Hybrid/Remote Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 223 207
Rank change year-on-year +38 -16 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 203 257 315
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.34% 1.50% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.56% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 141 169 280
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -2.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,508 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.95% +3.85% -2.67%

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 14,171 16,465 19,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.19% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,129 10,128 15,838
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,900 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025, 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.

1 155 (76.35%) Azure
2 141 (69.46%) Terraform
3 121 (59.61%) DevOps
4 105 (51.72%) CI/CD
5 82 (40.39%) Python
6 80 (39.41%) AWS
7 79 (38.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 72 (35.47%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (34.98%) GitHub
10 69 (33.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 67 (33.00%) Agile
12 60 (29.56%) Kubernetes
13 57 (28.08%) SQL
14 55 (27.09%) Coaching
14 55 (27.09%) Jenkins
15 54 (26.60%) Microsoft
16 48 (23.65%) Mentoring
17 44 (21.67%) Asset Management
17 44 (21.67%) Java
17 44 (21.67%) Windows
18 42 (20.69%) PowerShell
18 42 (20.69%) Test Automation
19 39 (19.21%) API Integration
20 38 (18.72%) Cloud Security
20 38 (18.72%) ERP
20 38 (18.72%) OCI
21 37 (18.23%) Oracle
21 37 (18.23%) Oracle ERP
21 37 (18.23%) Oracle Forms
21 37 (18.23%) PL/SQL

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 (8.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.96%) IIS
3 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (18.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 155 (76.35%) Azure
2 80 (39.41%) AWS
3 72 (35.47%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (34.98%) GitHub
5 38 (18.72%) OCI
6 33 (16.26%) Entra ID
7 24 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (11.33%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (10.34%) IaaS
10 20 (9.85%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (9.85%) GCP
10 20 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (9.85%) Power Platform
11 19 (9.36%) PaaS
12 18 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (8.87%) Azure AKS
13 17 (8.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 17 (8.37%) SaaS
14 16 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (7.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.76%) Firewall
2 23 (11.33%) VPN
3 20 (9.85%) DNS
4 9 (4.43%) WAN
5 8 (3.94%) Network Security
6 7 (3.45%) SSL
7 6 (2.96%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.46%) DMZ
8 5 (2.46%) STUN
8 5 (2.46%) VLAN
8 5 (2.46%) VoIP
9 4 (1.97%) DHCP
9 4 (1.97%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.48%) Broadband
10 3 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.99%) HTTP
11 2 (0.99%) LAN
11 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.36%) Power BI
2 17 (8.37%) Tableau
3 6 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.46%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.97%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.48%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (27.09%) Jenkins
2 37 (18.23%) Oracle Forms
3 36 (17.73%) Git
4 18 (8.87%) JIRA
5 15 (7.39%) GitLab
6 4 (1.97%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.48%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.99%) Selenium
9 1 (0.49%) Appium
9 1 (0.49%) git-flow
9 1 (0.49%) JMeter
9 1 (0.49%) Locust
9 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.49%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.49%) Snyk
9 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 55 (27.09%) Finance
2 23 (11.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.45%) Law
5 6 (2.96%) Banking
5 6 (2.96%) Retail
6 5 (2.46%) Back Office
6 5 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.97%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.48%) Billing
9 1 (0.49%) Electronics
9 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Military
9 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.23%) RESTful
2 21 (10.34%) JSON
3 20 (9.85%) SOAP
3 20 (9.85%) XML
4 18 (8.87%) OAuth
4 18 (8.87%) SAML
5 17 (8.37%) OAuth2
6 11 (5.42%) Node.js
7 5 (2.46%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.97%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.97%) Kafka
8 4 (1.97%) Loki
8 4 (1.97%) React
8 4 (1.97%) Vue
9 3 (1.48%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.99%) Hugging Face
10 2 (0.99%) Nuxt
10 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (30.05%) Cloud Native
2 37 (18.23%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.43%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.96%) Blog
5 6 (2.96%) CMDB
5 6 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.48%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.48%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.48%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (21.67%) Windows
2 36 (17.73%) Linux
3 24 (11.82%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.45%) VMS
5 5 (2.46%) Debian
5 5 (2.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.49%) CentOS
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (59.61%) DevOps
2 105 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 79 (38.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (33.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 67 (33.00%) Agile
6 55 (27.09%) Coaching
7 48 (23.65%) Mentoring
8 44 (21.67%) Asset Management
9 42 (20.69%) Test Automation
10 39 (19.21%) API Integration
11 38 (18.72%) Cloud Security
11 38 (18.72%) ERP
12 36 (17.73%) Migration
12 36 (17.73%) Observability
12 36 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
14 34 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (16.26%) Analytics
15 33 (16.26%) RBAC
16 25 (12.32%) AI
Programming Languages
1 82 (40.39%) Python
2 57 (28.08%) SQL
3 44 (21.67%) Java
4 42 (20.69%) PowerShell
5 37 (18.23%) PL/SQL
5 37 (18.23%) Shell Script
6 26 (12.81%) Bash
7 24 (11.82%) Bicep
8 9 (4.43%) Go
9 7 (3.45%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.99%) Ruby
10 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.85%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.87%) Azure Certification
5 14 (6.90%) Degree
6 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.99%) CISSP
7 2 (0.99%) RHCE
8 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.49%) CISM
8 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.93%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.43%) SOC 2
4 8 (3.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (3.45%) GRC
6 6 (2.96%) GDPR
6 6 (2.96%) NIST
7 5 (2.46%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 29 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.34%) Docker
3 9 (4.43%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.46%) Kamailio
6 4 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.48%) Firmware
7 3 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 141 (69.46%) Terraform
2 60 (29.56%) Kubernetes
3 37 (18.23%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (14.29%) Ansible
5 17 (8.37%) Grafana
6 14 (6.90%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.93%) Argo
8 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.97%) Cilium
10 3 (1.48%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.49%) Kibana
11 1 (0.49%) Puppet
11 1 (0.49%) Rancher
11 1 (0.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 54 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 37 (18.23%) Oracle
3 21 (10.34%) Okta
4 8 (3.94%) Google
5 6 (2.96%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.96%) SonicWALL
6 4 (1.97%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.97%) VMware
7 3 (1.48%) Cisco
7 3 (1.48%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.48%) Foundry
8 2 (0.99%) Databricks
8 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.99%) Talend
9 1 (0.49%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.49%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.49%) New Relic
9 1 (0.49%) Splunk
9 1 (0.49%) Zscaler