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 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 197 255
Rank change year-on-year -1 +58 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 210 230 345
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 1.70% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.80% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 159 179 313
10th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £47,100
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,274 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +1.96% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,500 £94,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -3.41%

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 15,831 12,774 28,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 94.68% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,739 8,896 24,013
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,625 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,313 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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.

1 133 (63.33%) Azure
2 125 (59.52%) Terraform
3 111 (52.86%) DevOps
4 87 (41.43%) CI/CD
5 84 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (38.57%) AWS
7 71 (33.81%) Python
8 62 (29.52%) Kubernetes
9 61 (29.05%) Agile
10 57 (27.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 54 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (24.29%) Microsoft
13 50 (23.81%) Mentoring
14 48 (22.86%) GitHub
15 40 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (17.62%) Coaching
16 37 (17.62%) SQL
17 36 (17.14%) Security Cleared
18 35 (16.67%) Bash
18 35 (16.67%) Java
19 34 (16.19%) Cloud Security
19 34 (16.19%) Containerisation
19 34 (16.19%) Entra ID
20 32 (15.24%) Jenkins
21 31 (14.76%) Firewall
21 31 (14.76%) PowerShell
22 30 (14.29%) Docker
22 30 (14.29%) Linux
23 29 (13.81%) Observability
24 28 (13.33%) Ansible

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 10 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.95%) IIS
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.48%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (10.48%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.48%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 133 (63.33%) Azure
2 81 (38.57%) AWS
3 54 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (22.86%) GitHub
5 34 (16.19%) Entra ID
6 27 (12.86%) IaaS
7 24 (11.43%) GCP
8 23 (10.95%) OCI
8 23 (10.95%) PaaS
9 22 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (9.52%) SaaS
12 19 (9.05%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (8.57%) Azure AKS
13 18 (8.57%) Serverless
14 15 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (5.71%) Power Platform
17 10 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.76%) Firewall
2 16 (7.62%) DNS
3 14 (6.67%) VPN
4 9 (4.29%) Broadband
4 9 (4.29%) Network Security
5 5 (2.38%) DMZ
5 5 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.38%) STUN
5 5 (2.38%) VLAN
5 5 (2.38%) VoIP
6 4 (1.90%) DHCP
6 4 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.43%) WAN
8 2 (0.95%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.95%) SSL
9 1 (0.48%) DKIM
9 1 (0.48%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.71%) Power BI
2 11 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.24%) Relational Database
3 10 (4.76%) Tableau
4 9 (4.29%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.29%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (15.24%) Jenkins
2 27 (12.86%) Git
3 22 (10.48%) Oracle Forms
4 14 (6.67%) GitLab
5 11 (5.24%) JIRA
6 9 (4.29%) Jaeger
7 5 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.90%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) Locust
9 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.48%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 36 (17.14%) Finance
2 31 (14.76%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.29%) Billing
4 9 (4.29%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.38%) Banking
6 5 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.38%) Retail
7 4 (1.90%) Back Office
7 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.90%) Military
8 2 (0.95%) Advertising
8 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.48%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.48%) RESTful
2 14 (6.67%) JSON
3 12 (5.71%) SOAP
3 12 (5.71%) XML
4 10 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (4.76%) OAuth
4 10 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 10 (4.76%) SAML
5 9 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (3.33%) Loki
7 6 (2.86%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.86%) Node.js
8 5 (2.38%) FreeSWITCH
9 3 (1.43%) YAML
10 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.95%) CSS
10 2 (0.95%) HTML
10 2 (0.95%) Kafka
10 2 (0.95%) React
10 2 (0.95%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.48%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.86%) Blog
6 5 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.38%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.95%) CMDB
8 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.29%) Linux
2 25 (11.90%) Windows
3 17 (8.10%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.24%) Unix
5 5 (2.38%) Debian
6 3 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (52.86%) DevOps
2 87 (41.43%) CI/CD
3 84 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (29.05%) Agile
5 57 (27.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 50 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 40 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (17.62%) Coaching
9 34 (16.19%) Cloud Security
9 34 (16.19%) Containerisation
10 29 (13.81%) Observability
11 26 (12.38%) Roadmaps
11 26 (12.38%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (11.90%) Analytics
12 25 (11.90%) Asset Management
12 25 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (11.90%) Test Automation
13 24 (11.43%) High Availability
13 24 (11.43%) RBAC
14 23 (10.95%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (33.81%) Python
2 37 (17.62%) SQL
3 35 (16.67%) Bash
3 35 (16.67%) Java
4 31 (14.76%) PowerShell
5 22 (10.48%) PL/SQL
5 22 (10.48%) Shell Script
6 17 (8.10%) Go
7 16 (7.62%) Bicep
8 14 (6.67%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.95%) Ruby
9 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) C#
Qualifications
1 36 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.48%) AWS Certification
3 22 (10.48%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.14%) Degree
5 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.81%) NIST
3 6 (2.86%) GRC
3 6 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.43%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 30 (14.29%) Docker
2 24 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 125 (59.52%) Terraform
2 62 (29.52%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.33%) Ansible
4 23 (10.95%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.62%) Argo
7 15 (7.14%) Grafana
8 9 (4.29%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.90%) Cilium
9 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.90%) Puppet
10 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.48%) Kibana
10 1 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 51 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.48%) Oracle
3 13 (6.19%) Okta
4 12 (5.71%) Google
5 5 (2.38%) Cisco
5 5 (2.38%) VMware
6 4 (1.90%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.43%) Citrix
7 3 (1.43%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) Foundry
8 2 (0.95%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.95%) SonicWALL
8 2 (0.95%) Talend
9 1 (0.48%) Apple
9 1 (0.48%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.48%) New Relic
9 1 (0.48%) SAP
9 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.48%) Splunk
9 1 (0.48%) TIBCO