Cloud Engineer Jobs

Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 261 268
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,229 1,350 2,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.44% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.58% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 761 911 1,321
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,829 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 101,543 85,646 164,275
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 91.24% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 71,805 55,459 85,654
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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 -9 974 £62,783 -4.88% 163
UK excluding London +22 892 £60,000 - 121
Work from Home -55 363 £62,783 -3.41% 121
North of England +27 278 £60,000 +3.79% 27
London -48 260 £82,865 +10.49% 46
Scotland +3 170 £61,250 -11.80% 6
South East -2 136 £55,000 -15.38% 26
Midlands +39 128 £60,000 +9.09% 23
North West -4 123 £59,526 +2.97% 12
Yorkshire +48 117 £62,783 +4.64% 13
South West -25 87 £51,250 -18.00% 25
West Midlands -5 72 £65,000 +18.18% 10
East of England -25 61 £65,000 - 13
East Midlands +13 56 £55,000 +15.79% 13
North East +5 38 £61,250 +8.89% 2
Wales -14 19 £50,685 +9.68% 4
Northern Ireland +24 13 £75,000 +50.00%

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 545 (44.34%) Azure
2 490 (39.87%) AWS
3 383 (31.16%) Terraform
4 308 (25.06%) CI/CD
5 289 (23.52%) DevOps
6 272 (22.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 258 (20.99%) Finance
8 234 (19.04%) Microsoft
9 230 (18.71%) Agile
10 223 (18.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 208 (16.92%) Kubernetes
12 204 (16.60%) Software Engineering
13 201 (16.35%) Windows
14 200 (16.27%) Python
14 200 (16.27%) Social Skills
15 184 (14.97%) Linux
16 183 (14.89%) Cloud Native
17 164 (13.34%) Roadmaps
18 162 (13.18%) Public Cloud
19 155 (12.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 151 (12.29%) PowerShell
21 145 (11.80%) Java
22 141 (11.47%) Law
23 135 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
24 133 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
25 131 (10.66%) Ansible
26 128 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
26 128 (10.41%) Operational Stability
27 125 (10.17%) Windows Server
28 124 (10.09%) Docker

