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 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 229 285
Rank change year-on-year +39 +56 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 239 203 349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.30% 1.44% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.56% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 174 161 304
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,150
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,231 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,250 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +0.74% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,876 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £70,000 £62,641
% change year-on-year +2.14% +11.75% -7.20%

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 17,159 13,009 31,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 92.09% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,506 9,042 24,888
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £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 £59,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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.

1 131 (54.81%) Azure
2 123 (51.46%) Terraform
3 103 (43.10%) DevOps
4 84 (35.15%) AWS
4 84 (35.15%) CI/CD
5 80 (33.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (23.43%) Python
7 55 (23.01%) Agile
8 52 (21.76%) Security Cleared
9 51 (21.34%) Kubernetes
10 47 (19.67%) Microsoft
11 44 (18.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 43 (17.99%) Mentoring
13 41 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (16.74%) GCP
14 40 (16.74%) SC Cleared
15 36 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
15 36 (15.06%) GitHub
16 34 (14.23%) Containerisation
16 34 (14.23%) Roadmaps
17 30 (12.55%) Coaching
17 30 (12.55%) Entra ID
18 29 (12.13%) Cloud Security
18 29 (12.13%) Docker
18 29 (12.13%) Java
19 28 (11.72%) Ansible
20 27 (11.30%) Linux
20 27 (11.30%) SQL
21 26 (10.88%) Bash
21 26 (10.88%) Git

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 (3.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 16 (6.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.42%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 131 (54.81%) Azure
2 84 (35.15%) AWS
3 40 (16.74%) GCP
4 36 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (15.06%) GitHub
5 30 (12.55%) Entra ID
6 24 (10.04%) IaaS
7 20 (8.37%) PaaS
8 17 (7.11%) OCI
9 16 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (6.28%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.86%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (5.86%) SaaS
12 13 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (5.44%) Serverless
13 10 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.18%) Power Platform
14 9 (3.77%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.79%) Firewall
2 17 (7.11%) DNS
3 11 (4.60%) VPN
4 10 (4.18%) Broadband
5 6 (2.51%) VoIP
6 5 (2.09%) DMZ
6 5 (2.09%) Network Security
6 5 (2.09%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.09%) STUN
6 5 (2.09%) VLAN
7 3 (1.26%) DHCP
7 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.42%) SAN
8 1 (0.42%) Skype
8 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.42%) WAN
8 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (4.60%) Relational Database
2 10 (4.18%) Power BI
3 9 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.77%) RDBMS
4 8 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (3.35%) Tableau
5 6 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.09%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (10.88%) Git
2 22 (9.21%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.69%) GitLab
3 16 (6.69%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (3.77%) Jaeger
4 9 (3.77%) JIRA
5 5 (2.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) git-flow
6 1 (0.42%) JMeter
6 1 (0.42%) Locust
6 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.42%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
6 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (12.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.72%) Finance
3 20 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.77%) Billing
4 9 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.67%) Military
8 3 (1.26%) Advertising
8 3 (1.26%) Banking
8 3 (1.26%) Retail
9 2 (0.84%) Law
9 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.69%) RESTful
2 10 (4.18%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.77%) JSON
3 9 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.35%) OAuth
4 8 (3.35%) OAuth2
4 8 (3.35%) SAML
4 8 (3.35%) SOAP
4 8 (3.35%) XML
5 7 (2.93%) Loki
6 6 (2.51%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.09%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (2.09%) Node.js
8 4 (1.67%) YAML
9 2 (0.84%) .NET
9 2 (0.84%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.84%) CSS
9 2 (0.84%) HTML
9 2 (0.84%) Kafka
9 2 (0.84%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.97%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.69%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.51%) Cloud Security Posture
4 6 (2.51%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.67%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.26%) Blog
7 3 (1.26%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.84%) PKI
8 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.42%) Clustering
9 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.42%) IoT
9 1 (0.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.30%) Linux
2 16 (6.69%) Windows
3 15 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.60%) Unix
5 5 (2.09%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (43.10%) DevOps
2 84 (35.15%) CI/CD
3 80 (33.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (23.01%) Agile
5 44 (18.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (17.99%) Mentoring
7 41 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.23%) Containerisation
8 34 (14.23%) Roadmaps
9 30 (12.55%) Coaching
10 29 (12.13%) Cloud Security
11 26 (10.88%) Observability
12 25 (10.46%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (10.04%) High Availability
14 21 (8.79%) Analytics
14 21 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (8.37%) Test Automation
16 19 (7.95%) RBAC
17 18 (7.53%) Root Cause Analysis
18 16 (6.69%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 56 (23.43%) Python
2 29 (12.13%) Java
3 27 (11.30%) SQL
4 26 (10.88%) Bash
5 17 (7.11%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.69%) Go
6 16 (6.69%) PL/SQL
6 16 (6.69%) Shell Script
7 15 (6.28%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.18%) Bicep
9 3 (1.26%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.84%) C#
10 2 (0.84%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.74%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.69%) Degree
4 15 (6.28%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.28%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.51%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CCNA
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.42%) IISP
9 1 (0.42%) ISACA
9 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.93%) NIST
2 5 (2.09%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) GDPR
4 3 (1.26%) GRC
4 3 (1.26%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 29 (12.13%) Docker
2 20 (8.37%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.84%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 123 (51.46%) Terraform
2 51 (21.34%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.72%) Ansible
4 19 (7.95%) Prometheus
5 17 (7.11%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (5.86%) Argo
7 11 (4.60%) Grafana
8 9 (3.77%) Kustomize
9 7 (2.93%) Puppet
10 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.42%) Cilium
11 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 47 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.69%) Oracle
3 10 (4.18%) Google
4 8 (3.35%) Okta
5 5 (2.09%) Cisco
5 5 (2.09%) VMware
6 3 (1.26%) Citrix
7 2 (0.84%) Apple
7 2 (0.84%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.42%) Databricks
8 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.42%) Foundry
8 1 (0.42%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.42%) TIBCO