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 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 251 285
Rank change year-on-year +57 +34 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 237 191 349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.27% 1.29% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.40% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 176 147 302
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,050
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,274 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +5.56% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,545 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,500 £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 17,460 13,632 31,157
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 92.02% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,834 8,796 24,820
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,159
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% -10.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,531 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 16 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 16 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 (52.74%) Azure
2 116 (48.95%) Terraform
3 93 (39.24%) DevOps
4 78 (32.91%) AWS
5 76 (32.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 75 (31.65%) CI/CD
7 56 (23.63%) Security Cleared
8 49 (20.68%) Agile
8 49 (20.68%) Python
9 48 (20.25%) Kubernetes
10 45 (18.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 43 (18.14%) Microsoft
12 42 (17.72%) SC Cleared
13 41 (17.30%) Mentoring
14 38 (16.03%) GCP
15 37 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (14.35%) Roadmaps
17 32 (13.50%) Containerisation
18 31 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
18 31 (13.08%) GitHub
19 29 (12.24%) Ansible
20 28 (11.81%) Entra ID
21 26 (10.97%) Cloud Security
21 26 (10.97%) Linux
22 25 (10.55%) Coaching
22 25 (10.55%) Git
23 24 (10.13%) Bash
23 24 (10.13%) Docker
23 24 (10.13%) IaaS
23 24 (10.13%) Observability

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 6 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.42%) IIS
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 12 (5.06%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.42%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 125 (52.74%) Azure
2 78 (32.91%) AWS
3 38 (16.03%) GCP
4 31 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (13.08%) GitHub
5 28 (11.81%) Entra ID
6 24 (10.13%) IaaS
7 20 (8.44%) PaaS
8 14 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (5.49%) Azure AKS
10 12 (5.06%) OCI
11 11 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (4.64%) Serverless
12 10 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.22%) SaaS
13 9 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.02%) Firewall
2 17 (7.17%) DNS
3 11 (4.64%) VPN
4 10 (4.22%) Broadband
5 6 (2.53%) VoIP
6 5 (2.11%) DMZ
6 5 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.11%) STUN
6 5 (2.11%) VLAN
7 3 (1.27%) DHCP
7 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.84%) Network Security
9 1 (0.42%) SAN
9 1 (0.42%) Skype
9 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.42%) WAN
9 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.80%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.80%) RDBMS
2 9 (3.80%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.53%) Power BI
4 6 (2.53%) Tableau
5 5 (2.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 25 (10.55%) Git
2 17 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.75%) GitLab
4 12 (5.06%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (3.80%) Jaeger
6 7 (2.95%) JIRA
7 5 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.42%) git-flow
8 1 (0.42%) JMeter
8 1 (0.42%) Locust
8 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.42%) Selenium
8 1 (0.42%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (11.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.86%) Finance
3 18 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (4.22%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.80%) Billing
6 6 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.27%) Advertising
8 3 (1.27%) Military
9 2 (0.84%) Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Law
9 2 (0.84%) Retail
10 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.06%) RESTful
2 10 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (2.95%) JSON
4 7 (2.95%) Loki
5 6 (2.53%) ARM Templates
5 6 (2.53%) OAuth
5 6 (2.53%) OAuth2
5 6 (2.53%) SAML
5 6 (2.53%) SOAP
5 6 (2.53%) XML
6 5 (2.11%) FreeSWITCH
7 4 (1.69%) YAML
8 2 (0.84%) .NET
8 2 (0.84%) Middleware
8 2 (0.84%) WAMP
9 1 (0.42%) Node.js
9 1 (0.42%) Playwright
9 1 (0.42%) PySpark
9 1 (0.42%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.27%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.27%) PKI
7 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Blog
8 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.42%) Clustering
9 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.42%) IoT
9 1 (0.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.97%) Linux
2 16 (6.75%) Windows
2 16 (6.75%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.64%) Unix
4 5 (2.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (39.24%) DevOps
2 76 (32.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (31.65%) CI/CD
4 49 (20.68%) Agile
5 45 (18.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (17.30%) Mentoring
7 37 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.35%) Roadmaps
9 32 (13.50%) Containerisation
10 26 (10.97%) Cloud Security
11 25 (10.55%) Coaching
12 24 (10.13%) Observability
13 23 (9.70%) High Availability
14 22 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
16 20 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (6.75%) RBAC
17 16 (6.75%) Root Cause Analysis
17 16 (6.75%) Test Automation
18 15 (6.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.68%) Python
2 24 (10.13%) Bash
3 23 (9.70%) Java
3 23 (9.70%) SQL
4 16 (6.75%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.33%) Go
6 13 (5.49%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.06%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.06%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.95%) Bicep
9 3 (1.27%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.84%) C#
11 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (23.63%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.59%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.75%) AWS Certification
5 14 (5.91%) Degree
6 9 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.53%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CCNA
10 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CISM
10 1 (0.42%) CISSP
10 1 (0.42%) IISP
10 1 (0.42%) ISACA
10 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.53%) NIST
2 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.84%) GDPR
3 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 24 (10.13%) Docker
2 20 (8.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.84%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (48.95%) Terraform
2 48 (20.25%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.24%) Ansible
4 17 (7.17%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.22%) Argo
7 9 (3.80%) Grafana
7 9 (3.80%) Kustomize
8 6 (2.53%) Puppet
9 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.06%) Oracle
3 9 (3.80%) Google
4 6 (2.53%) Okta
5 5 (2.11%) Cisco
5 5 (2.11%) VMware
6 3 (1.27%) Citrix
7 2 (0.84%) Apple
8 1 (0.42%) Databricks
8 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.42%) Foundry
8 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.42%) TIBCO