Hybrid/Remote Principal Cloud Engineer Job Trends

Principal Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

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

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 492 527
Rank change year-on-year +76 +35 +317
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Cloud Engineer 2 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.012% 0.008% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.009% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 5
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -11.76% -

All DemandTrendPermanent 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 14,991 22,770 25,193
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 96.26% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9,064 15,347 20,733
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -6.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,625 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Principal Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Principal Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Principal Cloud Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Principal Cloud Engineer job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Principal 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 Principal Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS

Principal 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:

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%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
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