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 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 210 282
Rank change year-on-year +19 +72 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 226 209 346
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 1.55% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.69% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 168 164 305
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,200
25th Percentile £55,938 £46,985 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,637 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +4.55% -3.41%
75th Percentile £81,250 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £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 16,912 12,375 31,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 91.71% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,212 9,033 24,964
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,335 £33,000
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 £103,750 £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 26 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 26 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 (57.52%) Azure
2 124 (54.87%) Terraform
3 106 (46.90%) DevOps
4 84 (37.17%) AWS
4 84 (37.17%) CI/CD
5 83 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (24.78%) Agile
6 56 (24.78%) Kubernetes
7 55 (24.34%) Python
8 50 (22.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 47 (20.80%) Microsoft
10 46 (20.35%) Security Cleared
11 44 (19.47%) Mentoring
12 41 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (16.37%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (15.93%) GitHub
14 36 (15.93%) SC Cleared
15 34 (15.04%) Containerisation
16 33 (14.60%) GCP
16 33 (14.60%) Roadmaps
17 32 (14.16%) Entra ID
18 31 (13.72%) Coaching
19 29 (12.83%) Docker
19 29 (12.83%) Java
20 28 (12.39%) Ansible
20 28 (12.39%) Cloud Security
21 27 (11.95%) Bash
22 26 (11.50%) Git
22 26 (11.50%) Linux
22 26 (11.50%) SQL

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 (3.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 16 (7.08%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.44%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 130 (57.52%) Azure
2 84 (37.17%) AWS
3 37 (16.37%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (15.93%) GitHub
5 33 (14.60%) GCP
6 32 (14.16%) Entra ID
7 24 (10.62%) IaaS
8 20 (8.85%) PaaS
9 18 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (7.52%) OCI
11 15 (6.64%) Azure AKS
11 15 (6.64%) SaaS
11 15 (6.64%) Serverless
12 14 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.42%) Power Platform
16 9 (3.98%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.73%) Firewall
2 16 (7.08%) DNS
3 11 (4.87%) VPN
4 9 (3.98%) Broadband
5 6 (2.65%) VoIP
6 5 (2.21%) DMZ
6 5 (2.21%) Network Security
6 5 (2.21%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.21%) STUN
6 5 (2.21%) VLAN
7 3 (1.33%) DHCP
7 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.88%) WAN
9 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.44%) SAN
9 1 (0.44%) Skype
9 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (4.87%) Relational Database
2 10 (4.42%) Power BI
3 9 (3.98%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.98%) RDBMS
4 8 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (3.54%) Tableau
5 6 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.21%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (11.50%) Git
2 21 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.08%) GitLab
3 16 (7.08%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (3.98%) Jaeger
4 9 (3.98%) JIRA
5 5 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) git-flow
6 1 (0.44%) JMeter
6 1 (0.44%) Locust
6 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.44%) Selenium
6 1 (0.44%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.44%) Subversion
6 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (12.39%) Finance
1 28 (12.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (3.98%) Billing
3 9 (3.98%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.77%) Military
7 3 (1.33%) Advertising
7 3 (1.33%) Banking
7 3 (1.33%) Retail
8 2 (0.88%) Law
8 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.44%) Back Office
9 1 (0.44%) Electronics
9 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.44%) Publishing
9 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.08%) RESTful
2 10 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.98%) JSON
3 9 (3.98%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.54%) OAuth
4 8 (3.54%) OAuth2
4 8 (3.54%) SAML
4 8 (3.54%) SOAP
4 8 (3.54%) XML
5 7 (3.10%) Loki
6 6 (2.65%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.65%) Node.js
7 5 (2.21%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.77%) YAML
9 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.88%) CSS
9 2 (0.88%) HTML
9 2 (0.88%) Kafka
9 2 (0.88%) React
9 2 (0.88%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.72%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.21%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.21%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.33%) Blog
7 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.88%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.88%) PKI
8 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.44%) Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) IoT
9 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.50%) Linux
2 15 (6.64%) Windows
3 14 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.87%) Unix
5 5 (2.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (46.90%) DevOps
2 84 (37.17%) CI/CD
3 83 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (24.78%) Agile
5 50 (22.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 44 (19.47%) Mentoring
7 41 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (15.04%) Containerisation
9 33 (14.60%) Roadmaps
10 31 (13.72%) Coaching
11 28 (12.39%) Cloud Security
12 25 (11.06%) Observability
12 25 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (10.18%) High Availability
14 22 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (9.29%) Analytics
16 19 (8.41%) Test Automation
17 18 (7.96%) RBAC
18 17 (7.52%) Root Cause Analysis
19 16 (7.08%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (24.34%) Python
2 29 (12.83%) Java
3 27 (11.95%) Bash
4 26 (11.50%) SQL
5 18 (7.96%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.08%) Go
6 16 (7.08%) PL/SQL
6 16 (7.08%) Shell Script
7 15 (6.64%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.42%) Bicep
9 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.88%) C#
10 2 (0.88%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.64%) AWS Certification
3 15 (6.64%) Degree
4 14 (6.19%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.65%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.44%) IISP
9 1 (0.44%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.10%) NIST
2 5 (2.21%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.33%) GRC
4 3 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 29 (12.83%) Docker
2 20 (8.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 124 (54.87%) Terraform
2 56 (24.78%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.39%) Ansible
4 19 (8.41%) Prometheus
5 17 (7.52%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (7.08%) Argo
7 11 (4.87%) Grafana
8 9 (3.98%) Kustomize
9 7 (3.10%) Puppet
10 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.44%) Cilium
11 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.44%) Kibana
11 1 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 47 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.08%) Oracle
3 11 (4.87%) Google
4 8 (3.54%) Okta
5 5 (2.21%) Cisco
5 5 (2.21%) VMware
6 4 (1.77%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.33%) Citrix
8 2 (0.88%) Apple
8 2 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.44%) Databricks
9 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.44%) Foundry
9 1 (0.44%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.44%) New Relic
9 1 (0.44%) SAP
9 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.44%) TIBCO