Hybrid/Remote Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 217 219
Rank change year-on-year +43 +2 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 216 247 318
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.43% 1.50% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 1.56% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 152 165 282
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +5.47% -4.17%

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 14,192 15,786 20,712
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 96.08% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,246 9,506 16,952
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,500 £35,514
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,057 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,244 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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.

1 153 (70.83%) Azure
2 145 (67.13%) Terraform
3 125 (57.87%) DevOps
4 105 (48.61%) CI/CD
5 89 (41.20%) AWS
6 87 (40.28%) Python
7 85 (39.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 73 (33.80%) Azure DevOps
9 70 (32.41%) GitHub
10 69 (31.94%) Agile
11 68 (31.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 65 (30.09%) Kubernetes
13 55 (25.46%) Coaching
13 55 (25.46%) Jenkins
13 55 (25.46%) SQL
14 54 (25.00%) Microsoft
15 50 (23.15%) Mentoring
16 47 (21.76%) Java
17 44 (20.37%) Asset Management
17 44 (20.37%) Windows
18 42 (19.44%) PowerShell
19 41 (18.98%) Test Automation
20 40 (18.52%) Cloud Security
21 39 (18.06%) API Integration
22 38 (17.59%) OCI
23 37 (17.13%) ERP
23 37 (17.13%) Linux
23 37 (17.13%) Oracle
23 37 (17.13%) Oracle ERP
23 37 (17.13%) Oracle Forms

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 17 (7.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.78%) IIS
3 4 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (17.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 153 (70.83%) Azure
2 89 (41.20%) AWS
3 73 (33.80%) Azure DevOps
4 70 (32.41%) GitHub
5 38 (17.59%) OCI
6 35 (16.20%) Entra ID
7 26 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (11.57%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (11.11%) GCP
10 22 (10.19%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (10.19%) IaaS
11 21 (9.72%) PaaS
11 21 (9.72%) SaaS
12 20 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (8.80%) Azure AKS
13 19 (8.80%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (8.80%) Power Platform
14 17 (7.87%) GitHub Copilot
15 16 (7.41%) Serverless
16 15 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.35%) Firewall
2 21 (9.72%) VPN
3 20 (9.26%) DNS
4 9 (4.17%) WAN
5 8 (3.70%) Network Security
6 6 (2.78%) Broadband
6 6 (2.78%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.78%) SSL
7 4 (1.85%) DHCP
7 4 (1.85%) DMZ
7 4 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.85%) STUN
7 4 (1.85%) VLAN
7 4 (1.85%) VoIP
8 2 (0.93%) LAN
9 1 (0.46%) DKIM
9 1 (0.46%) DMARC
9 1 (0.46%) SAN
9 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.80%) Power BI
2 17 (7.87%) Tableau
3 8 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.85%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.39%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.46%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (25.46%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.13%) Oracle Forms
3 35 (16.20%) Git
4 18 (8.33%) JIRA
5 13 (6.02%) GitLab
6 6 (2.78%) Jaeger
7 4 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.93%) Selenium
9 1 (0.46%) Appium
9 1 (0.46%) git-flow
9 1 (0.46%) JMeter
9 1 (0.46%) Locust
9 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.46%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 54 (25.00%) Finance
2 23 (10.65%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.24%) Law
6 6 (2.78%) Banking
7 5 (2.31%) Billing
7 5 (2.31%) Retail
8 4 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.85%) Back Office
8 4 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.46%) Electronics
9 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Military
9 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.13%) RESTful
2 21 (9.72%) JSON
3 20 (9.26%) SOAP
3 20 (9.26%) XML
4 17 (7.87%) OAuth
4 17 (7.87%) OAuth2
4 17 (7.87%) SAML
5 11 (5.09%) Node.js
6 7 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.78%) Loki
7 6 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.85%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.85%) Kafka
8 4 (1.85%) React
8 4 (1.85%) Vue
9 3 (1.39%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.93%) Hugging Face
10 2 (0.93%) Nuxt
10 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 59 (27.31%) Cloud Native
2 37 (17.13%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.78%) Blog
5 6 (2.78%) CMDB
5 6 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.39%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.37%) Windows
2 37 (17.13%) Linux
3 24 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.24%) Unix
4 7 (3.24%) VMS
5 4 (1.85%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (57.87%) DevOps
2 105 (48.61%) CI/CD
3 85 (39.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (31.94%) Agile
5 68 (31.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 55 (25.46%) Coaching
7 50 (23.15%) Mentoring
8 44 (20.37%) Asset Management
9 41 (18.98%) Test Automation
10 40 (18.52%) Cloud Security
11 39 (18.06%) API Integration
12 37 (17.13%) ERP
13 36 (16.67%) Migration
13 36 (16.67%) Observability
14 35 (16.20%) Identity Access Management
15 34 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (15.28%) RBAC
17 32 (14.81%) Analytics
18 31 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
19 25 (11.57%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 87 (40.28%) Python
2 55 (25.46%) SQL
3 47 (21.76%) Java
4 42 (19.44%) PowerShell
5 37 (17.13%) PL/SQL
5 37 (17.13%) Shell Script
6 30 (13.89%) Bash
7 23 (10.65%) Bicep
8 12 (5.56%) Go
9 10 (4.63%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.57%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 16 (7.41%) Degree
6 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.46%) CISM
9 1 (0.46%) CISSP
9 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.63%) PCI DSS
3 9 (4.17%) SOC 2
4 7 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.78%) GDPR
5 6 (2.78%) GRC
5 6 (2.78%) NIST
6 4 (1.85%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 29 (13.43%) Active Directory
2 24 (11.11%) Docker
3 9 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (3.24%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.85%) Kamailio
5 4 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 145 (67.13%) Terraform
2 65 (30.09%) Kubernetes
3 37 (17.13%) Single Sign-On
4 30 (13.89%) Ansible
5 19 (8.80%) Grafana
5 19 (8.80%) Prometheus
6 13 (6.02%) Argo
7 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.78%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.85%) Cilium
10 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.46%) Kibana
10 1 (0.46%) Puppet
10 1 (0.46%) Rancher
10 1 (0.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 54 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.13%) Oracle
3 21 (9.72%) Okta
4 11 (5.09%) Google
5 6 (2.78%) SonicWALL
6 4 (1.85%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.39%) Foundry
7 3 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.39%) VMware
8 2 (0.93%) Databricks
8 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.93%) Talend
9 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.46%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.46%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.46%) New Relic
9 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.46%) Splunk
9 1 (0.46%) Zscaler