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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 268 263
Rank change year-on-year +54 -5 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 261 162 373
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.22% 0.98% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.06% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 197 120 291
10th Percentile £45,400 £37,585 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -0.45% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -4.42%

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 20,071 15,221 30,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 92.31% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 14,571 9,459 23,646
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,023
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 15 July 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 15 July 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.

1 128 (49.04%) Azure
2 101 (38.70%) Terraform
3 90 (34.48%) AWS
3 90 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (31.80%) DevOps
5 80 (30.65%) CI/CD
6 61 (23.37%) GCP
7 57 (21.84%) Kubernetes
8 56 (21.46%) Security Cleared
9 47 (18.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 46 (17.62%) Microsoft
10 46 (17.62%) SC Cleared
11 43 (16.48%) Python
12 41 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (15.33%) Containerisation
14 33 (12.64%) PowerShell
15 32 (12.26%) Cloud Security
16 31 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (11.49%) Ansible
17 30 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (11.11%) PaaS
19 28 (10.73%) Agile
19 28 (10.73%) IaaS
20 27 (10.34%) Docker
21 25 (9.58%) Mentoring
22 24 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
22 24 (9.20%) Observability
23 23 (8.81%) Entra ID
24 22 (8.43%) Active Directory
24 22 (8.43%) Azure Certification

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 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) IIS
3 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 128 (49.04%) Azure
2 90 (34.48%) AWS
3 61 (23.37%) GCP
4 29 (11.11%) PaaS
5 28 (10.73%) IaaS
6 24 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (8.81%) Entra ID
8 22 (8.43%) GitHub
9 19 (7.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (5.36%) Amazon S3
12 13 (4.98%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.98%) SaaS
13 9 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.90%) Firewall
2 16 (6.13%) VPN
3 13 (4.98%) DNS
4 7 (2.68%) Broadband
5 6 (2.30%) Network Security
5 6 (2.30%) VoIP
6 5 (1.92%) DHCP
6 5 (1.92%) DMZ
6 5 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (1.92%) STUN
6 5 (1.92%) VLAN
7 3 (1.15%) SAN
7 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.15%) WAN
8 2 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.77%) Wireless
9 1 (0.38%) Skype
9 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (2.30%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.53%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 14 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.45%) Git
2 9 (3.45%) GitLab
3 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.15%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.77%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (12.64%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.88%) Finance
3 16 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.68%) Law
7 6 (2.30%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.92%) Banking
9 4 (1.53%) Billing
9 4 (1.53%) Retail
10 3 (1.15%) Advertising
10 3 (1.15%) Military
11 2 (0.77%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Automotive
12 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.45%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.92%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.53%) Node.js
4 4 (1.53%) YAML
5 3 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.15%) Middleware
5 3 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.77%) Jinja
6 2 (0.77%) REST
6 2 (0.77%) WAMP
6 2 (0.77%) Web Services
7 1 (0.38%) Loki
7 1 (0.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.96%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.68%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.92%) PKI
6 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.53%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.15%) Blog
9 2 (0.77%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.77%) IoT
9 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.66%) Linux
2 14 (5.36%) Windows
3 10 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.92%) Debian
5 3 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 83 (31.80%) DevOps
3 80 (30.65%) CI/CD
4 47 (18.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
6 40 (15.33%) Containerisation
7 32 (12.26%) Cloud Security
8 31 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (10.73%) Agile
11 25 (9.58%) Mentoring
12 24 (9.20%) Observability
13 22 (8.43%) Roadmaps
14 20 (7.66%) Cloud Operations
15 18 (6.90%) Collaborative Culture
15 18 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (6.51%) AI
17 16 (6.13%) High Availability
18 15 (5.75%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 43 (16.48%) Python
2 33 (12.64%) PowerShell
3 18 (6.90%) Bash
4 14 (5.36%) SQL
5 11 (4.21%) Go
6 10 (3.83%) Bicep
7 8 (3.07%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.15%) C#
8 3 (1.15%) Java
9 2 (0.77%) Groovy
10 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.38%) Perl
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.62%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.43%) Azure Certification
4 10 (3.83%) Degree
5 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.07%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.68%) DBS Check
8 6 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.30%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.53%) CISM
9 4 (1.53%) CISSP
10 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.38%) CCNA
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.38%) IISP
11 1 (0.38%) ISACA
11 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (3.07%) NIST
2 6 (2.30%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.15%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.15%) QA
5 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 27 (10.34%) Docker
2 22 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.30%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.77%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 101 (38.70%) Terraform
2 57 (21.84%) Kubernetes
3 30 (11.49%) Ansible
4 9 (3.45%) Grafana
4 9 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.07%) Argo
5 8 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.07%) Puppet
6 3 (1.15%) Istio
6 3 (1.15%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.77%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.36%) Google
3 13 (4.98%) VMware
4 10 (3.83%) Oracle
5 8 (3.07%) Cisco
6 3 (1.15%) Citrix
6 3 (1.15%) EMC
7 2 (0.77%) Apple
7 2 (0.77%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.77%) Databricks
7 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.77%) Meraki
7 2 (0.77%) Sophos
7 2 (0.77%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.77%) Veeam
8 1 (0.38%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.38%) Foundry
8 1 (0.38%) New Relic
8 1 (0.38%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.38%) Tenable