Cloud Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer salary in England is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 256 256
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 981 1,169 2,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.05% 1.40% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.54% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 655 800 1,162
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,411 £42,518
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 88,752 75,954 137,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 91.23% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 65,003 49,705 75,781
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 +39 277 £60,000 +3.79% 27
London -53 261 £83,230 +10.97% 47
South East -15 138 £55,000 -15.38% 24
Midlands +32 132 £60,000 +9.09% 25
North West +3 121 £59,526 +2.97% 12
Yorkshire +54 117 £62,783 +4.64% 13
South West -18 87 £50,000 -20.00% 21
West Midlands +15 75 £65,000 +18.18% 11
East of England -12 62 £65,000 - 11
East Midlands +14 57 £55,000 +15.79% 14
North East +7 39 £61,250 +8.89% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 455 (46.38%) Azure
2 346 (35.27%) AWS
3 279 (28.44%) Terraform
4 244 (24.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 243 (24.77%) DevOps
6 217 (22.12%) Microsoft
7 210 (21.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 191 (19.47%) Kubernetes
9 184 (18.76%) CI/CD
10 179 (18.25%) Windows
11 160 (16.31%) Linux
12 158 (16.11%) Python
13 141 (14.37%) PowerShell
14 140 (14.27%) Roadmaps
15 135 (13.76%) Finance
16 127 (12.95%) Technical Leadership
17 126 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
18 124 (12.64%) Social Skills
19 121 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
20 116 (11.82%) Docker
21 113 (11.52%) Technology Roadmap
22 112 (11.42%) Agile
23 109 (11.11%) Active Directory
24 108 (11.01%) Ansible
24 108 (11.01%) Windows Server
25 94 (9.58%) Firewall
25 94 (9.58%) Platform Engineering
26 93 (9.48%) Software Engineering
27 91 (9.28%) Cloud Security
28 87 (8.87%) Cloud Native

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.24%) Confluence
4 12 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.22%) SharePoint 2010
4 12 (1.22%) SharePoint 2013
5 11 (1.12%) Apache
6 5 (0.51%) IIS
7 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.31%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.31%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.10%) Moodle
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 455 (46.38%) Azure
2 346 (35.27%) AWS
3 126 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (8.46%) GCP
5 82 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (7.24%) Serverless
7 61 (6.22%) Entra ID
8 60 (6.12%) PaaS
9 59 (6.01%) SaaS
10 54 (5.50%) IaaS
11 52 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 50 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (4.99%) Amazon S3
14 46 (4.69%) OneDrive
15 45 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
16 43 (4.38%) Dropbox
16 43 (4.38%) GitHub
17 42 (4.28%) Google Drive
18 41 (4.18%) OCI
19 36 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 94 (9.58%) Firewall
2 40 (4.08%) DNS
3 35 (3.57%) DHCP
3 35 (3.57%) WAN
4 29 (2.96%) Network Security
5 27 (2.75%) LAN
6 24 (2.45%) VPN
7 11 (1.12%) VLAN
8 8 (0.82%) IPv4
9 6 (0.61%) HTTP
9 6 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.61%) Wireless
10 5 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.51%) SSL
11 4 (0.41%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.41%) Multicast
11 4 (0.41%) OSPF
11 4 (0.41%) SAN
12 3 (0.31%) BGP
12 3 (0.31%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.63%) DynamoDB
4 12 (1.22%) BigQuery
4 12 (1.22%) Power BI
5 10 (1.02%) MySQL
6 6 (0.61%) DB2
6 6 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.41%) Tableau
9 3 (0.31%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.31%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.31%) Looker
10 2 (0.20%) Bigtable
10 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (7.95%) Git
2 40 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.47%) GitLab
4 22 (2.24%) JIRA
5 21 (2.14%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.51%) Spinnaker
8 5 (0.51%) Subversion
9 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.41%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.31%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.31%) JMeter
10 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.20%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.10%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.10%) sqlmap
General
1 135 (13.76%) Finance
2 124 (12.64%) Social Skills
3 67 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (4.28%) Law
6 28 (2.85%) Public Sector
7 23 (2.34%) Aerospace
7 23 (2.34%) Banking
8 19 (1.94%) Legal
9 15 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.33%) Retail
11 8 (0.82%) Local Government
12 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.31%) Advertising
15 2 (0.20%) Automotive
