Cloud Engineer Jobs

Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 253 263
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,199 1,371 2,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.45% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.59% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 740 917 1,315
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,829 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England -11 946 £62,783 -4.88% 193
UK excluding London +15 861 £60,000 - 142
Work from Home -62 353 £62,783 -3.41% 119
North of England +38 274 £60,000 +3.79% 34
London -28 262 £83,230 +10.97% 56
Scotland +4 171 £62,500 -10.00% 7
South East -25 132 £51,000 -21.54% 32
North West 0 119 £57,263 -0.95% 16
Midlands +25 118 £58,500 +6.36% 25
Yorkshire +44 117 £62,783 +5.05% 15
South West -28 79 £52,500 -17.65% 26
West Midlands -5 65 £65,000 +18.18% 11
East of England -15 57 £65,000 - 19
East Midlands +14 53 £56,250 +18.42% 14
North East +13 38 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Wales -17 17 £50,685 +9.68% 4
Northern Ireland +25 13 £75,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 532 (44.37%) Azure
2 491 (40.95%) AWS
3 382 (31.86%) Terraform
4 313 (26.11%) CI/CD
5 288 (24.02%) DevOps
6 273 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 264 (22.02%) Finance
8 235 (19.60%) Agile
9 228 (19.02%) Microsoft
10 207 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 207 (17.26%) Kubernetes
11 206 (17.18%) Software Engineering
12 205 (17.10%) Python
13 200 (16.68%) Social Skills
14 199 (16.60%) Windows
15 183 (15.26%) Cloud Native
16 180 (15.01%) Linux
17 167 (13.93%) Roadmaps
18 166 (13.84%) Public Cloud
19 159 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 150 (12.51%) Java
21 146 (12.18%) Law
21 146 (12.18%) PowerShell
22 135 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
23 133 (11.09%) Technical Leadership
24 131 (10.93%) Operational Stability
25 130 (10.84%) Ansible
26 124 (10.34%) Docker
26 124 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
26 124 (10.34%) 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 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.92%) Confluence
4 13 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.92%) Apache
5 11 (0.92%) SharePoint 2010
5 11 (0.92%) SharePoint 2013
6 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.33%) IIS
7 3 (0.25%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.083%) Moodle
8 1 (0.083%) SAS
8 1 (0.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 532 (44.37%) Azure
2 491 (40.95%) AWS
3 124 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 112 (9.34%) GCP
6 88 (7.34%) PaaS
7 85 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 82 (6.84%) Serverless
9 73 (6.09%) IaaS
10 69 (5.75%) SaaS
11 68 (5.67%) OCI
12 65 (5.42%) Entra ID
13 64 (5.34%) Datadog
14 61 (5.09%) GitHub
15 56 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
16 54 (4.50%) Amazon S3
17 52 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
18 48 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
19 46 (3.84%) OneDrive
20 43 (3.59%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 119 (9.92%) Firewall
2 45 (3.75%) DNS
3 44 (3.67%) VPN
3 44 (3.67%) WAN
4 41 (3.42%) Network Security
5 36 (3.00%) DHCP
6 30 (2.50%) LAN
7 14 (1.17%) VLAN
8 12 (1.00%) IPv4
8 12 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.83%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.50%) BGP
10 6 (0.50%) DMZ
10 6 (0.50%) HTTP
10 6 (0.50%) Wireless
10 6 (0.50%) WLAN
11 5 (0.42%) SAN
12 4 (0.33%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.33%) Multicast
12 4 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.50%) DynamoDB
4 16 (1.33%) Power BI
5 12 (1.00%) BigQuery
6 10 (0.83%) MySQL
7 7 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.50%) DB2
8 6 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.42%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.42%) Tableau
10 4 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.25%) Airbyte
11 3 (0.25%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.25%) Looker
11 3 (0.25%) Redis
12 2 (0.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 90 (7.51%) Git
2 64 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.09%) GitLab
4 23 (1.92%) JIRA
5 21 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 17 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.58%) Spinnaker
9 6 (0.50%) Subversion
10 5 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.33%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.25%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.25%) git-flow
12 3 (0.25%) JMeter
12 3 (0.25%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.25%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.083%) Burp Suite
13 1 (0.083%) Maven
13 1 (0.083%) sqlmap
General
1 264 (22.02%) Finance
2 200 (16.68%) Social Skills
3 159 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 146 (12.18%) Law
5 68 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (5.09%) Banking
7 42 (3.50%) Marketing
8 36 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.75%) Aerospace
10 24 (2.00%) Private Banking
11 20 (1.67%) Legal
12 18 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.25%) Retail
14 8 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.67%) Local Government
15 5 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.25%) Games
