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 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 199 268
Rank change year-on-year -4 +69 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 201 213 335
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 1.66% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.76% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 153 171 309
10th Percentile £44,163 £42,500 £47,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,340 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% +2.06% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £91,934
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 15,834 12,119 29,611
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.22% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,102 8,897 24,383
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £44,259 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
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 28 March 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 28 March 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.

1 123 (61.19%) Azure
2 120 (59.70%) Terraform
3 102 (50.75%) DevOps
4 81 (40.30%) CI/CD
5 80 (39.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (38.81%) AWS
7 66 (32.84%) Python
8 60 (29.85%) Kubernetes
9 59 (29.35%) Agile
10 51 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 48 (23.88%) Mentoring
12 46 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
13 45 (22.39%) Microsoft
14 43 (21.39%) GitHub
15 38 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (16.92%) Coaching
16 34 (16.92%) Containerisation
17 33 (16.42%) Bash
17 33 (16.42%) Security Cleared
17 33 (16.42%) SQL
18 32 (15.92%) Java
19 31 (15.42%) Entra ID
20 30 (14.93%) Cloud Security
20 30 (14.93%) Docker
21 27 (13.43%) Firewall
21 27 (13.43%) Jenkins
21 27 (13.43%) Linux
22 26 (12.94%) Git
22 26 (12.94%) IaaS
22 26 (12.94%) Observability

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 9 (4.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (9.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 123 (61.19%) Azure
2 78 (38.81%) AWS
3 46 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (21.39%) GitHub
5 31 (15.42%) Entra ID
6 26 (12.94%) IaaS
7 24 (11.94%) GCP
8 22 (10.95%) PaaS
9 20 (9.95%) OCI
10 19 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (9.45%) SaaS
11 18 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (8.96%) Serverless
12 16 (7.96%) Azure AKS
13 15 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (5.47%) Power Platform
15 10 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.43%) Firewall
2 16 (7.96%) DNS
3 13 (6.47%) VPN
4 9 (4.48%) Broadband
4 9 (4.48%) Network Security
5 5 (2.49%) DMZ
5 5 (2.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.49%) STUN
5 5 (2.49%) VLAN
5 5 (2.49%) VoIP
6 4 (1.99%) DHCP
6 4 (1.99%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.99%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.00%) WAN
8 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (5.47%) Power BI
1 11 (5.47%) Relational Database
2 9 (4.48%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.48%) RDBMS
2 9 (4.48%) Tableau
3 8 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.49%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.94%) Git
3 19 (9.45%) Oracle Forms
4 15 (7.46%) GitLab
5 10 (4.98%) JIRA
6 9 (4.48%) Jaeger
7 5 (2.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.99%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.50%) git-flow
9 1 (0.50%) JMeter
9 1 (0.50%) Locust
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 33 (16.42%) Finance
2 30 (14.93%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.48%) Billing
5 8 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.49%) Banking
7 5 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.49%) Retail
8 4 (1.99%) Back Office
8 4 (1.99%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.99%) Military
9 2 (1.00%) Advertising
9 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.45%) RESTful
2 12 (5.97%) JSON
3 10 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.98%) SOAP
3 10 (4.98%) XML
4 9 (4.48%) OAuth
4 9 (4.48%) OAuth2
4 9 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
4 9 (4.48%) SAML
5 7 (3.48%) Loki
6 6 (2.99%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.99%) Node.js
7 5 (2.49%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.99%) YAML
9 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.00%) CSS
9 2 (1.00%) HTML
9 2 (1.00%) Kafka
9 2 (1.00%) React
9 2 (1.00%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.90%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.45%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.99%) Blog
6 5 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) CMDB
9 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.50%) PKI
9 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.43%) Linux
2 20 (9.95%) Windows
3 15 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.47%) Unix
5 5 (2.49%) Debian
6 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (50.75%) DevOps
2 81 (40.30%) CI/CD
3 80 (39.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (29.35%) Agile
5 51 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 48 (23.88%) Mentoring
7 38 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (16.92%) Coaching
8 34 (16.92%) Containerisation
9 30 (14.93%) Cloud Security
10 26 (12.94%) Observability
10 26 (12.94%) Roadmaps
11 25 (12.44%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (11.94%) Analytics
12 24 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (11.44%) High Availability
14 22 (10.95%) Test Automation
15 21 (10.45%) Asset Management
15 21 (10.45%) RBAC
16 20 (9.95%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (32.84%) Python
2 33 (16.42%) Bash
2 33 (16.42%) SQL
3 32 (15.92%) Java
4 24 (11.94%) PowerShell
5 19 (9.45%) PL/SQL
5 19 (9.45%) Shell Script
6 17 (8.46%) Go
7 14 (6.97%) Bicep
7 14 (6.97%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.00%) Ruby
8 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.95%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.45%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.46%) Degree
6 6 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (3.98%) NIST
1 8 (3.98%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.99%) GRC
2 6 (2.99%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.49%) GDPR
4 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 30 (14.93%) Docker
2 21 (10.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 120 (59.70%) Terraform
2 60 (29.85%) Kubernetes
3 25 (12.44%) Ansible
4 20 (9.95%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (9.45%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.96%) Argo
7 12 (5.97%) Grafana
8 9 (4.48%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.99%) Cilium
9 4 (1.99%) Puppet
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.50%) Kibana
11 1 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.45%) Oracle
3 12 (5.97%) Google
4 11 (5.47%) Okta
5 5 (2.49%) Cisco
5 5 (2.49%) VMware
6 4 (1.99%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.49%) Citrix
7 3 (1.49%) Databricks
8 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.00%) Talend
9 1 (0.50%) Apple
9 1 (0.50%) Foundry
9 1 (0.50%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.50%) New Relic
9 1 (0.50%) SAP
9 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.50%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.50%) Splunk
9 1 (0.50%) TIBCO