Cloud Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer salary in England is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 254 251
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 880 1,296 2,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.47% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.60% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 585 857 1,172
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,411 £42,676
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,669 80,804 129,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.51% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,824 51,446 74,737
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +30 262 £60,000 +0.80% 25
London -42 253 £82,500 +10.00% 67
South East -45 124 £51,000 -21.54% 36
North West 0 117 £55,000 -4.86% 11
Yorkshire +32 111 £60,000 - 11
Midlands +16 103 £57,500 +4.55% 17
South West -36 68 £53,750 -14.00% 27
West Midlands +16 59 £60,000 +6.67% 8
East of England -12 47 £65,000 +8.33% 9
East Midlands +13 44 £57,500 +21.05% 9
North East +19 34 £60,000 +6.67% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 412 (46.82%) Azure
2 335 (38.07%) AWS
3 263 (29.89%) Terraform
4 244 (27.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 225 (25.57%) DevOps
6 197 (22.39%) Microsoft
7 187 (21.25%) Kubernetes
8 185 (21.02%) CI/CD
9 170 (19.32%) Python
10 166 (18.86%) Windows
11 161 (18.30%) Roadmaps
12 154 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 149 (16.93%) Linux
14 141 (16.02%) Technical Leadership
15 135 (15.34%) Finance
16 127 (14.43%) Social Skills
16 127 (14.43%) Technology Roadmap
17 119 (13.52%) Agile
18 118 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
19 117 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
20 116 (13.18%) PowerShell
20 116 (13.18%) Docker
21 103 (11.70%) Windows Server
22 101 (11.48%) Active Directory
23 99 (11.25%) Ansible
23 99 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
24 96 (10.91%) Firewall
25 93 (10.57%) Software Engineering
26 91 (10.34%) Cloud Security
27 90 (10.23%) Google

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 68 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.84%) Confluence
4 16 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.25%) Apache
6 9 (1.02%) SharePoint 2010
6 9 (1.02%) SharePoint 2013
7 5 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.34%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) Moodle
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 412 (46.82%) Azure
2 335 (38.07%) AWS
3 118 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (9.89%) GCP
5 79 (8.98%) Serverless
6 77 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (8.30%) PaaS
8 59 (6.70%) GitHub
9 58 (6.59%) Amazon S3
9 58 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (6.25%) Entra ID
11 54 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (6.02%) IaaS
13 52 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
14 46 (5.23%) OneDrive
15 43 (4.89%) Dropbox
16 42 (4.77%) Google Drive
16 42 (4.77%) OCI
16 42 (4.77%) SaaS
17 38 (4.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 96 (10.91%) Firewall
2 43 (4.89%) DNS
3 38 (4.32%) DHCP
4 33 (3.75%) Network Security
5 27 (3.07%) WAN
6 26 (2.95%) VPN
7 23 (2.61%) LAN
8 11 (1.25%) VLAN
9 8 (0.91%) IPv4
9 8 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.80%) SAN
11 6 (0.68%) HTTP
11 6 (0.68%) Wireless
12 4 (0.45%) Internet
12 4 (0.45%) Multicast
12 4 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.34%) MQTT
13 3 (0.34%) OSPF
13 3 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 12 (1.36%) BigQuery
5 11 (1.25%) Power BI
6 10 (1.14%) MySQL
7 6 (0.68%) DB2
8 5 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.57%) Tableau
9 3 (0.34%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.34%) Looker
9 3 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.23%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (8.30%) Git
2 54 (6.14%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.64%) GitLab
4 25 (2.84%) JIRA
5 21 (2.39%) Artifactory
6 18 (2.05%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.02%) Subversion
9 8 (0.91%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.45%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.23%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.23%) JMeter
11 2 (0.23%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.11%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.11%) sqlmap
General
1 135 (15.34%) Finance
2 127 (14.43%) Social Skills
3 60 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (4.55%) Law
6 34 (3.86%) Banking
7 30 (3.41%) Public Sector
8 22 (2.50%) Aerospace
9 19 (2.16%) Legal
10 14 (1.59%) Retail
11 9 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.91%) Local Government
13 5 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.34%) Marketing
16 2 (0.23%) Electronics
16 2 (0.23%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.23%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.73%) Node.js
