Cloud Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer salary in England is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 260 256
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 985 1,149 2,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.05% 1.39% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.52% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 657 792 1,160
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,411 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +3.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,250 £98,875
UK median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +29 278 £60,000 +3.79% 25
London -57 260 £83,230 +10.97% 42
South East +4 140 £55,000 -15.38% 24
Midlands +22 133 £60,000 +9.09% 22
North West 0 123 £55,000 -4.86% 11
Yorkshire +47 116 £62,783 +4.64% 12
South West -22 86 £50,000 -20.00% 23
West Midlands +11 75 £65,000 +18.18% 10
East of England -17 64 £65,000 -7.14% 10
East Midlands +3 58 £56,250 +18.42% 12
North East +8 39 £61,250 +8.89% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

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

1 456 (46.29%) Azure
2 347 (35.23%) AWS
3 277 (28.12%) Terraform
4 243 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 240 (24.37%) DevOps
6 219 (22.23%) Microsoft
7 213 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 189 (19.19%) Kubernetes
9 182 (18.48%) CI/CD
10 179 (18.17%) Windows
11 160 (16.24%) Linux
12 155 (15.74%) Python
13 141 (14.31%) PowerShell
14 138 (14.01%) Roadmaps
15 135 (13.71%) Finance
16 127 (12.89%) Technical Leadership
17 126 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
18 123 (12.49%) Social Skills
19 121 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
20 113 (11.47%) Docker
20 113 (11.47%) Technology Roadmap
21 110 (11.17%) Agile
22 109 (11.07%) Active Directory
23 108 (10.96%) Windows Server
24 107 (10.86%) Ansible
25 94 (9.54%) Firewall
26 93 (9.44%) Software Engineering
26 93 (9.44%) Platform Engineering
27 89 (9.04%) Cloud Security
28 87 (8.83%) Cloud Native

