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 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 208 231
Rank change year-on-year +43 +23 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 234 250 367
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.44% 1.60% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.66% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 169 175 334
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,775 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,274 £63,891
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +3.73% -1.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £69,479 £66,350 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.72% +5.68% -5.99%

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 15,183 15,024 26,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 95.86% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,956 9,117 22,069
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £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 £78,968 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
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 11 February 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 11 February 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.

1 156 (66.67%) Azure
2 153 (65.38%) Terraform
3 132 (56.41%) DevOps
4 110 (47.01%) CI/CD
5 96 (41.03%) AWS
6 95 (40.60%) Python
7 93 (39.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 76 (32.48%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (32.05%) Agile
10 71 (30.34%) GitHub
10 71 (30.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 71 (30.34%) Kubernetes
11 57 (24.36%) Mentoring
11 57 (24.36%) Microsoft
12 56 (23.93%) Coaching
13 55 (23.50%) SQL
14 51 (21.79%) Jenkins
15 50 (21.37%) Java
16 44 (18.80%) Asset Management
17 42 (17.95%) PowerShell
18 41 (17.52%) Entra ID
18 41 (17.52%) Test Automation
19 40 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
20 39 (16.67%) API Integration
20 39 (16.67%) Cloud Security
20 39 (16.67%) Firewall
21 38 (16.24%) OCI
22 37 (15.81%) Bash
22 37 (15.81%) ERP
22 37 (15.81%) Oracle

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 17 (7.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.56%) IIS
3 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.43%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (15.81%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.43%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 156 (66.67%) Azure
2 96 (41.03%) AWS
3 76 (32.48%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (30.34%) GitHub
5 41 (17.52%) Entra ID
6 38 (16.24%) OCI
7 27 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (11.54%) IaaS
8 25 (10.68%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (10.68%) GCP
9 24 (10.26%) PaaS
10 23 (9.83%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (9.40%) Azure AKS
11 22 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (8.55%) Serverless
14 19 (8.12%) Power Platform
14 19 (8.12%) SaaS
15 17 (7.26%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.67%) Firewall
2 23 (9.83%) DNS
3 22 (9.40%) VPN
4 9 (3.85%) Broadband
4 9 (3.85%) Network Security
4 9 (3.85%) WAN
5 7 (2.99%) DHCP
6 6 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.56%) SSL
7 4 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.28%) DMZ
8 3 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.28%) STUN
8 3 (1.28%) VLAN
8 3 (1.28%) VoIP
9 2 (0.85%) LAN
10 1 (0.43%) DKIM
10 1 (0.43%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.12%) Power BI
2 17 (7.26%) Tableau
3 11 (4.70%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.85%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (21.79%) Jenkins
2 37 (15.81%) Oracle Forms
3 33 (14.10%) Git
4 18 (7.69%) JIRA
5 12 (5.13%) GitLab
6 9 (3.85%) Jaeger
7 4 (1.71%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.85%) Selenium
10 1 (0.43%) Appium
10 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.43%) git-flow
10 1 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) Locust
10 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.43%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 56 (23.93%) Finance
2 26 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.85%) Billing
4 9 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.56%) Banking
6 5 (2.14%) Retail
7 4 (1.71%) Back Office
7 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.71%) Law
8 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Military
9 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Publishing
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.81%) RESTful
2 22 (9.40%) JSON
3 20 (8.55%) SOAP
3 20 (8.55%) XML
4 17 (7.26%) OAuth
4 17 (7.26%) OAuth2
4 17 (7.26%) SAML
5 10 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (3.42%) Node.js
8 7 (2.99%) Loki
9 5 (2.14%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.71%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.71%) Kafka
10 4 (1.71%) React
10 4 (1.71%) Vue
11 3 (1.28%) FreeSWITCH
12 2 (0.85%) HTML
12 2 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (26.50%) Cloud Native
2 37 (15.81%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.56%) Blog
4 6 (2.56%) CMDB
5 5 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.71%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.38%) Windows
2 35 (14.96%) Linux
3 20 (8.55%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.70%) Unix
5 7 (2.99%) VMS
6 3 (1.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (56.41%) DevOps
2 110 (47.01%) CI/CD
3 93 (39.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (32.05%) Agile
5 71 (30.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (24.36%) Mentoring
7 56 (23.93%) Coaching
8 44 (18.80%) Asset Management
9 41 (17.52%) Test Automation
10 40 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (16.67%) API Integration
11 39 (16.67%) Cloud Security
12 37 (15.81%) ERP
13 36 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 36 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
13 36 (15.38%) Migration
13 36 (15.38%) Observability
14 34 (14.53%) RBAC
15 31 (13.25%) Analytics
16 30 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 95 (40.60%) Python
2 55 (23.50%) SQL
3 50 (21.37%) Java
4 42 (17.95%) PowerShell
5 37 (15.81%) Bash
5 37 (15.81%) PL/SQL
5 37 (15.81%) Shell Script
6 23 (9.83%) Bicep
7 17 (7.26%) Go
8 15 (6.41%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.28%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.97%) AWS Certification
3 27 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.83%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.26%) Degree
6 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (5.13%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.42%) NIST
2 8 (3.42%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.56%) GRC
4 5 (2.14%) GDPR
5 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 34 (14.53%) Docker
2 33 (14.10%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (2.99%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (65.38%) Terraform
2 71 (30.34%) Kubernetes
3 37 (15.81%) Single Sign-On
4 32 (13.68%) Ansible
5 22 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.12%) Grafana
7 16 (6.84%) Argo
8 9 (3.85%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.71%) Cilium
10 2 (0.85%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.43%) Kibana
11 1 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 57 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 37 (15.81%) Oracle
3 21 (8.97%) Okta
4 12 (5.13%) Google
5 6 (2.56%) SonicWALL
6 5 (2.14%) VMware
7 4 (1.71%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco
8 3 (1.28%) Citrix
9 2 (0.85%) Databricks
9 2 (0.85%) Foundry
9 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.85%) Talend
10 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.43%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.43%) New Relic
10 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.43%) Splunk
10 1 (0.43%) Zscaler