Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £62,641 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 246 250
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,148 1,525 2,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.47% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.61% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 694 988 1,335
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,829 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,641 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,700 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,263 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +5.26% +3.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England -10 887 £62,783 -6.99% 149
UK excluding London -1 816 £59,263 -1.23% 100
Work from Home -61 349 £62,783 -3.41% 96
North of England +32 262 £60,000 +2.56% 24
London -39 259 £82,500 +10.00% 56
Scotland -1 183 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South East -41 120 £51,000 -21.54% 16
North West +13 118 £55,000 -4.35% 9
Yorkshire +35 110 £60,000 - 10
Midlands +39 107 £57,500 +4.55% 15
South West -44 69 £55,000 -12.00% 26
West Midlands +18 59 £60,000 +4.35% 5
East Midlands +23 48 £57,500 +21.05% 10
East of England -11 47 £65,000 +18.18% 10
North East +16 34 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Wales -14 16 £50,685 +8.42% 2
Northern Ireland +32 12 £60,000 +26.32% 5

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 516 (44.95%) Azure
2 492 (42.86%) AWS
3 376 (32.75%) Terraform
4 315 (27.44%) CI/CD
5 278 (24.22%) DevOps
6 277 (24.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 268 (23.34%) Finance
8 252 (21.95%) Agile
9 217 (18.90%) Software Engineering
10 213 (18.55%) Python
11 210 (18.29%) Microsoft
12 209 (18.21%) Social Skills
12 209 (18.21%) Kubernetes
13 191 (16.64%) Windows
14 190 (16.55%) Roadmaps
15 184 (16.03%) Cloud Native
16 181 (15.77%) Linux
17 175 (15.24%) Public Cloud
18 168 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 168 (14.63%) Java
19 167 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 152 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
21 150 (13.07%) Law
22 136 (11.85%) Operational Stability
23 134 (11.67%) PowerShell
24 132 (11.50%) Technology Roadmap
25 131 (11.41%) Ansible
26 130 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
27 128 (11.15%) Docker
28 125 (10.89%) Microsoft 365

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 69 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.18%) Confluence
4 16 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.96%) Apache
6 6 (0.52%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (0.52%) SharePoint 2013
7 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.087%) IIS
9 1 (0.087%) SAS
9 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 516 (44.95%) Azure
2 492 (42.86%) AWS
3 125 (10.89%) Microsoft 365
4 114 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
5 110 (9.58%) GCP
6 102 (8.89%) PaaS
7 88 (7.67%) Serverless
8 86 (7.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 75 (6.53%) IaaS
10 74 (6.45%) GitHub
11 70 (6.10%) OCI
12 68 (5.92%) Datadog
13 63 (5.49%) Entra ID
14 62 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
15 59 (5.14%) Amazon S3
16 57 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 52 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
18 50 (4.36%) SaaS
19 46 (4.01%) Cloud Computing
20 45 (3.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 122 (10.63%) Firewall
2 55 (4.79%) DNS
3 46 (4.01%) VPN
4 45 (3.92%) DHCP
4 45 (3.92%) Network Security
5 36 (3.14%) WAN
6 26 (2.26%) LAN
7 16 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.39%) VLAN
8 12 (1.05%) IPv4
9 11 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.87%) HTTP
11 9 (0.78%) SAN
12 7 (0.61%) Wireless
13 6 (0.52%) DMZ
13 6 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.52%) WLAN
14 4 (0.35%) BGP
14 4 (0.35%) Internet
14 4 (0.35%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.57%) DynamoDB
4 13 (1.13%) Power BI
5 11 (0.96%) BigQuery
6 7 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (0.61%) MySQL
7 6 (0.52%) DB2
8 5 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.44%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.44%) Tableau
9 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.26%) Airbyte
10 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.26%) Looker
10 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (7.49%) Git
2 80 (6.97%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.22%) GitLab
4 25 (2.18%) JIRA
5 21 (1.83%) Artifactory
6 18 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.78%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (0.78%) Subversion
8 8 (0.70%) Spinnaker
9 6 (0.52%) git-flow
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.35%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.087%) Gradle
12 1 (0.087%) Maven
General
1 268 (23.34%) Finance
2 209 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 168 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 150 (13.07%) Law
5 74 (6.45%) Banking
6 54 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (4.18%) Marketing
8 42 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.26%) Private Banking
11 19 (1.66%) Legal
12 16 (1.39%) Retail
