Hybrid/Remote Cloud Software Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Software Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 436 461
Rank change year-on-year +63 +25 +231
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Software Engineer 2 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.013% 0.052% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.054% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile - £49,345 -
25th Percentile - £59,614 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,253 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% +22.76% -15.82%
75th Percentile - £104,389 £77,715
90th Percentile - £110,756 -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +15.15%

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 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 14,331 16,805 18,972
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 96.24% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,307 10,446 15,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Cloud Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Software Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Software Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Cloud Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Software Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Software Engineer job vacancies

Cloud Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Cloud Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes

Cloud Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Nuxt
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI