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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 210 279
Rank change year-on-year +25 +69 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 221 211 351
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 1.58% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.70% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 164 166 311
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,495 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,637 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +4.55% -1.28%
75th Percentile £84,063 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -3.41%

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 16,775 12,438 31,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 92.93% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 12,095 9,104 24,978
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 April 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 April 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.

1 130 (58.82%) Azure
2 125 (56.56%) Terraform
3 107 (48.42%) DevOps
4 86 (38.91%) CI/CD
5 85 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 84 (38.01%) AWS
7 58 (26.24%) Agile
8 56 (25.34%) Kubernetes
9 55 (24.89%) Python
10 50 (22.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 48 (21.72%) Microsoft
12 45 (20.36%) Mentoring
12 45 (20.36%) Security Cleared
13 41 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
15 37 (16.74%) GitHub
16 36 (16.29%) SC Cleared
17 34 (15.38%) Containerisation
18 33 (14.93%) Roadmaps
19 32 (14.48%) Entra ID
20 31 (14.03%) Coaching
20 31 (14.03%) GCP
21 29 (13.12%) Docker
21 29 (13.12%) Java
22 28 (12.67%) Ansible
22 28 (12.67%) Bash
22 28 (12.67%) Cloud Security
23 27 (12.22%) Git
24 26 (11.76%) Linux
24 26 (11.76%) 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 8 (3.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 16 (7.24%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 130 (58.82%) Azure
2 84 (38.01%) AWS
3 38 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (16.74%) GitHub
5 32 (14.48%) Entra ID
6 31 (14.03%) GCP
7 25 (11.31%) IaaS
8 21 (9.50%) PaaS
9 18 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (7.69%) OCI
11 16 (7.24%) SaaS
11 16 (7.24%) Serverless
12 15 (6.79%) Azure AKS
13 14 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (4.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.95%) Firewall
2 15 (6.79%) DNS
3 10 (4.52%) VPN
4 9 (4.07%) Broadband
5 6 (2.71%) VoIP
6 5 (2.26%) DMZ
6 5 (2.26%) Network Security
6 5 (2.26%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.26%) STUN
6 5 (2.26%) VLAN
7 3 (1.36%) DHCP
7 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.90%) WAN
9 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.45%) SAN
9 1 (0.45%) Skype
9 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (4.98%) Relational Database
2 10 (4.52%) Power BI
3 9 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.07%) RDBMS
4 8 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (3.62%) Tableau
5 6 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (12.22%) Git
2 21 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.24%) GitLab
3 16 (7.24%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.07%) Jaeger
4 9 (4.07%) JIRA
5 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) git-flow
6 1 (0.45%) JMeter
6 1 (0.45%) Locust
6 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) Subversion
6 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (12.67%) Finance
2 27 (12.22%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.07%) Billing
4 9 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.81%) Military
8 3 (1.36%) Advertising
8 3 (1.36%) Banking
8 3 (1.36%) Retail
9 2 (0.90%) Law
9 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Back Office
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.24%) RESTful
2 10 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (4.07%) JSON
3 9 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.62%) OAuth
4 8 (3.62%) OAuth2
4 8 (3.62%) SAML
4 8 (3.62%) SOAP
4 8 (3.62%) XML
5 7 (3.17%) Loki
6 6 (2.71%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.71%) Node.js
7 5 (2.26%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.81%) YAML
9 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.90%) CSS
9 2 (0.90%) HTML
9 2 (0.90%) Kafka
9 2 (0.90%) React
9 2 (0.90%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.03%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.24%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.36%) Blog
7 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
8 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.45%) Clustering
9 1 (0.45%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.45%) IoT
9 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.76%) Linux
2 15 (6.79%) Windows
3 14 (6.33%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.98%) Unix
5 5 (2.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (48.42%) DevOps
2 86 (38.91%) CI/CD
3 85 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (26.24%) Agile
5 50 (22.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 45 (20.36%) Mentoring
7 41 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 33 (14.93%) Roadmaps
10 31 (14.03%) Coaching
11 28 (12.67%) Cloud Security
12 26 (11.76%) Observability
13 25 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (10.41%) High Availability
16 21 (9.50%) Analytics
17 19 (8.60%) Test Automation
18 18 (8.14%) RBAC
19 17 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
20 16 (7.24%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (24.89%) Python
2 29 (13.12%) Java
3 28 (12.67%) Bash
4 26 (11.76%) SQL
5 19 (8.60%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.24%) Go
6 16 (7.24%) PL/SQL
6 16 (7.24%) Shell Script
7 15 (6.79%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.52%) Bicep
9 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.90%) C#
10 2 (0.90%) Ruby
11 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.79%) AWS Certification
3 15 (6.79%) Degree
4 14 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.71%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) IISP
9 1 (0.45%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.62%) NIST
2 5 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.26%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.36%) GDPR
3 3 (1.36%) GRC
3 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 29 (13.12%) Docker
2 20 (9.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 125 (56.56%) Terraform
2 56 (25.34%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.67%) Ansible
4 19 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 17 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (7.24%) Argo
7 11 (4.98%) Grafana
8 9 (4.07%) Kustomize
9 7 (3.17%) Puppet
10 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.45%) Cilium
11 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.45%) Kibana
11 1 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (21.72%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.24%) Oracle
3 11 (4.98%) Google
4 8 (3.62%) Okta
5 5 (2.26%) Cisco
6 4 (1.81%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.81%) VMware
7 3 (1.36%) Citrix
8 2 (0.90%) Apple
8 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.45%) Databricks
9 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.45%) Foundry
9 1 (0.45%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.45%) TIBCO