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 72 (7.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.13%) Confluence
4 12 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.22%) SharePoint 2010
4 12 (1.22%) SharePoint 2013
5 11 (1.12%) Apache
6 5 (0.51%) IIS
7 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.30%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.10%) Moodle
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 456 (46.29%) Azure
2 347 (35.23%) AWS
3 126 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
4 82 (8.32%) GCP
5 80 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (7.21%) Serverless
7 61 (6.19%) Entra ID
8 59 (5.99%) SaaS
9 58 (5.89%) PaaS
10 54 (5.48%) IaaS
11 51 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 49 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (4.87%) Amazon S3
14 46 (4.67%) OneDrive
15 44 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
16 43 (4.37%) Dropbox
17 42 (4.26%) Google Drive
18 41 (4.16%) OCI
19 40 (4.06%) GitHub
20 35 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 94 (9.54%) Firewall
2 39 (3.96%) DNS
3 35 (3.55%) DHCP
3 35 (3.55%) WAN
4 29 (2.94%) Network Security
5 27 (2.74%) LAN
6 24 (2.44%) VPN
7 11 (1.12%) VLAN
8 8 (0.81%) IPv4
9 6 (0.61%) HTTP
9 6 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.61%) Wireless
10 5 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.51%) SSL
11 4 (0.41%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.41%) Multicast
11 4 (0.41%) OSPF
11 4 (0.41%) SAN
12 3 (0.30%) BGP
12 3 (0.30%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (2.23%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.62%) DynamoDB
4 12 (1.22%) BigQuery
4 12 (1.22%) Power BI
5 10 (1.02%) MySQL
6 6 (0.61%) DB2
6 6 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.41%) Tableau
9 3 (0.30%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.30%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.30%) Looker
9 3 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.20%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (8.02%) Git
2 37 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.45%) GitLab
4 21 (2.13%) Artifactory
4 21 (2.13%) JIRA
5 14 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.51%) Spinnaker
8 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.41%) Subversion
8 4 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.30%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.30%) JMeter
9 3 (0.30%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.20%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.10%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.10%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.10%) sqlmap
General
1 135 (13.71%) Finance
2 123 (12.49%) Social Skills
3 66 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (4.26%) Law
6 29 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 23 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 21 (2.13%) Banking
9 19 (1.93%) Legal
10 15 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.32%) Retail
12 8 (0.81%) Local Government
13 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.30%) Advertising
16 2 (0.20%) Automotive
16 2 (0.20%) Marketing
16 2 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.20%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.03%) ARM Templates
1 20 (2.03%) Kafka
1 20 (2.03%) Node.js
2 8 (0.81%) React
2 8 (0.81%) Svelte
3 6 (0.61%) AWS CDK
3 6 (0.61%) Django
3 6 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (0.61%) GraphQL
3 6 (0.61%) RESTful
4 5 (0.51%) .NET
4 5 (0.51%) JSON
4 5 (0.51%) SAML
5 3 (0.30%) Apache Beam
5 3 (0.30%) CSS
5 3 (0.30%) HTML
5 3 (0.30%) REST
5 3 (0.30%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.30%) YAML
6 2 (0.20%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.83%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 50 (5.08%) Public Cloud
4 46 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (4.26%) iPad
6 39 (3.96%) Data Centre
7 34 (3.45%) Legacy Code
8 20 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.32%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.12%) Blog
12 11 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.12%) IoT
13 9 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (0.91%) Replication
14 7 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.71%) Handset
15 6 (0.61%) Clustering
15 6 (0.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 179 (18.17%) Windows
2 160 (16.24%) Linux
3 108 (10.96%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.42%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.71%) CentOS
8 6 (0.61%) Unix
8 6 (0.61%) VMS
9 3 (0.30%) SUSE
9 3 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 240 (24.37%) DevOps
3 213 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 182 (18.48%) CI/CD
5 138 (14.01%) Roadmaps
6 127 (12.89%) Technical Leadership
7 121 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (11.47%) Technology Roadmap
9 110 (11.17%) Agile
10 93 (9.44%) Platform Engineering
10 93 (9.44%) Software Engineering
11 89 (9.04%) Cloud Security
12 72 (7.31%) ITIL
13 71 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 68 (6.90%) Containerisation
15 62 (6.29%) Migration
16 56 (5.69%) Mentoring
17 52 (5.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 51 (5.18%) Disaster Recovery
19 49 (4.97%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (15.74%) Python
2 141 (14.31%) PowerShell
3 81 (8.22%) Bash
4 63 (6.40%) Go
5 38 (3.86%) Bicep
5 38 (3.86%) Java
5 38 (3.86%) SQL
6 28 (2.84%) C
7 27 (2.74%) C++
8 26 (2.64%) Rust
9 25 (2.54%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.44%) C#
11 15 (1.52%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.91%) PHP
14 7 (0.71%) Perl
15 6 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.41%) AWK
16 4 (0.41%) sed
17 2 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (6.50%) Degree
2 59 (5.99%) AWS Certification
3 58 (5.89%) Azure Certification
4 56 (5.69%) Security Cleared
5 39 (3.96%) SC Cleared
6 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.62%) MCSE
10 12 (1.22%) MCITP
11 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.51%) CISSP
15 4 (0.41%) PhD
16 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.30%) CISM
16 3 (0.30%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (1.73%) QA
3 13 (1.32%) SLA
4 11 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.61%) NCSC
7 5 (0.51%) GDPR
7 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.51%) NIST
8 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) COBIT
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 113 (11.47%) Docker
2 109 (11.07%) Active Directory
3 48 (4.87%) Hyper-V
4 47 (4.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (4.57%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (2.03%) XenApp
7 19 (1.93%) XenDesktop
8 15 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) Ceph
10 3 (0.30%) Firmware
10 3 (0.30%) Gluster
10 3 (0.30%) KVM
10 3 (0.30%) oVirt
11 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 277 (28.12%) Terraform
2 189 (19.19%) Kubernetes
3 107 (10.86%) Ansible
4 62 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.93%) Puppet
6 18 (1.83%) SCCM
7 16 (1.62%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.32%) Grafana
9 12 (1.22%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.71%) Opsgenie
12 7 (0.71%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.51%) SCOM
13 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.41%) Istio
14 4 (0.41%) Nagios
14 4 (0.41%) Packer
14 4 (0.41%) Salt
15 3 (0.30%) Graylog
Vendors
1 219 (22.23%) Microsoft
2 85 (8.63%) Google
3 58 (5.89%) VMware
4 45 (4.57%) Oracle
5 34 (3.45%) Citrix
6 30 (3.05%) Cisco
7 21 (2.13%) HP
8 19 (1.93%) Dell
9 16 (1.62%) Splunk
10 14 (1.42%) Remedy
11 12 (1.22%) Symantec
12 10 (1.02%) BMC
12 10 (1.02%) SolarWinds
13 9 (0.91%) New Relic
14 8 (0.81%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.71%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.61%) IBM
16 6 (0.61%) Veeam
17 5 (0.51%) Palo Alto
17 5 (0.51%) Red Hat