Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 244 252
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,142 1,499 2,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.48% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.62% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 686 974 1,326
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +4.35% +4.55%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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 £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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 -17 883 £62,783 -6.99% 144
UK excluding London +4 814 £59,526 -0.79% 100
Work from Home -73 345 £62,783 -3.41% 108
North of England +36 261 £60,000 +0.80% 21
London -46 255 £82,500 +10.00% 49
Scotland +8 181 £60,000 -10.75% 4
South East -51 121 £51,000 -21.54% 16
North West +17 117 £55,000 -4.86% 12
Yorkshire +49 111 £60,000 - 6
Midlands +15 105 £57,500 +4.55% 16
South West -42 70 £53,750 -14.00% 26
West Midlands +13 59 £60,000 +4.35% 8
East of England -5 48 £65,000 +13.04% 13
East Midlands +9 46 £57,500 +17.95% 8
North East +16 33 £60,000 +6.67% 3
Wales -17 16 £50,685 +8.42% 2
Northern Ireland +29 12 £60,000 +20.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 510 (44.66%) Azure
2 496 (43.43%) AWS
3 373 (32.66%) Terraform
4 317 (27.76%) CI/CD
5 275 (24.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 273 (23.91%) DevOps
7 270 (23.64%) Finance
8 251 (21.98%) Agile
9 215 (18.83%) Software Engineering
10 214 (18.74%) Python
11 213 (18.65%) Microsoft
12 209 (18.30%) Kubernetes
13 206 (18.04%) Social Skills
14 195 (17.08%) Windows
15 190 (16.64%) Roadmaps
16 183 (16.02%) Cloud Native
17 180 (15.76%) Linux
18 176 (15.41%) Public Cloud
19 169 (14.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 168 (14.71%) Java
21 167 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 151 (13.22%) Law
22 151 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
23 137 (12.00%) Operational Stability
24 131 (11.47%) Technology Roadmap
25 130 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
25 130 (11.38%) PowerShell
26 129 (11.30%) Ansible
26 129 (11.30%) Docker
27 125 (10.95%) Windows Server

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 70 (6.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.19%) Confluence
4 16 (1.40%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.96%) Apache
6 8 (0.70%) SharePoint 2010
6 8 (0.70%) SharePoint 2013
7 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.088%) IIS
9 1 (0.088%) SAS
9 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 510 (44.66%) Azure
2 496 (43.43%) AWS
3 125 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (10.07%) GCP
5 111 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (8.76%) PaaS
7 87 (7.62%) Serverless
8 86 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 74 (6.48%) IaaS
10 73 (6.39%) GitHub
11 69 (6.04%) OCI
12 68 (5.95%) Datadog
13 61 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (5.34%) Entra ID
14 59 (5.17%) Amazon S3
15 58 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 52 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
17 51 (4.47%) SaaS
18 46 (4.03%) OneDrive
19 45 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 125 (10.95%) Firewall
2 55 (4.82%) DNS
3 47 (4.12%) VPN
4 46 (4.03%) Network Security
5 45 (3.94%) DHCP
6 38 (3.33%) WAN
7 28 (2.45%) LAN
8 16 (1.40%) TCP/IP
9 15 (1.31%) VLAN
10 12 (1.05%) IPv4
11 11 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.88%) HTTP
13 8 (0.70%) SAN
14 7 (0.61%) Wireless
15 6 (0.53%) DMZ
15 6 (0.53%) WLAN
16 5 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
17 4 (0.35%) BGP
17 4 (0.35%) Internet
17 4 (0.35%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (3.50%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.58%) DynamoDB
4 14 (1.23%) Power BI
5 11 (0.96%) BigQuery
6 8 (0.70%) MySQL
7 7 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.53%) DB2
9 5 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.44%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.44%) Tableau
10 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Airbyte
11 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.26%) Looker
11 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (7.44%) Git
2 79 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.24%) GitLab
4 25 (2.19%) JIRA
5 21 (1.84%) Artifactory
6 18 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (0.79%) Subversion
8 8 (0.70%) CircleCI
8 8 (0.70%) Spinnaker
9 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.44%) git-flow
10 4 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.088%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.088%) Gradle
11 1 (0.088%) JMeter
11 1 (0.088%) Maven
11 1 (0.088%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.088%) SonarQube
General
1 270 (23.64%) Finance
2 206 (18.04%) Social Skills
3 169 (14.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (13.22%) Law
5 73 (6.39%) Banking
6 59 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (4.20%) Marketing
8 41 (3.59%) Public Sector
9 31 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.28%) Private Banking
11 19 (1.66%) Legal
12 16 (1.40%) Retail
13 13 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.70%) Local Government
16 5 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.26%) Financial Institution
