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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 244 285
Rank change year-on-year +55 +41 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 234 192 346
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 1.32% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.43% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 173 149 300
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,450
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -7.41%

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 17,190 13,411 31,118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 92.27% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,633 8,791 24,816
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,070
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,359
Median % change year-on-year - +6.46% -9.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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.

1 125 (53.42%) Azure
2 116 (49.57%) Terraform
3 94 (40.17%) DevOps
4 77 (32.91%) AWS
4 77 (32.91%) CI/CD
5 74 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (22.65%) Security Cleared
7 52 (22.22%) Python
8 50 (21.37%) Agile
9 48 (20.51%) Kubernetes
10 44 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 43 (18.38%) Microsoft
12 41 (17.52%) Mentoring
12 41 (17.52%) SC Cleared
13 39 (16.67%) GCP
14 38 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (14.53%) Roadmaps
16 33 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
16 33 (14.10%) Containerisation
17 32 (13.68%) GitHub
18 28 (11.97%) Ansible
19 27 (11.54%) Coaching
19 27 (11.54%) Entra ID
20 26 (11.11%) Docker
20 26 (11.11%) Java
20 26 (11.11%) Linux
21 25 (10.68%) Cloud Security
21 25 (10.68%) Git
21 25 (10.68%) Observability
21 25 (10.68%) SQL

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 7 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 14 (5.98%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.43%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 125 (53.42%) Azure
2 77 (32.91%) AWS
3 39 (16.67%) GCP
4 33 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (13.68%) GitHub
6 27 (11.54%) Entra ID
7 23 (9.83%) IaaS
8 19 (8.12%) PaaS
9 14 (5.98%) Azure AKS
9 14 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (5.98%) OCI
10 13 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.70%) Serverless
13 10 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.85%) SaaS
14 9 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.69%) Firewall
2 17 (7.26%) DNS
3 11 (4.70%) VPN
4 10 (4.27%) Broadband
5 6 (2.56%) VoIP
6 5 (2.14%) DMZ
6 5 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.14%) STUN
6 5 (2.14%) VLAN
7 3 (1.28%) DHCP
7 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.85%) Network Security
9 1 (0.43%) SAN
9 1 (0.43%) Skype
9 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.43%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (4.27%) Relational Database
2 9 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.85%) RDBMS
3 8 (3.42%) Power BI
4 7 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (2.99%) Tableau
5 5 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 25 (10.68%) Git
2 19 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.84%) GitLab
4 14 (5.98%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (3.85%) Jaeger
6 8 (3.42%) JIRA
7 5 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.43%) git-flow
8 1 (0.43%) JMeter
8 1 (0.43%) Locust
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
8 1 (0.43%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.83%) Finance
3 18 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (3.85%) Billing
4 9 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.28%) Advertising
7 3 (1.28%) Military
8 2 (0.85%) Banking
8 2 (0.85%) Law
8 2 (0.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.98%) RESTful
2 10 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (3.42%) JSON
5 7 (2.99%) Loki
5 7 (2.99%) OAuth
5 7 (2.99%) OAuth2
5 7 (2.99%) SAML
5 7 (2.99%) SOAP
5 7 (2.99%) XML
6 6 (2.56%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.14%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.71%) YAML
9 2 (0.85%) .NET
9 2 (0.85%) Middleware
9 2 (0.85%) Node.js
9 2 (0.85%) WAMP
10 1 (0.43%) CSS
10 1 (0.43%) HTML
10 1 (0.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.28%) PKI
7 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Blog
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.43%) Clustering
9 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.43%) IoT
9 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.11%) Linux
2 16 (6.84%) Windows
2 16 (6.84%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.70%) Unix
4 5 (2.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (40.17%) DevOps
2 77 (32.91%) CI/CD
3 74 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (21.37%) Agile
5 44 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (17.52%) Mentoring
7 38 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.53%) Roadmaps
9 33 (14.10%) Containerisation
10 27 (11.54%) Coaching
11 25 (10.68%) Cloud Security
11 25 (10.68%) Observability
12 23 (9.83%) High Availability
12 23 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (7.69%) Analytics
14 18 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (7.69%) Test Automation
15 17 (7.26%) RBAC
15 17 (7.26%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.22%) Python
2 26 (11.11%) Java
3 25 (10.68%) SQL
4 24 (10.26%) Bash
5 15 (6.41%) Go
5 15 (6.41%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.98%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.98%) PL/SQL
6 14 (5.98%) Shell Script
7 7 (2.99%) Bicep
8 3 (1.28%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.85%) C#
10 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 41 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.84%) Azure Certification
4 15 (6.41%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.41%) Degree
5 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.56%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CCNA
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.43%) IISP
10 1 (0.43%) ISACA
10 1 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.14%) NIST
2 4 (1.71%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 26 (11.11%) Docker
2 19 (8.12%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.85%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (49.57%) Terraform
2 48 (20.51%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.97%) Ansible
4 18 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.41%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (4.70%) Argo
7 10 (4.27%) Grafana
8 9 (3.85%) Kustomize
9 6 (2.56%) Puppet
10 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.98%) Oracle
3 9 (3.85%) Google
4 7 (2.99%) Okta
5 5 (2.14%) Cisco
5 5 (2.14%) VMware
6 3 (1.28%) Citrix
7 2 (0.85%) Apple
8 1 (0.43%) Databricks
8 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.43%) Foundry
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.43%) TIBCO