Cloud Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Work from Home is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 233 238
Rank change year-on-year -61 +5 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 349 633 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 1.49% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.55% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 304 452 765
10th Percentile £47,150 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,641 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,422 40,723 66,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.03% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 28,925 42,092
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024, 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 remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 231 (66.19%) Azure
2 184 (52.72%) AWS
3 179 (51.29%) Terraform
4 150 (42.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 127 (36.39%) DevOps
6 118 (33.81%) Python
7 116 (33.24%) Kubernetes
8 110 (31.52%) CI/CD
9 94 (26.93%) Docker
10 88 (25.21%) Agile
11 86 (24.64%) Finance
12 85 (24.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 83 (23.78%) Linux
14 74 (21.20%) Windows
14 74 (21.20%) Ansible
15 62 (17.77%) GitHub
15 62 (17.77%) Microsoft
16 57 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
16 57 (16.33%) Serverless
17 56 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
18 55 (15.76%) GCP
19 53 (15.19%) Jenkins
19 53 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
19 53 (15.19%) Firewall
20 52 (14.90%) Public Cloud
21 50 (14.33%) Active Directory
22 49 (14.04%) Mentoring
22 49 (14.04%) Social Skills
23 47 (13.47%) Cloud Security
24 45 (12.89%) PowerShell

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 18 (5.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.58%) Confluence
3 14 (4.01%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.86%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 231 (66.19%) Azure
2 184 (52.72%) AWS
3 62 (17.77%) GitHub
4 57 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (16.33%) Serverless
5 55 (15.76%) GCP
6 44 (12.61%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (12.61%) PaaS
7 41 (11.75%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (8.31%) Amazon S3
9 28 (8.02%) SaaS
10 27 (7.74%) Entra ID
11 26 (7.45%) IaaS
12 24 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (6.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 22 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (5.73%) Route 53
15 15 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (4.01%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.19%) Firewall
2 23 (6.59%) DNS
3 17 (4.87%) VPN
4 16 (4.58%) DHCP
4 16 (4.58%) WAN
5 14 (4.01%) LAN
6 10 (2.87%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.58%) Network Security
8 7 (2.01%) IPv4
9 6 (1.72%) WLAN
10 4 (1.15%) Multicast
11 3 (0.86%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.57%) Internet
12 2 (0.57%) OSPF
12 2 (0.57%) VLAN
13 1 (0.29%) HTTP
13 1 (0.29%) MPLS
13 1 (0.29%) SAN
13 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.87%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.72%) DB2
4 6 (1.72%) Power BI
5 5 (1.43%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.43%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.43%) MySQL
5 5 (1.43%) Tableau
6 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.86%) Airbyte
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.86%) Looker
7 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.57%) Redis
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (15.19%) Jenkins
2 34 (9.74%) GitLab
3 32 (9.17%) Git
4 21 (6.02%) Artifactory
5 16 (4.58%) JIRA
6 9 (2.58%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (2.58%) Subversion
7 8 (2.29%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.29%) Spinnaker
8 6 (1.72%) git-flow
9 4 (1.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 86 (24.64%) Finance
2 49 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 34 (9.74%) Banking
4 32 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.01%) Law
8 12 (3.44%) Retail
9 8 (2.29%) Legal
10 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Electronics
13 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.29%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Marketing
13 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.59%) Kafka
2 13 (3.72%) .NET
3 7 (2.01%) Node.js
4 6 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.43%) SAML
6 4 (1.15%) Django
6 4 (1.15%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.15%) RESTful
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Beam
8 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.57%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.57%) JWT
8 2 (0.57%) OAuth
8 2 (0.57%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.29%) ADO
9 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.29%) Flash
9 1 (0.29%) JDBC
9 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.90%) Public Cloud
2 36 (10.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (7.16%) Data Centre
4 24 (6.88%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.73%) Cloud Native
6 16 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.72%) Private Cloud
9 11 (3.15%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.58%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.29%) Onboarding
12 7 (2.01%) IoT
12 7 (2.01%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.43%) Blog
15 4 (1.15%) Driving Licence
15 4 (1.15%) Replication
15 4 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 83 (23.78%) Linux
2 74 (21.20%) Windows
3 30 (8.60%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.01%) Unix
6 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.86%) SUSE
9 3 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.86%) VMS
10 2 (0.57%) CentOS
10 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (42.98%) Infrastructure as Code
2 127 (36.39%) DevOps
3 110 (31.52%) CI/CD
4 88 (25.21%) Agile
5 85 (24.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
7 53 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (14.04%) Mentoring
9 47 (13.47%) Cloud Security
10 44 (12.61%) Software Engineering
11 42 (12.03%) Migration
12 41 (11.75%) Containerisation
12 41 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
12 41 (11.75%) ITIL
13 34 (9.74%) Service Management
14 32 (9.17%) Configuration Management
15 30 (8.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (7.74%) Roadmaps
17 26 (7.45%) Coaching
18 25 (7.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 118 (33.81%) Python
2 45 (12.89%) PowerShell
3 43 (12.32%) Java
4 24 (6.88%) SQL
5 23 (6.59%) Bash
6 19 (5.44%) Perl
7 16 (4.58%) Go
8 14 (4.01%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.15%) Bicep
9 11 (3.15%) C#
10 9 (2.58%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.01%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.15%) Ruby
13 3 (0.86%) AWK
13 3 (0.86%) sed
14 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.57%) Lua
14 2 (0.57%) PHP
14 2 (0.57%) Rust
15 1 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (11.46%) Degree
2 28 (8.02%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 17 (4.87%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.15%) CISM
10 4 (1.15%) CISSP
10 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.15%) MCSE
10 4 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.86%) PhD
12 2 (0.57%) VCP6
13 1 (0.29%) CCNP
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.44%) QA
2 10 (2.87%) SLA
3 7 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.01%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.72%) GDPR
5 4 (1.15%) NCSC
5 4 (1.15%) NIST
5 4 (1.15%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 94 (26.93%) Docker
2 50 (14.33%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.87%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.86%) Ceph
7 3 (0.86%) Gluster
7 3 (0.86%) KVM
7 3 (0.86%) oVirt
8 2 (0.57%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 179 (51.29%) Terraform
2 116 (33.24%) Kubernetes
3 74 (21.20%) Ansible
4 24 (6.88%) Puppet
5 22 (6.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (6.02%) Progress Chef
7 16 (4.58%) Salt
8 9 (2.58%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.58%) Packer
8 9 (2.58%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (1.72%) Grafana
10 6 (1.72%) Opsgenie
11 5 (1.43%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.86%) Graylog
12 3 (0.86%) Observium
12 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.57%) Istio
13 2 (0.57%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.89%) Google
3 23 (6.59%) VMware
4 14 (4.01%) Cisco
5 10 (2.87%) Zscaler
6 9 (2.58%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.29%) HP
7 8 (2.29%) Meraki
8 7 (2.01%) Confluent
9 6 (1.72%) IBM
9 6 (1.72%) McAfee
9 6 (1.72%) New Relic
10 5 (1.43%) Dell
10 5 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.43%) Splunk
11 4 (1.15%) BMC
11 4 (1.15%) Oracle
11 4 (1.15%) Remedy
11 4 (1.15%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.86%) Teradata