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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 253 297
Rank change year-on-year +65 +44 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 247 173 345
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 1.19% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.30% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 187 130 298
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £47,350
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,637 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +4.55% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -5.24%

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 17,728 13,355 31,272
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 92.03% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 8,223 24,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,035 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,401
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -9.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 23 May 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 May 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.

1 127 (51.42%) Azure
2 122 (49.39%) Terraform
3 96 (38.87%) DevOps
4 85 (34.41%) AWS
5 83 (33.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 79 (31.98%) CI/CD
7 60 (24.29%) Security Cleared
8 54 (21.86%) Kubernetes
9 51 (20.65%) Python
10 50 (20.24%) Agile
11 46 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 46 (18.62%) SC Cleared
12 43 (17.41%) Microsoft
13 41 (16.60%) GCP
14 40 (16.19%) Mentoring
15 37 (14.98%) Containerisation
15 37 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (14.57%) Roadmaps
17 31 (12.55%) Ansible
17 31 (12.55%) GitHub
18 30 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
18 30 (12.15%) Entra ID
19 28 (11.34%) Docker
19 28 (11.34%) Linux
20 27 (10.93%) Bash
20 27 (10.93%) Cloud Security
20 27 (10.93%) Observability
21 26 (10.53%) IaaS
22 25 (10.12%) High Availability
23 24 (9.72%) Platform Engineering

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 5 (2.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (4.05%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 127 (51.42%) Azure
2 85 (34.41%) AWS
3 41 (16.60%) GCP
4 31 (12.55%) GitHub
5 30 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (12.15%) Entra ID
6 26 (10.53%) IaaS
7 22 (8.91%) PaaS
8 16 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (5.67%) Azure AKS
11 12 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.45%) Pulumi
12 11 (4.45%) Serverless
12 11 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.50%) Firewall
2 19 (7.69%) DNS
3 11 (4.45%) Broadband
3 11 (4.45%) VPN
4 6 (2.43%) VoIP
5 5 (2.02%) DMZ
5 5 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.02%) STUN
5 5 (2.02%) VLAN
6 4 (1.62%) DHCP
7 3 (1.21%) Network Security
7 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.81%) SAN
8 2 (0.81%) WAN
9 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.40%) Skype
9 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.40%) Wireless
9 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.64%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.64%) RDBMS
2 9 (3.64%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (2.02%) Power BI
4 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.02%) Tableau
5 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (9.31%) Git
2 19 (7.69%) GitLab
2 19 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.05%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (3.64%) Jaeger
5 5 (2.02%) JIRA
5 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) Locust
6 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.40%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (11.74%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.69%) Finance
2 19 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (3.64%) Billing
3 9 (3.64%) Public Sector
4 6 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.21%) Advertising
5 3 (1.21%) Law
5 3 (1.21%) Military
6 2 (0.81%) Banking
6 2 (0.81%) Retail
7 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.40%) Legal
7 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (4.05%) RESTful
2 9 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (2.83%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.83%) Loki
4 6 (2.43%) JSON
5 5 (2.02%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.02%) OAuth
5 5 (2.02%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.02%) SAML
5 5 (2.02%) SOAP
5 5 (2.02%) XML
6 4 (1.62%) YAML
7 2 (0.81%) .NET
7 2 (0.81%) Middleware
7 2 (0.81%) Node.js
7 2 (0.81%) WAMP
8 1 (0.40%) PySpark
8 1 (0.40%) pytest
8 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.12%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.62%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.21%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.21%) PKI
7 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.81%) Blog
8 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.40%) IoT
9 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.34%) Linux
2 18 (7.29%) Windows
2 18 (7.29%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.45%) Unix
4 5 (2.02%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (38.87%) DevOps
2 83 (33.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 79 (31.98%) CI/CD
4 50 (20.24%) Agile
5 46 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (16.19%) Mentoring
7 37 (14.98%) Containerisation
7 37 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.57%) Roadmaps
9 27 (10.93%) Cloud Security
9 27 (10.93%) Observability
10 25 (10.12%) High Availability
11 24 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (9.31%) Coaching
12 23 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (6.88%) Infrastructure Automation
14 16 (6.48%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (6.48%) RBAC
14 16 (6.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.65%) Python
2 27 (10.93%) Bash
3 21 (8.50%) Java
3 21 (8.50%) SQL
4 20 (8.10%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.07%) Go
6 13 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.05%) PL/SQL
7 10 (4.05%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.83%) Bicep
9 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.81%) C#
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 60 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.88%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.07%) Degree
6 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.43%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CCNA
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CISM
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) IISP
11 1 (0.40%) ISACA
11 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.43%) NIST
2 4 (1.62%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.81%) GDPR
4 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 28 (11.34%) Docker
2 22 (8.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.81%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (49.39%) Terraform
2 54 (21.86%) Kubernetes
3 31 (12.55%) Ansible
4 19 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.26%) Argo
6 12 (4.86%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (4.45%) Grafana
8 9 (3.64%) Kustomize
9 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.43%) Puppet
10 1 (0.40%) Istio
10 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.40%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 43 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.05%) Oracle
3 9 (3.64%) Google
4 7 (2.83%) Cisco
4 7 (2.83%) VMware
5 5 (2.02%) Okta
6 3 (1.21%) Citrix
7 2 (0.81%) Apple
7 2 (0.81%) EMC
8 1 (0.40%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) Meraki
8 1 (0.40%) New Relic
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.40%) Sophos
8 1 (0.40%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.40%) Veeam