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 £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 252 243
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 853 792 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.39% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.56% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 498 447 621
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,616
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,091 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +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 71,665 50,662 70,663
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 88.95% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,431 29,528 42,704
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,985
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 31 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 31 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 +41 273 £60,000 +3.79% 40
Scotland +6 175 £62,500 -10.00% 7
South East -31 129 £51,000 -21.54% 33
North West -2 118 £55,000 -4.86% 17
Yorkshire +49 117 £62,783 +4.64% 19
Midlands +29 115 £57,500 +4.55% 26
South West -37 77 £52,500 -19.23% 26
West Midlands -2 63 £65,000 +18.18% 13
East of England -18 54 £65,000 - 22
East Midlands +14 52 £56,250 +18.42% 13
North East +12 38 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Wales -19 17 £50,685 +9.68% 4
Northern Ireland +29 13 £75,000 +50.00%
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 361 (42.32%) AWS
2 358 (41.97%) Azure
3 236 (27.67%) Terraform
4 219 (25.67%) CI/CD
5 184 (21.57%) Finance
6 179 (20.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 177 (20.75%) Agile
8 175 (20.52%) DevOps
9 155 (18.17%) Public Cloud
10 153 (17.94%) Windows
11 149 (17.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 148 (17.35%) Microsoft
13 140 (16.41%) Roadmaps
14 133 (15.59%) Software Engineering
15 130 (15.24%) Social Skills
16 129 (15.12%) Operational Stability
17 127 (14.89%) Cloud Native
18 123 (14.42%) Java
19 116 (13.60%) Law
20 115 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 108 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
21 108 (12.66%) Python
22 106 (12.43%) Linux
23 100 (11.72%) Windows Server
24 96 (11.25%) Technology Roadmap
24 96 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
25 95 (11.14%) SDLC
26 94 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
27 92 (10.79%) Kubernetes
27 92 (10.79%) Machine Learning

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 (6.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.76%) Confluence
4 7 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.47%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.35%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 361 (42.32%) AWS
2 358 (41.97%) Azure
3 96 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 64 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (7.15%) GCP
7 57 (6.68%) PaaS
8 55 (6.45%) Datadog
8 55 (6.45%) OCI
9 47 (5.51%) IaaS
10 44 (5.16%) SaaS
11 42 (4.92%) Entra ID
12 37 (4.34%) OneDrive
13 36 (4.22%) Dropbox
13 36 (4.22%) GitHub
13 36 (4.22%) Google Drive
14 35 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
15 34 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (3.99%) Serverless
16 27 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 74 (8.68%) Firewall
2 28 (3.28%) DHCP
2 28 (3.28%) WAN
3 26 (3.05%) DNS
4 20 (2.34%) VPN
5 18 (2.11%) Network Security
6 16 (1.88%) LAN
7 10 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.06%) VLAN
9 5 (0.59%) IPv4
10 4 (0.47%) BGP
10 4 (0.47%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.47%) Multicast
10 4 (0.47%) SAN
11 3 (0.35%) HTTP
11 3 (0.35%) MQTT
11 3 (0.35%) OSPF
11 3 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.23%) PBX
12 2 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.06%) Power BI
4 8 (0.94%) MySQL
5 6 (0.70%) DB2
6 5 (0.59%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.35%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.35%) Looker
8 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.35%) Tableau
9 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (6.57%) Git
2 31 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.81%) GitLab
4 21 (2.46%) Artifactory
5 15 (1.76%) JIRA
6 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.47%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.35%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.35%) JMeter
7 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.35%) 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
1 184 (21.57%) Finance
2 130 (15.24%) Social Skills
3 116 (13.60%) Law
4 115 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (6.10%) Banking
6 43 (5.04%) Marketing
7 36 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (3.75%) Aerospace
9 25 (2.93%) Private Banking
10 22 (2.58%) Public Sector
11 12 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.06%) Legal
12 9 (1.06%) Retail
13 8 (0.94%) Local Government
14 4 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.35%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.23%) Games
