Hybrid/Remote Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £68,958 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 204 239
Rank change year-on-year +31 +35 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 226 253 358
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 1.57% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.63% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 163 175 322
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,958 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £67,500 £66,340 £62,641
% change year-on-year +1.75% +5.90% -6.21%

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 14,797 15,491 25,709
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.97% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,672 9,295 21,392
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 1 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 1 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.

1 149 (65.93%) Azure
2 148 (65.49%) Terraform
3 130 (57.52%) DevOps
4 106 (46.90%) CI/CD
5 95 (42.04%) AWS
6 92 (40.71%) Python
7 90 (39.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 74 (32.74%) Agile
8 74 (32.74%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (31.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 70 (30.97%) GitHub
11 68 (30.09%) Kubernetes
12 57 (25.22%) Mentoring
13 56 (24.78%) Coaching
13 56 (24.78%) SQL
14 55 (24.34%) Microsoft
15 52 (23.01%) Jenkins
16 51 (22.57%) Java
17 44 (19.47%) Asset Management
18 43 (19.03%) PowerShell
19 41 (18.14%) Test Automation
20 40 (17.70%) Cloud Security
20 40 (17.70%) Entra ID
21 39 (17.26%) API Integration
22 38 (16.81%) Linux
22 38 (16.81%) OCI
22 38 (16.81%) Windows
23 37 (16.37%) Bash
23 37 (16.37%) ERP
23 37 (16.37%) Firewall

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 (7.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.65%) IIS
3 4 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.65%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.44%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (16.37%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.44%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 149 (65.93%) Azure
2 95 (42.04%) AWS
3 74 (32.74%) Azure DevOps
4 70 (30.97%) GitHub
5 40 (17.70%) Entra ID
6 38 (16.81%) OCI
7 27 (11.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (11.50%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (11.06%) IaaS
10 23 (10.18%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (9.73%) GCP
12 21 (9.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (9.29%) Azure AKS
12 21 (9.29%) PaaS
13 20 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (8.41%) Power Platform
14 19 (8.41%) SaaS
14 19 (8.41%) Serverless
15 17 (7.52%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (16.37%) Firewall
2 23 (10.18%) DNS
3 22 (9.73%) VPN
4 9 (3.98%) Broadband
4 9 (3.98%) Network Security
4 9 (3.98%) WAN
5 7 (3.10%) DHCP
6 6 (2.65%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.65%) SSL
7 4 (1.77%) DMZ
7 4 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.77%) STUN
7 4 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.77%) VLAN
7 4 (1.77%) VoIP
8 2 (0.88%) LAN
8 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.44%) DKIM
9 1 (0.44%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.41%) Power BI
2 17 (7.52%) Tableau
3 11 (4.87%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.98%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.77%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (23.01%) Jenkins
2 37 (16.37%) Oracle Forms
3 33 (14.60%) Git
4 18 (7.96%) JIRA
5 13 (5.75%) GitLab
6 9 (3.98%) Jaeger
7 4 (1.77%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.88%) Selenium
8 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.44%) Appium
9 1 (0.44%) git-flow
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) Locust
9 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.44%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 55 (24.34%) Finance
2 26 (11.50%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (3.54%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.10%) Billing
6 6 (2.65%) Banking
7 5 (2.21%) Retail
8 4 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.77%) Back Office
8 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.77%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.77%) Law
9 2 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Electronics
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.37%) RESTful
2 22 (9.73%) JSON
3 20 (8.85%) SOAP
3 20 (8.85%) XML
4 17 (7.52%) OAuth
4 17 (7.52%) OAuth2
4 17 (7.52%) SAML
5 10 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.98%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (3.54%) Node.js
8 7 (3.10%) Loki
9 4 (1.77%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.77%) ARM Templates
9 4 (1.77%) FreeSWITCH
9 4 (1.77%) Kafka
9 4 (1.77%) React
9 4 (1.77%) Vue
10 2 (0.88%) CSS
10 2 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (26.11%) Cloud Native
2 37 (16.37%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.65%) Blog
4 6 (2.65%) CMDB
4 6 (2.65%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (0.88%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.44%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.81%) Linux
1 38 (16.81%) Windows
2 21 (9.29%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.87%) Unix
4 7 (3.10%) VMS
5 4 (1.77%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (57.52%) DevOps
2 106 (46.90%) CI/CD
3 90 (39.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (32.74%) Agile
5 72 (31.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (25.22%) Mentoring
7 56 (24.78%) Coaching
8 44 (19.47%) Asset Management
9 41 (18.14%) Test Automation
10 40 (17.70%) Cloud Security
11 39 (17.26%) API Integration
12 37 (16.37%) ERP
12 37 (16.37%) Observability
13 36 (15.93%) Identity Access Management
13 36 (15.93%) Migration
13 36 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (15.04%) RBAC
15 31 (13.72%) Containerisation
16 30 (13.27%) Analytics
16 30 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 92 (40.71%) Python
2 56 (24.78%) SQL
3 51 (22.57%) Java
4 43 (19.03%) PowerShell
5 37 (16.37%) Bash
5 37 (16.37%) PL/SQL
5 37 (16.37%) Shell Script
6 23 (10.18%) Bicep
7 15 (6.64%) Go
8 13 (5.75%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.83%) AWS Certification
3 26 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.73%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.52%) Degree
6 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CISM
10 1 (0.44%) CISSP
10 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.87%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.98%) SOC 2
4 7 (3.10%) NIST
5 6 (2.65%) GDPR
5 6 (2.65%) GRC
6 5 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 33 (14.60%) Active Directory
2 31 (13.72%) Docker
3 9 (3.98%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (3.10%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.88%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 148 (65.49%) Terraform
2 68 (30.09%) Kubernetes
3 37 (16.37%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (13.72%) Ansible
5 22 (9.73%) Prometheus
6 20 (8.85%) Grafana
7 16 (7.08%) Argo
8 9 (3.98%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.77%) Cilium
10 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.44%) Kibana
10 1 (0.44%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Rancher
10 1 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (24.34%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.37%) Oracle
3 21 (9.29%) Okta
4 12 (5.31%) Google
5 6 (2.65%) SonicWALL
6 5 (2.21%) VMware
7 4 (1.77%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.33%) Citrix
9 2 (0.88%) Cisco
9 2 (0.88%) Databricks
9 2 (0.88%) Foundry
9 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.88%) Talend
10 1 (0.44%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.44%) Splunk
10 1 (0.44%) Zscaler