Hybrid/Remote Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £63,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 214 207
Rank change year-on-year +33 -7 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 209 250 322
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.38% 1.50% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.56% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 147 166 286
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -2.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,875 £96,539
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -2.67%

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 14,199 16,000 20,145
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 96.14% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,188 9,719 16,436
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,344 £46,250 £45,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +2.01% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,288 £97,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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.

1 157 (75.12%) Azure
2 145 (69.38%) Terraform
3 124 (59.33%) DevOps
4 107 (51.20%) CI/CD
5 84 (40.19%) Python
6 83 (39.71%) AWS
7 82 (39.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 73 (34.93%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (33.97%) GitHub
10 69 (33.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 67 (32.06%) Agile
12 61 (29.19%) Kubernetes
13 56 (26.79%) SQL
14 55 (26.32%) Coaching
14 55 (26.32%) Jenkins
15 54 (25.84%) Microsoft
16 47 (22.49%) Mentoring
17 45 (21.53%) Windows
18 44 (21.05%) Asset Management
18 44 (21.05%) Java
19 42 (20.10%) PowerShell
19 42 (20.10%) Test Automation
20 39 (18.66%) API Integration
20 39 (18.66%) Cloud Security
21 38 (18.18%) ERP
21 38 (18.18%) OCI
22 37 (17.70%) Linux
22 37 (17.70%) Observability
22 37 (17.70%) Oracle
22 37 (17.70%) Oracle ERP

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 17 (8.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.87%) IIS
3 4 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (17.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 157 (75.12%) Azure
2 83 (39.71%) AWS
3 73 (34.93%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (33.97%) GitHub
5 38 (18.18%) OCI
6 35 (16.75%) Entra ID
7 25 (11.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (11.00%) IaaS
10 22 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (10.05%) GCP
11 21 (10.05%) PaaS
12 20 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (9.09%) Azure AKS
13 19 (9.09%) Power Platform
14 18 (8.61%) SaaS
15 17 (8.13%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (7.66%) Serverless
17 15 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.31%) Firewall
2 23 (11.00%) VPN
3 20 (9.57%) DNS
4 9 (4.31%) WAN
5 8 (3.83%) Network Security
6 7 (3.35%) SSL
7 6 (2.87%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.39%) DMZ
8 5 (2.39%) STUN
8 5 (2.39%) VLAN
8 5 (2.39%) VoIP
9 4 (1.91%) DHCP
9 4 (1.91%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.44%) Broadband
11 2 (0.96%) HTTP
11 2 (0.96%) LAN
11 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.09%) Power BI
2 17 (8.13%) Tableau
3 7 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (2.39%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.39%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.91%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.44%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.70%) Oracle Forms
3 36 (17.22%) Git
4 18 (8.61%) JIRA
5 15 (7.18%) GitLab
6 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.44%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.96%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Appium
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) Locust
9 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.48%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.48%) Snyk
9 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 55 (26.32%) Finance
2 24 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.35%) Law
5 6 (2.87%) Banking
5 6 (2.87%) Retail
6 5 (2.39%) Back Office
6 5 (2.39%) Billing
6 5 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.91%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.48%) Electronics
8 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.48%) Marketing
8 1 (0.48%) Military
8 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.70%) RESTful
2 21 (10.05%) JSON
3 20 (9.57%) SOAP
3 20 (9.57%) XML
4 18 (8.61%) OAuth
4 18 (8.61%) SAML
5 17 (8.13%) OAuth2
6 11 (5.26%) Node.js
7 5 (2.39%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (2.39%) Loki
8 4 (1.91%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.91%) Kafka
8 4 (1.91%) React
8 4 (1.91%) Vue
9 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.96%) Hugging Face
10 2 (0.96%) Nuxt
10 2 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (29.19%) Cloud Native
2 37 (17.70%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.31%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.87%) Blog
5 6 (2.87%) CMDB
5 6 (2.87%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.44%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.53%) Windows
2 37 (17.70%) Linux
3 25 (11.96%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.35%) VMS
5 5 (2.39%) Debian
5 5 (2.39%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (59.33%) DevOps
2 107 (51.20%) CI/CD
3 82 (39.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (33.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 67 (32.06%) Agile
6 55 (26.32%) Coaching
7 47 (22.49%) Mentoring
8 44 (21.05%) Asset Management
9 42 (20.10%) Test Automation
10 39 (18.66%) API Integration
10 39 (18.66%) Cloud Security
11 38 (18.18%) ERP
12 37 (17.70%) Observability
13 36 (17.22%) Migration
13 36 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (16.75%) Identity Access Management
15 33 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (15.79%) RBAC
16 32 (15.31%) Analytics
17 25 (11.96%) AI
Programming Languages
1 84 (40.19%) Python
2 56 (26.79%) SQL
3 44 (21.05%) Java
4 42 (20.10%) PowerShell
5 37 (17.70%) PL/SQL
5 37 (17.70%) Shell Script
6 27 (12.92%) Bash
7 23 (11.00%) Bicep
8 9 (4.31%) Go
9 7 (3.35%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.92%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.05%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.61%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.18%) Degree
6 4 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (0.96%) CISSP
7 2 (0.96%) RHCE
8 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CISM
8 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.78%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.31%) SOC 2
4 8 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (3.35%) GRC
6 6 (2.87%) GDPR
6 6 (2.87%) NIST
7 5 (2.39%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 29 (13.88%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.05%) Docker
3 9 (4.31%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (3.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.39%) Kamailio
6 4 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.96%) Firmware
8 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 145 (69.38%) Terraform
2 61 (29.19%) Kubernetes
3 37 (17.70%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (13.88%) Ansible
5 18 (8.61%) Grafana
6 15 (7.18%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.78%) Argo
8 9 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.91%) Cilium
10 3 (1.44%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.48%) Kibana
11 1 (0.48%) Puppet
11 1 (0.48%) Rancher
11 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 54 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.70%) Oracle
3 21 (10.05%) Okta
4 8 (3.83%) Google
5 6 (2.87%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.87%) SonicWALL
6 4 (1.91%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.44%) Foundry
7 3 (1.44%) VMware
8 2 (0.96%) Cisco
8 2 (0.96%) Databricks
8 2 (0.96%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.96%) Talend
9 1 (0.48%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.48%) New Relic
9 1 (0.48%) Splunk
9 1 (0.48%) Zscaler