Cloud Operations Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 939 1158
Rank change year-on-year +54 +219 -255
Permanent jobs requiring a CloudOps Engineer 22 21 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.021% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.023% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 20 20 50
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,275 £37,825
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% -4.17% -5.88%

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 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

CloudOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CloudOps Engineer in the UK

CloudOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CloudOps Engineer in the UK

CloudOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CloudOps Engineer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CloudOps Engineer in the UK

CloudOps Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CloudOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
UK excluding London +9 21 £67,500 +17.39% 4
England +73 20 £68,750 +17.52% 5
East of England +15 15 £70,000 -12.50%
Work from Home +65 11 £65,000 +8.79% 1
South West -9 2 - - 2
Scotland - 2 £55,000 -
London +90 1 £65,000 +11.11%
North of England +42 1 £55,000 -5.98% 2
West Midlands +13 1 £55,000 -4.35%
Midlands 0 1 £55,000 -4.35%
North West - 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, CloudOps 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 CloudOps Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 17 (77.27%) AWS
3 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (40.91%) Cloud Native
5 8 (36.36%) Terraform
5 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (31.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (31.82%) Opsgenie
7 6 (27.27%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (27.27%) AWS Certification
7 6 (27.27%) IoT
7 6 (27.27%) Node.js
7 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
7 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
8 5 (22.73%) Azure
8 5 (22.73%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
9 4 (18.18%) Agile
10 3 (13.64%) Bash
10 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
10 3 (13.64%) Finance
10 3 (13.64%) DevOps
10 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
11 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
11 2 (9.09%) Ansible
11 2 (9.09%) Docker
11 2 (9.09%) Robot Framework
11 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
11 2 (9.09%) Jenkins

CloudOps 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (31.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 2 (9.09%) Eclipse
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JMeter
1 2 (9.09%) Robot Framework
1 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (27.27%) IoT
2 6 (27.27%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (22.73%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (9.09%) Data Management
6 1 (4.55%) Business Continuity
6 1 (4.55%) Capacity Management
6 1 (4.55%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (4.55%) ITIL
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (4.55%) PRINCE
6 1 (4.55%) Project Management
6 1 (4.55%) Runbook
6 1 (4.55%) SDLC
6 1 (4.55%) Service Management
6 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) MCSE
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Opsgenie
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) VMware