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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 279 278
Rank change year-on-year +77 -1 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 248 158 384
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 1.02% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.11% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 186 114 304
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,298 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,875 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% +0.15% -3.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,875 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -4.81%

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 18,928 14,257 33,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 92.13% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,810 8,734 26,113
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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.

1 109 (43.95%) Azure
2 103 (41.53%) Terraform
3 95 (38.31%) AWS
4 89 (35.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (35.48%) DevOps
6 74 (29.84%) CI/CD
7 59 (23.79%) Kubernetes
8 57 (22.98%) Security Cleared
9 52 (20.97%) GCP
10 45 (18.15%) Python
11 44 (17.74%) SC Cleared
12 43 (17.34%) Microsoft
13 41 (16.53%) Containerisation
14 40 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 35 (14.11%) Ansible
16 32 (12.90%) Agile
16 32 (12.90%) Cloud Security
17 31 (12.50%) Docker
18 29 (11.69%) IaaS
18 29 (11.69%) Linux
19 27 (10.89%) Bash
19 27 (10.89%) Entra ID
19 27 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
19 27 (10.89%) Roadmaps
20 26 (10.48%) Mentoring
21 25 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
21 25 (10.08%) PaaS
21 25 (10.08%) PowerShell
22 24 (9.68%) Observability
22 24 (9.68%) Problem-Solving

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 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) IIS
3 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 109 (43.95%) Azure
2 95 (38.31%) AWS
3 52 (20.97%) GCP
4 29 (11.69%) IaaS
5 27 (10.89%) Entra ID
6 25 (10.08%) PaaS
7 22 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (8.06%) GitHub
9 17 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (6.45%) Azure AKS
10 16 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (6.45%) SaaS
11 13 (5.24%) Amazon S3
11 13 (5.24%) Pulumi
12 12 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.84%) Serverless
13 11 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.47%) Firewall
2 14 (5.65%) VPN
3 13 (5.24%) Broadband
4 12 (4.84%) DNS
5 6 (2.42%) VoIP
6 5 (2.02%) DHCP
6 5 (2.02%) DMZ
6 5 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.02%) STUN
6 5 (2.02%) VLAN
7 4 (1.61%) Network Security
8 3 (1.21%) SAN
8 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.21%) WAN
9 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.81%) Wireless
10 1 (0.40%) Skype
10 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (3.63%) NoSQL
1 9 (3.63%) RDBMS
1 9 (3.63%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.63%) GitLab
2 9 (3.63%) Jaeger
3 8 (3.23%) Git
4 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (13.31%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (5.24%) Finance
4 10 (4.03%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.23%) Billing
5 8 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.02%) Law
7 3 (1.21%) Advertising
7 3 (1.21%) Banking
7 3 (1.21%) Military
8 2 (0.81%) Legal
8 2 (0.81%) Retail
9 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.02%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.61%) Loki
4 4 (1.61%) Node.js
4 4 (1.61%) YAML
5 3 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.81%) .NET
6 2 (0.81%) Middleware
6 2 (0.81%) WAMP
6 2 (0.81%) Web Services
7 1 (0.40%) JSON
7 1 (0.40%) PySpark
7 1 (0.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.42%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
4 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.02%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.21%) PKI
7 2 (0.81%) Blog
7 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.81%) IoT
7 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.81%) Replication
7 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.69%) Linux
2 13 (5.24%) Windows
3 12 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.03%) Unix
5 5 (2.02%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (35.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 88 (35.48%) DevOps
3 74 (29.84%) CI/CD
4 41 (16.53%) Containerisation
5 40 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (12.90%) Agile
6 32 (12.90%) Cloud Security
7 27 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
7 27 (10.89%) Roadmaps
8 26 (10.48%) Mentoring
9 25 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (9.68%) Observability
10 24 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (9.27%) High Availability
12 17 (6.85%) Cloud Operations
12 17 (6.85%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (6.05%) AI
14 14 (5.65%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (5.65%) Task Automation
14 14 (5.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (18.15%) Python
2 27 (10.89%) Bash
3 25 (10.08%) PowerShell
4 14 (5.65%) Go
5 13 (5.24%) SQL
6 12 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.03%) Java
8 8 (3.23%) Bicep
9 3 (1.21%) C#
9 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.81%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.87%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.84%) Degree
6 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.42%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.81%) CISM
10 2 (0.81%) CISSP
10 2 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CCNA
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) IISP
11 1 (0.40%) ISACA
11 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (2.82%) NIST
2 5 (2.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.02%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 31 (12.50%) Docker
2 20 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.02%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.81%) vSphere
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (41.53%) Terraform
2 59 (23.79%) Kubernetes
3 35 (14.11%) Ansible
4 18 (7.26%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.65%) Argo
6 11 (4.44%) Grafana
7 9 (3.63%) Kustomize
8 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.42%) Puppet
10 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.81%) Istio
11 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.81%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 43 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.24%) Google
3 12 (4.84%) VMware
4 8 (3.23%) Cisco
5 4 (1.61%) Oracle
6 3 (1.21%) Citrix
6 3 (1.21%) EMC
7 2 (0.81%) Apple
7 2 (0.81%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.81%) Meraki
7 2 (0.81%) Sophos
7 2 (0.81%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (0.81%) Veeam
8 1 (0.40%) Databricks
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) New Relic
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Tenable
8 1 (0.40%) TIBCO