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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 272 277
Rank change year-on-year +84 +5 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 248 169 351
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 1.14% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.24% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 189 124 300
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £47,450
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,433 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,637 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% +4.55% -3.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £83,000 £90,193
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -4.88%

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 18,061 13,626 31,898
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 92.06% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 13,290 8,411 25,279
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 30 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 30 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.

1 122 (49.19%) Azure
2 118 (47.58%) Terraform
3 98 (39.52%) DevOps
4 89 (35.89%) AWS
4 89 (35.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (33.06%) CI/CD
6 60 (24.19%) Security Cleared
7 59 (23.79%) Kubernetes
8 51 (20.56%) Python
9 46 (18.55%) SC Cleared
10 45 (18.15%) GCP
10 45 (18.15%) Microsoft
11 44 (17.74%) Agile
11 44 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 39 (15.73%) Containerisation
13 34 (13.71%) Mentoring
14 33 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (13.31%) Roadmaps
15 32 (12.90%) Ansible
16 31 (12.50%) Entra ID
17 30 (12.10%) Bash
17 30 (12.10%) Cloud Security
17 30 (12.10%) Docker
18 29 (11.69%) IaaS
18 29 (11.69%) Linux
19 28 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
19 28 (11.29%) Observability
20 26 (10.48%) GitHub
20 26 (10.48%) High Availability
20 26 (10.48%) PowerShell

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
1 3 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 6 (2.42%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 122 (49.19%) Azure
2 89 (35.89%) AWS
3 45 (18.15%) GCP
4 31 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 29 (11.69%) IaaS
6 28 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (10.48%) GitHub
8 25 (10.08%) PaaS
9 19 (7.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (6.45%) Azure AKS
11 16 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (6.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (5.24%) Pulumi
14 12 (4.84%) SaaS
15 11 (4.44%) Amazon S3
15 11 (4.44%) Serverless
15 11 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.87%) Firewall
2 17 (6.85%) DNS
3 12 (4.84%) Broadband
3 12 (4.84%) VPN
4 6 (2.42%) VoIP
5 5 (2.02%) DHCP
5 5 (2.02%) DMZ
5 5 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.02%) STUN
5 5 (2.02%) VLAN
6 3 (1.21%) Network Security
6 3 (1.21%) SAN
6 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.21%) WAN
7 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.81%) Wireless
8 1 (0.40%) Skype
8 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.63%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.63%) RDBMS
2 9 (3.63%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.21%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.21%) Power BI
5 3 (1.21%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (1.21%) Tableau
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (7.26%) Git
2 17 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.45%) GitLab
4 9 (3.63%) Jaeger
5 6 (2.42%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.21%) JIRA
8 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 32 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (6.85%) Finance
4 10 (4.03%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.63%) Billing
6 7 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Law
9 3 (1.21%) Advertising
9 3 (1.21%) Military
10 2 (0.81%) Banking
10 2 (0.81%) Legal
10 2 (0.81%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
11 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 7 (2.82%) Loki
4 6 (2.42%) RESTful
5 5 (2.02%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (1.61%) JSON
6 4 (1.61%) YAML
7 3 (1.21%) Node.js
7 3 (1.21%) OAuth
7 3 (1.21%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.21%) SAML
7 3 (1.21%) SOAP
7 3 (1.21%) XML
8 2 (0.81%) .NET
8 2 (0.81%) Middleware
8 2 (0.81%) WAMP
9 1 (0.40%) PySpark
9 1 (0.40%) REST
9 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.61%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.21%) PKI
7 2 (0.81%) Blog
7 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.81%) Replication
7 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.69%) Linux
2 16 (6.45%) Windows
2 16 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.03%) Unix
4 5 (2.02%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (39.52%) DevOps
2 89 (35.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (33.06%) CI/CD
4 44 (17.74%) Agile
4 44 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (15.73%) Containerisation
6 34 (13.71%) Mentoring
7 33 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (13.31%) Roadmaps
8 30 (12.10%) Cloud Security
9 28 (11.29%) Observability
10 26 (10.48%) High Availability
11 24 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (8.06%) Infrastructure Automation
13 19 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (7.26%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (6.05%) AI
15 15 (6.05%) RBAC
16 14 (5.65%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.56%) Python
2 30 (12.10%) Bash
3 26 (10.48%) PowerShell
4 18 (7.26%) SQL
5 16 (6.45%) Java
6 15 (6.05%) Go
7 13 (5.24%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.23%) Bicep
9 6 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.21%) C#
10 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 60 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.55%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.47%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.05%) 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%) NIST
2 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 30 (12.10%) Docker
2 23 (9.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.21%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.81%) vSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (47.58%) Terraform
2 59 (23.79%) Kubernetes
3 32 (12.90%) Ansible
4 21 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.65%) Argo
6 13 (5.24%) Grafana
7 9 (3.63%) Kustomize
7 9 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.42%) Puppet
10 2 (0.81%) Istio
10 2 (0.81%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.03%) Google
3 9 (3.63%) VMware
4 8 (3.23%) Cisco
5 7 (2.82%) Oracle
6 3 (1.21%) Citrix
6 3 (1.21%) EMC
6 3 (1.21%) Okta
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%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) New Relic
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) SonicWALL