Cloud Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Work from Home is £62,783 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 299 229 240
Rank change year-on-year -70 +11 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 344 611 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 1.51% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.57% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 296 445 755
10th Percentile £47,250 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,493 38,794 68,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 27,614 41,915
10th Percentile £33,009 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 224 (65.12%) Azure
2 183 (53.20%) AWS
3 180 (52.33%) Terraform
4 153 (44.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 127 (36.92%) DevOps
6 118 (34.30%) Python
7 114 (33.14%) Kubernetes
8 112 (32.56%) CI/CD
9 92 (26.74%) Docker
10 87 (25.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 86 (25.00%) Finance
11 86 (25.00%) Agile
12 82 (23.84%) Linux
13 73 (21.22%) Windows
14 71 (20.64%) Ansible
15 66 (19.19%) Microsoft
16 60 (17.44%) GitHub
17 58 (16.86%) Serverless
18 57 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
19 56 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
20 55 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
21 54 (15.70%) Social Skills
21 54 (15.70%) GCP
22 53 (15.41%) Public Cloud
22 53 (15.41%) Jenkins
23 50 (14.53%) Firewall
24 47 (13.66%) PowerShell
24 47 (13.66%) Mentoring
25 46 (13.37%) Active Directory
26 44 (12.79%) Software Engineering

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (4.65%) Apache Spark
1 16 (4.65%) Confluence
1 16 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.62%) Apache
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.87%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.29%) Moodle
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 224 (65.12%) Azure
2 183 (53.20%) AWS
3 60 (17.44%) GitHub
4 58 (16.86%) Serverless
5 56 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (15.70%) GCP
7 42 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (12.21%) Microsoft 365
7 42 (12.21%) PaaS
8 30 (8.72%) Amazon S3
9 27 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (7.56%) Entra ID
11 25 (7.27%) SaaS
11 25 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (6.98%) IaaS
13 23 (6.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (5.81%) Route 53
15 15 (4.36%) Azure AKS
16 13 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.53%) Firewall
2 22 (6.40%) DNS
3 17 (4.94%) VPN
4 16 (4.65%) DHCP
5 15 (4.36%) WAN
6 13 (3.78%) LAN
7 10 (2.91%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.33%) Network Security
9 7 (2.03%) IPv4
10 6 (1.74%) WLAN
11 4 (1.16%) Multicast
12 3 (0.87%) iSCSI
12 3 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.58%) Internet
13 2 (0.58%) OSPF
13 2 (0.58%) VLAN
14 1 (0.29%) NAS
14 1 (0.29%) NetScaler
14 1 (0.29%) SAN
14 1 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.56%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.91%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.33%) MySQL
5 7 (2.03%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.74%) DB2
6 6 (1.74%) Power BI
7 5 (1.45%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.45%) Tableau
8 3 (0.87%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.87%) Looker
9 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.58%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.58%) Redis
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (15.41%) Jenkins
2 33 (9.59%) Git
2 33 (9.59%) GitLab
3 21 (6.10%) Artifactory
4 16 (4.65%) JIRA
5 11 (3.20%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (2.62%) Subversion
7 8 (2.33%) Spinnaker
8 6 (1.74%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.16%) git-flow
9 4 (1.16%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.58%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.58%) JMeter
10 2 (0.58%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.29%) sqlmap
General
1 86 (25.00%) Finance
2 54 (15.70%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.59%) Banking
4 30 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.36%) Law
8 12 (3.49%) Retail
9 8 (2.33%) Legal
10 5 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) French Language
13 1 (0.29%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Marketing
13 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.29%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.69%) Kafka
2 13 (3.78%) .NET
3 7 (2.03%) Node.js
4 6 (1.74%) Django
4 6 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.74%) GraphQL
4 6 (1.74%) RESTful
5 5 (1.45%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.45%) SAML
6 3 (0.87%) Apache Beam
6 3 (0.87%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.58%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.58%) JWT
7 2 (0.58%) OAuth
8 1 (0.29%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.29%) JDBC
8 1 (0.29%) LAMP
8 1 (0.29%) Middleware
8 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.41%) Public Cloud
2 33 (9.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (7.27%) Data Centre
4 23 (6.69%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.81%) Cloud Native
6 14 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.78%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.91%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.03%) IoT
12 6 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.74%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.45%) Blog
13 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.16%) Cyber Security Posture
14 4 (1.16%) Driving Licence
14 4 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 82 (23.84%) Linux
2 73 (21.22%) Windows
3 26 (7.56%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.03%) Unix
6 6 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.16%) VMS
7 4 (1.16%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.87%) SUSE
8 3 (0.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.58%) CentOS
9 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (44.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 127 (36.92%) DevOps
3 112 (32.56%) CI/CD
4 87 (25.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 86 (25.00%) Agile
6 57 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (13.66%) Mentoring
9 44 (12.79%) Cloud Security
9 44 (12.79%) Software Engineering
10 40 (11.63%) Containerisation
10 40 (11.63%) Migration
11 39 (11.34%) ITIL
12 38 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
13 36 (10.47%) Service Management
14 32 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 28 (8.14%) Analytics
15 28 (8.14%) Configuration Management
15 28 (8.14%) Roadmaps
16 26 (7.56%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 118 (34.30%) Python
2 47 (13.66%) PowerShell
3 38 (11.05%) Java
4 27 (7.85%) Bash
5 26 (7.56%) SQL
6 16 (4.65%) Go
6 16 (4.65%) Perl
7 12 (3.49%) Bicep
7 12 (3.49%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.20%) C#
9 9 (2.62%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.03%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.16%) Ruby
12 3 (0.87%) AWK
12 3 (0.87%) sed
13 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.58%) Lua
13 2 (0.58%) PHP
13 2 (0.58%) Rust
14 1 (0.29%) Julia
Qualifications
1 41 (11.92%) Degree
2 30 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.40%) AWS Certification
3 22 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.36%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.16%) MCSE
9 4 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.87%) PhD
11 2 (0.58%) CISM
11 2 (0.58%) CISSP
11 2 (0.58%) VCP6
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.49%) QA
2 11 (3.20%) SLA
3 7 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.03%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.16%) GDPR
4 4 (1.16%) NCSC
4 4 (1.16%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 92 (26.74%) Docker
2 46 (13.37%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.91%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.16%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.87%) Ceph
8 3 (0.87%) Gluster
8 3 (0.87%) KVM
8 3 (0.87%) oVirt
8 3 (0.87%) XenApp
9 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 180 (52.33%) Terraform
2 114 (33.14%) Kubernetes
3 71 (20.64%) Ansible
4 22 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (5.81%) Puppet
6 18 (5.23%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.49%) Salt
8 10 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (2.62%) Packer
9 9 (2.62%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.74%) Grafana
11 6 (1.74%) Opsgenie
12 5 (1.45%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.87%) Graylog
13 3 (0.87%) Observium
13 3 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.58%) Istio
14 2 (0.58%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.47%) Google
3 20 (5.81%) VMware
4 13 (3.78%) Cisco
5 11 (3.20%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.91%) Zscaler
7 8 (2.33%) HP
8 7 (2.03%) Confluent
8 7 (2.03%) Splunk
9 6 (1.74%) BMC
9 6 (1.74%) IBM
9 6 (1.74%) Meraki
9 6 (1.74%) New Relic
9 6 (1.74%) Remedy
10 5 (1.45%) Dell
10 5 (1.45%) Oracle
10 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.16%) Citrix
11 4 (1.16%) McAfee
11 4 (1.16%) SolarWinds