Cloud Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Work from Home 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 294 232 245
Rank change year-on-year -62 +13 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 353 574 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 1.49% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.56% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 297 433 749
10th Percentile £47,300 £42,564 £42,676
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,774 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 235 (66.57%) Azure
2 185 (52.41%) AWS
3 184 (52.12%) Terraform
4 149 (42.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (38.24%) DevOps
6 110 (31.16%) Python
7 107 (30.31%) Kubernetes
8 106 (30.03%) CI/CD
9 94 (26.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 89 (25.21%) Docker
11 85 (24.08%) Linux
12 84 (23.80%) Finance
13 80 (22.66%) Agile
14 77 (21.81%) Windows
15 67 (18.98%) Ansible
16 66 (18.70%) Microsoft
17 62 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
18 56 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
19 55 (15.58%) Serverless
19 55 (15.58%) PowerShell
19 55 (15.58%) Social Skills
20 50 (14.16%) GitHub
21 49 (13.88%) Public Cloud
21 49 (13.88%) Active Directory
21 49 (13.88%) Firewall
21 49 (13.88%) Platform Engineering
22 45 (12.75%) Mentoring
23 44 (12.46%) Jenkins
23 44 (12.46%) GCP
24 43 (12.18%) Microsoft 365

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.97%) Confluence
2 14 (3.97%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.68%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.55%) Apache
5 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) Moodle
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 235 (66.57%) Azure
2 185 (52.41%) AWS
3 56 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (15.58%) Serverless
5 50 (14.16%) GitHub
6 44 (12.46%) GCP
7 43 (12.18%) Microsoft 365
8 38 (10.76%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (9.63%) PaaS
10 29 (8.22%) Entra ID
11 27 (7.65%) Amazon S3
11 27 (7.65%) SaaS
12 26 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (6.23%) IaaS
14 22 (6.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (4.82%) Route 53
17 15 (4.25%) Azure AKS
18 14 (3.97%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 49 (13.88%) Firewall
2 20 (5.67%) DNS
3 17 (4.82%) DHCP
3 17 (4.82%) VPN
4 15 (4.25%) WAN
5 13 (3.68%) LAN
6 10 (2.83%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.55%) Network Security
8 7 (1.98%) IPv4
9 6 (1.70%) WLAN
10 4 (1.13%) Multicast
11 3 (0.85%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.57%) Internet
12 2 (0.57%) OSPF
12 2 (0.57%) VLAN
13 1 (0.28%) HTTP
13 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.80%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (4.82%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.83%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.55%) MySQL
5 7 (1.98%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.98%) Power BI
6 6 (1.70%) DB2
6 6 (1.70%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.42%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.42%) Tableau
8 3 (0.85%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.85%) Looker
9 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.57%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.57%) Redis
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 44 (12.46%) Jenkins
2 36 (10.20%) Git
3 33 (9.35%) GitLab
4 21 (5.95%) Artifactory
5 14 (3.97%) JIRA
6 10 (2.83%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.70%) Subversion
8 5 (1.42%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.42%) Spinnaker
9 4 (1.13%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.85%) git-flow
10 3 (0.85%) JMeter
10 3 (0.85%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.28%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.28%) sqlmap
General
1 84 (23.80%) Finance
2 55 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.08%) Banking
6 19 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.53%) Law
8 11 (3.12%) Retail
9 7 (1.98%) Legal
10 4 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
13 1 (0.28%) Automotive
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.28%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.67%) Kafka
2 13 (3.68%) .NET
3 7 (1.98%) Node.js
4 6 (1.70%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.70%) Django
4 6 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.70%) GraphQL
4 6 (1.70%) RESTful
5 5 (1.42%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.85%) Apache Beam
6 3 (0.85%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.85%) JSON
6 3 (0.85%) SAML
7 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.57%) YAML
8 1 (0.28%) ADO
8 1 (0.28%) JDBC
8 1 (0.28%) Middleware
8 1 (0.28%) REST
8 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.88%) Public Cloud
2 30 (8.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (6.80%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.67%) Cloud Native
5 19 (5.38%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.25%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (3.97%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.98%) IoT
11 6 (1.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.42%) Blog
12 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.13%) Cyber Security Posture
13 4 (1.13%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.13%) Replication
13 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (24.08%) Linux
2 77 (21.81%) Windows
3 25 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.98%) Unix
5 7 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.13%) VMS
6 4 (1.13%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.85%) CentOS
7 3 (0.85%) SUSE
7 3 (0.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (42.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 135 (38.24%) DevOps
3 106 (30.03%) CI/CD
4 94 (26.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 80 (22.66%) Agile
6 62 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (13.88%) Platform Engineering
8 45 (12.75%) Mentoring
9 42 (11.90%) Containerisation
9 42 (11.90%) ITIL
10 40 (11.33%) Migration
10 40 (11.33%) Software Engineering
11 39 (11.05%) Service Management
12 36 (10.20%) Cloud Security
13 34 (9.63%) Analytics
13 34 (9.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 30 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (7.65%) Project Delivery
16 26 (7.37%) Coaching
17 24 (6.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 110 (31.16%) Python
2 55 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 32 (9.07%) Bash
4 29 (8.22%) SQL
5 27 (7.65%) Java
6 16 (4.53%) Bicep
7 15 (4.25%) Go
8 13 (3.68%) Perl
9 10 (2.83%) C#
9 10 (2.83%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.98%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.85%) AWK
11 3 (0.85%) sed
12 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) PHP
12 2 (0.57%) Ruby
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (12.18%) Degree
2 33 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.23%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.10%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.70%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.13%) MCSE
11 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.85%) PhD
11 3 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.57%) VCP6
13 1 (0.28%) CCNA
13 1 (0.28%) CCNP
13 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.68%) QA
2 11 (3.12%) SLA
3 8 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.13%) GDPR
5 4 (1.13%) NCSC
5 4 (1.13%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 89 (25.21%) Docker
2 49 (13.88%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.12%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.98%) XenDesktop
7 6 (1.70%) XenApp
8 3 (0.85%) Ceph
8 3 (0.85%) Gluster
8 3 (0.85%) KVM
8 3 (0.85%) oVirt
9 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 184 (52.12%) Terraform
2 107 (30.31%) Kubernetes
3 67 (18.98%) Ansible
4 22 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (3.97%) Puppet
6 13 (3.68%) Prometheus
7 12 (3.40%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.12%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (2.83%) Grafana
10 8 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.70%) Opsgenie
11 6 (1.70%) Packer
11 6 (1.70%) Salt
12 5 (1.42%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.85%) Graylog
13 3 (0.85%) Observium
14 2 (0.57%) Istio
14 2 (0.57%) Rundeck
15 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.28%) Icinga
Vendors
1 66 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.50%) Google
3 21 (5.95%) VMware
4 13 (3.68%) Cisco
5 11 (3.12%) Splunk
6 10 (2.83%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.83%) Zscaler
7 9 (2.55%) HP
8 8 (2.27%) BMC
8 8 (2.27%) Remedy
9 7 (1.98%) Citrix
9 7 (1.98%) Oracle
10 6 (1.70%) Dell
10 6 (1.70%) IBM
10 6 (1.70%) Meraki
10 6 (1.70%) New Relic
11 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.42%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.13%) Confluent
13 3 (0.85%) McAfee