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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 263 283
Rank change year-on-year +81 +20 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 254 174 349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.33% 1.20% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.30% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 193 129 301
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,274 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +5.56% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,650 £90,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.14% +12.00% -6.02%

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 17,912 13,354 31,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,218 8,198 25,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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.

1 132 (51.97%) Azure
2 127 (50.00%) Terraform
3 101 (39.76%) DevOps
4 90 (35.43%) AWS
5 88 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 84 (33.07%) CI/CD
7 61 (24.02%) Security Cleared
8 58 (22.83%) Kubernetes
9 55 (21.65%) Python
10 52 (20.47%) Agile
11 48 (18.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 47 (18.50%) SC Cleared
13 46 (18.11%) Microsoft
14 42 (16.54%) GCP
15 40 (15.75%) Mentoring
16 39 (15.35%) Containerisation
17 38 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
18 37 (14.57%) Roadmaps
19 33 (12.99%) Entra ID
20 31 (12.20%) Ansible
20 31 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
20 31 (12.20%) Docker
20 31 (12.20%) GitHub
21 30 (11.81%) Bash
21 30 (11.81%) Cloud Security
21 30 (11.81%) Observability
22 29 (11.42%) IaaS
22 29 (11.42%) Linux
23 26 (10.24%) High Availability
24 25 (9.84%) Active Directory

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 5 (1.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (3.94%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.39%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 132 (51.97%) Azure
2 90 (35.43%) AWS
3 42 (16.54%) GCP
4 33 (12.99%) Entra ID
5 31 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (12.20%) GitHub
6 29 (11.42%) IaaS
7 25 (9.84%) PaaS
8 19 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.91%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.12%) Pulumi
13 12 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (4.72%) SaaS
14 11 (4.33%) Amazon S3
14 11 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.66%) DNS
1 22 (8.66%) Firewall
2 12 (4.72%) VPN
3 11 (4.33%) Broadband
4 6 (2.36%) VoIP
5 5 (1.97%) DHCP
5 5 (1.97%) DMZ
5 5 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (1.97%) STUN
5 5 (1.97%) VLAN
6 3 (1.18%) Network Security
6 3 (1.18%) SAN
6 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.18%) WAN
7 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.79%) Wireless
8 1 (0.39%) Skype
8 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.54%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.54%) RDBMS
2 9 (3.54%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (1.97%) Power BI
4 5 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.97%) Tableau
5 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (9.84%) Git
2 21 (8.27%) GitLab
2 21 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.94%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (3.54%) Jaeger
5 5 (1.97%) JIRA
5 5 (1.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.39%) JMeter
7 1 (0.39%) Locust
7 1 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (12.20%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.87%) Finance
3 19 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (3.94%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.54%) Billing
6 7 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.57%) Law
9 3 (1.18%) Advertising
9 3 (1.18%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (3.94%) RESTful
2 9 (3.54%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (3.15%) ARM Templates
4 7 (2.76%) Loki
5 6 (2.36%) JSON
6 5 (1.97%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (1.97%) OAuth
6 5 (1.97%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.97%) SAML
6 5 (1.97%) SOAP
6 5 (1.97%) XML
7 4 (1.57%) YAML
8 2 (0.79%) .NET
8 2 (0.79%) Middleware
8 2 (0.79%) Node.js
8 2 (0.79%) WAMP
9 1 (0.39%) pytest
9 1 (0.39%) REST
9 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.02%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.57%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.18%) PKI
8 2 (0.79%) Blog
8 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.79%) Replication
8 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.42%) Linux
2 17 (6.69%) Windows
2 17 (6.69%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.94%) Unix
4 5 (1.97%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (39.76%) DevOps
2 88 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (33.07%) CI/CD
4 52 (20.47%) Agile
5 48 (18.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (15.75%) Mentoring
7 39 (15.35%) Containerisation
8 38 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (14.57%) Roadmaps
10 30 (11.81%) Cloud Security
10 30 (11.81%) Observability
11 26 (10.24%) High Availability
12 25 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (9.06%) Coaching
13 23 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (7.48%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
16 17 (6.69%) RBAC
17 16 (6.30%) AI
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.65%) Python
2 30 (11.81%) Bash
3 25 (9.84%) PowerShell
4 21 (8.27%) Java
4 21 (8.27%) SQL
5 15 (5.91%) Go
6 13 (5.12%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.94%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.94%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.15%) Bicep
9 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.79%) C#
11 1 (0.39%) Groovy
11 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 61 (24.02%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.50%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.87%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.69%) AWS Certification
5 15 (5.91%) Degree
6 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.36%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.79%) CISM
10 2 (0.79%) CISSP
10 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CCNA
11 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.39%) IISP
11 1 (0.39%) ISACA
11 1 (0.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.76%) NIST
2 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.18%) GDPR
3 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 31 (12.20%) Docker
2 25 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.18%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.79%) vSphere
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 127 (50.00%) Terraform
2 58 (22.83%) Kubernetes
3 31 (12.20%) Ansible
4 22 (8.66%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.91%) Argo
6 14 (5.51%) Grafana
7 13 (5.12%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (3.54%) Kustomize
9 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.36%) Puppet
11 2 (0.79%) Istio
11 2 (0.79%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.33%) Oracle
3 9 (3.54%) Google
3 9 (3.54%) VMware
4 8 (3.15%) Cisco
5 5 (1.97%) Okta
6 3 (1.18%) Citrix
6 3 (1.18%) EMC
7 2 (0.79%) Apple
7 2 (0.79%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.79%) Meraki
7 2 (0.79%) Sophos
7 2 (0.79%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.79%) Veeam
8 1 (0.39%) Databricks
8 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.39%) Foundry
8 1 (0.39%) New Relic
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) TIBCO