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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 270 245
Rank change year-on-year +56 -25 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 267 160 348
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 0.97% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.05% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 204 114 267
10th Percentile £47,500 £35,725 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,298 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,227 £74,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,125 £88,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -5.13%

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 20,416 15,183 27,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.20% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,769 9,436 20,549
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
% change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%

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 24 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 24 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.

1 138 (51.69%) Azure
2 104 (38.95%) Terraform
3 91 (34.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (33.71%) AWS
5 83 (31.09%) CI/CD
6 80 (29.96%) DevOps
7 64 (23.97%) GCP
8 59 (22.10%) Security Cleared
9 57 (21.35%) Kubernetes
10 49 (18.35%) Microsoft
10 49 (18.35%) Platform Engineering
10 49 (18.35%) SC Cleared
11 47 (17.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 42 (15.73%) Python
13 39 (14.61%) Containerisation
14 37 (13.86%) PowerShell
15 35 (13.11%) PaaS
16 33 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (11.99%) Cloud Security
18 30 (11.24%) Ansible
18 30 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
19 28 (10.49%) Agile
20 27 (10.11%) IaaS
20 27 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
20 27 (10.11%) Observability
21 25 (9.36%) Docker
22 24 (8.99%) Active Directory
22 24 (8.99%) Entra ID
22 24 (8.99%) Mentoring
23 23 (8.61%) 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 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 138 (51.69%) Azure
2 90 (33.71%) AWS
3 64 (23.97%) GCP
4 35 (13.11%) PaaS
5 27 (10.11%) IaaS
5 27 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (8.99%) Entra ID
7 22 (8.24%) GitHub
8 19 (7.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (5.62%) SaaS
11 14 (5.24%) Amazon S3
12 13 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (4.12%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.37%) VPN
2 14 (5.24%) DNS
2 14 (5.24%) Firewall
3 7 (2.62%) Network Security
4 5 (1.87%) DHCP
4 5 (1.87%) VoIP
5 4 (1.50%) Broadband
5 4 (1.50%) DMZ
5 4 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.50%) STUN
5 4 (1.50%) VLAN
6 3 (1.12%) SAN
6 3 (1.12%) WAN
7 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.75%) Wireless
8 1 (0.37%) Skype
8 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.87%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (5.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.75%) Git
3 9 (3.37%) GitLab
4 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 42 (15.73%) Finance
2 37 (13.86%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (3.00%) Law
5 7 (2.62%) Banking
5 7 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (2.62%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.87%) Retail
7 3 (1.12%) Advertising
7 3 (1.12%) Legal
7 3 (1.12%) Military
8 2 (0.75%) Billing
9 1 (0.37%) Automotive
9 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.37%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.50%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.50%) Node.js
3 4 (1.50%) YAML
4 3 (1.12%) Middleware
5 2 (0.75%) Jinja
5 2 (0.75%) REST
5 2 (0.75%) WAMP
5 2 (0.75%) Web Services
6 1 (0.37%) Kafka
6 1 (0.37%) Loki
6 1 (0.37%) PySpark
6 1 (0.37%) RESTful
6 1 (0.37%) Spring
6 1 (0.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.00%) Driving Licence
3 8 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.87%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.87%) PKI
6 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.87%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.50%) Blog
8 2 (0.75%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.75%) Clustering
8 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.75%) Replication
8 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.37%) Linux
2 16 (5.99%) Windows
3 11 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.50%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 83 (31.09%) CI/CD
3 80 (29.96%) DevOps
4 49 (18.35%) Platform Engineering
5 47 (17.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 39 (14.61%) Containerisation
7 33 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (11.99%) Cloud Security
9 30 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (10.49%) Agile
11 27 (10.11%) Observability
12 24 (8.99%) Mentoring
13 19 (7.12%) Cloud Operations
13 19 (7.12%) Roadmaps
13 19 (7.12%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (6.74%) Collaborative Culture
14 18 (6.74%) Infrastructure Automation
14 18 (6.74%) ITIL
15 17 (6.37%) AI
16 15 (5.62%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.73%) Python
2 37 (13.86%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.62%) Bash
4 14 (5.24%) SQL
5 13 (4.87%) Bicep
6 8 (3.00%) Go
7 6 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.12%) C#
9 2 (0.75%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) Java
10 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.37%) Perl
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.61%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.37%) Degree
5 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.62%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.50%) CISM
9 4 (1.50%) CISSP
10 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.37%) IISP
11 1 (0.37%) ISACA
11 1 (0.37%) OCP
11 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (3.00%) NIST
3 6 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.12%) GDPR
5 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.12%) QA
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (9.36%) Docker
2 24 (8.99%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.62%) VMware Server
6 6 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.75%) vSphere
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (38.95%) Terraform
2 57 (21.35%) Kubernetes
3 30 (11.24%) Ansible
4 11 (4.12%) Grafana
5 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (3.00%) Puppet
7 6 (2.25%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.87%) Argo
9 3 (1.12%) Istio
9 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.75%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 49 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.24%) VMware
3 11 (4.12%) Google
4 10 (3.75%) Oracle
5 7 (2.62%) Cisco
6 4 (1.50%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.12%) EMC
8 2 (0.75%) Apple
8 2 (0.75%) Broadcom
8 2 (0.75%) Citrix
8 2 (0.75%) Databricks
8 2 (0.75%) Meraki
8 2 (0.75%) Sophos
8 2 (0.75%) Ubiquiti
8 2 (0.75%) Veeam
9 1 (0.37%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.37%) Foundry
9 1 (0.37%) New Relic
9 1 (0.37%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.37%) Tenable