16 2 (0.23%) Police
16 2 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
2 34 (3.99%) Spring Boot
3 27 (3.17%) Kafka
4 26 (3.05%) AngularJS
5 25 (2.93%) React
5 25 (2.93%) RESTful
5 25 (2.93%) Spring
6 13 (1.52%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.29%) Node.js
8 9 (1.06%) .NET
9 4 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.35%) ADO
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Beam
10 3 (0.35%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.35%) CSS
10 3 (0.35%) HTML
10 3 (0.35%) YAML
11 2 (0.23%) REST
11 2 (0.23%) SAML
12 1 (0.12%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 155 (18.17%) Public Cloud
2 127 (14.89%) Cloud Native
3 68 (7.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 42 (4.92%) Data Centre
5 36 (4.22%) iPad
6 29 (3.40%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.34%) Private Cloud
8 17 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 15 (1.76%) Replication
10 11 (1.29%) IoT
11 9 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.70%) Blog
12 6 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.59%) Driving Licence
14 4 (0.47%) Handset
15 3 (0.35%) Clustering
15 3 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
15 3 (0.35%) Life Science
15 3 (0.35%) Mainframe
15 3 (0.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 153 (17.94%) Windows
2 106 (12.43%) Linux
3 100 (11.72%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.06%) Unix
5 8 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.47%) CentOS
8 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.47%) VMS
9 3 (0.35%) SUSE
9 3 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (25.67%) CI/CD
2 179 (20.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 177 (20.75%) Agile
4 175 (20.52%) DevOps
5 149 (17.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 140 (16.41%) Roadmaps
7 133 (15.59%) Software Engineering
8 129 (15.12%) Operational Stability
9 108 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
10 96 (11.25%) Technology Roadmap
11 95 (11.14%) SDLC
12 94 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (10.79%) Machine Learning
14 87 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 86 (10.08%) Artificial Intelligence
16 82 (9.61%) Architectural Design
16 82 (9.61%) Community of Practice
17 80 (9.38%) Information Architecture
18 76 (8.91%) Cloud Security
19 66 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 123 (14.42%) Java
2 108 (12.66%) Python
3 85 (9.96%) PowerShell
4 58 (6.80%) Bash
5 41 (4.81%) Bicep
6 29 (3.40%) SQL
7 21 (2.46%) C#
8 17 (1.99%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.29%) PHP
10 10 (1.17%) Go
11 9 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.94%) Perl
13 7 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.47%) AWK
14 4 (0.47%) sed
15 3 (0.35%) Ruby
16 2 (0.23%) Groovy
16 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (7.27%) AWS Certification
2 58 (6.80%) Degree
3 37 (4.34%) Azure Certification
4 36 (4.22%) Security Cleared
5 31 (3.63%) SC Cleared
6 26 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.17%) CCNA
9 10 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.94%) MCSE
12 6 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.47%) MCITP
13 4 (0.47%) PhD
14 3 (0.35%) CCNP
14 3 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.23%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.45%) SLA
2 21 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.41%) QA
4 9 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.35%) NIST
7 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) GDPR
8 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 80 (9.38%) Docker
2 79 (9.26%) Active Directory
3 45 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (4.34%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.82%) XenDesktop
8 6 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.70%) XenApp
9 3 (0.35%) Ceph
9 3 (0.35%) Firmware
9 3 (0.35%) Gluster
9 3 (0.35%) KVM
9 3 (0.35%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 236 (27.67%) Terraform
2 92 (10.79%) Kubernetes
3 85 (9.96%) Ansible
4 64 (7.50%) Grafana
5 46 (5.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (1.99%) Puppet
7 15 (1.76%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.06%) FortiGate
10 8 (0.94%) SCCM
11 7 (0.82%) Opsgenie
11 7 (0.82%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.47%) SCOM
14 3 (0.35%) Graylog
14 3 (0.35%) Observium
14 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 148 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.50%) Google
3 63 (7.39%) Splunk
4 57 (6.68%) Oracle
5 56 (6.57%) VMware
6 52 (6.10%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.58%) Cisco
8 21 (2.46%) Citrix
9 13 (1.52%) HP
10 11 (1.29%) Dell
11 9 (1.06%) NetApp
12 7 (0.82%) Veeam
13 6 (0.70%) IBM
14 5 (0.59%) Zscaler
15 4 (0.47%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.47%) Confluent
15 4 (0.47%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.47%) Symantec
16 3 (0.35%) Computacenter
16 3 (0.35%) New Relic