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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 201 262
Rank change year-on-year +12 +61 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 215 244 344
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 1.69% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.78% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 160 182 310
10th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £46,925
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,274 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +1.96% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -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 15,592 13,729 28,485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 94.98% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,489 9,019 23,804
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 8 March 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 March 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.

1 139 (64.65%) Azure
2 131 (60.93%) Terraform
3 116 (53.95%) DevOps
4 93 (43.26%) CI/CD
5 85 (39.53%) AWS
5 85 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (37.67%) Python
7 67 (31.16%) Agile
8 62 (28.84%) Azure DevOps
9 61 (28.37%) Kubernetes
10 60 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 57 (26.51%) GitHub
12 54 (25.12%) Mentoring
13 53 (24.65%) Microsoft
14 45 (20.93%) SQL
15 44 (20.47%) Coaching
16 42 (19.53%) Java
17 40 (18.60%) Jenkins
18 39 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
19 37 (17.21%) Entra ID
20 36 (16.74%) Bash
21 35 (16.28%) Cloud Security
22 34 (15.81%) Containerisation
23 33 (15.35%) Observability
23 33 (15.35%) PowerShell
23 33 (15.35%) Security Cleared
23 33 (15.35%) Test Automation
24 32 (14.88%) Asset Management
24 32 (14.88%) Firewall
25 31 (14.42%) Linux

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 13 (6.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.40%) IIS
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.47%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 29 (13.49%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.47%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 139 (64.65%) Azure
2 85 (39.53%) AWS
3 62 (28.84%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (26.51%) GitHub
5 37 (17.21%) Entra ID
6 30 (13.95%) OCI
7 27 (12.56%) IaaS
8 23 (10.70%) PaaS
9 22 (10.23%) GCP
10 21 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (9.30%) SaaS
12 19 (8.84%) Azure AKS
12 19 (8.84%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (8.37%) Serverless
14 17 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (6.98%) Power Platform
16 13 (6.05%) GitHub Copilot
16 13 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.88%) Firewall
2 16 (7.44%) DNS
3 15 (6.98%) VPN
4 9 (4.19%) Broadband
4 9 (4.19%) Network Security
5 5 (2.33%) DMZ
5 5 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.33%) STUN
5 5 (2.33%) VLAN
5 5 (2.33%) VoIP
6 4 (1.86%) DHCP
6 4 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.86%) WAN
7 3 (1.40%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.40%) SSL
8 1 (0.47%) DKIM
8 1 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.98%) Power BI
2 13 (6.05%) Tableau
3 11 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.12%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.19%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.19%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.95%) Git
3 29 (13.49%) Oracle Forms
4 14 (6.51%) JIRA
5 12 (5.58%) GitLab
6 9 (4.19%) Jaeger
7 5 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.86%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.93%) Selenium
10 1 (0.47%) Appium
10 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
10 1 (0.47%) JMeter
10 1 (0.47%) Locust
10 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.47%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 44 (20.47%) Finance
2 30 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.19%) Billing
4 9 (4.19%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.79%) Banking
6 5 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.33%) Retail
7 4 (1.86%) Back Office
7 4 (1.86%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.86%) Military
8 2 (0.93%) Advertising
8 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Electronics
9 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Law
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
9 1 (0.47%) Publishing
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.49%) RESTful
2 18 (8.37%) JSON
3 16 (7.44%) SOAP
3 16 (7.44%) XML
4 13 (6.05%) OAuth
4 13 (6.05%) OAuth2
4 13 (6.05%) SAML
5 10 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (3.26%) Loki
8 6 (2.79%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.79%) Node.js
9 5 (2.33%) FreeSWITCH
10 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.93%) CSS
10 2 (0.93%) HTML
10 2 (0.93%) Kafka
10 2 (0.93%) React
10 2 (0.93%) WAMP
10 2 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.49%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.79%) Blog
5 5 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.86%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.40%) CMDB
7 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.42%) Linux
2 27 (12.56%) Windows
3 18 (8.37%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.12%) Unix
5 5 (2.33%) Debian
6 3 (1.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (53.95%) DevOps
2 93 (43.26%) CI/CD
3 85 (39.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (31.16%) Agile
5 60 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 54 (25.12%) Mentoring
7 44 (20.47%) Coaching
8 39 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (16.28%) Cloud Security
10 34 (15.81%) Containerisation
11 33 (15.35%) Observability
11 33 (15.35%) Test Automation
12 32 (14.88%) Asset Management
13 29 (13.49%) API Integration
13 29 (13.49%) ERP
14 27 (12.56%) Analytics
14 27 (12.56%) Identity Access Management
14 27 (12.56%) RBAC
15 26 (12.09%) Migration
16 25 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 81 (37.67%) Python
2 45 (20.93%) SQL
3 42 (19.53%) Java
4 36 (16.74%) Bash
5 33 (15.35%) PowerShell
6 29 (13.49%) PL/SQL
6 29 (13.49%) Shell Script
7 17 (7.91%) Bicep
7 17 (7.91%) Go
8 14 (6.51%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.93%) Ruby
9 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.70%) AWS Certification
3 23 (10.70%) Azure Certification
4 15 (6.98%) Degree
5 6 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.72%) NIST
3 6 (2.79%) GRC
3 6 (2.79%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 30 (13.95%) Docker
2 27 (12.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.86%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 131 (60.93%) Terraform
2 61 (28.37%) Kubernetes
3 30 (13.95%) Single Sign-On
4 27 (12.56%) Ansible
5 21 (9.77%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.44%) Argo
6 16 (7.44%) Grafana
7 9 (4.19%) Kustomize
8 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.86%) Cilium
10 2 (0.93%) Puppet
11 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.47%) Kibana
11 1 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 53 (24.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.49%) Oracle
3 17 (7.91%) Okta
4 12 (5.58%) Google
5 5 (2.33%) Cisco
5 5 (2.33%) VMware
6 4 (1.86%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.40%) Citrix
7 3 (1.40%) Databricks
7 3 (1.40%) SonicWALL
8 2 (0.93%) Foundry
8 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.93%) Talend
9 1 (0.47%) Apple
9 1 (0.47%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.47%) New Relic
9 1 (0.47%) SAP
9 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.47%) Splunk
9 1 (0.47%) TIBCO