Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £59,526 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 247 248
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 810 832 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.41% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.58% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 459 460 626
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,433
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,091 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,968 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £81,875
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +27 260 £60,000 +2.56% 34
Scotland +9 178 £60,000 -13.60% 5
South East -34 122 £50,500 -22.31% 34
North West 0 115 £55,000 -4.86% 15
Yorkshire +46 111 £60,000 - 15
Midlands +19 105 £57,500 +4.55% 22
South West -39 69 £53,750 -17.31% 28
West Midlands +15 60 £60,000 +6.67% 9
East of England -18 48 £65,000 +8.33% 10
East Midlands +6 45 £57,500 +21.05% 13
North East +20 34 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Wales -15 16 £50,685 +9.68% 4
Northern Ireland +33 12 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 349 (43.09%) AWS
2 340 (41.98%) Azure
3 226 (27.90%) Terraform
4 224 (27.65%) CI/CD
5 188 (23.21%) Finance
6 186 (22.96%) Agile
7 178 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 166 (20.49%) DevOps
9 161 (19.88%) Public Cloud
10 158 (19.51%) Roadmaps
11 154 (19.01%) Windows
12 146 (18.02%) Microsoft
13 139 (17.16%) Software Engineering
14 134 (16.54%) Operational Stability
15 133 (16.42%) Social Skills
16 131 (16.17%) Java
17 130 (16.05%) Cloud Native
18 126 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 121 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
19 121 (14.94%) Law
20 118 (14.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 112 (13.83%) Python
22 109 (13.46%) Technology Roadmap
23 102 (12.59%) Windows Server
24 100 (12.35%) Microsoft 365
25 99 (12.22%) Linux
26 98 (12.10%) SDLC
27 95 (11.73%) Machine Learning
28 93 (11.48%) Kubernetes
29 91 (11.23%) Problem-Solving

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 57 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.73%) Confluence
4 10 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.49%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (0.49%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.37%) Apache
6 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 349 (43.09%) AWS
2 340 (41.98%) Azure
3 100 (12.35%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (10.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 65 (8.02%) GCP
5 65 (8.02%) PaaS
6 62 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (6.91%) Datadog
7 56 (6.91%) OCI
8 49 (6.05%) IaaS
9 42 (5.19%) Entra ID
10 41 (5.06%) GitHub
11 37 (4.57%) OneDrive
12 36 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
12 36 (4.44%) Dropbox
12 36 (4.44%) Google Drive
13 33 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 33 (4.07%) Serverless
14 32 (3.95%) SaaS
15 27 (3.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.26%) Firewall
2 28 (3.46%) DHCP
3 26 (3.21%) WAN
4 25 (3.09%) DNS
5 20 (2.47%) VPN
6 19 (2.35%) Network Security
7 15 (1.85%) LAN
8 10 (1.23%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.99%) VLAN
10 5 (0.62%) IPv4
11 4 (0.49%) Multicast
12 3 (0.37%) BGP
12 3 (0.37%) HTTP
12 3 (0.37%) iSCSI
12 3 (0.37%) MQTT
12 3 (0.37%) OSPF
12 3 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.37%) SAN
13 2 (0.25%) DMZ
13 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
1 22 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.11%) Power BI
3 7 (0.86%) MySQL
4 6 (0.74%) BigQuery
4 6 (0.74%) DB2
5 5 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.37%) Airbyte
7 3 (0.37%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.37%) Looker
7 3 (0.37%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.37%) Tableau
8 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.12%) Big Data
9 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (6.54%) Git
2 38 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.72%) GitLab
4 21 (2.59%) Artifactory
5 14 (1.73%) JIRA
6 7 (0.86%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.25%) JMeter
7 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Gradle
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.12%) sqlmap
General
1 188 (23.21%) Finance
2 133 (16.42%) Social Skills
3 121 (14.94%) Law
4 118 (14.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (7.53%) Banking
6 46 (5.68%) Marketing
7 34 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (3.83%) Aerospace
9 26 (3.21%) Private Banking
10 23 (2.84%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.23%) Legal
11 10 (1.23%) Retail
12 8 (0.99%) Local Government
12 8 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.25%) Police
14 2 (0.25%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.12%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.54%) OpenTelemetry
2 36 (4.44%) Spring Boot
