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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 278 220
Rank change year-on-year +76 -58 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 314 150 321
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 0.89% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 0.96% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 237 95 196
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,800 £42,975
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,875 £49,944
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £71,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 23,311 15,641 21,430
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 93.06% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 16,123 8,776 13,320
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,824 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% -0.32% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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.

1 157 (50.00%) Azure
2 107 (34.08%) Terraform
3 104 (33.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (30.25%) AWS
5 77 (24.52%) CI/CD
6 76 (24.20%) DevOps
7 72 (22.93%) Platform Engineering
8 70 (22.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 69 (21.97%) GCP
10 61 (19.43%) Microsoft
11 59 (18.79%) Security Cleared
12 55 (17.52%) PowerShell
13 54 (17.20%) Kubernetes
14 53 (16.88%) PaaS
15 50 (15.92%) Cloud Security
16 48 (15.29%) Python
17 46 (14.65%) SC Cleared
18 44 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
19 40 (12.74%) Microsoft 365
20 39 (12.42%) Containerisation
21 34 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
22 33 (10.51%) Entra ID
23 30 (9.55%) Observability
24 28 (8.92%) Mentoring
25 27 (8.60%) Active Directory
25 27 (8.60%) Ansible
25 27 (8.60%) Bicep
26 26 (8.28%) IaaS
26 26 (8.28%) VPN
27 24 (7.64%) Agile

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 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 157 (50.00%) Azure
2 95 (30.25%) AWS
3 69 (21.97%) GCP
4 53 (16.88%) PaaS
5 40 (12.74%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (10.51%) Entra ID
7 26 (8.28%) IaaS
8 22 (7.01%) SaaS
9 21 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (6.05%) GitHub
11 11 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.18%) Datadog
13 9 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.87%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.28%) VPN
2 21 (6.69%) DNS
2 21 (6.69%) Firewall
3 10 (3.18%) DHCP
4 8 (2.55%) Network Security
5 5 (1.59%) WAN
5 5 (1.59%) Wireless
6 4 (1.27%) Broadband
7 3 (0.96%) BGP
7 3 (0.96%) SAN
7 3 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.96%) Wireless Security
8 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.32%) Skype
9 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.32%) VoIP
9 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.59%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.64%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 16 (5.10%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.87%) Git
3 7 (2.23%) GitLab
4 3 (0.96%) Maven
4 3 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (0.96%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.64%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 74 (23.57%) Finance
2 53 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 16 (5.10%) Banking
4 14 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.50%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.87%) Law
7 9 (2.87%) Legal
8 6 (1.91%) Retail
9 3 (0.96%) Back Office
9 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Automotive
11 1 (0.32%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (34.08%) Terraform
2 9 (2.87%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.23%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.27%) Node.js
4 4 (1.27%) Pulumi
5 3 (0.96%) Middleware
5 3 (0.96%) REST
6 2 (0.64%) Jinja
6 2 (0.64%) Kafka
6 2 (0.64%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) .NET
7 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.32%) eBPF
7 1 (0.32%) Loki
7 1 (0.32%) OpenID
7 1 (0.32%) RESTful
7 1 (0.32%) SAML
7 1 (0.32%) Spring
7 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.78%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.18%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.87%) Blog
6 9 (2.87%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.59%) PKI
8 5 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.96%) Clustering
10 3 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.64%) Windows
2 18 (5.73%) Linux
3 15 (4.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (33.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 77 (24.52%) CI/CD
3 76 (24.20%) DevOps
4 72 (22.93%) Platform Engineering
5 70 (22.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 50 (15.92%) Cloud Security
7 44 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (12.42%) Containerisation
9 34 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (9.55%) Observability
11 28 (8.92%) Mentoring
12 24 (7.64%) Agile
13 22 (7.01%) Root Cause Analysis
14 21 (6.69%) AI
15 20 (6.37%) Cloud Operations
15 20 (6.37%) Disaster Recovery
15 20 (6.37%) ITIL
16 19 (6.05%) Infrastructure Automation
17 18 (5.73%) Incident Response
17 18 (5.73%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.52%) PowerShell
2 48 (15.29%) Python
3 27 (8.60%) Bicep
4 17 (5.41%) SQL
5 15 (4.78%) Bash
6 12 (3.82%) Go
7 7 (2.23%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.27%) Java
9 3 (0.96%) C#
10 2 (0.64%) Groovy
10 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.32%) Perl
11 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.65%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.37%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.10%) Degree
5 9 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.23%) CISM
6 7 (2.23%) CISSP
7 6 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.59%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.96%) CCSP
10 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.32%) CCNA
12 1 (0.32%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.82%) NIST
2 11 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (3.50%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.96%) GDPR
5 3 (0.96%) NCSC
5 3 (0.96%) QA
5 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (8.60%) Active Directory
2 23 (7.32%) Docker
3 14 (4.46%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.55%) VMware Server
6 4 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.64%) vSphere
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (17.20%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.60%) Ansible
3 18 (5.73%) Grafana
3 18 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.59%) Argo
5 5 (1.59%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.59%) Puppet
5 5 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.27%) Cilium
7 3 (0.96%) Istio
8 2 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (0.64%) SCOM
8 2 (0.64%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.64%) VMware
3 16 (5.10%) Google
4 10 (3.18%) Oracle
5 8 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.96%) Cisco
6 3 (0.96%) EMC
7 2 (0.64%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.64%) Meraki
7 2 (0.64%) Sage
7 2 (0.64%) Sophos
7 2 (0.64%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.64%) Veeam
8 1 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.32%) Databricks
8 1 (0.32%) New Relic
8 1 (0.32%) Okta
8 1 (0.32%) Rackspace
8 1 (0.32%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.32%) Tenable