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 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 210 227
Rank change year-on-year +31 +17 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 234 248 359
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 1.59% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.67% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 170 172 328
10th Percentile £43,833 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,637 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +0.98% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £69,479 £66,425 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.60% +5.80% -5.99%

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 15,330 14,892 26,441
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.58% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,212 9,013 22,121
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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.

1 155 (66.24%) Azure
2 150 (64.10%) Terraform
3 132 (56.41%) DevOps
4 108 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 95 (40.60%) AWS
6 93 (39.74%) Python
7 92 (39.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (31.62%) Agile
8 74 (31.62%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (30.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 71 (30.34%) Kubernetes
10 68 (29.06%) GitHub
11 57 (24.36%) Microsoft
12 56 (23.93%) Mentoring
13 54 (23.08%) SQL
14 53 (22.65%) Coaching
15 48 (20.51%) Java
15 48 (20.51%) Jenkins
16 42 (17.95%) PowerShell
17 41 (17.52%) Asset Management
17 41 (17.52%) Entra ID
17 41 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
18 39 (16.67%) Firewall
18 39 (16.67%) Test Automation
19 38 (16.24%) Cloud Security
20 37 (15.81%) API Integration
20 37 (15.81%) Bash
20 37 (15.81%) Containerisation
21 36 (15.38%) Linux
21 36 (15.38%) Observability

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 16 (6.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.56%) IIS
3 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.43%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 35 (14.96%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.43%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 155 (66.24%) Azure
2 95 (40.60%) AWS
3 74 (31.62%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (29.06%) GitHub
5 41 (17.52%) Entra ID
6 36 (15.38%) OCI
7 28 (11.97%) IaaS
8 26 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (10.68%) GCP
10 24 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (10.26%) PaaS
11 22 (9.40%) Azure AKS
11 22 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (8.97%) Serverless
13 20 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (8.55%) SaaS
14 18 (7.69%) Power Platform
15 17 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (6.84%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.67%) Firewall
2 22 (9.40%) DNS
2 22 (9.40%) VPN
3 9 (3.85%) Broadband
3 9 (3.85%) Network Security
3 9 (3.85%) WAN
4 7 (2.99%) DHCP
5 6 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 6 (2.56%) SSL
6 4 (1.71%) DMZ
6 4 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (1.71%) STUN
6 4 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.71%) VLAN
6 4 (1.71%) VoIP
7 2 (0.85%) LAN
8 1 (0.43%) DKIM
8 1 (0.43%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.69%) Power BI
2 16 (6.84%) Tableau
3 11 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (4.70%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.71%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 48 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.96%) Oracle Forms
3 33 (14.10%) Git
4 17 (7.26%) JIRA
5 12 (5.13%) GitLab
6 9 (3.85%) Jaeger
7 4 (1.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.71%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.85%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) Appium
9 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.43%) git-flow
9 1 (0.43%) JMeter
9 1 (0.43%) Locust
9 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.43%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 53 (22.65%) Finance
2 29 (12.39%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.85%) Billing
4 9 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.56%) Banking
6 5 (2.14%) Retail
7 4 (1.71%) Back Office
7 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.71%) Law
7 4 (1.71%) Military
8 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Electronics
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Publishing
9 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.96%) RESTful
2 21 (8.97%) JSON
3 19 (8.12%) SOAP
3 19 (8.12%) XML
4 16 (6.84%) OAuth
4 16 (6.84%) OAuth2
4 16 (6.84%) SAML
5 10 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (3.42%) Node.js
8 7 (2.99%) Loki
9 6 (2.56%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.71%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.71%) FreeSWITCH
10 4 (1.71%) Kafka
10 4 (1.71%) React
10 4 (1.71%) Vue
11 2 (0.85%) CSS
11 2 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (26.07%) Cloud Native
2 35 (14.96%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.56%) Blog
4 6 (2.56%) CMDB
5 5 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.71%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.38%) Linux
1 36 (15.38%) Windows
2 21 (8.97%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.70%) Unix
4 6 (2.56%) VMS
5 4 (1.71%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (56.41%) DevOps
2 108 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 92 (39.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (31.62%) Agile
5 71 (30.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (23.93%) Mentoring
7 53 (22.65%) Coaching
8 41 (17.52%) Asset Management
8 41 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 38 (16.24%) Cloud Security
11 37 (15.81%) API Integration
11 37 (15.81%) Containerisation
12 36 (15.38%) Observability
13 35 (14.96%) ERP
13 35 (14.96%) Migration
14 34 (14.53%) Identity Access Management
15 32 (13.68%) Analytics
15 32 (13.68%) RBAC
16 30 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 93 (39.74%) Python
2 54 (23.08%) SQL
3 48 (20.51%) Java
4 42 (17.95%) PowerShell
5 37 (15.81%) Bash
6 35 (14.96%) PL/SQL
6 35 (14.96%) Shell Script
7 21 (8.97%) Bicep
8 17 (7.26%) Go
9 15 (6.41%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.85%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.54%) AWS Certification
3 26 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 24 (10.26%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.26%) Degree
6 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (5.13%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.42%) NIST
2 8 (3.42%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.56%) GRC
4 5 (2.14%) GDPR
5 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 35 (14.96%) Docker
2 34 (14.53%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (2.99%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 150 (64.10%) Terraform
2 71 (30.34%) Kubernetes
3 35 (14.96%) Single Sign-On
4 32 (13.68%) Ansible
5 22 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.69%) Grafana
7 16 (6.84%) Argo
8 9 (3.85%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.71%) Cilium
10 2 (0.85%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.43%) Kibana
11 1 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 57 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.96%) Oracle
3 20 (8.55%) Okta
4 12 (5.13%) Google
5 6 (2.56%) SonicWALL
6 5 (2.14%) VMware
7 4 (1.71%) Cisco
7 4 (1.71%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.28%) Citrix
8 3 (1.28%) Databricks
8 3 (1.28%) Foundry
9 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.85%) Talend
10 1 (0.43%) Apple
10 1 (0.43%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.43%) New Relic
10 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.43%) Splunk
10 1 (0.43%) TIBCO