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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 301 246
Rank change year-on-year +96 -55 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 300 142 313
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.31% 0.86% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 0.93% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 233 97 220
10th Percentile £51,250 £35,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -2.22%

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 21,560 15,304 23,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.41% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,389 9,283 17,118
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 20 August 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 20 August 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.

1 151 (50.33%) Azure
2 109 (36.33%) Terraform
3 98 (32.67%) AWS
4 96 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (25.33%) CI/CD
5 76 (25.33%) DevOps
6 70 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
7 68 (22.67%) GCP
8 65 (21.67%) Security Cleared
9 55 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 55 (18.33%) Kubernetes
10 53 (17.67%) SC Cleared
11 50 (16.67%) Microsoft
12 47 (15.67%) PaaS
13 44 (14.67%) PowerShell
14 39 (13.00%) Python
15 38 (12.67%) Containerisation
16 36 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (11.67%) Ansible
17 35 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (11.33%) Cloud Security
19 31 (10.33%) Observability
20 28 (9.33%) Agile
21 26 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
22 25 (8.33%) Entra ID
23 24 (8.00%) ITIL
23 24 (8.00%) Mentoring
24 23 (7.67%) Active Directory
25 22 (7.33%) Docker
26 21 (7.00%) IaaS

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 6 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.33%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 151 (50.33%) Azure
2 98 (32.67%) AWS
3 68 (22.67%) GCP
4 47 (15.67%) PaaS
5 35 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 21 (7.00%) IaaS
8 20 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (6.67%) GitHub
9 18 (6.00%) SaaS
10 15 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.33%) Datadog
13 9 (3.00%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.67%) Azure AKS
14 8 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.00%) DNS
2 16 (5.33%) VPN
3 10 (3.33%) Firewall
4 7 (2.33%) DHCP
5 5 (1.67%) Network Security
6 4 (1.33%) Broadband
7 3 (1.00%) SAN
7 3 (1.00%) WAN
8 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.67%) Wireless
9 1 (0.33%) Skype
9 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.33%) VoIP
9 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.67%) BigQuery
2 4 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.33%) GitLab
3 9 (3.00%) Git
4 2 (0.67%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 64 (21.33%) Finance
2 38 (12.67%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (5.00%) Banking
4 12 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (3.67%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.67%) Law
7 6 (2.00%) Legal
7 6 (2.00%) Retail
8 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.67%) Advertising
10 1 (0.33%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (36.33%) Terraform
2 7 (2.33%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.33%) Node.js
3 4 (1.33%) Pulumi
3 4 (1.33%) YAML
4 3 (1.00%) Middleware
5 2 (0.67%) Jinja
5 2 (0.67%) Kafka
5 2 (0.67%) REST
5 2 (0.67%) Web Services
6 1 (0.33%) eBPF
6 1 (0.33%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.33%) Loki
6 1 (0.33%) OpenID
6 1 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.33%) SAML
6 1 (0.33%) Spring
6 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.33%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.67%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.67%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.00%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.67%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.00%) Blog
6 6 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.33%) PKI
9 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) SystemC
10 2 (0.67%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.67%) Replication
10 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.00%) Windows
2 15 (5.00%) Linux
3 10 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (25.33%) CI/CD
2 76 (25.33%) DevOps
3 70 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
4 55 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (12.67%) Containerisation
6 36 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (11.33%) Cloud Security
8 31 (10.33%) Observability
9 28 (9.33%) Agile
10 26 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (8.00%) ITIL
11 24 (8.00%) Mentoring
12 20 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
13 19 (6.33%) Cloud Operations
13 19 (6.33%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (6.00%) AI
14 18 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (6.00%) Roadmaps
15 17 (5.67%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.67%) PowerShell
2 39 (13.00%) Python
3 18 (6.00%) Bicep
4 12 (4.00%) Bash
5 10 (3.33%) SQL
6 7 (2.33%) Go
7 6 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.67%) C#
8 2 (0.67%) Groovy
9 1 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.33%) Java
9 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.33%) Perl
9 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 53 (17.67%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.33%) Degree
5 7 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.00%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.33%) CISM
7 4 (1.33%) CISSP
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CCNA
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.33%) IISP
10 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (2.33%) NIST
3 5 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.00%) GDPR
5 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.00%) NCSC
5 3 (1.00%) QA
6 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 23 (7.67%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.33%) Docker
3 10 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 10 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.67%) VMware Server
5 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.67%) vSphere
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.67%) Ansible
3 15 (5.00%) Grafana
4 12 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.33%) Puppet
6 6 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.67%) Argo
8 3 (1.00%) Istio
8 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.67%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.33%) Cilium
10 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.33%) VMware
3 13 (4.33%) Google
4 10 (3.33%) Oracle
5 8 (2.67%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.00%) Cisco
6 3 (1.00%) EMC
7 2 (0.67%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.67%) Meraki
7 2 (0.67%) Sage
7 2 (0.67%) Sophos
7 2 (0.67%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.67%) Veeam
8 1 (0.33%) Apple
8 1 (0.33%) Databricks
8 1 (0.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.33%) New Relic
8 1 (0.33%) Okta
8 1 (0.33%) Rackspace
8 1 (0.33%) Tenable