Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 249 250
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 870 784 1,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.39% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.56% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 515 445 613
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,064 £48,091 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,715 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +39 276 £60,000 +3.79% 35
Scotland +3 171 £62,500 -10.00% 8
South East -32 134 £53,000 -18.46% 32
Midlands +30 121 £60,000 +9.09% 24
North West -12 120 £59,526 +2.97% 17
Yorkshire +43 117 £62,783 +4.64% 15
South West -29 80 £52,500 -19.23% 27
West Midlands +1 67 £65,000 +18.18% 11
East of England -18 58 £65,000 - 19
East Midlands +18 54 £56,250 +18.42% 13
North East +12 39 £61,250 +8.89% 3
Wales -21 17 £50,685 +9.68% 4
Northern Ireland +24 13 £75,000 +50.00%
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 360 (41.38%) Azure
2 359 (41.26%) AWS
3 238 (27.36%) Terraform
4 215 (24.71%) CI/CD
5 180 (20.69%) Finance
6 179 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 176 (20.23%) DevOps
8 173 (19.89%) Agile
9 164 (18.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 153 (17.59%) Windows
11 152 (17.47%) Public Cloud
12 149 (17.13%) Microsoft
13 139 (15.98%) Roadmaps
14 130 (14.94%) Social Skills
15 129 (14.83%) Software Engineering
16 125 (14.37%) Operational Stability
17 124 (14.25%) Cloud Native
18 119 (13.68%) Java
19 112 (12.87%) Law
20 111 (12.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 108 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
22 107 (12.30%) Python
23 106 (12.18%) Linux
24 100 (11.49%) Windows Server
25 96 (11.03%) Technology Roadmap
25 96 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
26 94 (10.80%) Kubernetes
26 94 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
27 92 (10.57%) SDLC
28 90 (10.34%) Machine Learning

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 57 (6.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.72%) Confluence
4 7 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.46%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.34%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 360 (41.38%) Azure
2 359 (41.26%) AWS
3 96 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (9.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 64 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (6.90%) GCP
7 57 (6.55%) PaaS
8 55 (6.32%) Datadog
8 55 (6.32%) OCI
9 47 (5.40%) IaaS
10 44 (5.06%) SaaS
11 42 (4.83%) Entra ID
12 37 (4.25%) OneDrive
13 36 (4.14%) Dropbox
13 36 (4.14%) GitHub
13 36 (4.14%) Google Drive
14 35 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
15 34 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (3.91%) Serverless
16 27 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 74 (8.51%) Firewall
2 28 (3.22%) DHCP
2 28 (3.22%) WAN
3 26 (2.99%) DNS
4 20 (2.30%) VPN
5 18 (2.07%) Network Security
6 16 (1.84%) LAN
7 10 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.03%) VLAN
9 5 (0.57%) IPv4
10 4 (0.46%) BGP
10 4 (0.46%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.46%) Multicast
10 4 (0.46%) SAN
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 3 (0.34%) MQTT
11 3 (0.34%) OSPF
11 3 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.23%) DMZ
12 2 (0.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.03%) Power BI
4 8 (0.92%) MySQL
5 6 (0.69%) DB2
6 5 (0.57%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.34%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.34%) Looker
8 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.34%) Tableau
9 2 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.11%) Redis
10 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (6.44%) Git
2 30 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.76%) GitLab
4 21 (2.41%) Artifactory
5 15 (1.72%) JIRA
6 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.46%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.34%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.34%) JMeter
7 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.11%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Gradle
8 1 (0.11%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.11%) sqlmap
General
1 180 (20.69%) Finance
2 130 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 112 (12.87%) Law
4 111 (12.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (5.75%) Banking
6 41 (4.71%) Marketing
7 36 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (3.68%) Aerospace
9 24 (2.76%) Private Banking
10 22 (2.53%) Public Sector
11 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.03%) Legal
12 9 (1.03%) Retail
13 8 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.92%) Local Government
14 4 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.23%) Games
16 2 (0.23%) Police
16 2 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.98%) OpenTelemetry
2 32 (3.68%) Spring Boot
3 26 (2.99%) Kafka