19 2 (0.18%) Manufacturing
19 2 (0.18%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.64%) OpenTelemetry
2 42 (3.68%) Kafka
3 40 (3.50%) React
4 38 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 30 (2.63%) RESTful
6 27 (2.36%) AngularJS
6 27 (2.36%) Spring
7 26 (2.28%) Node.js
8 15 (1.31%) .NET
9 14 (1.23%) Svelte
10 13 (1.14%) ARM Templates
11 12 (1.05%) SAML
12 10 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (0.61%) HTML
14 6 (0.53%) ADO
15 5 (0.44%) .NET Core
15 5 (0.44%) AWS CDK
16 4 (0.35%) GraphQL
16 4 (0.35%) REST
16 4 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 183 (16.02%) Cloud Native
2 176 (15.41%) Public Cloud
3 73 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (4.73%) Data Centre
5 50 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.68%) iPad
7 39 (3.42%) Management Information System
8 36 (3.15%) Legacy Code
9 32 (2.80%) Private Cloud
10 27 (2.36%) Product Ownership
11 20 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.31%) Replication
13 11 (0.96%) Blog
13 11 (0.96%) IoT
14 10 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.88%) PKI
14 10 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.61%) Cyberattack
15 7 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 195 (17.08%) Windows
2 180 (15.76%) Linux
3 125 (10.95%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 14 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.05%) Unix
7 10 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.44%) CentOS
11 4 (0.35%) VMS
12 3 (0.26%) SUSE
12 3 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.088%) Debian
14 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (27.76%) CI/CD
2 275 (24.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 273 (23.91%) DevOps
4 251 (21.98%) Agile
5 215 (18.83%) Software Engineering
6 190 (16.64%) Roadmaps
7 167 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 151 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
9 137 (12.00%) Operational Stability
10 131 (11.47%) Technology Roadmap
11 130 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (9.89%) Machine Learning
13 111 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (9.54%) SDLC
15 108 (9.46%) Cloud Security
16 104 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence
17 97 (8.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 96 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
19 92 (8.06%) Architectural Design
19 92 (8.06%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 214 (18.74%) Python
2 168 (14.71%) Java
3 130 (11.38%) PowerShell
4 80 (7.01%) Bash
5 70 (6.13%) Go
6 52 (4.55%) SQL
7 38 (3.33%) Bicep
8 33 (2.89%) JavaScript
9 26 (2.28%) C#
10 24 (2.10%) C
10 24 (2.10%) Rust
11 23 (2.01%) C++
11 23 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 22 (1.93%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.58%) Perl
14 11 (0.96%) PHP
15 6 (0.53%) Ruby
16 4 (0.35%) AWK
16 4 (0.35%) sed
17 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (7.62%) AWS Certification
2 74 (6.48%) Degree
3 64 (5.60%) Security Cleared
4 57 (4.99%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.68%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.23%) CCNA
10 13 (1.14%) MCSE
11 12 (1.05%) CISSP
12 10 (0.88%) CISM
13 9 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.70%) MCITP
15 6 (0.53%) CCNP
15 6 (0.53%) DV Cleared
16 5 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.50%) SLA
2 27 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.49%) QA
4 11 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.79%) NCSC
6 8 (0.70%) NIST
7 7 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.53%) GDPR
9 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.35%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.088%) COBIT
11 1 (0.088%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.088%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 129 (11.30%) Docker
2 116 (10.16%) Active Directory
3 52 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (4.12%) Hyper-V
5 37 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.96%) XenApp
7 11 (0.96%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.26%) Ceph
10 3 (0.26%) Firmware
10 3 (0.26%) Gluster
10 3 (0.26%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 373 (32.66%) Terraform
2 209 (18.30%) Kubernetes
3 129 (11.30%) Ansible
4 65 (5.69%) Grafana
5 57 (4.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (3.15%) Puppet
7 23 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.40%) Prometheus
9 15 (1.31%) Salt
10 12 (1.05%) SCCM
11 10 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.79%) Packer
13 8 (0.70%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.70%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.61%) Opsgenie
15 6 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.35%) Istio
16 4 (0.35%) vCenter Server
17 3 (0.26%) Observium
Vendors
1 213 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.84%) Google
3 72 (6.30%) VMware
4 66 (5.78%) Oracle
5 62 (5.43%) Splunk
6 56 (4.90%) Dynatrace
7 40 (3.50%) Cisco
8 31 (2.71%) Citrix
9 16 (1.40%) HP
10 14 (1.23%) Dell
11 11 (0.96%) Zscaler
12 10 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.79%) Meraki
13 9 (0.79%) NetApp
13 9 (0.79%) New Relic
13 9 (0.79%) Remedy
13 9 (0.79%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.70%) Symantec
15 7 (0.61%) Confluent
15 7 (0.61%) IBM