Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £62,500 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 257 246 258
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,136 1,469 2,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.48% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.62% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 683 961 1,337
10th Percentile £40,250 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +4.35% +4.55%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 17 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 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
England -16 880 £62,783 -6.99% 170
UK excluding London -7 811 £59,526 -0.79% 116
Work from Home -70 344 £62,783 -3.41% 102
North of England +30 262 £60,000 +0.80% 25
London -42 253 £82,500 +10.00% 64
Scotland +10 179 £60,000 -13.60% 7
South East -45 124 £51,000 -21.54% 33
North West 0 117 £55,000 -4.86% 11
Yorkshire +32 111 £60,000 - 11
Midlands +16 103 £57,500 +4.55% 14
South West -36 68 £53,750 -14.00% 27
West Midlands +16 59 £60,000 +6.67% 6
East of England -12 47 £65,000 +8.33% 9
East Midlands +13 44 £57,500 +21.05% 8
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 506 (44.54%) Azure
2 491 (43.22%) AWS
3 370 (32.57%) Terraform
4 321 (28.26%) CI/CD
5 274 (24.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 273 (24.03%) DevOps
7 267 (23.50%) Finance
8 247 (21.74%) Agile
9 217 (19.10%) Microsoft
10 216 (19.01%) Software Engineering
11 214 (18.84%) Python
12 207 (18.22%) Kubernetes
13 204 (17.96%) Social Skills
14 193 (16.99%) Windows
15 187 (16.46%) Roadmaps
16 181 (15.93%) Cloud Native
17 177 (15.58%) Public Cloud
17 177 (15.58%) Linux
18 170 (14.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 167 (14.70%) Java
20 164 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 153 (13.47%) Law
22 148 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
23 138 (12.15%) Operational Stability
24 132 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
25 130 (11.44%) PowerShell
26 127 (11.18%) Technology Roadmap
26 127 (11.18%) Docker
27 126 (11.09%) Ansible
28 123 (10.83%) 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 68 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.20%) Confluence
4 16 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.97%) Apache
6 9 (0.79%) SharePoint 2010
6 9 (0.79%) SharePoint 2013
7 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.088%) Moodle
10 1 (0.088%) SAS
10 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 506 (44.54%) Azure
2 491 (43.22%) AWS
3 123 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (10.30%) GCP
5 109 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
6 98 (8.63%) PaaS
7 89 (7.83%) Serverless
8 86 (7.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 74 (6.51%) IaaS
10 72 (6.34%) GitHub
11 69 (6.07%) OCI
12 67 (5.90%) Datadog
13 63 (5.55%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (5.37%) Entra ID
15 60 (5.28%) Amazon S3
16 55 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 53 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
18 50 (4.40%) SaaS
19 46 (4.05%) OneDrive
20 43 (3.79%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 120 (10.56%) Firewall
2 48 (4.23%) DNS
3 46 (4.05%) VPN
4 43 (3.79%) Network Security
5 38 (3.35%) DHCP
5 38 (3.35%) WAN
6 27 (2.38%) LAN
7 15 (1.32%) VLAN
8 12 (1.06%) IPv4
8 12 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.88%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.62%) SAN
11 6 (0.53%) DMZ
11 6 (0.53%) HTTP
11 6 (0.53%) Wireless
11 6 (0.53%) WLAN
12 4 (0.35%) BGP
12 4 (0.35%) Internet
12 4 (0.35%) Multicast
12 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (3.52%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.76%) DynamoDB
4 14 (1.23%) Power BI
5 12 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 10 (0.88%) MySQL
7 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.53%) DB2
9 5 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.44%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.44%) Tableau
10 4 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Airbyte
11 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.26%) Looker
11 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (7.48%) Git
2 77 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.17%) GitLab
4 25 (2.20%) JIRA
5 21 (1.85%) Artifactory
6 18 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (0.79%) Spinnaker
8 9 (0.79%) Subversion
9 6 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.35%) git-flow
10 4 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.18%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.18%) JMeter
11 2 (0.18%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.18%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.088%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.088%) Maven
12 1 (0.088%) sqlmap
General
1 267 (23.50%) Finance
2 204 (17.96%) Social Skills
3 164 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 153 (13.47%) Law
5 73 (6.43%) Banking
6 62 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (4.23%) Marketing
8 40 (3.52%) Public Sector
9 32 (2.82%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.29%) Private Banking
11 20 (1.76%) Legal
12 16 (1.41%) Retail
13 13 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.70%) Local Government
