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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 283 264
Rank change year-on-year +70 -19 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 264 163 378
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 0.99% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.08% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 198 120 295
10th Percentile £45,425 £37,733 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -0.45% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,846 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 19,926 15,150 31,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,489 9,444 24,245
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,804 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +5.80% -9.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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.

1 122 (46.21%) Azure
2 105 (39.77%) Terraform
3 98 (37.12%) AWS
4 94 (35.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 89 (33.71%) DevOps
6 80 (30.30%) CI/CD
7 63 (23.86%) GCP
8 60 (22.73%) Kubernetes
9 58 (21.97%) Security Cleared
10 47 (17.80%) Python
11 46 (17.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 46 (17.42%) Microsoft
11 46 (17.42%) SC Cleared
12 42 (15.91%) Containerisation
13 38 (14.39%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (13.26%) Cloud Security
15 34 (12.88%) Ansible
16 33 (12.50%) PowerShell
17 32 (12.12%) Agile
17 32 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (11.74%) Docker
18 31 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (10.98%) Mentoring
20 28 (10.61%) IaaS
21 26 (9.85%) PaaS
22 25 (9.47%) Linux
22 25 (9.47%) Roadmaps
23 24 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
23 24 (9.09%) Observability
24 23 (8.71%) Entra ID

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 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) IIS
3 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 122 (46.21%) Azure
2 98 (37.12%) AWS
3 63 (23.86%) GCP
4 28 (10.61%) IaaS
5 26 (9.85%) PaaS
6 24 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (8.71%) Entra ID
8 22 (8.33%) GitHub
9 20 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (6.06%) SaaS
12 14 (5.30%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.92%) Azure AKS
13 13 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.79%) Pulumi
14 10 (3.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.82%) Firewall
2 16 (6.06%) VPN
3 13 (4.92%) DNS
4 10 (3.79%) Broadband
5 6 (2.27%) Network Security
5 6 (2.27%) VoIP
6 5 (1.89%) DHCP
6 5 (1.89%) DMZ
6 5 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (1.89%) STUN
6 5 (1.89%) VLAN
7 3 (1.14%) SAN
7 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.14%) WAN
8 2 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.76%) Wireless
9 1 (0.38%) Skype
9 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.27%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.27%) RDBMS
2 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.89%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 14 (5.30%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.79%) Git
3 9 (3.41%) GitLab
4 6 (2.27%) Jaeger
5 5 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.76%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 35 (13.26%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.23%) Finance
3 18 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.65%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.27%) Law
8 4 (1.52%) Banking
8 4 (1.52%) Billing
9 3 (1.14%) Advertising
9 3 (1.14%) Military
9 3 (1.14%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Automotive
11 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.41%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.89%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.52%) Node.js
4 4 (1.52%) YAML
5 2 (0.76%) Jinja
5 2 (0.76%) Loki
5 2 (0.76%) Middleware
5 2 (0.76%) REST
5 2 (0.76%) WAMP
5 2 (0.76%) Web Services
6 1 (0.38%) JSON
6 1 (0.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.85%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.65%) Driving Licence
4 6 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.52%) PKI
7 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.76%) Blog
8 2 (0.76%) Clustering
8 2 (0.76%) IoT
8 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.47%) Linux
2 14 (5.30%) Windows
3 10 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.65%) Unix
5 5 (1.89%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (35.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 89 (33.71%) DevOps
3 80 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 46 (17.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 42 (15.91%) Containerisation
6 38 (14.39%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (13.26%) Cloud Security
8 32 (12.12%) Agile
8 32 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (10.98%) Mentoring
11 25 (9.47%) Roadmaps
12 24 (9.09%) Observability
13 21 (7.95%) Cloud Operations
14 20 (7.58%) High Availability
15 19 (7.20%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (6.82%) Collaborative Culture
16 18 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
17 17 (6.44%) AI
18 15 (5.68%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.80%) Python
2 33 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 22 (8.33%) Bash
4 15 (5.68%) SQL
5 13 (4.92%) Go
6 11 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.79%) Bicep
8 7 (2.65%) Java
9 3 (1.14%) C#
10 2 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.38%) Perl
11 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (21.97%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 12 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.17%) Degree
6 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.65%) DBS Check
8 6 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.52%) CISM
9 4 (1.52%) CISSP
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.38%) CCNA
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.38%) IISP
11 1 (0.38%) ISACA
11 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (3.03%) NIST
2 6 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.14%) GDPR
4 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.14%) QA
5 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 31 (11.74%) Docker
2 22 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.27%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.76%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 105 (39.77%) Terraform
2 60 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 34 (12.88%) Ansible
4 13 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.17%) Argo
6 10 (3.79%) Grafana
7 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (3.03%) Puppet
8 6 (2.27%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.14%) Istio
9 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.76%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.44%) Google
3 13 (4.92%) VMware
4 9 (3.41%) Oracle
5 8 (3.03%) Cisco
6 3 (1.14%) Citrix
6 3 (1.14%) EMC
7 2 (0.76%) Apple
7 2 (0.76%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.76%) Databricks
7 2 (0.76%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.76%) Meraki
7 2 (0.76%) Sophos
7 2 (0.76%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.76%) Veeam
8 1 (0.38%) Foundry
8 1 (0.38%) New Relic
8 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.38%) Tenable
8 1 (0.38%) TIBCO