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 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 256 256
Rank change year-on-year +26 0 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 895 758 1,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.36% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.53% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 532 446 622
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £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 £78,646 £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 74,776 49,490 72,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.82% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 29,308 43,150
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 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 8 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 8 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 +25 277 £60,000 +3.79% 25
Scotland +6 164 £62,500 -10.00% 7
South East +5 140 £55,000 -15.38% 27
Midlands +15 133 £60,000 +9.09% 29
North West -1 122 £57,263 -0.95% 11
Yorkshire +51 116 £62,783 +4.64% 12
South West -29 85 £50,000 -20.00% 27
West Midlands +16 75 £65,000 +18.18% 14
East of England -17 64 £65,000 -7.14% 11
East Midlands +5 58 £56,250 +18.42% 15
North East +7 39 £61,250 +8.89% 2
Wales -17 19 £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 8 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.

1 369 (41.23%) Azure
2 362 (40.45%) AWS
3 243 (27.15%) Terraform
4 204 (22.79%) CI/CD
5 181 (20.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 181 (20.22%) DevOps
6 179 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 170 (18.99%) Finance
8 162 (18.10%) Agile
9 157 (17.54%) Microsoft
10 155 (17.32%) Windows
11 138 (15.42%) Public Cloud
12 132 (14.75%) Social Skills
13 130 (14.53%) Roadmaps
14 120 (13.41%) Software Engineering
15 119 (13.30%) Cloud Native
16 116 (12.96%) Operational Stability
17 110 (12.29%) Linux
18 109 (12.18%) Java
19 108 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
20 103 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 103 (11.51%) Law
21 101 (11.28%) Windows Server
22 100 (11.17%) Python
23 99 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
24 98 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
25 96 (10.73%) Technology Roadmap
26 91 (10.17%) Kubernetes
27 90 (10.06%) PowerShell
28 88 (9.83%) Ansible

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 (6.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.68%) Confluence
4 6 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.45%) IIS
5 4 (0.45%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.11%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.11%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 369 (41.23%) Azure
2 362 (40.45%) AWS
3 98 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 60 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (6.15%) Datadog
6 55 (6.15%) OCI
7 54 (6.03%) GCP
8 51 (5.70%) PaaS
9 49 (5.47%) IaaS
10 47 (5.25%) SaaS
11 44 (4.92%) Entra ID
12 37 (4.13%) OneDrive
12 37 (4.13%) Serverless
13 36 (4.02%) Dropbox
13 36 (4.02%) Google Drive
14 35 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
16 29 (3.24%) GitHub
17 28 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 74 (8.27%) Firewall
2 29 (3.24%) WAN
3 28 (3.13%) DHCP
4 27 (3.02%) DNS
5 21 (2.35%) VPN
6 18 (2.01%) Network Security
7 16 (1.79%) LAN
8 10 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.12%) VLAN
9 5 (0.56%) IPv4
10 4 (0.45%) BGP
10 4 (0.45%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.45%) Multicast
10 4 (0.45%) SAN
11 3 (0.34%) HTTP
11 3 (0.34%) MQTT
11 3 (0.34%) OSPF
11 3 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.22%) PBX
12 2 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.01%) Power BI
4 8 (0.89%) MySQL
5 6 (0.67%) DB2
6 5 (0.56%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.45%) 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 (0.22%) 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 59 (6.59%) Git
2 24 (2.68%) GitLab
3 21 (2.35%) Artifactory
4 20 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.68%) JIRA
6 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.34%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.34%) JMeter
7 3 (0.34%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.34%) Spinnaker
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
1 170 (18.99%) Finance
2 132 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 103 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 103 (11.51%) Law
4 38 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (4.25%) Banking
4 38 (4.25%) Marketing
5 32 (3.58%) Aerospace
6 23 (2.57%) Public Sector
7 21 (2.35%) Private Banking
8 14 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.01%) Legal
9 9 (1.01%) Retail
10 8 (0.89%) Local Government
11 5 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.22%) Advertising
13 2 (0.22%) Police
13 2 (0.22%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 26 (2.91%) Spring Boot
