Cloud Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £64,125 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 291 229
Rank change year-on-year +61 -62 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 204 349 637
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.34% 1.03% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.07% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 162 306 456
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,495 £52,500 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,125 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -3.41% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -5.30% +1.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 130 (63.73%) Azure
2 105 (51.47%) DevOps
3 82 (40.20%) AWS
4 77 (37.75%) Terraform
5 74 (36.27%) Python
6 73 (35.78%) Microsoft
7 72 (35.29%) Cloud Security
8 71 (34.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 66 (32.35%) CI/CD
10 57 (27.94%) Windows
11 52 (25.49%) Degree
12 50 (24.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 48 (23.53%) Linux
14 44 (21.57%) Kubernetes
15 42 (20.59%) Social Skills
15 42 (20.59%) Law
16 39 (19.12%) SaaS
17 37 (18.14%) GCP
17 37 (18.14%) Ansible
18 36 (17.65%) Finance
19 35 (17.16%) SQL
19 35 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
19 35 (17.16%) Azure Certification
20 34 (16.67%) PowerShell
21 33 (16.18%) Firewall
21 33 (16.18%) Public Cloud
22 32 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
23 31 (15.20%) PaaS
24 29 (14.22%) High Availability
24 29 (14.22%) Containerisation

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (10.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.96%) IBM Domino
3 4 (1.96%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (9.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.98%) Simulink
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.49%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 130 (63.73%) Azure
2 82 (40.20%) AWS
3 39 (19.12%) SaaS
4 37 (18.14%) GCP
5 35 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (15.20%) PaaS
7 17 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (6.86%) IaaS
8 14 (6.86%) Serverless
9 13 (6.37%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (5.88%) Entra ID
11 11 (5.39%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.41%) OneDrive
14 8 (3.92%) Amazon S3
14 8 (3.92%) GitHub
15 7 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.43%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (16.18%) Firewall
2 17 (8.33%) VPN
2 17 (8.33%) WAN
3 12 (5.88%) SAN
4 10 (4.90%) SD-WAN
5 9 (4.41%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.92%) DHCP
6 8 (3.92%) DNS
6 8 (3.92%) VLAN
7 7 (3.43%) LAN
7 7 (3.43%) OSPF
8 6 (2.94%) Multicast
9 5 (2.45%) BGP
9 5 (2.45%) NAS
9 5 (2.45%) VSAN
10 4 (1.96%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.96%) IPv4
11 3 (1.47%) MPLS
11 3 (1.47%) TACACS
11 3 (1.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.94%) DB2
2 6 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.45%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.96%) MySQL
5 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.49%) Big Data
7 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (12.25%) Git
2 24 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.45%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.96%) GitLab
5 3 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.98%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 42 (20.59%) Law
1 42 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.65%) Finance
3 21 (10.29%) Banking
3 21 (10.29%) Telecoms
4 12 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.41%) Legal
6 6 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.45%) Advertising
7 5 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.47%) Marketing
9 2 (0.98%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.49%) Automotive
10 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.82%) HTML
1 18 (8.82%) Node.js
2 9 (4.41%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.45%) Middleware
4 4 (1.96%) JSON
5 3 (1.47%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.47%) Spring
5 3 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.98%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.98%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.98%) gRPC
6 2 (0.98%) Kafka
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.98%) Web Services
6 2 (0.98%) YAML
7 1 (0.49%) .NET
7 1 (0.49%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.49%) REST
7 1 (0.49%) RESTful
7 1 (0.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.18%) Public Cloud
2 28 (13.73%) Security Posture
3 21 (10.29%) Cloud Native
4 19 (9.31%) Management Information System
5 16 (7.84%) Cloud Security Posture
6 15 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.92%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (2.94%) Replication
10 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.96%) IoT
12 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
14 1 (0.49%) Life Science
14 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 57 (27.94%) Windows
2 48 (23.53%) Linux
3 17 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.43%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (3.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.47%) Unix
7 2 (0.98%) CentOS
7 2 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (51.47%) DevOps
2 72 (35.29%) Cloud Security
3 71 (34.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (32.35%) CI/CD
5 50 (24.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.22%) Containerisation
7 29 (14.22%) High Availability
8 28 (13.73%) Artificial Intelligence
9 27 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (13.24%) Roadmaps
10 26 (12.75%) Computer Science
11 25 (12.25%) Security Operations
12 24 (11.76%) Agile
13 23 (11.27%) Incident Management
14 22 (10.78%) Analytics
14 22 (10.78%) Migration
15 21 (10.29%) Continuous Delivery
15 21 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
16 20 (9.80%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 74 (36.27%) Python
2 35 (17.16%) SQL
3 34 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 21 (10.29%) C#
5 20 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.82%) C++
7 14 (6.86%) Bash
8 9 (4.41%) Bicep
9 7 (3.43%) Java
10 5 (2.45%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.96%) R
12 2 (0.98%) Go
12 2 (0.98%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (25.49%) Degree
2 35 (17.16%) Azure Certification
3 29 (14.22%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (6.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 11 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.39%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.92%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.94%) CCNA
9 6 (2.94%) CCNP
9 6 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.47%) CCIE
11 3 (1.47%) RHCE
12 2 (0.98%) CEH
12 2 (0.98%) CISSP
13 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.49%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.94%) QA
3 5 (2.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.98%) NIST
5 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (12.75%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.82%) Docker
3 15 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.92%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.43%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.98%) Firmware
9 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (37.75%) Terraform
2 44 (21.57%) Kubernetes
3 37 (18.14%) Ansible
4 11 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.94%) Grafana
6 5 (2.45%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.96%) Puppet
7 4 (1.96%) SCCM
8 2 (0.98%) Argo
8 2 (0.98%) Nagios
9 1 (0.49%) SCOM
9 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (35.78%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.82%) PayPal
3 15 (7.35%) Cisco
3 15 (7.35%) VMware
4 10 (4.90%) Google
5 7 (3.43%) Oracle
6 6 (2.94%) IBM
6 6 (2.94%) Splunk
7 5 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.96%) F5
8 4 (1.96%) Veeam
9 3 (1.47%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.47%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.98%) Databricks
10 2 (0.98%) Informatica
10 2 (0.98%) Meraki
10 2 (0.98%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.98%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.98%) SAP