4 25 (2.87%) AngularJS
5 24 (2.76%) React
5 24 (2.76%) RESTful
5 24 (2.76%) Spring
6 13 (1.49%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.26%) Node.js
8 9 (1.03%) .NET
9 4 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.34%) ADO
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Beam
10 3 (0.34%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.34%) CSS
10 3 (0.34%) HTML
10 3 (0.34%) YAML
11 2 (0.23%) REST
11 2 (0.23%) SAML
12 1 (0.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 152 (17.47%) Public Cloud
2 124 (14.25%) Cloud Native
3 69 (7.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 42 (4.83%) Data Centre
5 36 (4.14%) iPad
6 29 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.18%) Private Cloud
8 17 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 15 (1.72%) Replication
10 11 (1.26%) IoT
11 9 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.69%) Blog
12 6 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.57%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.57%) Handset
14 3 (0.34%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.34%) Clustering
14 3 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.34%) Life Science
14 3 (0.34%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 153 (17.59%) Windows
2 106 (12.18%) Linux
3 100 (11.49%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.03%) Unix
5 8 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.46%) CentOS
8 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.46%) VMS
9 3 (0.34%) SUSE
9 3 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (24.71%) CI/CD
2 179 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 176 (20.23%) DevOps
4 173 (19.89%) Agile
5 164 (18.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 139 (15.98%) Roadmaps
7 129 (14.83%) Software Engineering
8 125 (14.37%) Operational Stability
9 108 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
10 96 (11.03%) Technology Roadmap
11 94 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (10.57%) SDLC
13 90 (10.34%) Machine Learning
14 87 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 84 (9.66%) Artificial Intelligence
16 79 (9.08%) Architectural Design
16 79 (9.08%) Community of Practice
17 77 (8.85%) Cloud Security
17 77 (8.85%) Information Architecture
18 66 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 119 (13.68%) Java
2 107 (12.30%) Python
3 85 (9.77%) PowerShell
4 58 (6.67%) Bash
5 41 (4.71%) Bicep
6 28 (3.22%) SQL
7 21 (2.41%) C#
8 17 (1.95%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.26%) PHP
10 10 (1.15%) Go
11 8 (0.92%) Perl
11 8 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.80%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.46%) AWK
13 4 (0.46%) sed
14 3 (0.34%) Ruby
15 2 (0.23%) Groovy
15 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (7.01%) AWS Certification
2 58 (6.67%) Degree
3 37 (4.25%) Azure Certification
4 36 (4.14%) Security Cleared
5 31 (3.56%) SC Cleared
6 26 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.15%) CCNA
9 10 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.92%) MCSE
12 6 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.46%) MCITP
13 4 (0.46%) PhD
14 3 (0.34%) CCNP
14 3 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.23%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.25%) SLA
2 21 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.38%) QA
4 9 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.34%) NIST
7 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.11%) NCSC
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 82 (9.43%) Docker
2 79 (9.08%) Active Directory
3 45 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (4.25%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.80%) XenDesktop
8 6 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.69%) XenApp
9 3 (0.34%) Ceph
9 3 (0.34%) Firmware
9 3 (0.34%) Gluster
9 3 (0.34%) KVM
9 3 (0.34%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 238 (27.36%) Terraform
2 94 (10.80%) Kubernetes
3 85 (9.77%) Ansible
4 66 (7.59%) Grafana
5 46 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.95%) Puppet
7 11 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (1.03%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.92%) SCCM
10 7 (0.80%) Opsgenie
10 7 (0.80%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.69%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.46%) SCOM
13 3 (0.34%) Graylog
13 3 (0.34%) Observium
13 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 149 (17.13%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.47%) Splunk
3 64 (7.36%) Google
4 57 (6.55%) Oracle
5 56 (6.44%) VMware
6 52 (5.98%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.53%) Cisco
8 21 (2.41%) Citrix
9 13 (1.49%) HP
10 11 (1.26%) Dell
11 9 (1.03%) NetApp
12 7 (0.80%) Veeam
13 6 (0.69%) IBM
14 5 (0.57%) Zscaler
15 4 (0.46%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.46%) Confluent
15 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.46%) Symantec
16 3 (0.34%) New Relic
16 3 (0.34%) Teradata