Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £73,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 483 570
Rank change year-on-year +111 +87 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 60 100 92
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32 87 64
10th Percentile £48,000 - £54,125
25th Percentile £60,625 £56,219 £56,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £62,783 £68,515
Median % change year-on-year +16.27% -8.37% -14.36%
75th Percentile £83,000 £68,750 £88,125
90th Percentile £88,750 £94,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.59% -10.00% -6.25%

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 14,908 32,504 40,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 96.00% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,956 24,955 28,926
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,005 £36,679
25th Percentile £43,500 £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 £93,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Senior Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Cloud Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Senior Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (83.33%) Azure
2 31 (51.67%) Terraform
3 30 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (48.33%) SaaS
4 29 (48.33%) DevOps
5 28 (46.67%) Ansible
5 28 (46.67%) Law
6 27 (45.00%) AWS
6 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
6 27 (45.00%) CI/CD
7 26 (43.33%) PaaS
7 26 (43.33%) Windows
7 26 (43.33%) Microsoft
8 25 (41.67%) Python
8 25 (41.67%) Cloud Security
9 23 (38.33%) Linux
9 23 (38.33%) Public Cloud
10 21 (35.00%) GCP
11 20 (33.33%) Degree
12 19 (31.67%) Computer Science
12 19 (31.67%) Telecoms
12 19 (31.67%) High Availability
13 18 (30.00%) Analytics
13 18 (30.00%) Jenkins
13 18 (30.00%) Cloud Operations
14 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (28.33%) Node.js
14 17 (28.33%) Continuous Delivery
14 17 (28.33%) Performance Monitoring
14 17 (28.33%) Incident Management

Senior 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 12 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 50 (83.33%) Azure
2 29 (48.33%) SaaS
3 27 (45.00%) AWS
4 26 (43.33%) PaaS
5 21 (35.00%) GCP
6 14 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (15.00%) IaaS
7 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (15.00%) OneDrive
8 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.67%) Serverless
10 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.67%) Firewall
2 4 (6.67%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) BGP
3 2 (3.33%) IPsec
3 2 (3.33%) IPv4
3 2 (3.33%) OSPF
3 2 (3.33%) SAN
3 2 (3.33%) SNMP
3 2 (3.33%) SSL
3 2 (3.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (28.33%) Git
3 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (46.67%) Law
2 19 (31.67%) Telecoms
3 9 (15.00%) Legal
4 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Finance
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.33%) Node.js
2 8 (13.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.33%) JSON
3 2 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.33%) Public Cloud
2 17 (28.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (43.33%) Windows
2 23 (38.33%) Linux
3 3 (5.00%) Unix
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (48.33%) DevOps
3 27 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 25 (41.67%) Cloud Security
5 19 (31.67%) Computer Science
5 19 (31.67%) High Availability
6 18 (30.00%) Analytics
6 18 (30.00%) Cloud Operations
7 17 (28.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 17 (28.33%) Incident Management
7 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (28.33%) Performance Monitoring
8 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (11.67%) Configuration Management
10 6 (10.00%) Agile
11 4 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
12 3 (5.00%) Architectural Design
12 3 (5.00%) Proactive Monitoring
12 3 (5.00%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) Python
2 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.00%) Bash
4 4 (6.67%) Bicep
5 2 (3.33%) R
6 1 (1.67%) Go
6 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (33.33%) Degree
2 10 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.67%) CCNP
5 1 (1.67%) VCP6
5 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (51.67%) Terraform
2 28 (46.67%) Ansible
3 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.00%) SCCM
5 2 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (1.67%) Google
4 1 (1.67%) Juniper
4 1 (1.67%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.67%) Splunk