Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 620 622 669
Rank change year-on-year +2 +47 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 151 111 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.22% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 120 70 74
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,023 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,219 £57,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +17.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £84,063 £84,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +10.34%

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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +52 68 £62,783 -8.37% 3
North West -8 31 £62,783 -21.52% 2
Yorkshire +67 27 £62,783 -8.37% 1
South West -11 26 £40,000 -40.74% 2
Scotland -65 24 £63,750 -29.17%
South East -7 16 £67,500 -3.57% 2
North East -2 10 £66,391 +20.71%
West Midlands -8 8 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Midlands -14 8 £70,000 +21.74% 1
East of England -2 4 £69,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 -
Wales -1 1 £90,000 +76.11% 1
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (49.01%) Azure
2 72 (47.68%) AWS
3 64 (42.38%) Terraform
4 56 (37.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (31.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (26.49%) Windows
7 39 (25.83%) Linux
8 38 (25.17%) Python
9 37 (24.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 31 (20.53%) Public Cloud
10 31 (20.53%) Ansible
11 30 (19.87%) DevOps
11 30 (19.87%) Mentoring
12 29 (19.21%) Kubernetes
13 28 (18.54%) Cloud Security
13 28 (18.54%) Microsoft
14 26 (17.22%) ITIL
15 25 (16.56%) GitHub
16 24 (15.89%) Docker
16 24 (15.89%) Migration
16 24 (15.89%) Coaching
17 21 (13.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 21 (13.91%) GitLab
17 21 (13.91%) Operational Stability
17 21 (13.91%) Public Sector
17 21 (13.91%) Service Management
17 21 (13.91%) Artifactory
18 20 (13.25%) Finance
19 18 (11.92%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (11.92%) Amazon S3

Senior 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 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (49.01%) Azure
2 72 (47.68%) AWS
3 25 (16.56%) GitHub
4 18 (11.92%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (11.92%) Amazon S3
4 18 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (10.60%) PaaS
5 16 (10.60%) SaaS
6 12 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (7.95%) Serverless
7 11 (7.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (7.28%) GCP
8 10 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (5.96%) CloudFront
9 9 (5.96%) Route 53
10 8 (5.30%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (5.30%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.64%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.64%) Firewall
2 3 (1.99%) HTTP
2 3 (1.99%) MQTT
3 2 (1.32%) IPv4
4 1 (0.66%) DHCP
4 1 (0.66%) DMZ
4 1 (0.66%) DNS
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
4 1 (0.66%) OSPF
4 1 (0.66%) VLAN
4 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.60%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (13.91%) Artifactory
1 21 (13.91%) GitLab
2 13 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.97%) Git
General
1 21 (13.91%) Public Sector
2 20 (13.25%) Finance
3 10 (6.62%) Banking
4 3 (1.99%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.96%) .NET
2 3 (1.99%) CSS
2 3 (1.99%) HTML
2 3 (1.99%) Node.js
3 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 31 (20.53%) Public Cloud
3 13 (8.61%) Data Centre
4 11 (7.28%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.30%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.97%) Blog
7 5 (3.31%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.99%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.32%) Life Science
9 2 (1.32%) PKI
10 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (26.49%) Windows
2 39 (25.83%) Linux
3 6 (3.97%) Unix
3 6 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (37.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 48 (31.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (19.87%) DevOps
3 30 (19.87%) Mentoring
4 28 (18.54%) Cloud Security
5 26 (17.22%) ITIL
6 24 (15.89%) Coaching
6 24 (15.89%) Migration
7 21 (13.91%) Operational Stability
7 21 (13.91%) Service Management
7 21 (13.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (9.27%) Containerisation
9 14 (9.27%) Project Delivery
10 13 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (7.95%) Agile
12 11 (7.28%) Computer Science
12 11 (7.28%) Roadmaps
13 10 (6.62%) CI/CD
13 10 (6.62%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.17%) Python
2 17 (11.26%) PowerShell
3 14 (9.27%) Bash
4 9 (5.96%) SQL
5 5 (3.31%) Java
5 5 (3.31%) Perl
6 2 (1.32%) C#
6 2 (1.32%) PHP
6 2 (1.32%) Ruby
7 1 (0.66%) AWK
7 1 (0.66%) sed
7 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (11.92%) AWS Certification
2 14 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.61%) Degree
4 12 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 11 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (3.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.66%) NCSC
1 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (15.89%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) Firmware
3 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (42.38%) Terraform
2 31 (20.53%) Ansible
3 29 (19.21%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.65%) Grafana
5 4 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.65%) Puppet
6 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.32%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 28 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.28%) Google
3 4 (2.65%) Zscaler
4 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.32%) VMware
5 1 (0.66%) Dell
5 1 (0.66%) NetApp
5 1 (0.66%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.66%) Twitter