13 13 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.96%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.70%) Local Government
16 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.26%) Financial Institution
18 2 (0.17%) Electronics
18 2 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.62%) OpenTelemetry
2 42 (3.66%) Kafka
2 42 (3.66%) React
3 38 (3.31%) Spring Boot
4 30 (2.61%) RESTful
5 28 (2.44%) Node.js
6 27 (2.35%) AngularJS
6 27 (2.35%) Spring
7 16 (1.39%) Svelte
8 15 (1.31%) .NET
9 13 (1.13%) ARM Templates
10 12 (1.05%) SAML
11 9 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.61%) HTML
13 6 (0.52%) ADO
14 5 (0.44%) .NET Core
14 5 (0.44%) AWS CDK
15 4 (0.35%) GraphQL
15 4 (0.35%) REST
15 4 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 184 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 175 (15.24%) Public Cloud
3 74 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (4.70%) Data Centre
5 52 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.66%) iPad
7 38 (3.31%) Legacy Code
7 38 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 33 (2.87%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.35%) Product Ownership
10 20 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.22%) Replication
13 11 (0.96%) Blog
13 11 (0.96%) IoT
14 10 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.87%) PKI
14 10 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (0.70%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 191 (16.64%) Windows
2 181 (15.77%) Linux
3 123 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.05%) Unix
7 10 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.35%) CentOS
10 3 (0.26%) SUSE
10 3 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.26%) VMS
11 1 (0.087%) Debian
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (27.44%) CI/CD
2 278 (24.22%) DevOps
3 277 (24.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 252 (21.95%) Agile
5 217 (18.90%) Software Engineering
6 190 (16.55%) Roadmaps
7 167 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 152 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
9 136 (11.85%) Operational Stability
10 132 (11.50%) Technology Roadmap
11 130 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
12 112 (9.76%) Cloud Security
12 112 (9.76%) Machine Learning
13 110 (9.58%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (9.49%) SDLC
15 103 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence
16 97 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
17 96 (8.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 92 (8.01%) Architectural Design
19 91 (7.93%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 213 (18.55%) Python
2 168 (14.63%) Java
3 134 (11.67%) PowerShell
4 77 (6.71%) Bash
5 71 (6.18%) Go
6 51 (4.44%) SQL
7 39 (3.40%) Bicep
8 35 (3.05%) JavaScript
9 26 (2.26%) C#
10 24 (2.09%) C
10 24 (2.09%) Rust
10 24 (2.09%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.09%) TypeScript
11 23 (2.00%) C++
12 19 (1.66%) Perl
13 11 (0.96%) PHP
14 6 (0.52%) Ruby
15 4 (0.35%) AWK
15 4 (0.35%) sed
16 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (7.49%) AWS Certification
2 72 (6.27%) Degree
3 63 (5.49%) Security Cleared
4 60 (5.23%) Azure Certification
5 41 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.13%) CCNA
10 13 (1.13%) CISSP
11 11 (0.96%) CISM
11 11 (0.96%) MCSE
12 9 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.52%) CCNP
14 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.52%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.40%) SLA
2 27 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.39%) QA
4 11 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.78%) NCSC
5 9 (0.78%) NIST
6 7 (0.61%) GDPR
6 7 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.35%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.087%) COBIT
9 1 (0.087%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.087%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 128 (11.15%) Docker
2 117 (10.19%) Active Directory
3 50 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (3.83%) Hyper-V
5 39 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.70%) XenApp
7 8 (0.70%) XenDesktop
8 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.26%) Ceph
9 3 (0.26%) Firmware
9 3 (0.26%) Gluster
9 3 (0.26%) KVM
9 3 (0.26%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 376 (32.75%) Terraform
2 209 (18.21%) Kubernetes
3 131 (11.41%) Ansible
4 65 (5.66%) Grafana
5 54 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (3.22%) Puppet
7 24 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.39%) Salt
9 10 (0.87%) SCCM
10 9 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.78%) Packer
11 8 (0.70%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.61%) Opsgenie
12 7 (0.61%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.35%) Istio
14 4 (0.35%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.26%) Observium
Vendors
1 210 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.62%) Google
3 72 (6.27%) VMware
4 66 (5.75%) Oracle
5 60 (5.23%) Splunk
6 57 (4.97%) Dynatrace
7 38 (3.31%) Cisco
8 29 (2.53%) Citrix
9 14 (1.22%) HP
10 12 (1.05%) Dell
11 11 (0.96%) Zscaler
12 9 (0.78%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.78%) Meraki
12 9 (0.78%) NetApp
12 9 (0.78%) SolarWinds
13 8 (0.70%) New Relic
13 8 (0.70%) Remedy
14 7 (0.61%) Confluent
14 7 (0.61%) IBM
15 6 (0.52%) McAfee