203
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 188 310 330
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 1.58% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.63% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 127 201 284
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £51,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £86,752 £85,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -2.67%

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 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 14,288 18,965 20,065
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.48% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9,132 11,878 16,422
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.83% -3.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025, 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.

1 152 (80.85%) Azure
2 125 (66.49%) Terraform
3 112 (59.57%) DevOps
4 103 (54.79%) CI/CD
5 78 (41.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 74 (39.36%) AWS
7 72 (38.30%) Python
8 66 (35.11%) GitHub
9 63 (33.51%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (32.98%) Microsoft
11 60 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 54 (28.72%) Agile
13 53 (28.19%) Kubernetes
13 53 (28.19%) SQL
14 51 (27.13%) Jenkins
15 43 (22.87%) Windows
16 42 (22.34%) Cloud Security
16 42 (22.34%) Coaching
16 42 (22.34%) PowerShell
17 38 (20.21%) Asset Management
17 38 (20.21%) Test Automation
18 35 (18.62%) Java
18 35 (18.62%) Mentoring
19 34 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
19 34 (18.09%) ERP
20 33 (17.55%) API Integration
20 33 (17.55%) Identity Access Management
20 33 (17.55%) Migration
21 32 (17.02%) Analytics
21 32 (17.02%) Firewall

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 14 (7.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.19%) IIS
3 4 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 31 (16.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 152 (80.85%) Azure
2 74 (39.36%) AWS
3 66 (35.11%) GitHub
4 63 (33.51%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (17.02%) OCI
6 28 (14.89%) Entra ID
7 26 (13.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (12.23%) GCP
9 21 (11.17%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (11.17%) SaaS
10 20 (10.64%) PaaS
11 19 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (10.11%) IaaS
12 18 (9.57%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (9.04%) Power Platform
14 16 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (8.51%) Serverless
15 15 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (7.98%) Azure AKS
16 14 (7.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.02%) Firewall
2 22 (11.70%) VPN
3 13 (6.91%) DNS
4 10 (5.32%) Network Security
5 9 (4.79%) WAN
6 7 (3.72%) SSL
7 6 (3.19%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.66%) DMZ
8 5 (2.66%) STUN
8 5 (2.66%) VLAN
8 5 (2.66%) VoIP
9 4 (2.13%) DHCP
9 4 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.06%) HTTP
11 2 (1.06%) LAN
11 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.53%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.51%) Power BI
2 14 (7.45%) Tableau
3 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.13%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (27.13%) Jenkins
2 31 (16.49%) Oracle Forms
3 28 (14.89%) Git
4 16 (8.51%) JIRA
5 9 (4.79%) GitLab
6 4 (2.13%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.06%) Selenium
8 1 (0.53%) Appium
8 1 (0.53%) git-flow
8 1 (0.53%) JMeter
8 1 (0.53%) Locust
8 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.53%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.53%) Snyk
8 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 51 (27.13%) Finance
2 20 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.79%) Law
4 6 (3.19%) Banking
4 6 (3.19%) Retail
5 5 (2.66%) Back Office
5 5 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.66%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Military
9 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.49%) RESTful
2 18 (9.57%) JSON
3 17 (9.04%) SOAP
3 17 (9.04%) XML
4 16 (8.51%) OAuth
4 16 (8.51%) SAML
5 14 (7.45%) OAuth2
6 12 (6.38%) Node.js
7 5 (2.66%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.66%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (2.13%) Kafka
8 4 (2.13%) React
8 4 (2.13%) Vue
9 2 (1.06%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.06%) CSS
9 2 (1.06%) HTML
9 2 (1.06%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.06%) Nuxt
9 2 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (29.26%) Cloud Native
2 31 (16.49%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.79%) Driving Licence
3 9 (4.79%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.19%) Blog
5 6 (3.19%) CMDB
6 4 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 43 (22.87%) Windows
2 32 (17.02%) Linux
3 19 (10.11%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.79%) VMS
5 5 (2.66%) Debian
6 2 (1.06%) CentOS
6 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (59.57%) DevOps
2 103 (54.79%) CI/CD
3 78 (41.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (31.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 54 (28.72%) Agile
6 42 (22.34%) Cloud Security
6 42 (22.34%) Coaching
7 38 (20.21%) Asset Management
7 38 (20.21%) Test Automation
8 35 (18.62%) Mentoring
9 34 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (18.09%) ERP
10 33 (17.55%) API Integration
10 33 (17.55%) Identity Access Management
10 33 (17.55%) Migration
11 32 (17.02%) Analytics
12 31 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (15.96%) Observability
14 28 (14.89%) RBAC
15 23 (12.23%) AI
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.30%) Python
2 53 (28.19%) SQL
3 42 (22.34%) PowerShell
4 35 (18.62%) Java
5 31 (16.49%) PL/SQL
5 31 (16.49%) Shell Script
6 23 (12.23%) Bicep
7 20 (10.64%) Bash
8 7 (3.72%) Go
9 5 (2.66%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.06%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.70%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.64%) Azure Certification
4 17 (9.04%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.85%) Degree
6 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.06%) CISSP
8 2 (1.06%) RHCE
9 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CISM
9 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) MCSA
9 1 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (4.79%) PCI DSS
2 9 (4.79%) SOC 2
3 8 (4.26%) GDPR
4 7 (3.72%) GRC
4 7 (3.72%) NIST
5 5 (2.66%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 29 (15.43%) Active Directory
2 17 (9.04%) Docker
3 9 (4.79%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (3.72%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (2.66%) Kamailio
7 4 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (1.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 125 (66.49%) Terraform
2 53 (28.19%) Kubernetes
3 31 (16.49%) Single Sign-On
4 30 (15.96%) Ansible
5 13 (6.91%) Grafana
6 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (4.26%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.72%) Argo
9 4 (2.13%) Cilium
10 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.53%) Kibana
10 1 (0.53%) Puppet
10 1 (0.53%) Rancher
10 1 (0.53%) SCOM
10 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.49%) Oracle
3 18 (9.57%) Okta
4 7 (3.72%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.19%) Google
5 6 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.19%) SonicWALL
6 5 (2.66%) VMware
7 4 (2.13%) Foundry
7 4 (2.13%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.60%) Cisco
8 3 (1.60%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.06%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.06%) Databricks
9 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.06%) Talend
10 1 (0.53%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.53%) Splunk
10 1 (0.53%) Zscaler