Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 551 632
Rank change year-on-year -14 +81 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 64 54 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 39 43 101
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,526 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% - -8.42%
75th Percentile £81,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 51,365 32,680 65,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 96.01% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 25,610 22,460 39,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,871 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,404 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 -22 17 £70,000 +17.60% 5
South West 0 15 £40,000 -32.80%
South East -21 13 £69,500 -0.71% 1
Midlands -31 8 £72,500 +20.83% 7
North West -43 8 £70,000 +17.60% 4
West Midlands -25 7 £72,500 +13.73% 6
Yorkshire +24 6 £80,000 +34.40% 1
Scotland -6 5 £75,000 +26.00%
Wales +34 3 £90,000 +89.47%
North East - 3 £70,000 -
East of England -53 2 £66,500 -
East Midlands -40 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £90,000 -
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (51.56%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) SaaS
3 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (21.88%) Cloud Security
6 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
6 13 (20.31%) DevOps
7 11 (17.19%) AWS
8 10 (15.63%) PowerShell
8 10 (15.63%) Terraform
9 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (12.50%) PaaS
9 8 (12.50%) Degree
9 8 (12.50%) Python
9 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (10.94%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
10 7 (10.94%) Windows
10 7 (10.94%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.94%) IaaS
10 7 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (10.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (9.38%) Bash
11 6 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (9.38%) Agile
11 6 (9.38%) Firewall
11 6 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (9.38%) Azure Certification

Senior 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 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (51.56%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) SaaS
3 11 (17.19%) AWS
4 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (12.50%) PaaS
5 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (10.94%) IaaS
6 6 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (7.81%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.13%) GCP
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub
9 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.13%) Serverless
10 1 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.56%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
2 5 (7.81%) LAN
2 5 (7.81%) VoIP
2 5 (7.81%) WAN
3 1 (1.56%) DHCP
3 1 (1.56%) DMZ
3 1 (1.56%) DNS
3 1 (1.56%) SAN
3 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 4 (6.25%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.56%) Finance
3 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) .NET
1 2 (3.13%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.25%) IoT
4 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 4 (6.25%) Linux
3 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (21.88%) Cloud Security
3 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
3 13 (20.31%) DevOps
4 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.94%) Computer Science
5 7 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (10.94%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (9.38%) Agile
6 6 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (7.81%) Containerisation
7 5 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.81%) High Availability
7 5 (7.81%) Network Virtualisation
7 5 (7.81%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (4.69%) OO
9 3 (4.69%) SIEM
9 3 (4.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.50%) Python
3 6 (9.38%) Bash
4 2 (3.13%) Bicep
4 2 (3.13%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) Perl
5 1 (1.56%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) Scala
5 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.81%) CEH
3 5 (7.81%) CISSP
4 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) GDPR
1 5 (7.81%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.13%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) NCSC
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Terraform
2 4 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 4 (6.25%) Puppet
3 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.13%) VMware
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco
4 1 (1.56%) Dell
4 1 (1.56%) NetApp
4 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds