Cloud Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Work from Home is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 214 229
Rank change year-on-year -78 +15 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 349 700 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 1.60% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.67% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 309 513 757
10th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,432 41,925 64,882
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 95.98% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,961 29,678 41,885
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024, 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 remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 229 (65.62%) Azure
2 184 (52.72%) AWS
3 175 (50.14%) Terraform
4 145 (41.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (36.10%) DevOps
6 118 (33.81%) Kubernetes
7 114 (32.66%) Python
8 106 (30.37%) CI/CD
9 95 (27.22%) Docker
10 94 (26.93%) Agile
11 87 (24.93%) Finance
12 84 (24.07%) Linux
13 83 (23.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 73 (20.92%) Ansible
14 73 (20.92%) Windows
15 67 (19.20%) GitHub
16 66 (18.91%) GCP
17 62 (17.77%) Microsoft
18 60 (17.19%) Serverless
19 59 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
20 57 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
21 56 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
22 54 (15.47%) Jenkins
22 54 (15.47%) Firewall
23 51 (14.61%) Social Skills
24 50 (14.33%) Mentoring
24 50 (14.33%) Active Directory
25 49 (14.04%) Public Cloud
26 48 (13.75%) Java
27 47 (13.47%) Software Engineering

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 19 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.16%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.01%) Confluence
3 14 (4.01%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.86%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 229 (65.62%) Azure
2 184 (52.72%) AWS
3 67 (19.20%) GitHub
4 66 (18.91%) GCP
5 60 (17.19%) Serverless
6 57 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (12.03%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (12.03%) PaaS
9 29 (8.31%) Amazon S3
10 27 (7.74%) SaaS
11 26 (7.45%) Entra ID
12 24 (6.88%) IaaS
12 24 (6.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (5.73%) Route 53
16 18 (5.16%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 54 (15.47%) Firewall
2 23 (6.59%) DNS
3 17 (4.87%) VPN
3 17 (4.87%) WAN
4 16 (4.58%) DHCP
5 15 (4.30%) LAN
6 10 (2.87%) Network Security
7 9 (2.58%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.01%) IPv4
9 6 (1.72%) WLAN
10 4 (1.15%) Multicast
11 3 (0.86%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.57%) Internet
12 2 (0.57%) MPLS
12 2 (0.57%) OSPF
12 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.57%) VLAN
12 2 (0.57%) Wireless
13 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.87%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.01%) MySQL
5 6 (1.72%) DB2
5 6 (1.72%) Power BI
6 5 (1.43%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.43%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.43%) Tableau
7 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.86%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.86%) Looker
9 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.57%) Redis
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.29%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (15.47%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.60%) GitLab
3 30 (8.60%) Git
4 21 (6.02%) Artifactory
5 14 (4.01%) JIRA
6 10 (2.87%) CircleCI
6 10 (2.87%) Spinnaker
7 9 (2.58%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (2.58%) Subversion
8 8 (2.29%) git-flow
9 4 (1.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 87 (24.93%) Finance
2 51 (14.61%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.89%) Banking
4 35 (10.03%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.01%) Retail
8 12 (3.44%) Law
9 8 (2.29%) Legal
10 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) French Language
13 1 (0.29%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Marketing
13 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.29%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.16%) Kafka
2 13 (3.72%) .NET
3 8 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.01%) Node.js
5 5 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.43%) SAML
6 4 (1.15%) Django
6 4 (1.15%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.15%) RESTful
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Beam
8 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.57%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.57%) JWT
8 2 (0.57%) OAuth
8 2 (0.57%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.29%) Flash
9 1 (0.29%) JDBC
9 1 (0.29%) LAMP
9 1 (0.29%) Middleware
9 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.04%) Public Cloud
2 36 (10.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (7.45%) Product Ownership
4 24 (6.88%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.73%) Cloud Native
6 14 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.01%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.72%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.87%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.58%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (2.58%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.01%) IoT
12 6 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.43%) Blog
14 4 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
14 4 (1.15%) Replication
14 4 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 84 (24.07%) Linux
2 73 (20.92%) Windows
3 30 (8.60%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.01%) Unix
6 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.86%) SUSE
9 3 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.86%) VMS
10 2 (0.57%) CentOS
10 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (41.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 126 (36.10%) DevOps
3 106 (30.37%) CI/CD
4 94 (26.93%) Agile
5 83 (23.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 59 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
8 50 (14.33%) Mentoring
9 47 (13.47%) Software Engineering
10 45 (12.89%) Cloud Security
11 44 (12.61%) Migration
12 43 (12.32%) ITIL
13 42 (12.03%) Cybersecurity
14 41 (11.75%) Containerisation
15 32 (9.17%) Configuration Management
15 32 (9.17%) Service Management
16 27 (7.74%) Roadmaps
17 26 (7.45%) Coaching
18 25 (7.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 22 (6.30%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 114 (32.66%) Python
2 48 (13.75%) Java
3 40 (11.46%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.45%) SQL
5 20 (5.73%) Bash
6 18 (5.16%) Perl
7 17 (4.87%) Go
8 16 (4.58%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.44%) Bicep
10 10 (2.87%) C#
11 9 (2.58%) JavaScript
12 7 (2.01%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.15%) Ruby
14 3 (0.86%) AWK
14 3 (0.86%) sed
15 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.57%) Lua
15 2 (0.57%) PHP
15 2 (0.57%) Rust
16 1 (0.29%) Julia
Qualifications
1 40 (11.46%) Degree
2 30 (8.60%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.30%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.58%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.15%) CISM
10 4 (1.15%) CISSP
10 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.86%) MCSE
11 3 (0.86%) PhD
11 3 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.57%) VCP6
13 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.87%) QA
1 10 (2.87%) SLA
2 7 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.01%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.15%) NCSC
4 4 (1.15%) NIST
4 4 (1.15%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 95 (27.22%) Docker
2 50 (14.33%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.87%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.86%) Ceph
7 3 (0.86%) Gluster
7 3 (0.86%) KVM
7 3 (0.86%) oVirt
8 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 175 (50.14%) Terraform
2 118 (33.81%) Kubernetes
3 73 (20.92%) Ansible
4 24 (6.88%) Puppet
5 22 (6.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (6.02%) Progress Chef
7 16 (4.58%) Salt
8 9 (2.58%) Packer
8 9 (2.58%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (2.01%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.72%) Grafana
10 6 (1.72%) Opsgenie
11 5 (1.43%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.86%) Graylog
12 3 (0.86%) Observium
12 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.57%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.29%) Icinga
14 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.46%) Google
3 23 (6.59%) VMware
4 15 (4.30%) Cisco
5 10 (2.87%) Zscaler
6 9 (2.58%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.58%) Confluent
6 9 (2.58%) Meraki
7 8 (2.29%) HP
7 8 (2.29%) IBM
7 8 (2.29%) McAfee
8 6 (1.72%) New Relic
9 5 (1.43%) Dell
9 5 (1.43%) Oracle
9 5 (1.43%) Splunk
10 4 (1.15%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.86%) Teradata
12 2 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (0.57%) PagerDuty