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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 206 271
Rank change year-on-year +10 +65 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 221 212 348
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 1.59% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.71% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 164 167 308
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,350
25th Percentile £55,938 £47,231 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,274 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +5.56% +0.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,750 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +1.07% +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 16,722 12,400 31,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 92.93% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,033 9,079 24,854
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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.

1 128 (57.92%) Azure
2 125 (56.56%) Terraform
3 106 (47.96%) DevOps
4 88 (39.82%) CI/CD
5 85 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 84 (38.01%) AWS
7 59 (26.70%) Kubernetes
8 58 (26.24%) Agile
9 56 (25.34%) Python
10 54 (24.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 47 (21.27%) Microsoft
12 44 (19.91%) Mentoring
13 43 (19.46%) Security Cleared
14 42 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (17.19%) GitHub
16 37 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
17 35 (15.84%) SC Cleared
18 34 (15.38%) Containerisation
19 33 (14.93%) Roadmaps
20 32 (14.48%) GCP
21 31 (14.03%) Coaching
21 31 (14.03%) Entra ID
22 30 (13.57%) Bash
22 30 (13.57%) Cloud Security
23 29 (13.12%) Java
24 28 (12.67%) Ansible
24 28 (12.67%) Docker
25 26 (11.76%) Git
25 26 (11.76%) SQL
26 25 (11.31%) 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 8 (3.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 16 (7.24%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 128 (57.92%) Azure
2 84 (38.01%) AWS
3 38 (17.19%) GitHub
4 37 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (14.48%) GCP
6 31 (14.03%) Entra ID
7 23 (10.41%) IaaS
8 19 (8.60%) PaaS
9 18 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (7.69%) OCI
10 17 (7.69%) SaaS
11 15 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.79%) Serverless
12 14 (6.33%) Azure AKS
12 14 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.31%) Firewall
2 16 (7.24%) DNS
3 11 (4.98%) VPN
4 9 (4.07%) Broadband
5 8 (3.62%) Network Security
6 6 (2.71%) VoIP
7 5 (2.26%) DMZ
7 5 (2.26%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.26%) STUN
7 5 (2.26%) VLAN
8 4 (1.81%) DHCP
8 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.90%) WAN
11 1 (0.45%) SAN
11 1 (0.45%) Skype
11 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (4.98%) Relational Database
2 10 (4.52%) Power BI
3 9 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.07%) RDBMS
4 8 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (3.62%) Tableau
5 6 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (11.76%) Git
2 21 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.24%) GitLab
3 16 (7.24%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.07%) Jaeger
4 9 (4.07%) JIRA
5 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.45%) git-flow
7 1 (0.45%) JMeter
7 1 (0.45%) Locust
7 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.45%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 30 (13.57%) Finance
2 27 (12.22%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.07%) Billing
4 9 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.26%) Banking
6 5 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.26%) Retail
7 4 (1.81%) Military
8 3 (1.36%) Back Office
8 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.90%) Advertising
9 2 (0.90%) Law
9 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.24%) RESTful
2 10 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (4.07%) JSON
3 9 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.62%) OAuth
4 8 (3.62%) OAuth2
4 8 (3.62%) SAML
4 8 (3.62%) SOAP
4 8 (3.62%) XML
5 7 (3.17%) Loki
6 6 (2.71%) Node.js
7 5 (2.26%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.26%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.81%) YAML
9 2 (0.90%) .NET
9 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.90%) CSS
9 2 (0.90%) HTML
9 2 (0.90%) Kafka
9 2 (0.90%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.24%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.26%) Blog
6 5 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.90%) PKI
7 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.45%) Clustering
8 1 (0.45%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.45%) IoT
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.31%) Linux
2 15 (6.79%) Windows
3 14 (6.33%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.98%) Unix
5 5 (2.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (47.96%) DevOps
2 88 (39.82%) CI/CD
3 85 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (26.24%) Agile
5 54 (24.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 44 (19.91%) Mentoring
7 42 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 33 (14.93%) Roadmaps
10 31 (14.03%) Coaching
11 30 (13.57%) Cloud Security
12 25 (11.31%) Observability
12 25 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.41%) High Availability
15 21 (9.50%) Analytics
16 20 (9.05%) RBAC
17 19 (8.60%) Test Automation
18 18 (8.14%) Identity Access Management
19 16 (7.24%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.34%) Python
2 30 (13.57%) Bash
3 29 (13.12%) Java
4 26 (11.76%) SQL
5 19 (8.60%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.69%) Go
7 16 (7.24%) PL/SQL
7 16 (7.24%) Shell Script
8 14 (6.33%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.07%) Bicep
10 2 (0.90%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) C#
11 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 43 (19.46%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.79%) Degree
5 14 (6.33%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.71%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) IISP
10 1 (0.45%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.62%) NIST
2 7 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.26%) GRC
3 5 (2.26%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.36%) GDPR
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 28 (12.67%) Docker
2 19 (8.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 125 (56.56%) Terraform
2 59 (26.70%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.67%) Ansible
4 19 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 17 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (7.24%) Argo
7 11 (4.98%) Grafana
8 9 (4.07%) Kustomize
9 7 (3.17%) Puppet
10 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.36%) Cilium
12 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 47 (21.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.24%) Oracle
3 11 (4.98%) Google
4 9 (4.07%) Okta
5 5 (2.26%) Cisco
6 4 (1.81%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.81%) VMware
7 3 (1.36%) Citrix
8 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.45%) Apple
9 1 (0.45%) Databricks
9 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.45%) Foundry
9 1 (0.45%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.45%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.45%) Zscaler