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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 201 273
Rank change year-on-year +1 +72 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 203 215 336
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.20% 1.65% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.75% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 155 171 310
10th Percentile £44,372 £42,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,638 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,340 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% +2.06% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £91,991
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -3.41%

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 15,833 12,267 29,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.39% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,948 8,894 24,254
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,763
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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.

1 126 (62.07%) Azure
2 122 (60.10%) Terraform
3 105 (51.72%) DevOps
4 83 (40.89%) CI/CD
5 82 (40.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 79 (38.92%) AWS
7 67 (33.00%) Python
8 61 (30.05%) Kubernetes
9 59 (29.06%) Agile
10 53 (26.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 48 (23.65%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (23.65%) Mentoring
12 46 (22.66%) Microsoft
13 44 (21.67%) GitHub
14 38 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (16.75%) Bash
15 34 (16.75%) Coaching
15 34 (16.75%) Containerisation
15 34 (16.75%) Security Cleared
16 33 (16.26%) SQL
17 32 (15.76%) Cloud Security
17 32 (15.76%) Java
18 31 (15.27%) Entra ID
19 30 (14.78%) Docker
20 28 (13.79%) Firewall
20 28 (13.79%) Jenkins
20 28 (13.79%) Linux
21 27 (13.30%) Ansible
22 26 (12.81%) Git
22 26 (12.81%) IaaS

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 9 (4.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (9.36%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.49%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 126 (62.07%) Azure
2 79 (38.92%) AWS
3 48 (23.65%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (21.67%) GitHub
5 31 (15.27%) Entra ID
6 26 (12.81%) IaaS
7 24 (11.82%) GCP
8 22 (10.84%) PaaS
9 21 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (9.85%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (9.85%) OCI
11 19 (9.36%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (9.36%) SaaS
12 18 (8.87%) Serverless
13 17 (8.37%) Azure AKS
13 17 (8.37%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (5.42%) Power Platform
16 10 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.79%) Firewall
2 16 (7.88%) DNS
3 13 (6.40%) VPN
4 9 (4.43%) Broadband
4 9 (4.43%) Network Security
5 5 (2.46%) DMZ
5 5 (2.46%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.46%) STUN
5 5 (2.46%) VLAN
5 5 (2.46%) VoIP
6 4 (1.97%) DHCP
6 4 (1.97%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.99%) WAN
8 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (5.42%) Power BI
1 11 (5.42%) Relational Database
2 9 (4.43%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.43%) RDBMS
2 9 (4.43%) Tableau
3 8 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.46%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.81%) Git
3 19 (9.36%) Oracle Forms
4 15 (7.39%) GitLab
5 10 (4.93%) JIRA
6 9 (4.43%) Jaeger
7 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.97%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.49%) git-flow
9 1 (0.49%) JMeter
9 1 (0.49%) Locust
9 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.49%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 33 (16.26%) Finance
2 30 (14.78%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.43%) Billing
5 8 (3.94%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.46%) Banking
7 5 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.46%) Retail
8 4 (1.97%) Back Office
8 4 (1.97%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.97%) Military
9 2 (0.99%) Advertising
9 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.49%) Electronics
10 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.49%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Publishing
10 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.36%) RESTful
2 12 (5.91%) JSON
3 10 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.93%) SOAP
3 10 (4.93%) XML
4 9 (4.43%) OAuth
4 9 (4.43%) OAuth2
4 9 (4.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 9 (4.43%) SAML
5 7 (3.45%) Loki
6 6 (2.96%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.96%) Node.js
7 5 (2.46%) FreeSWITCH
8 4 (1.97%) YAML
9 2 (0.99%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.99%) CSS
9 2 (0.99%) HTML
9 2 (0.99%) Kafka
9 2 (0.99%) React
9 2 (0.99%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.20%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.36%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.96%) Blog
6 5 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.48%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.49%) CMDB
9 1 (0.49%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.49%) PKI
9 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.79%) Linux
2 21 (10.34%) Windows
3 15 (7.39%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.42%) Unix
5 5 (2.46%) Debian
6 2 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (51.72%) DevOps
2 83 (40.89%) CI/CD
3 82 (40.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (29.06%) Agile
5 53 (26.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 48 (23.65%) Mentoring
7 38 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (16.75%) Coaching
8 34 (16.75%) Containerisation
9 32 (15.76%) Cloud Security
10 26 (12.81%) Observability
10 26 (12.81%) Roadmaps
11 25 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (12.32%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (11.82%) Analytics
12 24 (11.82%) High Availability
13 22 (10.84%) RBAC
13 22 (10.84%) Test Automation
14 21 (10.34%) Asset Management
15 20 (9.85%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.00%) Python
2 34 (16.75%) Bash
3 33 (16.26%) SQL
4 32 (15.76%) Java
5 26 (12.81%) PowerShell
6 19 (9.36%) PL/SQL
6 19 (9.36%) Shell Script
7 17 (8.37%) Go
8 15 (7.39%) Bicep
9 14 (6.90%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.99%) Ruby
10 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.49%) C#
Qualifications
1 34 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.34%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.85%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.39%) Degree
6 6 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.48%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.43%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.94%) NIST
3 6 (2.96%) GRC
3 6 (2.96%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.48%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 30 (14.78%) Docker
2 21 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (60.10%) Terraform
2 61 (30.05%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.30%) Ansible
4 20 (9.85%) Prometheus
4 20 (9.85%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (7.88%) Argo
6 13 (6.40%) Grafana
7 9 (4.43%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.97%) Cilium
8 4 (1.97%) Puppet
9 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.49%) Kibana
10 1 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 46 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.36%) Oracle
3 12 (5.91%) Google
4 11 (5.42%) Okta
5 5 (2.46%) Cisco
5 5 (2.46%) VMware
6 4 (1.97%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.48%) Citrix
7 3 (1.48%) Databricks
8 2 (0.99%) Foundry
8 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.99%) Talend
9 1 (0.49%) Apple
9 1 (0.49%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.49%) New Relic
9 1 (0.49%) SAP
9 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.49%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.49%) Splunk
9 1 (0.49%) TIBCO