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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 206 238
Rank change year-on-year +26 +32 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 231 245 350
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.41% 1.59% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.67% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 171 174 319
10th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,637 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +0.98% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,875 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.92% -5.99%

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 15,354 14,655 26,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,279 9,014 22,299
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £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 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
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 21 February 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 February 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.

1 152 (65.80%) Azure
2 146 (63.20%) Terraform
3 128 (55.41%) DevOps
4 105 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 95 (41.13%) AWS
6 91 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 91 (39.39%) Python
7 72 (31.17%) Agile
8 71 (30.74%) Azure DevOps
9 70 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 69 (29.87%) Kubernetes
11 66 (28.57%) GitHub
12 56 (24.24%) Mentoring
12 56 (24.24%) Microsoft
13 52 (22.51%) SQL
14 50 (21.65%) Coaching
15 46 (19.91%) Java
15 46 (19.91%) Jenkins
16 41 (17.75%) PowerShell
16 41 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (17.32%) Entra ID
18 39 (16.88%) Firewall
19 38 (16.45%) Asset Management
19 38 (16.45%) Bash
19 38 (16.45%) Cloud Security
20 37 (16.02%) Containerisation
20 37 (16.02%) Linux
20 37 (16.02%) Test Automation
21 36 (15.58%) Observability
21 36 (15.58%) Windows

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 15 (6.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.60%) IIS
3 4 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.43%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.43%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 152 (65.80%) Azure
2 95 (41.13%) AWS
3 71 (30.74%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (28.57%) GitHub
5 40 (17.32%) Entra ID
6 34 (14.72%) OCI
7 29 (12.55%) IaaS
8 25 (10.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (10.82%) GCP
9 24 (10.39%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (10.39%) PaaS
10 23 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (9.52%) Azure AKS
12 21 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (9.09%) Serverless
13 20 (8.66%) SaaS
14 19 (8.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (7.36%) Power Platform
16 15 (6.49%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.88%) Firewall
2 22 (9.52%) VPN
3 21 (9.09%) DNS
4 9 (3.90%) Broadband
4 9 (3.90%) Network Security
4 9 (3.90%) WAN
5 7 (3.03%) DHCP
6 6 (2.60%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.60%) SSL
7 5 (2.16%) DMZ
7 5 (2.16%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.16%) STUN
7 5 (2.16%) VLAN
7 5 (2.16%) VoIP
8 4 (1.73%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.73%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.87%) LAN
10 1 (0.43%) DKIM
10 1 (0.43%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.36%) Power BI
2 15 (6.49%) Tableau
3 11 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.90%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.30%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (19.91%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
3 32 (13.85%) Git
4 16 (6.93%) JIRA
5 12 (5.19%) GitLab
6 9 (3.90%) Jaeger
7 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.73%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.87%) Selenium
10 1 (0.43%) Appium
10 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.43%) git-flow
10 1 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) Locust
10 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.43%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 50 (21.65%) Finance
2 30 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.90%) Billing
4 9 (3.90%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.60%) Banking
6 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.16%) Retail
7 4 (1.73%) Back Office
7 4 (1.73%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.73%) Law
7 4 (1.73%) Military
8 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Electronics
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Publishing
9 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.29%) RESTful
2 20 (8.66%) JSON
3 18 (7.79%) SOAP
3 18 (7.79%) XML
4 15 (6.49%) OAuth
4 15 (6.49%) OAuth2
4 15 (6.49%) SAML
5 10 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (3.46%) Node.js
8 7 (3.03%) Loki
9 6 (2.60%) ARM Templates
10 5 (2.16%) FreeSWITCH
11 4 (1.73%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.73%) Kafka
11 4 (1.73%) React
11 4 (1.73%) Vue
12 2 (0.87%) Hugging Face
12 2 (0.87%) Nuxt
12 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.11%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.60%) Blog
4 6 (2.60%) CMDB
5 5 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.73%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.02%) Linux
2 36 (15.58%) Windows
3 21 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.76%) Unix
5 5 (2.16%) Debian
5 5 (2.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (55.41%) DevOps
2 105 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 91 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (31.17%) Agile
5 70 (30.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (24.24%) Mentoring
7 50 (21.65%) Coaching
8 41 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (16.45%) Asset Management
9 38 (16.45%) Cloud Security
10 37 (16.02%) Containerisation
10 37 (16.02%) Test Automation
11 36 (15.58%) Observability
12 35 (15.15%) API Integration
13 33 (14.29%) ERP
13 33 (14.29%) Migration
14 31 (13.42%) Analytics
14 31 (13.42%) Identity Access Management
14 31 (13.42%) RBAC
15 30 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.39%) Python
2 52 (22.51%) SQL
3 46 (19.91%) Java
4 41 (17.75%) PowerShell
5 38 (16.45%) Bash
6 33 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 33 (14.29%) Shell Script
7 21 (9.09%) Bicep
8 17 (7.36%) Go
9 15 (6.49%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.87%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.69%) AWS Certification
3 26 (11.26%) SC Cleared
4 25 (10.82%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.36%) Degree
6 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (5.19%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.46%) NIST
2 8 (3.46%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.60%) GRC
4 5 (2.16%) GDPR
5 3 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 33 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 33 (14.29%) Docker
2 9 (3.90%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 146 (63.20%) Terraform
2 69 (29.87%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.72%) Single Sign-On
4 32 (13.85%) Ansible
5 21 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.79%) Grafana
7 16 (6.93%) Argo
8 9 (3.90%) Kustomize
8 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.73%) Cilium
10 2 (0.87%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.43%) Kibana
11 1 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 56 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.29%) Oracle
3 19 (8.23%) Okta
4 12 (5.19%) Google
5 6 (2.60%) SonicWALL
6 5 (2.16%) Cisco
6 5 (2.16%) VMware
7 4 (1.73%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.30%) Citrix
8 3 (1.30%) Databricks
9 2 (0.87%) Foundry
9 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.87%) Talend
10 1 (0.43%) Apple
10 1 (0.43%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.43%) New Relic
10 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.43%) Splunk
10 1 (0.43%) TIBCO