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 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 272 285
Rank change year-on-year +82 +13 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 248 166 352
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.30% 1.11% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.21% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 187 124 297
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £47,300
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,433 £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 £78,375 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £83,000 £90,774
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 18,002 13,703 32,207
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 92.02% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 13,246 8,461 25,466
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,536
Median % change year-on-year - +8.04% -11.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 2 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 2 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.

1 120 (48.39%) Azure
2 116 (46.77%) Terraform
3 96 (38.71%) DevOps
4 90 (36.29%) AWS
5 87 (35.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (32.66%) CI/CD
7 60 (24.19%) Security Cleared
8 58 (23.39%) Kubernetes
9 50 (20.16%) Python
10 46 (18.55%) GCP
10 46 (18.55%) SC Cleared
11 44 (17.74%) Microsoft
12 43 (17.34%) Agile
12 43 (17.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 39 (15.73%) Containerisation
14 33 (13.31%) Mentoring
15 32 (12.90%) Ansible
15 32 (12.90%) Roadmaps
16 31 (12.50%) Entra ID
16 31 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (12.10%) Docker
18 29 (11.69%) Bash
18 29 (11.69%) Cloud Security
18 29 (11.69%) IaaS
19 28 (11.29%) Linux
20 27 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
20 27 (10.89%) Observability
21 26 (10.48%) GitHub
22 25 (10.08%) High Availability
22 25 (10.08%) PaaS

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 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 120 (48.39%) Azure
2 90 (36.29%) AWS
3 46 (18.55%) GCP
4 31 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 29 (11.69%) IaaS
6 27 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (10.48%) GitHub
8 25 (10.08%) PaaS
9 19 (7.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (6.45%) Azure AKS
10 16 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.24%) Pulumi
13 12 (4.84%) SaaS
14 11 (4.44%) Amazon S3
14 11 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.87%) Firewall
2 16 (6.45%) DNS
3 12 (4.84%) Broadband
3 12 (4.84%) VPN
4 6 (2.42%) VoIP
5 5 (2.02%) DHCP
5 5 (2.02%) DMZ
5 5 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.02%) STUN
5 5 (2.02%) VLAN
6 3 (1.21%) Network Security
6 3 (1.21%) SAN
6 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.21%) WAN
7 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.81%) Wireless
8 1 (0.40%) Skype
8 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.63%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.63%) RDBMS
2 9 (3.63%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.21%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.21%) Power BI
5 3 (1.21%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (1.21%) Tableau
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (6.85%) Git
1 17 (6.85%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.05%) GitLab
3 9 (3.63%) Jaeger
4 6 (2.42%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.21%) JIRA
7 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (6.45%) Finance
4 11 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.63%) Billing
6 7 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Law
9 3 (1.21%) Advertising
9 3 (1.21%) Military
10 2 (0.81%) Banking
10 2 (0.81%) Legal
10 2 (0.81%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 6 (2.42%) Loki
3 6 (2.42%) RESTful
4 5 (2.02%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (1.61%) JSON
5 4 (1.61%) YAML
6 3 (1.21%) Node.js
6 3 (1.21%) OAuth
6 3 (1.21%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.21%) SAML
6 3 (1.21%) SOAP
6 3 (1.21%) XML
7 2 (0.81%) .NET
7 2 (0.81%) Middleware
7 2 (0.81%) WAMP
8 1 (0.40%) PySpark
8 1 (0.40%) REST
8 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.61%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.21%) PKI
7 2 (0.81%) Blog
7 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.81%) Replication
7 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.29%) Linux
2 16 (6.45%) Windows
2 16 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.03%) Unix
4 5 (2.02%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (38.71%) DevOps
2 87 (35.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (32.66%) CI/CD
4 43 (17.34%) Agile
4 43 (17.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (15.73%) Containerisation
6 33 (13.31%) Mentoring
7 32 (12.90%) Roadmaps
8 31 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (11.69%) Cloud Security
10 27 (10.89%) Observability
11 25 (10.08%) High Availability
12 23 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.27%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (7.66%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (7.26%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
16 15 (6.05%) AI
16 15 (6.05%) Cloud Operations
16 15 (6.05%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.16%) Python
2 29 (11.69%) Bash
3 25 (10.08%) PowerShell
4 18 (7.26%) SQL
5 16 (6.45%) Java
6 15 (6.05%) Go
7 13 (5.24%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.23%) Bicep
9 6 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.21%) C#
10 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 60 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.55%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.06%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 14 (5.65%) Degree
6 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.42%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.81%) CISM
10 2 (0.81%) CISSP
10 2 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CCNA
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) IISP
11 1 (0.40%) ISACA
11 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.82%) NIST
2 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 30 (12.10%) Docker
2 23 (9.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.21%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.81%) vSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (46.77%) Terraform
2 58 (23.39%) Kubernetes
3 32 (12.90%) Ansible
4 20 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.65%) Argo
6 12 (4.84%) Grafana
7 9 (3.63%) Kustomize
7 9 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.42%) Puppet
10 2 (0.81%) Istio
10 2 (0.81%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.44%) Google
3 9 (3.63%) VMware
4 8 (3.23%) Cisco
5 7 (2.82%) Oracle
6 3 (1.21%) Citrix
6 3 (1.21%) EMC
6 3 (1.21%) Okta
7 2 (0.81%) Apple
7 2 (0.81%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.81%) Meraki
7 2 (0.81%) Sophos
7 2 (0.81%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.81%) Veeam
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%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.40%) TIBCO