Hybrid/Remote Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 212 206
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 172 304 355
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 1.53% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.58% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 114 193 297
10th Percentile £39,163 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,775 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.67%

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 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 15,030 19,200 21,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 96.66% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,036 11,975 17,333
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,265 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -4.00% +1.08%
75th Percentile £77,063 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025, 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.

1 140 (81.40%) Azure
2 113 (65.70%) Terraform
3 104 (60.47%) DevOps
4 92 (53.49%) CI/CD
5 78 (45.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (38.95%) AWS
7 63 (36.63%) Python
8 60 (34.88%) Microsoft
9 57 (33.14%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (32.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 53 (30.81%) GitHub
12 48 (27.91%) Kubernetes
13 44 (25.58%) SQL
14 43 (25.00%) Windows
15 42 (24.42%) Jenkins
16 41 (23.84%) Agile
16 41 (23.84%) PowerShell
17 39 (22.67%) Cloud Security
18 33 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
19 32 (18.60%) Linux
20 31 (18.02%) Firewall
21 30 (17.44%) Asset Management
21 30 (17.44%) Test Automation
22 29 (16.86%) Ansible
22 29 (16.86%) Coaching
23 28 (16.28%) Active Directory
24 27 (15.70%) Identity Access Management
24 27 (15.70%) Migration
25 26 (15.12%) AWS CloudFormation
25 26 (15.12%) 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 10 (5.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.49%) IIS
3 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (13.37%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 140 (81.40%) Azure
2 67 (38.95%) AWS
3 57 (33.14%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (30.81%) GitHub
5 26 (15.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (14.53%) Entra ID
7 23 (13.37%) OCI
8 21 (12.21%) PaaS
9 20 (11.63%) IaaS
10 19 (11.05%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (11.05%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (11.05%) GCP
10 19 (11.05%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (11.05%) SaaS
10 19 (11.05%) Serverless
11 18 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (8.14%) Azure AKS
14 13 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (6.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 31 (18.02%) Firewall
2 22 (12.79%) VPN
3 9 (5.23%) SSL
3 9 (5.23%) WAN
4 8 (4.65%) DNS
4 8 (4.65%) Network Security
5 6 (3.49%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.91%) DMZ
6 5 (2.91%) STUN
6 5 (2.91%) VLAN
6 5 (2.91%) VoIP
7 4 (2.33%) DHCP
8 3 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.16%) Broadband
9 2 (1.16%) HTTP
9 2 (1.16%) LAN
9 2 (1.16%) SSH
9 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.81%) Power BI
1 10 (5.81%) Tableau
2 5 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.74%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.58%) MySQL
5 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (24.42%) Jenkins
2 23 (13.37%) Oracle Forms
3 18 (10.47%) Git
4 11 (6.40%) JIRA
5 4 (2.33%) GitLab
6 3 (1.74%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.58%) Appium
7 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.58%) Selenium
7 1 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 41 (23.84%) Finance
2 20 (11.63%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.65%) Law
4 6 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.33%) Back Office
6 4 (2.33%) Banking
6 4 (2.33%) Retail
6 4 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.74%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.74%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.53%) RESTful
2 14 (8.14%) JSON
3 13 (7.56%) SOAP
3 13 (7.56%) XML
4 12 (6.98%) Node.js
4 12 (6.98%) OAuth
4 12 (6.98%) SAML
5 10 (5.81%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.91%) FreeSWITCH
7 4 (2.33%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.74%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.16%) .NET
9 2 (1.16%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.16%) Kafka
9 2 (1.16%) Nuxt
9 2 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.16%) React
9 2 (1.16%) Vue
9 2 (1.16%) Web Services
9 2 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.37%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (6.40%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.23%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.49%) CMDB
5 6 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.33%) Blog
8 3 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.74%) PKI
8 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.16%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.00%) Windows
2 32 (18.60%) Linux
3 18 (10.47%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.23%) VMS
5 5 (2.91%) Debian
6 2 (1.16%) CentOS
6 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (60.47%) DevOps
2 92 (53.49%) CI/CD
3 78 (45.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (32.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (23.84%) Agile
6 39 (22.67%) Cloud Security
7 33 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (17.44%) Asset Management
8 30 (17.44%) Test Automation
9 29 (16.86%) Coaching
10 27 (15.70%) Identity Access Management
10 27 (15.70%) Migration
11 26 (15.12%) ERP
12 25 (14.53%) API Integration
12 25 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (13.95%) Analytics
13 24 (13.95%) Mentoring
14 23 (13.37%) Observability
14 23 (13.37%) RBAC
15 20 (11.63%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.63%) Python
2 44 (25.58%) SQL
3 41 (23.84%) PowerShell
4 25 (14.53%) Java
5 23 (13.37%) PL/SQL
5 23 (13.37%) Shell Script
6 22 (12.79%) Bicep
7 20 (11.63%) Bash
8 6 (3.49%) Go
9 4 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.58%) C#
10 1 (0.58%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (13.37%) Azure Certification
2 17 (9.88%) AWS Certification
2 17 (9.88%) SC Cleared
2 17 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.23%) Degree
4 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.74%) MCSA
6 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.16%) CISSP
6 2 (1.16%) RHCE
7 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CISM
7 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) MCSE
7 1 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.23%) PCI DSS
3 8 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (4.65%) NIST
4 7 (4.07%) GDPR
4 7 (4.07%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.91%) GRC
5 5 (2.91%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 28 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.40%) Docker
3 9 (5.23%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (4.07%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (2.91%) Kamailio
6 5 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.74%) Firmware
9 1 (0.58%) KVM
9 1 (0.58%) Xen
Systems Management
1 113 (65.70%) Terraform
2 48 (27.91%) Kubernetes
3 29 (16.86%) Ansible
4 23 (13.37%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (5.81%) Grafana
5 10 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.91%) Argo
6 5 (2.91%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.74%) Cilium
8 1 (0.58%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.58%) Kibana
8 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.58%) Puppet
8 1 (0.58%) SCOM
8 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.53%) Oracle
3 14 (8.14%) Okta
4 6 (3.49%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.49%) SonicWALL
4 6 (3.49%) VMware
5 5 (2.91%) Google
5 5 (2.91%) PagerDuty
5 5 (2.91%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.33%) Foundry
7 3 (1.74%) Cisco
7 3 (1.74%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.16%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.16%) Databricks
8 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.16%) Talend
8 2 (1.16%) Thales
9 1 (0.58%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.58%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.58%) Zscaler