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 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 753 912 1119
Rank change year-on-year +159 +207 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Software Engineer 155 35 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.037% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.041% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 37 12 71
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,225 £43,000
25th Percentile £61,180 £59,125 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £66,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -22.06% +21.43%
75th Percentile £115,000 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,224 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.04% -14.29% +40.00%

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 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 1 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 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
UK excluding London +63 119 £67,224 +12.04% 2
Scotland - 105 - -
England +47 46 £90,000 +35.85% 4
London +136 32 £90,000 -10.00% 2
Work from Home +43 12 £51,250 -24.07% 1
North of England +30 6 £69,447 -
East of England -2 6 £52,500 -19.23% 1
North West -6 6 £69,447 -
South East -7 1 - - 1
Midlands -15 1 £65,000 +62.50%
East Midlands -20 1 £65,000 +62.50%

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 155 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 126 (81.29%) Cloud Native
3 116 (74.84%) AWS
4 115 (74.19%) Agile
4 115 (74.19%) Java
4 115 (74.19%) CI/CD
5 114 (73.55%) Finance
6 111 (71.61%) Law
7 110 (70.97%) Operational Stability
7 110 (70.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (66.45%) Public Cloud
9 87 (56.13%) SDLC
10 85 (54.84%) Machine Learning
10 85 (54.84%) Artificial Intelligence
10 85 (54.84%) Community of Practice
11 83 (53.55%) Architectural Design
11 83 (53.55%) Information Architecture
12 63 (40.65%) Terraform
13 53 (34.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 53 (34.19%) Social Skills
14 52 (33.55%) Observability
14 52 (33.55%) OpenTelemetry
14 52 (33.55%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 52 (33.55%) Grafana
14 52 (33.55%) Identity Access Management
14 52 (33.55%) Dynatrace
14 52 (33.55%) Datadog
14 52 (33.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (33.55%) Continuous Delivery
14 52 (33.55%) Splunk

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 4 (2.58%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 116 (74.84%) AWS
2 52 (33.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 52 (33.55%) Datadog
3 21 (13.55%) GCP
4 15 (9.68%) Azure
5 5 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (2.58%) GitHub
7 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.94%) PaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.65%) Google Container Engine
8 1 (0.65%) SaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Serverless
8 1 (0.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.65%) Redis
2 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (8.39%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.23%) Spinnaker
3 1 (0.65%) Git
General
1 114 (73.55%) Finance
2 111 (71.61%) Law
3 110 (70.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (34.19%) Social Skills
5 40 (25.81%) Marketing
6 36 (23.23%) Banking
7 24 (15.48%) Private Banking
8 8 (5.16%) Investment Banking
9 7 (4.52%) Legal
10 2 (1.29%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (33.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 32 (20.65%) Spring Boot
3 25 (16.13%) AngularJS
4 24 (15.48%) React
4 24 (15.48%) RESTful
4 24 (15.48%) Spring
5 22 (14.19%) Kafka
6 3 (1.94%) .NET
6 3 (1.94%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.65%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 126 (81.29%) Cloud Native
2 103 (66.45%) Public Cloud
3 24 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (15.48%) Legacy Code
4 20 (12.90%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.16%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.58%) IoT
7 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.94%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.65%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 115 (74.19%) Agile
2 115 (74.19%) CI/CD
3 110 (70.97%) Operational Stability
4 87 (56.13%) SDLC
5 85 (54.84%) Artificial Intelligence
5 85 (54.84%) Community of Practice
5 85 (54.84%) Machine Learning
6 83 (53.55%) Architectural Design
6 83 (53.55%) Information Architecture
7 53 (34.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 52 (33.55%) Continuous Delivery
8 52 (33.55%) Identity Access Management
8 52 (33.55%) Observability
8 52 (33.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (33.55%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 32 (20.65%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (16.13%) Decision-Making
10 25 (16.13%) Full Stack Development
11 24 (15.48%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (74.19%) Java
2 34 (21.94%) Go
3 24 (15.48%) C
3 24 (15.48%) C++
3 24 (15.48%) Rust
4 22 (14.19%) Python
5 6 (3.87%) C#
5 6 (3.87%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.65%) SQL
6 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (14.84%) AWS Certification
2 6 (3.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.65%) Degree
3 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (40.65%) Terraform
2 52 (33.55%) Grafana
3 36 (23.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 52 (33.55%) Dynatrace
1 52 (33.55%) Splunk
2 9 (5.81%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.52%) Google
4 4 (2.58%) Confluent
5 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.65%) Informatica
5 1 (0.65%) YouTube