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 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 235 242
Rank change year-on-year -68 +7 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 353 571 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 1.48% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.55% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 296 432 749
10th Percentile £47,250 £42,532 £42,935
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 £90,967 £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 33,433 36,956 72,909
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 95.95% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,465 26,837 42,708
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,242 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +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 3 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 3 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.

1 234 (66.29%) Azure
2 185 (52.41%) AWS
3 183 (51.84%) Terraform
4 147 (41.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (37.96%) DevOps
6 108 (30.59%) Python
7 106 (30.03%) Kubernetes
8 104 (29.46%) CI/CD
9 94 (26.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 88 (24.93%) Docker
11 84 (23.80%) Linux
12 83 (23.51%) Finance
13 78 (22.10%) Agile
14 77 (21.81%) Windows
15 66 (18.70%) Ansible
15 66 (18.70%) Microsoft
16 62 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
17 55 (15.58%) Serverless
17 55 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
17 55 (15.58%) PowerShell
17 55 (15.58%) Social Skills
18 49 (13.88%) Active Directory
18 49 (13.88%) Firewall
18 49 (13.88%) GitHub
19 48 (13.60%) Public Cloud
19 48 (13.60%) Platform Engineering
20 45 (12.75%) Mentoring
21 43 (12.18%) Microsoft 365
21 43 (12.18%) Jenkins
21 43 (12.18%) GCP

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
1 234 (66.29%) Azure
2 185 (52.41%) AWS
3 55 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (15.58%) Serverless
4 49 (13.88%) GitHub
5 43 (12.18%) GCP
5 43 (12.18%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (10.76%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (9.35%) PaaS
8 29 (8.22%) Entra ID
9 27 (7.65%) Amazon S3
9 27 (7.65%) SaaS
10 26 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (6.23%) IaaS
12 22 (6.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (4.82%) Route 53
15 15 (4.25%) Azure AKS
16 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 43 (12.18%) 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 83 (23.51%) Finance
2 55 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.80%) 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 48 (13.60%) Public Cloud
2 29 (8.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (6.80%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.67%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.10%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (3.97%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.98%) IoT
10 6 (1.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.42%) Blog
11 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.13%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.13%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.13%) Replication
12 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 84 (23.80%) Linux
2 77 (21.81%) Windows
3 25 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.83%) 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
1 147 (41.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 134 (37.96%) DevOps
3 104 (29.46%) CI/CD
4 94 (26.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 78 (22.10%) Agile
6 62 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (13.60%) 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 29 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (7.65%) Project Delivery
16 26 (7.37%) Coaching
17 23 (6.52%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (30.59%) Python
2 55 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 32 (9.07%) Bash
4 29 (8.22%) SQL
5 26 (7.37%) Java
6 16 (4.53%) Bicep
7 15 (4.25%) Go
8 12 (3.40%) 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 88 (24.93%) 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
1 183 (51.84%) Terraform
2 106 (30.03%) Kubernetes
3 66 (18.70%) Ansible
4 22 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.68%) Puppet
7 11 (3.12%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (3.12%) Grafana
7 11 (3.12%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.70%) Opsgenie
9 6 (1.70%) Packer
10 5 (1.42%) Salt
10 5 (1.42%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.85%) Graylog
11 3 (0.85%) Observium
12 2 (0.57%) Istio
12 2 (0.57%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.28%) Icinga
Vendors
1 66 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.22%) Google
3 21 (5.95%) VMware
4 13 (3.68%) Cisco
5 12 (3.40%) 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