Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £59,526 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 252 245 238
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 811 840 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.42% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.60% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 460 466 627
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,091 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,968 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +10 179 £60,000 -13.60% 7
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
Wales -10 16 £50,685 +9.68% 2
Northern Ireland +25 12 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 350 (43.16%) AWS
2 340 (41.92%) Azure
3 230 (28.36%) Terraform
4 226 (27.87%) CI/CD
5 188 (23.18%) Finance
6 186 (22.93%) Agile
7 179 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 168 (20.72%) DevOps
9 162 (19.98%) Public Cloud
10 158 (19.48%) Roadmaps
11 154 (18.99%) Windows
12 146 (18.00%) Microsoft
13 140 (17.26%) Software Engineering
14 134 (16.52%) Operational Stability
14 134 (16.52%) Social Skills
15 131 (16.15%) Java
16 130 (16.03%) Cloud Native
17 127 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 122 (15.04%) Technical Leadership
19 121 (14.92%) Law
20 118 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 112 (13.81%) Python
22 109 (13.44%) Technology Roadmap
23 102 (12.58%) Windows Server
24 100 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
24 100 (12.33%) Linux
25 98 (12.08%) SDLC
26 95 (11.71%) Machine Learning
27 93 (11.47%) Kubernetes
27 93 (11.47%) Problem-Solving

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 57 (7.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.73%) Confluence
4 10 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.49%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (0.49%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.37%) Apache
6 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 350 (43.16%) AWS
2 340 (41.92%) Azure
3 100 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (10.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 66 (8.14%) GCP
6 65 (8.01%) PaaS
7 63 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (6.91%) Datadog
8 56 (6.91%) OCI
9 49 (6.04%) IaaS
10 42 (5.18%) Entra ID
11 41 (5.06%) GitHub
12 37 (4.56%) OneDrive
13 36 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
13 36 (4.44%) Dropbox
13 36 (4.44%) Google Drive
14 35 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (4.19%) Serverless
16 31 (3.82%) SaaS
17 28 (3.45%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 74 (9.12%) Firewall
2 28 (3.45%) DHCP
3 26 (3.21%) WAN
4 25 (3.08%) DNS
5 20 (2.47%) Network Security
5 20 (2.47%) VPN
6 15 (1.85%) LAN
7 10 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.99%) VLAN
9 5 (0.62%) IPv4
10 4 (0.49%) Multicast
11 3 (0.37%) BGP
11 3 (0.37%) HTTP
11 3 (0.37%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.37%) MQTT
11 3 (0.37%) OSPF
11 3 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.37%) SAN
12 2 (0.25%) PBX
12 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.11%) Power BI
4 8 (0.99%) MySQL
5 6 (0.74%) BigQuery
5 6 (0.74%) DB2
6 5 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.37%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.37%) Looker
8 3 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.37%) Tableau
9 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.12%) Big Data
10 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (6.41%) Git
2 39 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.71%) GitLab
4 21 (2.59%) Artifactory
5 14 (1.73%) JIRA
6 7 (0.86%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.25%) JMeter
7 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Gradle
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.12%) sqlmap
General
1 188 (23.18%) Finance
2 134 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 121 (14.92%) Law
4 118 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (7.52%) Banking
6 46 (5.67%) Marketing
7 34 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (3.82%) Aerospace
9 26 (3.21%) Private Banking
10 24 (2.96%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.23%) Legal
11 10 (1.23%) Retail
12 8 (0.99%) Local Government
12 8 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.25%) Police
14 2 (0.25%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.12%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.54%) OpenTelemetry
2 36 (4.44%) Spring Boot
3 31 (3.82%) Kafka
4 27 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 26 (3.21%) React
5 26 (3.21%) RESTful
5 26 (3.21%) Spring
6 11 (1.36%) ARM Templates
