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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 207 268
Rank change year-on-year +2 +61 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 199 212 346
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 1.65% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.75% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 152 169 313
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,274 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +1.96% +0.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,250 £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 15,858 12,098 30,138
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 94.00% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,359 8,975 24,649
10th Percentile £31,540 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,711 £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 £54,650
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.79% -8.92%

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 4 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 4 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.

1 120 (60.30%) Terraform
2 118 (59.30%) Azure
3 100 (50.25%) DevOps
4 82 (41.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (40.20%) CI/CD
6 79 (39.70%) AWS
7 62 (31.16%) Kubernetes
8 59 (29.65%) Agile
8 59 (29.65%) Python
9 50 (25.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 46 (23.12%) Mentoring
11 41 (20.60%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (20.60%) GitHub
11 41 (20.60%) Microsoft
12 37 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (18.09%) Containerisation
14 35 (17.59%) Security Cleared
15 31 (15.58%) Bash
15 31 (15.58%) Coaching
16 30 (15.08%) Cloud Security
16 30 (15.08%) Docker
17 29 (14.57%) Entra ID
17 29 (14.57%) Java
18 28 (14.07%) SQL
19 27 (13.57%) Ansible
19 27 (13.57%) Firewall
19 27 (13.57%) SC Cleared
20 26 (13.07%) Git
20 26 (13.07%) Linux
20 26 (13.07%) Roadmaps

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 (4.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.01%) 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 16 (8.04%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 118 (59.30%) Azure
2 79 (39.70%) AWS
3 41 (20.60%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (20.60%) GitHub
4 29 (14.57%) Entra ID
5 25 (12.56%) IaaS
6 23 (11.56%) GCP
7 21 (10.55%) PaaS
8 19 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (9.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (9.05%) SaaS
10 17 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (8.54%) OCI
10 17 (8.54%) Serverless
11 14 (7.04%) Azure AKS
11 14 (7.04%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (5.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.57%) Firewall
2 16 (8.04%) DNS
3 13 (6.53%) VPN
4 9 (4.52%) Broadband
4 9 (4.52%) Network Security
5 5 (2.51%) DMZ
5 5 (2.51%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.51%) STUN
5 5 (2.51%) VLAN
5 5 (2.51%) VoIP
6 4 (2.01%) DHCP
6 4 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.01%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.01%) WAN
8 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (5.53%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.03%) Power BI
3 9 (4.52%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.52%) RDBMS
4 8 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (4.02%) Tableau
5 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.51%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (13.07%) Git
2 23 (11.56%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.04%) GitLab
3 16 (8.04%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.52%) Jaeger
4 9 (4.52%) JIRA
5 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.01%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) git-flow
7 1 (0.50%) JMeter
7 1 (0.50%) Locust
7 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.50%) Selenium
7 1 (0.50%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 29 (14.57%) Finance
2 27 (13.57%) Social Skills
3 18 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.52%) Billing
4 9 (4.52%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.02%) Banking
6 6 (3.02%) Retail
7 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.01%) Back Office
8 4 (2.01%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.01%) Military
9 2 (1.01%) Advertising
9 2 (1.01%) Law
9 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.04%) RESTful
2 10 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (5.03%) JSON
3 9 (4.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (4.02%) OAuth
4 8 (4.02%) OAuth2
4 8 (4.02%) SAML
4 8 (4.02%) SOAP
4 8 (4.02%) XML
5 7 (3.52%) Loki
6 6 (3.02%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.02%) Node.js
7 5 (2.51%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (2.51%) YAML
8 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.01%) HTML
8 2 (1.01%) Kafka
8 2 (1.01%) React
8 2 (1.01%) Vue
8 2 (1.01%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.09%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.04%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.02%) Blog
6 5 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.01%) PKI
9 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.50%) CMDB
10 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.50%) IoT
10 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.07%) Linux
2 18 (9.05%) Windows
3 15 (7.54%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.53%) Unix
5 5 (2.51%) Debian
6 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (50.25%) DevOps
2 82 (41.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 80 (40.20%) CI/CD
4 59 (29.65%) Agile
5 50 (25.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 46 (23.12%) Mentoring
7 37 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (18.09%) Containerisation
9 31 (15.58%) Coaching
10 30 (15.08%) Cloud Security
11 26 (13.07%) Roadmaps
12 24 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (12.06%) Observability
13 23 (11.56%) High Availability
13 23 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (10.55%) Analytics
15 19 (9.55%) Identity Access Management
15 19 (9.55%) RBAC
15 19 (9.55%) Test Automation
16 17 (8.54%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (29.65%) Python
2 31 (15.58%) Bash
3 29 (14.57%) Java
4 28 (14.07%) SQL
5 23 (11.56%) PowerShell
6 18 (9.05%) Go
7 16 (8.04%) PL/SQL
7 16 (8.04%) Shell Script
8 14 (7.04%) JavaScript
9 12 (6.03%) Bicep
10 2 (1.01%) Ruby
10 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.55%) AWS Certification
4 18 (9.05%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.54%) Degree
6 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.51%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (4.02%) NIST
1 8 (4.02%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.02%) GRC
2 6 (3.02%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.51%) GDPR
4 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 30 (15.08%) Docker
2 19 (9.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 120 (60.30%) Terraform
2 62 (31.16%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.57%) Ansible
4 19 (9.55%) Prometheus
5 17 (8.54%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (8.04%) Argo
7 11 (5.53%) Grafana
8 9 (4.52%) Kustomize
9 4 (2.01%) Cilium
9 4 (2.01%) Puppet
10 2 (1.01%) 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 41 (20.60%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.04%) Oracle
3 12 (6.03%) Google
4 9 (4.52%) Okta
5 5 (2.51%) Cisco
6 4 (2.01%) PagerDuty
6 4 (2.01%) VMware
7 3 (1.51%) Citrix
8 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.50%) Apple
9 1 (0.50%) Databricks
9 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.50%) Foundry
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
9 1 (0.50%) Zscaler