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 72 (5.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.79%) Confluence
4 13 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.98%) SharePoint 2010
5 12 (0.98%) SharePoint 2013
6 11 (0.90%) Apache
7 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.33%) IIS
8 3 (0.24%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.24%) nginx
9 1 (0.081%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.081%) Moodle
9 1 (0.081%) SAS
9 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 545 (44.34%) Azure
2 490 (39.87%) AWS
3 128 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (9.03%) GCP
6 85 (6.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 84 (6.83%) PaaS
8 79 (6.43%) Serverless
9 72 (5.86%) IaaS
10 70 (5.70%) SaaS
11 68 (5.53%) OCI
12 66 (5.37%) Entra ID
13 63 (5.13%) Datadog
14 57 (4.64%) GitHub
15 53 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 53 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
16 51 (4.15%) Amazon S3
17 46 (3.74%) OneDrive
18 45 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
19 43 (3.50%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 119 (9.68%) Firewall
2 45 (3.66%) WAN
3 44 (3.58%) DNS
4 43 (3.50%) VPN
5 39 (3.17%) Network Security
6 35 (2.85%) DHCP
7 31 (2.52%) LAN
8 14 (1.14%) VLAN
9 12 (0.98%) IPv4
9 12 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.81%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.49%) BGP
11 6 (0.49%) DMZ
11 6 (0.49%) HTTP
11 6 (0.49%) Wireless
11 6 (0.49%) WLAN
12 5 (0.41%) SSL
13 4 (0.33%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.33%) OSPF
13 4 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.30%) DynamoDB
3 16 (1.30%) Power BI
4 12 (0.98%) BigQuery
5 10 (0.81%) MySQL
6 7 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.49%) DB2
7 6 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.41%) Tableau
9 4 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.24%) Airbyte
10 3 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.24%) Looker
10 3 (0.24%) Redis
11 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 89 (7.24%) Git
2 59 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 36 (2.93%) GitLab
4 22 (1.79%) JIRA
5 21 (1.71%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (0.57%) Spinnaker
8 5 (0.41%) Subversion
9 4 (0.33%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.33%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.24%) JMeter
10 3 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.16%) git-flow
12 1 (0.081%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.081%) Gradle
12 1 (0.081%) sqlmap
General
1 258 (20.99%) Finance
2 200 (16.27%) Social Skills
3 155 (12.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 141 (11.47%) Law
5 69 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (4.72%) Banking
7 41 (3.34%) Marketing
8 35 (2.85%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.69%) Aerospace
10 23 (1.87%) Private Banking
11 20 (1.63%) Legal
12 18 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.22%) Retail
14 8 (0.65%) Local Government
15 7 (0.57%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.24%) Games
18 3 (0.24%) Manufacturing
19 2 (0.16%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
2 38 (3.09%) Kafka
3 33 (2.69%) Spring Boot
4 31 (2.52%) React
5 29 (2.36%) RESTful
6 25 (2.03%) Spring
7 24 (1.95%) AngularJS
8 21 (1.71%) ARM Templates
9 20 (1.63%) Node.js
10 15 (1.22%) .NET
11 8 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (0.65%) Svelte
12 6 (0.49%) ADO
12 6 (0.49%) AWS CDK
12 6 (0.49%) Django
12 6 (0.49%) GraphQL
12 6 (0.49%) SAML
13 5 (0.41%) JSON
13 5 (0.41%) REST
13 5 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 183 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 162 (13.18%) Public Cloud
3 75 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (4.15%) Data Centre
5 47 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.42%) iPad
7 37 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 34 (2.77%) Legacy Code
9 29 (2.36%) Private Cloud
10 20 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.30%) Replication
13 14 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.06%) IoT
15 11 (0.90%) Blog
16 9 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
16 9 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
17 8 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
18 7 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
19 6 (0.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 201 (16.35%) Windows
2 184 (14.97%) Linux
3 125 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.06%) Unix
6 10 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.57%) CentOS
9 6 (0.49%) VMS
10 3 (0.24%) SUSE
10 3 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (25.06%) CI/CD
2 289 (23.52%) DevOps
3 272 (22.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 230 (18.71%) Agile
5 223 (18.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 204 (16.60%) Software Engineering
7 164 (13.34%) Roadmaps
8 135 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
9 133 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
10 128 (10.41%) Operational Stability
11 113 (9.19%) Technology Roadmap
12 110 (8.95%) Machine Learning
13 105 (8.54%) Cloud Security
13 105 (8.54%) Platform Engineering
14 102 (8.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 101 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence
16 99 (8.06%) SDLC
17 87 (7.08%) Community of Practice
18 86 (7.00%) Architectural Design
19 83 (6.75%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 200 (16.27%) Python
2 151 (12.29%) PowerShell
3 145 (11.80%) Java
4 88 (7.16%) Bash
5 66 (5.37%) Go
6 52 (4.23%) SQL
7 45 (3.66%) Bicep
8 28 (2.28%) C
9 27 (2.20%) C++
10 26 (2.12%) C#
10 26 (2.12%) Rust
11 25 (2.03%) JavaScript
12 16 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.98%) Perl
15 11 (0.90%) PHP
16 6 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.41%) Ruby
18 4 (0.33%) AWK
18 4 (0.33%) sed
Qualifications
1 81 (6.59%) AWS Certification
2 76 (6.18%) Degree
3 65 (5.29%) Security Cleared
4 60 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.38%) MCSE
10 14 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.06%) CCNA
12 12 (0.98%) MCITP
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.65%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.49%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.41%) CCNP
16 5 (0.41%) CISSP
17 4 (0.33%) PhD
18 3 (0.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.01%) SLA
2 25 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.38%) QA
4 11 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.49%) GDPR
6 6 (0.49%) NCSC
7 5 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.41%) NIST
8 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.081%) COBIT
10 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.081%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.081%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.081%) SEPA
System Software
1 124 (10.09%) Docker
2 117 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 57 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (3.91%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.63%) XenApp
6 20 (1.63%) XenDesktop
7 16 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.57%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.24%) Ceph
10 3 (0.24%) Firmware
10 3 (0.24%) Gluster
10 3 (0.24%) KVM
10 3 (0.24%) oVirt
11 1 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 383 (31.16%) Terraform
2 208 (16.92%) Kubernetes
3 131 (10.66%) Ansible
4 68 (5.53%) Grafana
5 63 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (2.28%) Puppet
7 19 (1.55%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.46%) SCCM
9 16 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.73%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.57%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.41%) Packer
14 5 (0.41%) Salt
14 5 (0.41%) SCOM
14 5 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.33%) Istio
15 4 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 234 (19.04%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.06%) Google
3 69 (5.61%) Oracle
3 69 (5.61%) VMware
4 67 (5.45%) Splunk
5 52 (4.23%) Dynatrace
6 45 (3.66%) Cisco
7 35 (2.85%) Citrix
8 21 (1.71%) HP
9 19 (1.55%) Dell
10 12 (0.98%) Remedy
10 12 (0.98%) Symantec
11 11 (0.90%) Zscaler
12 10 (0.81%) SolarWinds
13 9 (0.73%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.73%) NetApp
13 9 (0.73%) New Relic
14 8 (0.65%) BMC
15 7 (0.57%) Meraki
15 7 (0.57%) Veeam