2 23 (2.61%) Kafka
3 13 (1.48%) ARM Templates
4 12 (1.36%) React
4 12 (1.36%) Svelte
5 8 (0.91%) SAML
6 6 (0.68%) AWS CDK
6 6 (0.68%) Django
6 6 (0.68%) GraphQL
6 6 (0.68%) RESTful
7 5 (0.57%) .NET
7 5 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.45%) web3js
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Beam
9 3 (0.34%) CSS
9 3 (0.34%) HTML
10 2 (0.23%) ADO
10 2 (0.23%) EDI
10 2 (0.23%) JSON
10 2 (0.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 63 (7.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (6.36%) Public Cloud
4 48 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (4.77%) Data Centre
5 42 (4.77%) iPad
6 34 (3.86%) Legacy Code
7 20 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.70%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.25%) Blog
11 11 (1.25%) IoT
12 10 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.02%) PKI
14 8 (0.91%) Replication
15 7 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
16 6 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 166 (18.86%) Windows
2 149 (16.93%) Linux
3 103 (11.70%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.70%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.68%) Unix
10 5 (0.57%) CentOS
11 4 (0.45%) VMS
12 3 (0.34%) SUSE
12 3 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (27.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 225 (25.57%) DevOps
3 185 (21.02%) CI/CD
4 161 (18.30%) Roadmaps
5 154 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 141 (16.02%) Technical Leadership
7 127 (14.43%) Technology Roadmap
8 119 (13.52%) Agile
9 117 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
10 99 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
11 93 (10.57%) Software Engineering
12 91 (10.34%) Cloud Security
13 72 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (7.84%) ITIL
15 65 (7.39%) Migration
16 59 (6.70%) Mentoring
17 57 (6.48%) Containerisation
18 54 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
19 48 (5.45%) Configuration Management
19 48 (5.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 170 (19.32%) Python
2 116 (13.18%) PowerShell
3 72 (8.18%) Bash
4 64 (7.27%) Go
5 49 (5.57%) Java
6 38 (4.32%) SQL
7 34 (3.86%) Bicep
8 30 (3.41%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.73%) C
10 23 (2.61%) C++
10 23 (2.61%) Rust
11 22 (2.50%) C#
12 20 (2.27%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.36%) Perl
13 12 (1.36%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.02%) PHP
15 4 (0.45%) AWK
15 4 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.45%) sed
16 3 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (7.16%) Degree
2 60 (6.82%) AWS Certification
3 51 (5.80%) Azure Certification
4 48 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 37 (4.20%) SC Cleared
6 27 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.48%) MCSE
10 9 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.02%) CISSP
10 9 (1.02%) MCITP
11 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.80%) CISM
13 6 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.45%) CEH
14 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.45%) PhD
15 3 (0.34%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (1.82%) QA
3 13 (1.48%) SLA
4 11 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.80%) NCSC
5 7 (0.80%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.68%) NIST
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.11%) GDPR
9 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 116 (13.18%) Docker
2 101 (11.48%) Active Directory
3 46 (5.23%) Hyper-V
4 43 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 37 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (1.48%) XenApp
8 12 (1.36%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.34%) Ceph
10 3 (0.34%) Firmware
10 3 (0.34%) Gluster
10 3 (0.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.34%) oVirt
11 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 263 (29.89%) Terraform
2 187 (21.25%) Kubernetes
3 99 (11.25%) Ansible
4 58 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (2.95%) Puppet
6 19 (2.16%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.59%) SCCM
8 12 (1.36%) Salt
9 10 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (1.14%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.02%) Packer
11 7 (0.80%) Grafana
11 7 (0.80%) Opsgenie
12 6 (0.68%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.45%) Istio
15 3 (0.34%) Observium
15 3 (0.34%) SCOM
15 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 197 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 90 (10.23%) Google
3 59 (6.70%) VMware
4 43 (4.89%) Oracle
5 29 (3.30%) Citrix
6 25 (2.84%) Cisco
7 17 (1.93%) HP
8 15 (1.70%) Dell
9 11 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.14%) Remedy
10 10 (1.14%) Splunk
11 9 (1.02%) New Relic
11 9 (1.02%) SolarWinds
11 9 (1.02%) Symantec
12 7 (0.80%) Confluent
12 7 (0.80%) IBM
12 7 (0.80%) Zscaler
13 6 (0.68%) BMC
14 5 (0.57%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.57%) Veeam