15 2 (0.20%) Marketing
15 2 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.20%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.04%) ARM Templates
1 20 (2.04%) Kafka
1 20 (2.04%) Node.js
2 8 (0.82%) React
2 8 (0.82%) Svelte
3 6 (0.61%) AWS CDK
3 6 (0.61%) Django
3 6 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (0.61%) GraphQL
3 6 (0.61%) RESTful
3 6 (0.61%) SAML
4 5 (0.51%) .NET
4 5 (0.51%) JSON
5 3 (0.31%) Apache Beam
5 3 (0.31%) CSS
5 3 (0.31%) HTML
5 3 (0.31%) REST
5 3 (0.31%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.31%) YAML
6 2 (0.20%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.87%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (5.30%) Public Cloud
4 47 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (4.28%) iPad
6 39 (3.98%) Data Centre
7 34 (3.47%) Legacy Code
8 20 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.63%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.43%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.12%) Blog
11 11 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.12%) IoT
12 9 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.92%) Replication
13 8 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.71%) Handset
15 6 (0.61%) Clustering
15 6 (0.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 179 (18.25%) Windows
2 160 (16.31%) Linux
3 108 (11.01%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.71%) CentOS
8 6 (0.61%) Unix
8 6 (0.61%) VMS
9 3 (0.31%) SUSE
9 3 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (24.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 243 (24.77%) DevOps
3 210 (21.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 184 (18.76%) CI/CD
5 140 (14.27%) Roadmaps
6 127 (12.95%) Technical Leadership
7 121 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (11.52%) Technology Roadmap
9 112 (11.42%) Agile
10 94 (9.58%) Platform Engineering
11 93 (9.48%) Software Engineering
12 91 (9.28%) Cloud Security
13 72 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 72 (7.34%) ITIL
14 67 (6.83%) Containerisation
15 64 (6.52%) Migration
16 56 (5.71%) Mentoring
17 52 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 50 (5.10%) Configuration Management
18 50 (5.10%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 158 (16.11%) Python
2 141 (14.37%) PowerShell
3 80 (8.15%) Bash
4 63 (6.42%) Go
5 39 (3.98%) Java
5 39 (3.98%) SQL
6 38 (3.87%) Bicep
7 28 (2.85%) C
8 27 (2.75%) C++
9 26 (2.65%) Rust
10 25 (2.55%) JavaScript
11 23 (2.34%) C#
12 15 (1.53%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.92%) PHP
15 7 (0.71%) Perl
16 6 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.41%) AWK
17 4 (0.41%) sed
18 2 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (6.42%) Degree
2 59 (6.01%) AWS Certification
3 58 (5.91%) Azure Certification
4 57 (5.81%) Security Cleared
5 39 (3.98%) SC Cleared
6 30 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.63%) MCSE
10 12 (1.22%) MCITP
11 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.51%) CISSP
15 4 (0.41%) PhD
16 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.31%) CISM
16 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
16 3 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (1.73%) QA
3 13 (1.33%) SLA
4 11 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.61%) NCSC
7 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.51%) NIST
8 4 (0.41%) GDPR
8 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) COBIT
10 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.10%) SEPA
System Software
1 116 (11.82%) Docker
2 109 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 48 (4.89%) Hyper-V
4 47 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 44 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (2.04%) XenApp
7 19 (1.94%) XenDesktop
8 15 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) Ceph
10 3 (0.31%) Firmware
10 3 (0.31%) Gluster
10 3 (0.31%) KVM
10 3 (0.31%) oVirt
11 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 279 (28.44%) Terraform
2 191 (19.47%) Kubernetes
3 108 (11.01%) Ansible
4 62 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (2.04%) Puppet
6 18 (1.83%) SCCM
7 16 (1.63%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.33%) Grafana
8 13 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.71%) Opsgenie
11 7 (0.71%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.51%) Packer
12 5 (0.51%) Salt
12 5 (0.51%) SCOM
12 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.41%) Istio
13 4 (0.41%) Nagios
14 3 (0.31%) Graylog
Vendors
1 217 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.87%) Google
3 58 (5.91%) VMware
4 45 (4.59%) Oracle
5 34 (3.47%) Citrix
6 30 (3.06%) Cisco
7 21 (2.14%) HP
8 19 (1.94%) Dell
9 16 (1.63%) Splunk
10 14 (1.43%) Remedy
11 12 (1.22%) Symantec
12 10 (1.02%) BMC
12 10 (1.02%) SolarWinds
13 9 (0.92%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.92%) New Relic
14 7 (0.71%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.61%) IBM
15 6 (0.61%) Veeam
16 5 (0.51%) Palo Alto
16 5 (0.51%) Red Hat