16 5 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.26%) Financial Institution
19 2 (0.18%) Electronics
19 2 (0.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 43 (3.79%) Kafka
3 38 (3.35%) React
3 38 (3.35%) Spring Boot
4 32 (2.82%) RESTful
5 27 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 27 (2.38%) Spring
6 24 (2.11%) Node.js
7 15 (1.32%) .NET
8 13 (1.14%) ARM Templates
9 12 (1.06%) Svelte
10 9 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (0.70%) SAML
12 6 (0.53%) ADO
12 6 (0.53%) AWS CDK
12 6 (0.53%) Django
12 6 (0.53%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.44%) .NET Core
14 4 (0.35%) REST
14 4 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 181 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 177 (15.58%) Public Cloud
3 71 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (4.75%) Data Centre
5 48 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.70%) iPad
7 39 (3.43%) Management Information System
8 34 (2.99%) Legacy Code
9 31 (2.73%) Private Cloud
10 26 (2.29%) Product Ownership
11 18 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.32%) Replication
13 11 (0.97%) Blog
13 11 (0.97%) IoT
14 10 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.88%) PKI
14 10 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.62%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 193 (16.99%) Windows
2 177 (15.58%) Linux
3 123 (10.83%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.06%) Unix
6 9 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.44%) CentOS
10 4 (0.35%) VMS
11 3 (0.26%) SUSE
11 3 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (28.26%) CI/CD
2 274 (24.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 273 (24.03%) DevOps
4 247 (21.74%) Agile
5 216 (19.01%) Software Engineering
6 187 (16.46%) Roadmaps
7 170 (14.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 148 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
9 138 (12.15%) Operational Stability
10 132 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (11.18%) Technology Roadmap
12 115 (10.12%) Machine Learning
13 110 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
14 105 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence
15 104 (9.15%) SDLC
16 102 (8.98%) Cloud Security
17 100 (8.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 95 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
19 93 (8.19%) Architectural Design
19 93 (8.19%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 214 (18.84%) Python
2 167 (14.70%) Java
3 130 (11.44%) PowerShell
4 81 (7.13%) Bash
5 69 (6.07%) Go
6 53 (4.67%) SQL
7 39 (3.43%) Bicep
8 31 (2.73%) JavaScript
9 26 (2.29%) C#
10 24 (2.11%) C
10 24 (2.11%) Rust
11 23 (2.02%) C++
12 22 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.76%) TypeScript
14 16 (1.41%) Perl
15 11 (0.97%) PHP
16 7 (0.62%) Ruby
17 4 (0.35%) AWK
17 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.35%) sed
Qualifications
1 85 (7.48%) AWS Certification
2 75 (6.60%) Degree
3 60 (5.28%) Security Cleared
4 59 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.23%) CCNA
10 14 (1.23%) MCSE
11 11 (0.97%) CISSP
12 9 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.79%) CISM
12 9 (0.79%) MCITP
13 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.53%) CCNP
14 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.52%) SLA
2 27 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.41%) QA
4 11 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.70%) NIST
6 7 (0.62%) NCSC
6 7 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.44%) GDPR
8 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.35%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.088%) COBIT
10 1 (0.088%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.088%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 127 (11.18%) Docker
2 113 (9.95%) Active Directory
3 53 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (4.05%) Hyper-V
5 38 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (1.14%) XenApp
7 13 (1.14%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.26%) Ceph
10 3 (0.26%) Firmware
10 3 (0.26%) Gluster
10 3 (0.26%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 370 (32.57%) Terraform
2 207 (18.22%) Kubernetes
3 126 (11.09%) Ansible
4 64 (5.63%) Grafana
5 58 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (2.99%) Puppet
7 22 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.32%) Prometheus
9 14 (1.23%) SCCM
10 12 (1.06%) Salt
11 10 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.79%) Packer
13 8 (0.70%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.70%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.62%) Opsgenie
15 6 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.35%) Istio
16 4 (0.35%) vCenter Server
17 3 (0.26%) Graphite
Vendors
1 217 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.98%) Google
3 70 (6.16%) VMware
4 67 (5.90%) Oracle
5 62 (5.46%) Splunk
6 55 (4.84%) Dynatrace
7 40 (3.52%) Cisco
8 30 (2.64%) Citrix
9 17 (1.50%) HP
10 15 (1.32%) Dell
11 11 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.97%) Zscaler
12 10 (0.88%) Remedy
13 9 (0.79%) NetApp
13 9 (0.79%) New Relic
13 9 (0.79%) SolarWinds
13 9 (0.79%) Symantec
14 7 (0.62%) Confluent
14 7 (0.62%) IBM
14 7 (0.62%) Meraki