Hybrid/Remote Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 239 194
Rank change year-on-year -51 -45 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 140 312 415
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.86% 1.34% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.39% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 90 195 339
10th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -3.70%

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 15,056 22,468 23,975
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 96.27% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,997 14,462 19,872
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,541 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Engineer job vacancies

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 17 September 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 17 September 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.

1 118 (84.29%) Azure
2 89 (63.57%) Terraform
3 83 (59.29%) DevOps
4 72 (51.43%) CI/CD
5 64 (45.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (41.43%) Microsoft
7 50 (35.71%) Python
8 49 (35.00%) Windows
8 49 (35.00%) AWS
9 43 (30.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 39 (27.86%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (27.86%) Cloud Security
10 39 (27.86%) Linux
11 36 (25.71%) Kubernetes
12 33 (23.57%) Ansible
13 32 (22.86%) PowerShell
14 30 (21.43%) SQL
14 30 (21.43%) Active Directory
15 29 (20.71%) GitHub
16 28 (20.00%) Jenkins
17 26 (18.57%) Cloud Native
17 26 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (17.86%) Agile
19 24 (17.14%) Finance
20 23 (16.43%) Social Skills
21 22 (15.71%) Azure Certification
21 22 (15.71%) Windows Server
21 22 (15.71%) Firewall
22 21 (15.00%) Test Automation
23 20 (14.29%) Microsoft 365

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 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.00%) IIS
3 6 (4.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.71%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 118 (84.29%) Azure
2 49 (35.00%) AWS
3 39 (27.86%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (20.71%) GitHub
5 20 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (11.43%) GCP
6 16 (11.43%) PaaS
7 14 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 14 (10.00%) IaaS
7 14 (10.00%) Serverless
8 13 (9.29%) SaaS
9 12 (8.57%) OCI
10 11 (7.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (7.86%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (7.14%) Azure AKS
11 10 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.71%) Firewall
2 20 (14.29%) VPN
3 11 (7.86%) WAN
4 8 (5.71%) DNS
4 8 (5.71%) VLAN
5 7 (5.00%) SSL
6 6 (4.29%) SD-WAN
7 5 (3.57%) DMZ
7 5 (3.57%) STUN
7 5 (3.57%) VoIP
8 4 (2.86%) DHCP
8 4 (2.86%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.14%) HTTPS
9 3 (2.14%) LAN
9 3 (2.14%) Network Security
9 3 (2.14%) SAN
9 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.43%) MQTT
10 2 (1.43%) Multicast
10 2 (1.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.29%) Power BI
2 6 (4.29%) Tableau
3 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.43%) DB2
6 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
6 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.43%) Git
3 12 (8.57%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (5.00%) JIRA
5 5 (3.57%) GitLab
6 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) Appium
7 1 (0.71%) Selenium
7 1 (0.71%) Snyk
General
1 24 (17.14%) Finance
2 23 (16.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.43%) Law
4 8 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Banking
7 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.14%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Back Office
9 1 (0.71%) Electronics
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.00%) RESTful
2 10 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 9 (6.43%) Node.js
4 8 (5.71%) OAuth
4 8 (5.71%) SAML
5 6 (4.29%) JSON
5 6 (4.29%) OAuth2
5 6 (4.29%) SOAP
5 6 (4.29%) XML
6 5 (3.57%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.43%) .NET
8 2 (1.43%) gRPC
8 2 (1.43%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.43%) Kafka
8 2 (1.43%) Nuxt
8 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.43%) React
8 2 (1.43%) Vue
8 2 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.29%) Public Cloud
3 12 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.57%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.86%) CMDB
8 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.14%) IoT
9 3 (2.14%) PKI
9 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.43%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (35.00%) Windows
2 39 (27.86%) Linux
3 22 (15.71%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.29%) VMS
5 5 (3.57%) Debian
5 5 (3.57%) Unix
6 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.43%) CentOS
7 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (59.29%) DevOps
2 72 (51.43%) CI/CD
3 64 (45.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (30.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (27.86%) Cloud Security
6 26 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (17.86%) Agile
8 21 (15.00%) Test Automation
9 20 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 19 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (13.57%) Migration
11 18 (12.86%) Infrastructure Automation
12 16 (11.43%) Analytics
12 16 (11.43%) Asset Management
12 16 (11.43%) Cloud Operations
12 16 (11.43%) Coaching
13 15 (10.71%) ERP
13 15 (10.71%) High Availability
13 15 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
14 14 (10.00%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 50 (35.71%) Python
2 32 (22.86%) PowerShell
3 30 (21.43%) SQL
4 16 (11.43%) Bicep
5 15 (10.71%) Bash
5 15 (10.71%) Java
6 12 (8.57%) PL/SQL
6 12 (8.57%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.86%) Go
9 2 (1.43%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.43%) R
10 1 (0.71%) C#
10 1 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (15.71%) Azure Certification
2 13 (9.29%) AWS Certification
2 13 (9.29%) Degree
3 11 (7.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.57%) CCNA
7 3 (2.14%) CISSP
7 3 (2.14%) MCSA
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.43%) RHCE
9 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.71%) CCNP
9 1 (0.71%) CISM
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.29%) GDPR
3 5 (3.57%) ISO 9001
3 5 (3.57%) NIST
4 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.14%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.43%) QA
6 1 (0.71%) GRC
System Software
1 30 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.57%) Docker
3 7 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.57%) Kamailio
5 5 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.71%) KVM
8 1 (0.71%) vSphere
8 1 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 89 (63.57%) Terraform
2 36 (25.71%) Kubernetes
3 33 (23.57%) Ansible
4 12 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (5.00%) Grafana
7 5 (3.57%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.14%) Puppet
8 3 (2.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.71%) Argo
9 1 (0.71%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.71%) SCOM
9 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) Oracle
3 9 (6.43%) VMware
4 6 (4.29%) Cisco
4 6 (4.29%) Okta
4 6 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.57%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.86%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.86%) SonicWALL
7 3 (2.14%) Foundry
7 3 (2.14%) Google
8 2 (1.43%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.43%) IBM
8 2 (1.43%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.43%) Thales
9 1 (0.71%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.71%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.71%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.71%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds