Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 673 666 782
Rank change year-on-year -7 +116 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 233 257 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.30% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 188 176 197
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £61,678 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
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 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 -1 184 £70,000 -9.68% 18
UK excluding London -17 149 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Work from Home +39 93 £65,000 -6.15% 13
North of England +25 63 £62,783 -8.37% 1
London +31 61 £90,000 +12.50% 12
North West -20 30 £62,783 -21.52%
South West -21 28 £40,000 -40.74% 1
Yorkshire +68 23 £62,783 -8.37% 1
Scotland -66 23 £65,000 -27.78%
South East -22 16 £67,500 -3.57% 2
North East -8 10 £66,391 +20.71%
West Midlands -9 8 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Midlands -41 8 £70,000 +21.74% 3
East of England -9 4 £69,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 -
Wales +8 3 £90,000 +76.11% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (49.36%) Azure
2 94 (40.34%) AWS
3 92 (39.48%) Terraform
4 68 (29.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (26.61%) Linux
6 57 (24.46%) DevOps
7 55 (23.61%) Kubernetes
8 53 (22.75%) Python
8 53 (22.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 51 (21.89%) Windows
9 51 (21.89%) Microsoft
10 49 (21.03%) Ansible
11 39 (16.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 39 (16.74%) Cloud Security
12 37 (15.88%) PowerShell
13 34 (14.59%) Cloud Native
14 33 (14.16%) Finance
15 32 (13.73%) Mentoring
16 31 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
17 27 (11.59%) SaaS
17 27 (11.59%) ITIL
18 26 (11.16%) Software Engineering
18 26 (11.16%) Public Cloud
18 26 (11.16%) Containerisation
18 26 (11.16%) Public Sector
19 25 (10.73%) Coaching
20 24 (10.30%) Docker
20 24 (10.30%) Amazon S3
21 23 (9.87%) Security Cleared
21 23 (9.87%) Problem-Solving

Senior 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 12 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.15%) Apache
3 5 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 115 (49.36%) Azure
2 94 (40.34%) AWS
3 31 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (11.59%) SaaS
5 24 (10.30%) Amazon S3
6 20 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (8.58%) GitHub
6 20 (8.58%) Serverless
7 18 (7.73%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (7.30%) PaaS
9 15 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (6.01%) Entra ID
11 12 (5.15%) GCP
11 12 (5.15%) IaaS
12 10 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.86%) CloudFront
13 9 (3.86%) Route 53
14 7 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.73%) Firewall
2 9 (3.86%) VPN
3 8 (3.43%) IPv4
4 4 (1.72%) Wireless
5 3 (1.29%) DNS
5 3 (1.29%) HTTP
5 3 (1.29%) MQTT
5 3 (1.29%) Network Security
5 3 (1.29%) OSPF
5 3 (1.29%) VLAN
5 3 (1.29%) WAN
6 2 (0.86%) Internet
6 2 (0.86%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.43%) BGP
7 1 (0.43%) DHCP
7 1 (0.43%) DMZ
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.15%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.43%) Power BI
5 1 (0.43%) Redis
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (9.01%) Artifactory
1 21 (9.01%) GitLab
2 11 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.00%) Git
4 5 (2.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
General
1 33 (14.16%) Finance
2 26 (11.16%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.44%) Social Skills
4 7 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.15%) Banking
6 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.86%) Retail
7 1 (0.43%) Advertising
7 1 (0.43%) Billing
7 1 (0.43%) Games
7 1 (0.43%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.29%) .NET
2 7 (3.00%) Node.js
3 4 (1.72%) React
3 4 (1.72%) Svelte
4 3 (1.29%) CSS
4 3 (1.29%) HTML
5 2 (0.86%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.86%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.86%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.86%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.43%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.43%) JDBC
6 1 (0.43%) Kafka
6 1 (0.43%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.43%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.43%) Swagger
6 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.74%) Hybrid Cloud
2 34 (14.59%) Cloud Native
3 26 (11.16%) Public Cloud
4 19 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (7.73%) Legacy Code
6 15 (6.44%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.58%) Blog
7 6 (2.58%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.72%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.29%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.86%) IoT
11 2 (0.86%) Life Science
11 2 (0.86%) PKI
12 1 (0.43%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 62 (26.61%) Linux
2 51 (21.89%) Windows
3 12 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.00%) Unix
5 5 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.72%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (24.46%) DevOps
3 53 (22.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (16.74%) Cloud Security
5 32 (13.73%) Mentoring
6 27 (11.59%) ITIL
7 26 (11.16%) Containerisation
7 26 (11.16%) Software Engineering
8 25 (10.73%) Coaching
9 23 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (9.44%) Migration
11 21 (9.01%) Operational Stability
11 21 (9.01%) Service Management
11 21 (9.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 20 (8.58%) CI/CD
13 16 (6.87%) Configuration Management
13 16 (6.87%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (6.44%) Agile
15 13 (5.58%) Project Delivery
16 12 (5.15%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.75%) Python
2 37 (15.88%) PowerShell
3 22 (9.44%) Bash
4 19 (8.15%) Go
4 19 (8.15%) SQL
5 14 (6.01%) C
5 14 (6.01%) C++
5 14 (6.01%) Rust
6 8 (3.43%) Java
7 5 (2.15%) Perl
8 4 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.29%) C#
10 2 (0.86%) PHP
10 2 (0.86%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) AWK
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) sed
11 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.58%) Degree
3 18 (7.73%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.86%) VCP6
10 2 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.72%) Solvency II
2 3 (1.29%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.43%) NCSC
3 1 (0.43%) SLA
3 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (10.30%) Docker
2 9 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 92 (39.48%) Terraform
2 55 (23.61%) Kubernetes
3 49 (21.03%) Ansible
4 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.00%) Puppet
6 4 (1.72%) CASB
6 4 (1.72%) Grafana
6 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.86%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 51 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.00%) Google
3 6 (2.58%) VMware
4 5 (2.15%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.72%) Cisco
5 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.72%) Remedy
6 3 (1.29%) Zscaler
7 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.43%) Citrix
8 1 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.43%) Dell
8 1 (0.43%) NetApp
8 1 (0.43%) Twitter