Cloud Software Engineer Jobs

Cloud Software Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Software Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 887 1110
Rank change year-on-year +122 +223 -230
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Software Engineer 139 32 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.035% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.038% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 40 8 76
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £61,180 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £106,125 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +40.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Cloud Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Software Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
UK excluding London +25 99 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Scotland - 86 - - 2
England +48 49 £90,000 +20.00% 3
London +121 36 £90,000 -10.00% 2
Work from Home +30 11 £50,000 -33.33%
East of England -12 6 £52,500 -19.23%
North of England +7 5 £69,447 -
North West -26 5 £69,447 -
East Midlands -31 1 £65,000 +62.50%
Midlands -39 1 £65,000 +62.50%
South East - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Cloud Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 139 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 118 (84.89%) Cloud Native
3 98 (70.50%) AWS
4 95 (68.35%) Java
5 94 (67.63%) Agile
5 94 (67.63%) CI/CD
6 93 (66.91%) Finance
7 91 (65.47%) Law
8 90 (64.75%) Operational Stability
8 90 (64.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 84 (60.43%) Public Cloud
10 73 (52.52%) Community of Practice
10 73 (52.52%) Machine Learning
10 73 (52.52%) Artificial Intelligence
11 72 (51.80%) SDLC
12 71 (51.08%) Architectural Design
12 71 (51.08%) Information Architecture
13 64 (46.04%) Terraform
14 53 (38.13%) Social Skills
14 53 (38.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 52 (37.41%) Observability
15 52 (37.41%) Grafana
15 52 (37.41%) Identity Access Management
15 52 (37.41%) Dynatrace
15 52 (37.41%) Continuous Delivery
15 52 (37.41%) Datadog
15 52 (37.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 52 (37.41%) Splunk
15 52 (37.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 52 (37.41%) OpenTelemetry

Cloud Software 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 3 (2.16%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 98 (70.50%) AWS
2 52 (37.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 52 (37.41%) Datadog
3 14 (10.07%) GCP
4 9 (6.47%) Azure
5 4 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.16%) GitHub
6 3 (2.16%) PaaS
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.72%) Google Container Engine
7 1 (0.72%) SaaS
7 1 (0.72%) Serverless
7 1 (0.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.88%) Spinnaker
3 1 (0.72%) Git
General
1 93 (66.91%) Finance
2 91 (65.47%) Law
3 90 (64.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (38.13%) Social Skills
5 35 (25.18%) Marketing
6 21 (15.11%) Banking
7 17 (12.23%) Private Banking
8 6 (4.32%) Legal
9 2 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.72%) Games
10 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (37.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 18 (12.95%) AngularJS
2 18 (12.95%) Spring Boot
3 17 (12.23%) React
3 17 (12.23%) RESTful
3 17 (12.23%) Spring
4 16 (11.51%) Kafka
5 3 (2.16%) .NET
5 3 (2.16%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.72%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 118 (84.89%) Cloud Native
2 84 (60.43%) Public Cloud
3 28 (20.14%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (20.14%) Legacy Code
4 20 (14.39%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.88%) IoT
6 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.16%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.72%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.72%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.30%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 94 (67.63%) Agile
2 94 (67.63%) CI/CD
3 90 (64.75%) Operational Stability
4 73 (52.52%) Artificial Intelligence
4 73 (52.52%) Community of Practice
4 73 (52.52%) Machine Learning
5 72 (51.80%) SDLC
6 71 (51.08%) Architectural Design
6 71 (51.08%) Information Architecture
7 53 (38.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 52 (37.41%) Continuous Delivery
8 52 (37.41%) Identity Access Management
8 52 (37.41%) Observability
8 52 (37.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (37.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 32 (23.02%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (12.95%) Full Stack Development
11 17 (12.23%) Asset Management
11 17 (12.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 95 (68.35%) Java
2 38 (27.34%) Go
3 28 (20.14%) C
3 28 (20.14%) C++
3 28 (20.14%) Rust
4 17 (12.23%) Python
5 6 (4.32%) C#
5 6 (4.32%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (12.95%) AWS Certification
2 6 (4.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.72%) Degree
3 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.23%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (46.04%) Terraform
2 52 (37.41%) Grafana
3 39 (28.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (37.41%) Dynatrace
1 52 (37.41%) Splunk
2 9 (6.47%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.04%) Google
4 3 (2.16%) Confluent
5 1 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.72%) YouTube