Cloud Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 295 222
Rank change year-on-year +86 -73 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 208 347 647
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.39% 1.03% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 1.07% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 163 305 466
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,740 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,641 £65,978
% change year-on-year +11.75% -5.06% +1.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 134 (64.42%) Azure
2 109 (52.40%) DevOps
3 83 (39.90%) AWS
4 77 (37.02%) Microsoft
4 77 (37.02%) Terraform
5 75 (36.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 74 (35.58%) Python
7 72 (34.62%) Cloud Security
8 69 (33.17%) CI/CD
9 56 (26.92%) Windows
10 53 (25.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 52 (25.00%) Degree
12 47 (22.60%) Linux
13 45 (21.63%) Kubernetes
14 43 (20.67%) Law
15 42 (20.19%) Social Skills
16 38 (18.27%) GCP
16 38 (18.27%) SaaS
17 37 (17.79%) Finance
17 37 (17.79%) Azure Certification
18 36 (17.31%) Ansible
18 36 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
19 35 (16.83%) SQL
20 34 (16.35%) PowerShell
21 33 (15.87%) Firewall
21 33 (15.87%) Public Cloud
22 32 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
23 31 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
24 30 (14.42%) PaaS
24 30 (14.42%) AWS Certification

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (10.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.92%) IBM Domino
4 3 (1.44%) IIS
5 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.96%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.48%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (9.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.96%) Simulink
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 134 (64.42%) Azure
2 83 (39.90%) AWS
3 38 (18.27%) GCP
3 38 (18.27%) SaaS
4 36 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (14.42%) PaaS
6 20 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (6.73%) Serverless
8 13 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (6.25%) IaaS
9 12 (5.77%) Entra ID
9 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (5.29%) GitHub
11 10 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.81%) OneDrive
12 8 (3.85%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.85%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.87%) Firewall
2 17 (8.17%) VPN
2 17 (8.17%) WAN
3 12 (5.77%) SAN
4 10 (4.81%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.85%) DHCP
5 8 (3.85%) DNS
5 8 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.85%) VLAN
6 7 (3.37%) LAN
6 7 (3.37%) OSPF
7 6 (2.88%) Multicast
8 5 (2.40%) BGP
8 5 (2.40%) NAS
8 5 (2.40%) VSAN
9 4 (1.92%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.92%) IPv4
10 3 (1.44%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (1.44%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.88%) DB2
2 6 (2.88%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.40%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.92%) MySQL
5 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.48%) Big Data
7 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (12.02%) Git
2 24 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.92%) GitLab
5 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.96%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 43 (20.67%) Law
2 42 (20.19%) Social Skills
3 37 (17.79%) Finance
4 21 (10.10%) Banking
4 21 (10.10%) Telecoms
5 12 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.81%) Legal
7 6 (2.88%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.40%) Advertising
8 5 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing
10 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.65%) HTML
1 18 (8.65%) Node.js
2 8 (3.85%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.40%) Middleware
4 4 (1.92%) JSON
5 3 (1.44%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.44%) Spring
5 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.96%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.96%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.96%) gRPC
6 2 (0.96%) Kafka
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.96%) Web Services
6 2 (0.96%) YAML
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.48%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.48%) pytest
7 1 (0.48%) RESTful
7 1 (0.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.87%) Public Cloud
2 29 (13.94%) Security Posture
3 21 (10.10%) Cloud Native
4 20 (9.62%) Management Information System
5 16 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 15 (7.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (4.33%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.85%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.88%) Replication
10 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.92%) IoT
12 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (26.92%) Windows
2 47 (22.60%) Linux
3 17 (8.17%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.37%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.44%) VMS
7 2 (0.96%) CentOS
7 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (52.40%) DevOps
2 75 (36.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (34.62%) Cloud Security
4 69 (33.17%) CI/CD
5 53 (25.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (13.94%) High Availability
9 28 (13.46%) Artificial Intelligence
9 28 (13.46%) Containerisation
10 27 (12.98%) Roadmaps
11 26 (12.50%) Computer Science
12 25 (12.02%) Security Operations
13 24 (11.54%) Agile
14 23 (11.06%) Incident Management
15 22 (10.58%) Analytics
15 22 (10.58%) Migration
16 21 (10.10%) Continuous Delivery
16 21 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
17 20 (9.62%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 74 (35.58%) Python
2 35 (16.83%) SQL
3 34 (16.35%) PowerShell
4 21 (10.10%) C#
5 20 (9.62%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.65%) C++
7 14 (6.73%) Bash
8 8 (3.85%) Bicep
9 7 (3.37%) Java
10 5 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.92%) R
12 2 (0.96%) Go
12 2 (0.96%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (25.00%) Degree
2 37 (17.79%) Azure Certification
3 30 (14.42%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (6.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 12 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.29%) Security Cleared
8 8 (3.85%) SC Cleared
9 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.88%) CCNA
10 6 (2.88%) CCNP
10 6 (2.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.44%) CCIE
12 3 (1.44%) CISSP
12 3 (1.44%) RHCE
13 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.96%) CEH
14 1 (0.48%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.88%) GDPR
2 6 (2.88%) QA
3 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) NIST
3 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (12.02%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.65%) Docker
3 16 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.37%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.96%) Firmware
9 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (37.02%) Terraform
2 45 (21.63%) Kubernetes
3 36 (17.31%) Ansible
4 11 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.88%) Grafana
6 5 (2.40%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.92%) Puppet
8 3 (1.44%) SCCM
9 2 (0.96%) Argo
9 2 (0.96%) Nagios
10 1 (0.48%) CASB
10 1 (0.48%) Istio
10 1 (0.48%) linkerd
10 1 (0.48%) SCOM
10 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (37.02%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.65%) PayPal
3 15 (7.21%) Cisco
4 14 (6.73%) VMware
5 11 (5.29%) Google
6 7 (3.37%) Oracle
7 6 (2.88%) IBM
7 6 (2.88%) Splunk
8 5 (2.40%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.92%) F5
9 4 (1.92%) Veeam
10 3 (1.44%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.44%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.96%) Databricks
11 2 (0.96%) Informatica
11 2 (0.96%) Meraki
11 2 (0.96%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.96%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.96%) SAP