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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 276 226
Rank change year-on-year +80 -50 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 313 150 316
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 0.89% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.96% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 237 96 194
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,875 £42,785
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 23,281 15,632 21,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 93.07% 96.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16,062 8,758 13,156
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,468 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -4.22% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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.

1 154 (49.20%) Azure
2 106 (33.87%) Terraform
3 103 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (30.99%) AWS
5 77 (24.60%) CI/CD
6 73 (23.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 72 (23.00%) DevOps
7 72 (23.00%) Platform Engineering
8 71 (22.68%) GCP
9 58 (18.53%) Microsoft
9 58 (18.53%) Security Cleared
10 55 (17.57%) Kubernetes
10 55 (17.57%) PowerShell
11 52 (16.61%) PaaS
12 51 (16.29%) Cloud Security
13 50 (15.97%) Python
14 44 (14.06%) SC Cleared
15 42 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
17 38 (12.14%) Containerisation
18 33 (10.54%) Entra ID
18 33 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
19 30 (9.58%) Observability
20 28 (8.95%) Mentoring
21 27 (8.63%) Active Directory
21 27 (8.63%) Ansible
21 27 (8.63%) VPN
22 26 (8.31%) Bicep
23 25 (7.99%) IaaS
24 24 (7.67%) Agile

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 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.28%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 154 (49.20%) Azure
2 97 (30.99%) AWS
3 71 (22.68%) GCP
4 52 (16.61%) PaaS
5 39 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (10.54%) Entra ID
7 25 (7.99%) IaaS
8 24 (7.67%) SaaS
9 21 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (6.07%) GitHub
11 18 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (3.19%) Datadog
13 10 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (2.88%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (2.24%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.63%) VPN
2 23 (7.35%) Firewall
3 21 (6.71%) DNS
4 10 (3.19%) DHCP
4 10 (3.19%) Network Security
5 5 (1.60%) BGP
5 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.60%) WAN
5 5 (1.60%) Wireless
6 4 (1.28%) Broadband
7 3 (0.96%) SAN
7 3 (0.96%) Wireless Security
8 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.32%) Skype
9 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.32%) VoIP
9 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.60%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.64%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 16 (5.11%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.88%) Git
3 8 (2.56%) GitLab
4 5 (1.60%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.96%) Maven
5 3 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.64%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.32%) Snyk
7 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 74 (23.64%) Finance
2 55 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 16 (5.11%) Banking
4 13 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.88%) Law
7 9 (2.88%) Legal
8 6 (1.92%) Retail
9 5 (1.60%) Back Office
9 5 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Automotive
12 1 (0.32%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (33.87%) Terraform
2 8 (2.56%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.28%) Node.js
4 4 (1.28%) Pulumi
5 3 (0.96%) Middleware
5 3 (0.96%) REST
6 2 (0.64%) Jinja
6 2 (0.64%) Kafka
6 2 (0.64%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) .NET
7 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.32%) eBPF
7 1 (0.32%) Loki
7 1 (0.32%) OpenID
7 1 (0.32%) RESTful
7 1 (0.32%) SAML
7 1 (0.32%) Spring
7 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.22%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.11%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.47%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.51%) Blog
4 11 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.19%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.60%) PKI
8 5 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.28%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Clustering
10 3 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.96%) PMI
10 3 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.67%) Windows
2 18 (5.75%) Linux
3 15 (4.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 77 (24.60%) CI/CD
3 73 (23.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 72 (23.00%) DevOps
4 72 (23.00%) Platform Engineering
5 51 (16.29%) Cloud Security
6 42 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (12.14%) Containerisation
8 33 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (9.58%) Observability
10 28 (8.95%) Mentoring
11 24 (7.67%) Agile
12 21 (6.71%) AI
13 20 (6.39%) Incident Response
13 20 (6.39%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (6.07%) Cloud Operations
14 19 (6.07%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (6.07%) ITIL
14 19 (6.07%) RBAC
15 18 (5.75%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.57%) PowerShell
2 50 (15.97%) Python
3 26 (8.31%) Bicep
4 19 (6.07%) SQL
5 15 (4.79%) Bash
6 14 (4.47%) Go
7 7 (2.24%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.92%) Java
9 3 (0.96%) C#
10 2 (0.64%) Groovy
10 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.32%) Perl
11 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.39%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.79%) Degree
5 9 (2.88%) CISM
5 9 (2.88%) CISSP
6 8 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.60%) CCSP
8 5 (1.60%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.64%) ISACA
10 2 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.32%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (4.15%) NIST
2 12 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (3.83%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.92%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.96%) GDPR
5 3 (0.96%) NCSC
5 3 (0.96%) QA
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (8.63%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.03%) Docker
3 14 (4.47%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.56%) VMware Server
6 4 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.64%) vSphere
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.63%) Ansible
3 19 (6.07%) Grafana
4 17 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.92%) Cilium
5 6 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.60%) Argo
6 5 (1.60%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.60%) Puppet
6 5 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.96%) Istio
8 2 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 2 (0.64%) SCOM
8 2 (0.64%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 58 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.67%) VMware
3 19 (6.07%) Google
4 10 (3.19%) Oracle
5 8 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.96%) Cisco
6 3 (0.96%) EMC
7 2 (0.64%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.64%) Meraki
7 2 (0.64%) Sage
7 2 (0.64%) Sophos
7 2 (0.64%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.64%) Veeam
8 1 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.32%) Databricks
8 1 (0.32%) New Relic
8 1 (0.32%) Okta
8 1 (0.32%) Qualys
8 1 (0.32%) Rackspace
8 1 (0.32%) Tenable