3 31 (3.83%) Kafka
4 27 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 26 (3.21%) React
5 26 (3.21%) RESTful
5 26 (3.21%) Spring
6 11 (1.36%) ARM Templates
6 11 (1.36%) Node.js
7 9 (1.11%) .NET
8 3 (0.37%) ADO
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Beam
8 3 (0.37%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.37%) CSS
8 3 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.37%) HTML
9 2 (0.25%) REST
9 2 (0.25%) SAML
10 1 (0.12%) Middleware
10 1 (0.12%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 161 (19.88%) Public Cloud
2 130 (16.05%) Cloud Native
3 62 (7.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (5.31%) Data Centre
5 36 (4.44%) iPad
6 29 (3.58%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.47%) Private Cloud
7 20 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.73%) Replication
9 11 (1.36%) IoT
10 10 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.74%) Blog
11 6 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.62%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.37%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.37%) Life Science
13 3 (0.37%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 154 (19.01%) Windows
2 102 (12.59%) Windows Server
3 99 (12.22%) Linux
4 8 (0.99%) Unix
4 8 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.37%) SUSE
8 3 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (27.65%) CI/CD
2 186 (22.96%) Agile
3 178 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 166 (20.49%) DevOps
5 158 (19.51%) Roadmaps
6 139 (17.16%) Software Engineering
7 134 (16.54%) Operational Stability
8 126 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 121 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
10 109 (13.46%) Technology Roadmap
11 98 (12.10%) SDLC
12 95 (11.73%) Machine Learning
13 91 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (10.86%) Artificial Intelligence
15 87 (10.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 85 (10.49%) Architectural Design
16 85 (10.49%) Community of Practice
17 83 (10.25%) Information Architecture
18 74 (9.14%) Cloud Security
19 72 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 131 (16.17%) Java
2 112 (13.83%) Python
3 80 (9.88%) PowerShell
4 56 (6.91%) Bash
5 36 (4.44%) Bicep
6 30 (3.70%) SQL
7 20 (2.47%) C#
8 17 (2.10%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.36%) PHP
9 11 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.23%) Go
11 8 (0.99%) Perl
12 7 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.49%) AWK
13 4 (0.49%) sed
14 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.37%) Ruby
15 2 (0.25%) Groovy
16 1 (0.12%) Julia
Qualifications
1 63 (7.78%) AWS Certification
2 57 (7.04%) Degree
3 40 (4.94%) Azure Certification
4 34 (4.20%) Security Cleared
5 29 (3.58%) SC Cleared
6 27 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.36%) CCNA
9 11 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.99%) MCSE
12 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.49%) CCNP
13 4 (0.49%) MCITP
13 4 (0.49%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.25%) CISSP
15 2 (0.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.81%) SLA
2 22 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.48%) QA
4 9 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.62%) NIST
6 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.25%) GDPR
8 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.12%) NCSC
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 78 (9.63%) Active Directory
2 76 (9.38%) Docker
3 43 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.69%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.86%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.62%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.49%) XenApp
11 3 (0.37%) Ceph
11 3 (0.37%) Firmware
11 3 (0.37%) Gluster
11 3 (0.37%) KVM
11 3 (0.37%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 226 (27.90%) Terraform
2 93 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 81 (10.00%) Ansible
4 62 (7.65%) Grafana
5 46 (5.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (2.10%) Puppet
7 13 (1.60%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (0.99%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.86%) Opsgenie
10 7 (0.86%) SCCM
11 6 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.74%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.37%) Graylog
13 3 (0.37%) Observium
13 3 (0.37%) SCOM
13 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.25%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 146 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.40%) Google
3 60 (7.41%) Splunk
4 57 (7.04%) Oracle
5 56 (6.91%) VMware
6 52 (6.42%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.59%) Cisco
8 19 (2.35%) Citrix
9 12 (1.48%) HP
10 10 (1.23%) Dell
11 9 (1.11%) NetApp
12 7 (0.86%) Confluent
13 6 (0.74%) IBM
13 6 (0.74%) Veeam
14 5 (0.62%) Zscaler
15 4 (0.49%) Symantec
16 3 (0.37%) Computacenter
16 3 (0.37%) New Relic
16 3 (0.37%) ServiceNow
16 3 (0.37%) Teradata