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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 271 219
Rank change year-on-year +72 -52 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 308 151 309
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.24% 0.91% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.97% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 232 97 190
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,950 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 23,365 15,489 20,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.21% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 16,055 8,753 12,926
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,821 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -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 October 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 October 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.

1 152 (49.35%) Azure
2 107 (34.74%) Terraform
3 105 (34.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (31.17%) AWS
5 78 (25.32%) CI/CD
6 74 (24.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 71 (23.05%) DevOps
7 71 (23.05%) Platform Engineering
8 68 (22.08%) GCP
9 57 (18.51%) Kubernetes
9 57 (18.51%) Microsoft
10 55 (17.86%) PowerShell
10 55 (17.86%) Security Cleared
11 52 (16.88%) Cloud Security
11 52 (16.88%) PaaS
11 52 (16.88%) Python
12 41 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (13.31%) SC Cleared
13 39 (12.66%) Containerisation
14 38 (12.34%) Microsoft 365
15 34 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (10.39%) Entra ID
17 30 (9.74%) Observability
18 28 (9.09%) Mentoring
18 28 (9.09%) VPN
19 27 (8.77%) Active Directory
19 27 (8.77%) Ansible
20 26 (8.44%) Bicep
21 25 (8.12%) IaaS
21 25 (8.12%) SaaS

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 8 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.30%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 152 (49.35%) Azure
2 96 (31.17%) AWS
3 68 (22.08%) GCP
4 52 (16.88%) PaaS
5 38 (12.34%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (10.39%) Entra ID
7 25 (8.12%) IaaS
7 25 (8.12%) SaaS
8 22 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.17%) GitHub
10 18 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (3.25%) Datadog
14 9 (2.92%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (2.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.09%) VPN
2 24 (7.79%) Firewall
3 21 (6.82%) DNS
4 11 (3.57%) Network Security
5 10 (3.25%) DHCP
6 6 (1.95%) BGP
6 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.62%) WAN
7 5 (1.62%) Wireless
8 4 (1.30%) Broadband
9 3 (0.97%) SAN
9 3 (0.97%) Wireless Security
10 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.65%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (5.19%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.92%) Git
3 8 (2.60%) GitLab
4 6 (1.95%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.97%) Maven
5 3 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.65%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.32%) Snyk
7 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 75 (24.35%) Finance
2 56 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 16 (5.19%) Banking
4 13 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.92%) Law
6 9 (2.92%) Legal
7 6 (1.95%) Back Office
7 6 (1.95%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.95%) Retail
8 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.32%) Advertising
10 1 (0.32%) Automotive
10 1 (0.32%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (34.74%) Terraform
2 8 (2.60%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.30%) Node.js
4 4 (1.30%) Pulumi
5 3 (0.97%) Middleware
5 3 (0.97%) REST
6 2 (0.65%) Jinja
6 2 (0.65%) Kafka
6 2 (0.65%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) .NET
7 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.32%) Loki
7 1 (0.32%) Next.js
7 1 (0.32%) OpenID
7 1 (0.32%) React
7 1 (0.32%) RESTful
7 1 (0.32%) SAML
7 1 (0.32%) Spring
7 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.19%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.90%) Blog
5 11 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.25%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.62%) PKI
9 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.97%) Clustering
11 3 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.97%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.79%) Windows
2 19 (6.17%) Linux
3 15 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) macOS
4 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (34.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 78 (25.32%) CI/CD
3 74 (24.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 71 (23.05%) DevOps
4 71 (23.05%) Platform Engineering
5 52 (16.88%) Cloud Security
6 41 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (12.66%) Containerisation
8 34 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (9.74%) Observability
10 28 (9.09%) Mentoring
11 24 (7.79%) Agile
12 21 (6.82%) AI
12 21 (6.82%) Incident Response
13 20 (6.49%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (6.17%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (6.17%) Identity Access Management
14 19 (6.17%) ITIL
14 19 (6.17%) RBAC
15 18 (5.84%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 52 (16.88%) Python
3 26 (8.44%) Bicep
4 20 (6.49%) SQL
5 15 (4.87%) Bash
5 15 (4.87%) Go
6 7 (2.27%) Java
6 7 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.97%) C#
8 2 (0.65%) Groovy
8 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.32%) Perl
9 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 41 (13.31%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.49%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.87%) Degree
5 10 (3.25%) CISM
5 10 (3.25%) CISSP
6 8 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.95%) CCSP
8 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.30%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.65%) ISACA
11 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.32%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (4.55%) NIST
2 13 (4.22%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.27%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.97%) GDPR
6 3 (0.97%) NCSC
6 3 (0.97%) QA
7 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.14%) Docker
3 14 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.60%) VMware Server
6 4 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.65%) vSphere
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.77%) Ansible
3 21 (6.82%) Grafana
4 16 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.27%) Cilium
5 7 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.62%) Argo
6 5 (1.62%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.30%) Puppet
8 3 (0.97%) Istio
9 2 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.65%) SCOM
9 2 (0.65%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 57 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.79%) VMware
3 20 (6.49%) Google
4 10 (3.25%) Oracle
5 8 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.97%) Cisco
6 3 (0.97%) EMC
7 2 (0.65%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.65%) Meraki
7 2 (0.65%) Sage
7 2 (0.65%) Sophos
7 2 (0.65%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.65%) Veeam
8 1 (0.32%) Apple
8 1 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.32%) Databricks
8 1 (0.32%) New Relic
8 1 (0.32%) Okta
8 1 (0.32%) Rackspace
8 1 (0.32%) Tenable