6 11 (1.36%) Node.js
7 9 (1.11%) .NET
8 3 (0.37%) ADO
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Beam
8 3 (0.37%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.37%) CSS
8 3 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.37%) HTML
9 2 (0.25%) REST
9 2 (0.25%) SAML
10 1 (0.12%) JSON
10 1 (0.12%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 162 (19.98%) Public Cloud
2 130 (16.03%) Cloud Native
3 63 (7.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (5.43%) Data Centre
5 36 (4.44%) iPad
6 29 (3.58%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.47%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.73%) Replication
10 11 (1.36%) IoT
11 10 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.74%) Blog
12 6 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.62%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.37%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.37%) Life Science
14 3 (0.37%) Mainframe
14 3 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 154 (18.99%) Windows
2 102 (12.58%) Windows Server
3 100 (12.33%) Linux
4 8 (0.99%) Unix
4 8 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.37%) SUSE
8 3 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (27.87%) CI/CD
2 186 (22.93%) Agile
3 179 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 168 (20.72%) DevOps
5 158 (19.48%) Roadmaps
6 140 (17.26%) Software Engineering
7 134 (16.52%) Operational Stability
8 127 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 122 (15.04%) Technical Leadership
10 109 (13.44%) Technology Roadmap
11 98 (12.08%) SDLC
12 95 (11.71%) Machine Learning
13 93 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (10.85%) Artificial Intelligence
14 88 (10.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 85 (10.48%) Architectural Design
15 85 (10.48%) Community of Practice
16 83 (10.23%) Information Architecture
17 73 (9.00%) Cloud Security
18 72 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 131 (16.15%) Java
2 112 (13.81%) Python
3 81 (9.99%) PowerShell
4 57 (7.03%) Bash
5 36 (4.44%) Bicep
6 31 (3.82%) SQL
7 20 (2.47%) C#
8 17 (2.10%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.36%) PHP
11 10 (1.23%) Go
12 8 (0.99%) Perl
13 7 (0.86%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.49%) AWK
14 4 (0.49%) sed
15 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.37%) Ruby
16 2 (0.25%) Groovy
17 1 (0.12%) Julia
Qualifications
1 64 (7.89%) AWS Certification
2 57 (7.03%) Degree
3 41 (5.06%) Azure Certification
4 35 (4.32%) Security Cleared
5 30 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 27 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.36%) CCNA
9 11 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.11%) MCSE
11 8 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.49%) CCNP
13 4 (0.49%) MCITP
13 4 (0.49%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.25%) CISSP
15 2 (0.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.81%) SLA
2 22 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.36%) QA
4 9 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.62%) NIST
6 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.25%) GDPR
8 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 78 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 77 (9.49%) Docker
3 43 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.69%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.86%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.62%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.49%) XenApp
11 3 (0.37%) Ceph
11 3 (0.37%) Firmware
11 3 (0.37%) Gluster
11 3 (0.37%) KVM
11 3 (0.37%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 230 (28.36%) Terraform
2 93 (11.47%) Kubernetes
3 80 (9.86%) Ansible
4 62 (7.64%) Grafana
5 46 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.10%) Puppet
7 13 (1.60%) Prometheus
8 10 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (0.99%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.86%) Opsgenie
10 7 (0.86%) SCCM
11 6 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.74%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.37%) Graylog
13 3 (0.37%) Observium
13 3 (0.37%) SCOM
13 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.25%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.38%) Google
3 60 (7.40%) Splunk
4 57 (7.03%) Oracle
4 57 (7.03%) VMware
5 52 (6.41%) Dynatrace
6 21 (2.59%) Cisco
7 19 (2.34%) Citrix
8 12 (1.48%) HP
9 10 (1.23%) Dell
10 9 (1.11%) NetApp
11 7 (0.86%) Confluent
11 7 (0.86%) IBM
12 6 (0.74%) Veeam
13 5 (0.62%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.49%) Symantec
15 3 (0.37%) Computacenter
15 3 (0.37%) New Relic
15 3 (0.37%) ServiceNow
15 3 (0.37%) Teradata