Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £65,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 695 698 783
Rank change year-on-year +3 +85 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 202 283 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.31% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 162 195 196
10th Percentile £52,741 £56,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £57,597 £62,750 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £90,938 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £70,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.95% +8.46% +4.00%

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 93,908 91,208 153,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,161 57,434 84,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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 -13 159 £67,500 -11.48% 28
UK excluding London -25 130 £62,783 -10.95% 20
Work from Home +74 100 £62,783 -9.35% 31
North of England +40 57 £62,783 -9.60% 10
London +36 55 £90,000 +12.50% 9
Yorkshire +85 25 £62,783 -8.37% 3
North West +1 25 £62,783 -21.52% 4
Scotland -52 25 £61,250 -31.94% 1
South West -15 18 £40,000 -42.86% 5
South East +5 15 £67,500 -3.57% 1
West Midlands +17 7 £60,000 -18.64% 1
North East +3 7 £62,783 +14.15% 3
Midlands -11 7 £60,000 +4.35% 1
East of England +8 5 £66,500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 110 (54.46%) Azure
2 97 (48.02%) AWS
3 94 (46.53%) Terraform
4 78 (38.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (29.70%) DevOps
5 60 (29.70%) Kubernetes
5 60 (29.70%) Python
6 59 (29.21%) Linux
7 48 (23.76%) Windows
8 47 (23.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 42 (20.79%) Finance
9 42 (20.79%) Microsoft
10 40 (19.80%) Public Cloud
10 40 (19.80%) Ansible
11 35 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (16.83%) Docker
13 33 (16.34%) Cloud Security
14 32 (15.84%) Mentoring
15 31 (15.35%) GitHub
16 30 (14.85%) PaaS
16 30 (14.85%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (13.86%) Cybersecurity
18 27 (13.37%) ITIL
19 26 (12.87%) Software Engineering
19 26 (12.87%) Public Sector
19 26 (12.87%) CI/CD
19 26 (12.87%) Cloud Native
20 25 (12.38%) Agile
20 25 (12.38%) Coaching
20 25 (12.38%) GCP

Senior 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 14 (6.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.48%) Apache
3 5 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 110 (54.46%) Azure
2 97 (48.02%) AWS
3 35 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (15.35%) GitHub
5 30 (14.85%) PaaS
6 25 (12.38%) GCP
7 24 (11.88%) Amazon S3
8 19 (9.41%) Serverless
9 18 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (6.93%) Entra ID
12 13 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (6.44%) IaaS
13 11 (5.45%) SaaS
14 10 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (4.46%) CloudFront
15 9 (4.46%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.41%) Firewall
2 8 (3.96%) VPN
3 7 (3.47%) IPv4
4 4 (1.98%) Wireless
5 3 (1.49%) HTTP
5 3 (1.49%) MQTT
5 3 (1.49%) Network Security
6 2 (0.99%) DNS
7 1 (0.50%) DHCP
7 1 (0.50%) DMZ
7 1 (0.50%) Internet
7 1 (0.50%) LAN
7 1 (0.50%) OSPF
7 1 (0.50%) VLAN
7 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.48%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.99%) Power BI
4 2 (0.99%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Redis
5 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.40%) Artifactory
2 21 (10.40%) GitLab
3 7 (3.47%) Bitbucket
3 7 (3.47%) Git
4 1 (0.50%) Spinnaker
General
1 42 (20.79%) Finance
2 26 (12.87%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.42%) Banking
4 13 (6.44%) Social Skills
5 8 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.99%) Retail
8 1 (0.50%) Advertising
8 1 (0.50%) Games
8 1 (0.50%) Law
8 1 (0.50%) Legal
8 1 (0.50%) Marketing
8 1 (0.50%) Music Industry
8 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.45%) .NET
2 9 (4.46%) Node.js
3 6 (2.97%) React
3 6 (2.97%) Svelte
4 3 (1.49%) CSS
4 3 (1.49%) HTML
5 2 (0.99%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.99%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.99%) JWT
5 2 (0.99%) OAuth
5 2 (0.99%) web3js
6 1 (0.50%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.50%) JDBC
6 1 (0.50%) Kafka
6 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.50%) Swagger
6 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.80%) Public Cloud
2 30 (14.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (12.87%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.91%) Product Ownership
5 17 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (8.42%) Legacy Code
6 15 (7.43%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.96%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.97%) Blog
8 6 (2.97%) PKI
9 4 (1.98%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.99%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.99%) Life Science
10 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.99%) Web3
11 1 (0.50%) CCTV
11 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (29.21%) Linux
2 48 (23.76%) Windows
3 11 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.47%) Unix
5 6 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.61%) Infrastructure as Code
2 60 (29.70%) DevOps
3 47 (23.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (16.34%) Cloud Security
5 32 (15.84%) Mentoring
6 28 (13.86%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (13.37%) ITIL
8 26 (12.87%) CI/CD
8 26 (12.87%) Software Engineering
9 25 (12.38%) Agile
9 25 (12.38%) Coaching
10 24 (11.88%) Migration
11 22 (10.89%) Containerisation
11 22 (10.89%) Operational Stability
12 21 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (10.40%) Service Management
12 21 (10.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 20 (9.90%) Roadmaps
14 17 (8.42%) Use Case
15 14 (6.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 60 (29.70%) Python
2 24 (11.88%) PowerShell
3 21 (10.40%) Go
3 21 (10.40%) SQL
4 17 (8.42%) Bash
5 13 (6.44%) Rust
6 11 (5.45%) C
6 11 (5.45%) C++
6 11 (5.45%) Java
7 8 (3.96%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.97%) C#
8 6 (2.97%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.98%) Perl
9 4 (1.98%) Ruby
10 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.99%) Lua
10 2 (0.99%) PHP
11 1 (0.50%) AWK
11 1 (0.50%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (10.89%) Degree
2 21 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.91%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.99%) CEH
9 2 (0.99%) CISM
9 2 (0.99%) CISSP
9 2 (0.99%) VCP6
9 2 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.98%) Solvency II
2 2 (0.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) NCSC
3 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (16.83%) Docker
2 10 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.49%) Firmware
5 2 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 94 (46.53%) Terraform
2 60 (29.70%) Kubernetes
3 40 (19.80%) Ansible
4 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.48%) Grafana
5 5 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.48%) Puppet
6 4 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.99%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.50%) CASB
Vendors
1 42 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.90%) Google
3 6 (2.97%) VMware
4 5 (2.48%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.98%) Cisco
5 4 (1.98%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.98%) Remedy
5 4 (1.98%) Zscaler
6 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.50%) Citrix
7 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.50%) Dell
7 1 (0.50%) Meraki
7 1 (0.50%) NetApp
7 1 (0.50%) Twitter