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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 290 237
Rank change year-on-year +77 -53 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 291 142 320
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 0.86% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.94% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 225 99 229
10th Percentile £51,250 £34,650 £46,000
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 £81,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -3.70%

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 21,347 15,142 24,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.09% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,330 9,342 17,539
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,503
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.01% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -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 11 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 11 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.

1 149 (51.20%) Azure
2 107 (36.77%) Terraform
3 97 (33.33%) AWS
4 94 (32.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (27.15%) DevOps
6 77 (26.46%) CI/CD
7 65 (22.34%) Platform Engineering
8 64 (21.99%) GCP
9 63 (21.65%) Security Cleared
10 55 (18.90%) Kubernetes
11 52 (17.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 51 (17.53%) SC Cleared
13 50 (17.18%) Microsoft
14 44 (15.12%) PaaS
15 43 (14.78%) PowerShell
16 38 (13.06%) Python
17 37 (12.71%) Containerisation
18 36 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 34 (11.68%) Ansible
19 34 (11.68%) Microsoft 365
20 33 (11.34%) Cloud Security
21 30 (10.31%) Observability
22 28 (9.62%) Agile
23 26 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
24 24 (8.25%) Active Directory
24 24 (8.25%) Entra ID
24 24 (8.25%) IaaS
24 24 (8.25%) Mentoring
25 23 (7.90%) ITIL
26 22 (7.56%) Docker

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 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.37%) IIS
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 149 (51.20%) Azure
2 97 (33.33%) AWS
3 64 (21.99%) GCP
4 44 (15.12%) PaaS
5 34 (11.68%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (8.25%) Entra ID
6 24 (8.25%) IaaS
7 21 (7.22%) GitHub
8 19 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (6.53%) SaaS
9 17 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.44%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.09%) Azure AKS
12 9 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.75%) Datadog
14 7 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.84%) DNS
1 17 (5.84%) VPN
2 10 (3.44%) Firewall
3 6 (2.06%) DHCP
4 5 (1.72%) Network Security
5 4 (1.37%) Broadband
6 3 (1.03%) SAN
6 3 (1.03%) VoIP
6 3 (1.03%) WAN
7 2 (0.69%) DMZ
7 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.69%) STUN
7 2 (0.69%) VLAN
7 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.69%) Wireless
8 1 (0.34%) Skype
8 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.72%) BigQuery
2 4 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.44%) Git
3 9 (3.09%) GitLab
4 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.69%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 58 (19.93%) Finance
2 39 (13.40%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.12%) Banking
4 12 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (3.44%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.75%) Law
7 6 (2.06%) Retail
8 5 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Legal
10 3 (1.03%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.75%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.37%) Node.js
3 4 (1.37%) YAML
4 3 (1.03%) Middleware
5 2 (0.69%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (0.69%) Jinja
5 2 (0.69%) REST
5 2 (0.69%) WAMP
5 2 (0.69%) Web Services
6 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.34%) Kafka
6 1 (0.34%) OpenID
6 1 (0.34%) PySpark
6 1 (0.34%) RESTful
6 1 (0.34%) SAML
6 1 (0.34%) Spring
6 1 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.09%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.72%) Blog
9 5 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.72%) PKI
10 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) SystemC
11 2 (0.69%) Clustering
11 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.19%) Windows
2 16 (5.50%) Linux
3 11 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.69%) Debian
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (32.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 79 (27.15%) DevOps
3 77 (26.46%) CI/CD
4 65 (22.34%) Platform Engineering
5 52 (17.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 37 (12.71%) Containerisation
7 36 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (11.34%) Cloud Security
9 30 (10.31%) Observability
10 28 (9.62%) Agile
11 26 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (8.25%) Mentoring
13 23 (7.90%) ITIL
14 20 (6.87%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (6.53%) AI
15 19 (6.53%) Cloud Operations
16 18 (6.19%) Roadmaps
17 17 (5.84%) Infrastructure Automation
17 17 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
18 16 (5.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.78%) PowerShell
2 38 (13.06%) Python
3 19 (6.53%) Bicep
4 13 (4.47%) SQL
5 12 (4.12%) Bash
6 6 (2.06%) Go
7 5 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.03%) C#
9 2 (0.69%) Groovy
10 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.34%) Java
10 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.34%) Perl
10 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 63 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.22%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.09%) Degree
5 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.06%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.37%) CISM
7 4 (1.37%) CISSP
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CCNA
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.34%) IISP
9 1 (0.34%) OCP
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (2.41%) NIST
3 5 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.03%) GDPR
4 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.03%) QA
5 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (8.25%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.56%) Docker
3 11 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.09%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.75%) VMware Server
6 4 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.69%) vSphere
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 107 (36.77%) Terraform
2 55 (18.90%) Kubernetes
3 34 (11.68%) Ansible
4 12 (4.12%) Grafana
5 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.41%) Puppet
7 5 (1.72%) Argo
7 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.03%) Istio
10 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.69%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.50%) VMware
3 12 (4.12%) Google
4 10 (3.44%) Oracle
5 6 (2.06%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.72%) Cisco
7 3 (1.03%) EMC
8 2 (0.69%) Apple
8 2 (0.69%) Broadcom
8 2 (0.69%) Databricks
8 2 (0.69%) Meraki
8 2 (0.69%) Sage
8 2 (0.69%) Sophos
8 2 (0.69%) Ubiquiti
8 2 (0.69%) Veeam
9 1 (0.34%) Foundry
9 1 (0.34%) New Relic
9 1 (0.34%) Okta
9 1 (0.34%) Rackspace
9 1 (0.34%) Tenable