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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 282 274
Rank change year-on-year +80 -8 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 253 158 390
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 1.02% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.10% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 190 114 310
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,298 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -0.45% -3.41%
75th Percentile £76,875 £73,539 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,100 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -1.45%

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 19,113 14,337 33,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 92.14% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13,948 8,797 25,968
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,922
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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.

1 111 (43.87%) Azure
2 103 (40.71%) Terraform
3 98 (38.74%) AWS
4 90 (35.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (34.78%) DevOps
6 75 (29.64%) CI/CD
7 60 (23.72%) Kubernetes
8 56 (22.13%) Security Cleared
9 55 (21.74%) GCP
10 46 (18.18%) Python
11 44 (17.39%) Microsoft
12 43 (17.00%) SC Cleared
13 42 (16.60%) Containerisation
14 41 (16.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 36 (14.23%) Ansible
16 33 (13.04%) Cloud Security
17 32 (12.65%) Agile
18 31 (12.25%) Docker
19 30 (11.86%) Linux
20 29 (11.46%) IaaS
21 28 (11.07%) Platform Engineering
22 27 (10.67%) Bash
22 27 (10.67%) Mentoring
22 27 (10.67%) PowerShell
22 27 (10.67%) Roadmaps
23 26 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
23 26 (10.28%) Entra ID
23 26 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
24 24 (9.49%) High Availability
24 24 (9.49%) 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 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 111 (43.87%) Azure
2 98 (38.74%) AWS
3 55 (21.74%) GCP
4 29 (11.46%) IaaS
5 26 (10.28%) Entra ID
6 24 (9.49%) PaaS
7 23 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (7.91%) GitHub
9 19 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (7.11%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (6.72%) SaaS
12 15 (5.93%) Azure AKS
12 15 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (5.53%) Amazon S3
14 13 (5.14%) Pulumi
15 12 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.74%) Serverless
16 11 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.91%) Firewall
2 14 (5.53%) VPN
3 13 (5.14%) Broadband
4 12 (4.74%) DNS
5 6 (2.37%) VoIP
6 5 (1.98%) DHCP
6 5 (1.98%) DMZ
6 5 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (1.98%) STUN
6 5 (1.98%) VLAN
7 4 (1.58%) Network Security
8 3 (1.19%) SAN
8 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.19%) WAN
9 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.79%) Wireless
10 1 (0.40%) Skype
10 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (3.56%) NoSQL
1 9 (3.56%) RDBMS
1 9 (3.56%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.98%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.58%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (4.74%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.56%) Git
2 9 (3.56%) GitLab
2 9 (3.56%) Jaeger
3 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 34 (13.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (5.53%) Finance
4 10 (3.95%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.77%) Billing
7 5 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.98%) Law
8 3 (1.19%) Advertising
8 3 (1.19%) Banking
8 3 (1.19%) Military
8 3 (1.19%) Retail
9 2 (0.79%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Automotive
10 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (3.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (3.16%) ARM Templates
3 5 (1.98%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.58%) Loki
4 4 (1.58%) Node.js
4 4 (1.58%) YAML
5 3 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.79%) .NET
6 2 (0.79%) Middleware
6 2 (0.79%) WAMP
6 2 (0.79%) Web Services
7 1 (0.40%) JSON
7 1 (0.40%) PySpark
7 1 (0.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.37%) Driving Licence
4 5 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
4 5 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (1.98%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.58%) PKI
5 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.79%) Blog
7 2 (0.79%) Clustering
7 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.79%) Replication
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.86%) Linux
2 14 (5.53%) Windows
3 12 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.95%) Unix
5 5 (1.98%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 88 (34.78%) DevOps
3 75 (29.64%) CI/CD
4 42 (16.60%) Containerisation
5 41 (16.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (13.04%) Cloud Security
7 32 (12.65%) Agile
8 28 (11.07%) Platform Engineering
9 27 (10.67%) Mentoring
9 27 (10.67%) Roadmaps
10 26 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (9.49%) High Availability
11 24 (9.49%) Observability
12 18 (7.11%) Cloud Operations
13 17 (6.72%) Infrastructure Automation
14 15 (5.93%) AI
14 15 (5.93%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (5.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.18%) Python
2 27 (10.67%) Bash
2 27 (10.67%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.93%) SQL
4 14 (5.53%) Go
5 12 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.95%) Java
7 8 (3.16%) Bicep
8 3 (1.19%) C#
8 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.79%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.40%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.72%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.74%) Degree
6 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.77%) DBS Check
8 6 (2.37%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.79%) CISM
11 2 (0.79%) CISSP
11 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.40%) CCNA
12 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.40%) IISP
12 1 (0.40%) ISACA
12 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (2.77%) NIST
2 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.19%) GDPR
3 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 31 (12.25%) Docker
2 22 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.98%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.79%) vSphere
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (40.71%) Terraform
2 60 (23.72%) Kubernetes
3 36 (14.23%) Ansible
4 18 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.53%) Argo
6 11 (4.35%) Grafana
7 9 (3.56%) Kustomize
8 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.37%) Puppet
10 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.79%) Istio
11 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.79%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.40%) SCOM
Vendors
1 44 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.93%) Google
3 12 (4.74%) VMware
4 8 (3.16%) Cisco
5 5 (1.98%) Oracle
6 3 (1.19%) Citrix
6 3 (1.19%) EMC
7 2 (0.79%) Apple
7 2 (0.79%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.79%) Databricks
7 2 (0.79%) Meraki
7 2 (0.79%) Sophos
7 2 (0.79%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.79%) Veeam
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) New Relic
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Tenable