17 3 (0.25%) Manufacturing
18 2 (0.17%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.34%) OpenTelemetry
2 39 (3.25%) Kafka
3 35 (2.92%) Spring Boot
4 32 (2.67%) React
5 30 (2.50%) RESTful
6 26 (2.17%) Spring
7 25 (2.09%) AngularJS
8 20 (1.67%) Node.js
9 19 (1.58%) ARM Templates
10 15 (1.25%) .NET
11 9 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (0.67%) Svelte
13 6 (0.50%) ADO
13 6 (0.50%) Django
13 6 (0.50%) GraphQL
13 6 (0.50%) SAML
14 5 (0.42%) .NET Core
14 5 (0.42%) AWS CDK
14 5 (0.42%) REST
15 4 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 183 (15.26%) Cloud Native
2 166 (13.84%) Public Cloud
3 73 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (4.25%) Data Centre
5 46 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.50%) iPad
7 38 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 32 (2.67%) Legacy Code
9 30 (2.50%) Private Cloud
10 21 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 20 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.33%) Replication
13 14 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.92%) Blog
14 11 (0.92%) IoT
15 9 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
16 8 (0.67%) PKI
17 7 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 199 (16.60%) Windows
2 180 (15.01%) Linux
3 124 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.25%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.08%) Unix
6 11 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.58%) CentOS
8 7 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.42%) VMS
10 3 (0.25%) SUSE
10 3 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (26.11%) CI/CD
2 288 (24.02%) DevOps
3 273 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 235 (19.60%) Agile
5 207 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 206 (17.18%) Software Engineering
7 167 (13.93%) Roadmaps
8 135 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
9 133 (11.09%) Technical Leadership
10 131 (10.93%) Operational Stability
11 113 (9.42%) Technology Roadmap
12 112 (9.34%) Machine Learning
13 106 (8.84%) Cloud Security
13 106 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
14 103 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence
15 102 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 101 (8.42%) SDLC
17 89 (7.42%) Community of Practice
18 88 (7.34%) Architectural Design
19 87 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 205 (17.10%) Python
2 150 (12.51%) Java
3 146 (12.18%) PowerShell
4 85 (7.09%) Bash
5 66 (5.50%) Go
6 53 (4.42%) SQL
7 43 (3.59%) Bicep
8 26 (2.17%) C
9 25 (2.09%) C#
9 25 (2.09%) C++
9 25 (2.09%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.00%) Rust
11 17 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 13 (1.08%) Perl
14 11 (0.92%) PHP
15 6 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.42%) Ruby
17 4 (0.33%) AWK
17 4 (0.33%) sed
Qualifications
1 83 (6.92%) AWS Certification
2 76 (6.34%) Degree
3 63 (5.25%) Security Cleared
4 59 (4.92%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.25%) MCSE
9 14 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.08%) CCNA
11 11 (0.92%) MCITP
12 9 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.58%) CISSP
15 6 (0.50%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.42%) CCNP
16 5 (0.42%) CISM
17 4 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.17%) SLA
2 25 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.42%) QA
4 11 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.50%) GDPR
6 6 (0.50%) NCSC
7 5 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.42%) NIST
8 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.083%) COBIT
10 1 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.083%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.083%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.083%) SEPA
System Software
1 124 (10.34%) Docker
2 117 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 56 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (3.92%) Hyper-V
5 41 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (1.50%) XenApp
6 18 (1.50%) XenDesktop
7 16 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.58%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.25%) Ceph
10 3 (0.25%) Firmware
10 3 (0.25%) Gluster
10 3 (0.25%) KVM
10 3 (0.25%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 382 (31.86%) Terraform
2 207 (17.26%) Kubernetes
3 130 (10.84%) Ansible
4 67 (5.59%) Grafana
5 60 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (2.34%) Puppet
7 18 (1.50%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.42%) SCCM
9 16 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.75%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.75%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.58%) Opsgenie
14 6 (0.50%) Packer
14 6 (0.50%) Salt
15 5 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.33%) Istio
16 4 (0.33%) Nagios
16 4 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 228 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.34%) Google
3 69 (5.75%) VMware
4 68 (5.67%) Oracle
5 66 (5.50%) Splunk
6 53 (4.42%) Dynatrace
7 43 (3.59%) Cisco
8 33 (2.75%) Citrix
9 20 (1.67%) HP
10 18 (1.50%) Dell
11 12 (1.00%) Remedy
12 11 (0.92%) Symantec
12 11 (0.92%) Zscaler
13 10 (0.83%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 9 (0.75%) NetApp
14 9 (0.75%) New Relic
15 8 (0.67%) BMC
16 7 (0.58%) Meraki
16 7 (0.58%) Veeam