3 22 (2.46%) AngularJS
3 22 (2.46%) Kafka
4 21 (2.35%) React
4 21 (2.35%) RESTful
4 21 (2.35%) Spring
5 15 (1.68%) ARM Templates
6 11 (1.23%) Node.js
7 9 (1.01%) .NET
8 4 (0.45%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.45%) YAML
9 3 (0.34%) ADO
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Beam
9 3 (0.34%) CSS
9 3 (0.34%) HTML
10 2 (0.22%) JSON
10 2 (0.22%) REST
10 2 (0.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 138 (15.42%) Public Cloud
2 119 (13.30%) Cloud Native
3 69 (7.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 42 (4.69%) Data Centre
5 36 (4.02%) iPad
6 29 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.68%) Private Cloud
7 15 (1.68%) Replication
8 13 (1.45%) IoT
8 13 (1.45%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.67%) Blog
10 6 (0.67%) Handset
10 6 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.56%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.45%) Clustering
13 3 (0.34%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.34%) Life Science
13 3 (0.34%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.34%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 155 (17.32%) Windows
2 110 (12.29%) Linux
3 101 (11.28%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.12%) Unix
5 9 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.56%) VMS
9 4 (0.45%) CentOS
9 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.34%) SUSE
10 3 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (22.79%) CI/CD
2 181 (20.22%) DevOps
2 181 (20.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 179 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 162 (18.10%) Agile
5 130 (14.53%) Roadmaps
6 120 (13.41%) Software Engineering
7 116 (12.96%) Operational Stability
8 108 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
9 99 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (10.73%) Technology Roadmap
11 87 (9.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 86 (9.61%) SDLC
13 84 (9.39%) Machine Learning
14 78 (8.72%) Artificial Intelligence
15 73 (8.16%) Architectural Design
15 73 (8.16%) Community of Practice
16 72 (8.04%) Cloud Security
17 71 (7.93%) Information Architecture
18 67 (7.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 109 (12.18%) Java
2 100 (11.17%) Python
3 90 (10.06%) PowerShell
4 61 (6.82%) Bash
5 43 (4.80%) Bicep
6 28 (3.13%) SQL
7 23 (2.57%) C#
8 17 (1.90%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.23%) PHP
10 10 (1.12%) Go
11 8 (0.89%) Perl
11 8 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.78%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.45%) AWK
13 4 (0.45%) sed
14 3 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.34%) Ruby
15 2 (0.22%) Groovy
16 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (6.82%) Degree
2 59 (6.59%) AWS Certification
3 40 (4.47%) Azure Certification
4 37 (4.13%) Security Cleared
5 32 (3.58%) SC Cleared
6 26 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.12%) CCNA
9 10 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.01%) MCSE
11 6 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.45%) MCITP
12 4 (0.45%) PhD
13 3 (0.34%) CCNP
13 3 (0.34%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.80%) SLA
2 21 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.34%) QA
4 9 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.34%) NIST
6 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.22%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.11%) NCSC
8 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 82 (9.16%) Active Directory
1 82 (9.16%) Docker
2 45 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (4.13%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.89%) XenDesktop
7 7 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.78%) XenApp
8 6 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
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
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 243 (27.15%) Terraform
2 91 (10.17%) Kubernetes
3 88 (9.83%) Ansible
4 67 (7.49%) Grafana
5 47 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (2.01%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.90%) Puppet
8 11 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.01%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.01%) SCCM
10 7 (0.78%) Opsgenie
10 7 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.56%) SCOM
13 3 (0.34%) Graylog
13 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.34%) Observium
13 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 157 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 66 (7.37%) Splunk
3 59 (6.59%) Google
4 58 (6.48%) Oracle
5 56 (6.26%) VMware
6 52 (5.81%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.46%) Cisco
7 22 (2.46%) Citrix
8 13 (1.45%) HP
9 11 (1.23%) Dell
10 9 (1.01%) NetApp
11 7 (0.78%) Veeam
12 6 (0.67%) IBM
13 5 (0.56%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.45%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.45%) Symantec
15 3 (0.34%) Computacenter
15 3 (0.34%) New Relic
15 3 (0.34%) Teradata