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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 228 285
Rank change year-on-year +45 +57 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 237 197 348
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.30% 1.39% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.50% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 174 154 303
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,298 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,876 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.14% +12.00% -7.41%

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 17,091 13,102 31,137
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 92.13% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,478 8,944 24,903
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £33,127
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year - +6.54% -9.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,200
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -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 8 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 8 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.

1 128 (54.01%) Azure
2 120 (50.63%) Terraform
3 99 (41.77%) DevOps
4 82 (34.60%) AWS
5 81 (34.18%) CI/CD
6 78 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (23.63%) Security Cleared
8 54 (22.78%) Python
9 53 (22.36%) Kubernetes
10 52 (21.94%) Agile
11 44 (18.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 44 (18.57%) Microsoft
12 43 (18.14%) SC Cleared
13 41 (17.30%) Mentoring
14 40 (16.88%) GCP
14 40 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (14.77%) Containerisation
15 35 (14.77%) GitHub
16 34 (14.35%) Roadmaps
17 33 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
18 30 (12.66%) Ansible
19 29 (12.24%) Docker
20 28 (11.81%) Cloud Security
21 27 (11.39%) Coaching
21 27 (11.39%) Entra ID
21 27 (11.39%) Java
21 27 (11.39%) Linux
22 26 (10.97%) Git
23 25 (10.55%) Bash
23 25 (10.55%) 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 7 (2.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 14 (5.91%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.42%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 128 (54.01%) Azure
2 82 (34.60%) AWS
3 40 (16.88%) GCP
4 35 (14.77%) GitHub
5 33 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (11.39%) Entra ID
7 23 (9.70%) IaaS
8 19 (8.02%) PaaS
9 15 (6.33%) Azure AKS
9 15 (6.33%) OCI
10 14 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (5.06%) SaaS
13 11 (4.64%) Serverless
14 10 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
15 9 (3.80%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.44%) Firewall
2 17 (7.17%) DNS
3 11 (4.64%) VPN
4 10 (4.22%) Broadband
5 6 (2.53%) VoIP
6 5 (2.11%) DMZ
6 5 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.11%) STUN
6 5 (2.11%) VLAN
7 4 (1.69%) Network Security
8 3 (1.27%) DHCP
8 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.42%) SAN
9 1 (0.42%) Skype
9 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.42%) WAN
9 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (4.64%) Relational Database
2 9 (3.80%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.80%) Power BI
2 9 (3.80%) RDBMS
3 8 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (2.95%) Tableau
5 6 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.11%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (10.97%) Git
2 20 (8.44%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.75%) GitLab
4 14 (5.91%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (3.80%) Jaeger
6 8 (3.38%) JIRA
7 5 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.42%) git-flow
8 1 (0.42%) JMeter
8 1 (0.42%) Locust
8 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.42%) Selenium
8 1 (0.42%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.42%) Subversion
8 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (12.66%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.55%) Finance
3 18 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (4.22%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.80%) Billing
6 7 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Military
9 3 (1.27%) Advertising
9 3 (1.27%) Banking
9 3 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Law
10 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Electronics
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.91%) RESTful
2 10 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.38%) JSON
5 7 (2.95%) Loki
5 7 (2.95%) OAuth
5 7 (2.95%) OAuth2
5 7 (2.95%) SAML
5 7 (2.95%) SOAP
5 7 (2.95%) XML
6 6 (2.53%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.11%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.69%) YAML
9 3 (1.27%) Node.js
10 2 (0.84%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.84%) HTML
10 2 (0.84%) Kafka
10 2 (0.84%) React
10 2 (0.84%) Vue
10 2 (0.84%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.81%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
4 5 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.11%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.27%) Blog
5 3 (1.27%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.84%) PKI
6 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.42%) Clustering
7 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.42%) IoT
7 1 (0.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.39%) Linux
2 17 (7.17%) Windows
3 16 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.64%) Unix
5 5 (2.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (41.77%) DevOps
2 81 (34.18%) CI/CD
3 78 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (21.94%) Agile
5 44 (18.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (17.30%) Mentoring
7 40 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (14.77%) Containerisation
9 34 (14.35%) Roadmaps
10 28 (11.81%) Cloud Security
11 27 (11.39%) Coaching
12 25 (10.55%) Observability
13 24 (10.13%) High Availability
13 24 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (8.44%) Analytics
14 20 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (7.59%) RBAC
15 18 (7.59%) Test Automation
16 17 (7.17%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (22.78%) Python
2 27 (11.39%) Java
3 25 (10.55%) Bash
3 25 (10.55%) SQL
4 16 (6.75%) Go
4 16 (6.75%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.33%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.91%) PL/SQL
6 14 (5.91%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.38%) Bicep
8 3 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.84%) C#
9 2 (0.84%) Ruby
10 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (23.63%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.75%) AWS Certification
3 16 (6.75%) Azure Certification
3 16 (6.75%) Degree
4 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.53%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CCNA
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.42%) IISP
9 1 (0.42%) ISACA
9 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.53%) NIST
2 5 (2.11%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) GRC
5 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 29 (12.24%) Docker
2 19 (8.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.84%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 120 (50.63%) Terraform
2 53 (22.36%) Kubernetes
3 30 (12.66%) Ansible
4 19 (8.02%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.33%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (5.06%) Argo
7 11 (4.64%) Grafana
8 9 (3.80%) Kustomize
9 7 (2.95%) Puppet
10 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.42%) Cilium
11 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.91%) Oracle
3 10 (4.22%) Google
4 7 (2.95%) Okta
5 5 (2.11%) Cisco
5 5 (2.11%) VMware
6 3 (1.27%) Citrix
7 2 (0.84%) Apple
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.42%) Databricks
8 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.42%) Foundry
8 1 (0.42%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.42%) TIBCO