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 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 238 259 271
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,233 1,345 2,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.44% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.58% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 763 917 1,319
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 £82,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,100 £96,250
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 102,593 85,161 165,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 91.21% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 72,456 55,290 85,908
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,518 £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 £50,500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%

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 8 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 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
England -2 983 £62,783 -6.29% 165
UK excluding London +26 895 £60,000 - 127
Work from Home -63 360 £65,000 - 121
North of England +25 277 £60,000 +3.79% 25
London -53 260 £83,230 +10.97% 41
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% 26
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 545 (44.20%) Azure
2 488 (39.58%) AWS
3 382 (30.98%) Terraform
4 298 (24.17%) CI/CD
5 289 (23.44%) DevOps
6 271 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 249 (20.19%) Finance
8 238 (19.30%) Microsoft
9 232 (18.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 218 (17.68%) Agile
11 204 (16.55%) Kubernetes
11 204 (16.55%) Windows
12 198 (16.06%) Software Engineering
12 198 (16.06%) Social Skills
13 192 (15.57%) Python
14 188 (15.25%) Linux
15 181 (14.68%) Cloud Native
16 157 (12.73%) Roadmaps
17 155 (12.57%) PowerShell
18 153 (12.41%) Public Cloud
19 149 (12.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 137 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
20 137 (11.11%) Java
20 137 (11.11%) Law
21 133 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
22 132 (10.71%) Ansible
23 130 (10.54%) Microsoft 365
24 126 (10.22%) Windows Server
25 122 (9.89%) Operational Stability
26 120 (9.73%) Active Directory

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 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.70%) Confluence
4 12 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.97%) SharePoint 2010
4 12 (0.97%) SharePoint 2013
5 11 (0.89%) Apache
6 5 (0.41%) IIS
7 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.24%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.081%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.081%) Moodle
8 1 (0.081%) SAS
8 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 545 (44.20%) Azure
2 488 (39.58%) AWS
3 130 (10.54%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
5 105 (8.52%) GCP
6 85 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 79 (6.41%) PaaS
7 79 (6.41%) Serverless
8 73 (5.92%) IaaS
9 72 (5.84%) SaaS
10 68 (5.52%) Entra ID
10 68 (5.52%) OCI
11 63 (5.11%) Datadog
12 52 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 52 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (4.06%) Amazon S3
13 50 (4.06%) GitHub
14 46 (3.73%) OneDrive
15 45 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
16 43 (3.49%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 118 (9.57%) Firewall
2 46 (3.73%) WAN
3 44 (3.57%) DNS
3 44 (3.57%) VPN
4 39 (3.16%) Network Security
5 35 (2.84%) DHCP
6 31 (2.51%) LAN
7 15 (1.22%) VLAN
8 12 (0.97%) IPv4
8 12 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.81%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.49%) BGP
10 6 (0.49%) DMZ
10 6 (0.49%) HTTP
10 6 (0.49%) Wireless
10 6 (0.49%) WLAN
11 5 (0.41%) SSL
12 4 (0.32%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.32%) OSPF
12 4 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 15 (1.22%) Power BI
5 12 (0.97%) BigQuery
6 10 (0.81%) MySQL
7 7 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.49%) DB2
8 6 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.41%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.32%) Tableau
11 3 (0.24%) Airbyte
11 3 (0.24%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.24%) Looker
11 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.24%) Redis
12 2 (0.16%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 90 (7.30%) Git
2 50 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 36 (2.92%) GitLab
4 21 (1.70%) Artifactory
4 21 (1.70%) JIRA
5 14 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.49%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.32%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.32%) Subversion
7 4 (0.32%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.24%) JMeter
8 3 (0.24%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.16%) git-flow
10 1 (0.081%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.081%) Gradle
10 1 (0.081%) sqlmap
General
1 249 (20.19%) Finance
2 198 (16.06%) Social Skills
3 149 (12.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (11.11%) Law
5 70 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.89%) Banking
7 39 (3.16%) Marketing
8 36 (2.92%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.68%) Aerospace
10 21 (1.70%) Private Banking
11 20 (1.62%) Legal
12 19 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.22%) Retail
14 8 (0.65%) Local Government
15 5 (0.41%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.32%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.24%) Advertising
17 3 (0.24%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.22%) OpenTelemetry
2 35 (2.84%) Kafka
3 29 (2.35%) React
3 29 (2.35%) Spring Boot
4 27 (2.19%) RESTful
5 23 (1.87%) Spring
6 22 (1.78%) AngularJS
7 21 (1.70%) ARM Templates
8 20 (1.62%) Node.js
9 15 (1.22%) .NET
10 8 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.65%) Svelte
11 6 (0.49%) ADO
11 6 (0.49%) AWS CDK
11 6 (0.49%) Django
11 6 (0.49%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.41%) .NET Core
12 5 (0.41%) REST
12 5 (0.41%) SAML
12 5 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 181 (14.68%) Cloud Native
2 153 (12.41%) Public Cloud
3 75 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 51 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 46 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.41%) iPad
7 36 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 34 (2.76%) Legacy Code
9 26 (2.11%) Private Cloud
10 22 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.30%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.30%) Replication
12 14 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.05%) IoT
14 11 (0.89%) Blog
15 9 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
16 7 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.57%) Handset
16 7 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 204 (16.55%) Windows
2 188 (15.25%) Linux
3 126 (10.22%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.14%) Unix
4 14 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.57%) CentOS
8 6 (0.49%) VMS
9 3 (0.24%) SUSE
9 3 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (24.17%) CI/CD
2 289 (23.44%) DevOps
3 271 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 232 (18.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 218 (17.68%) Agile
6 198 (16.06%) Software Engineering
7 157 (12.73%) Roadmaps
8 137 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 133 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
10 122 (9.89%) Operational Stability
11 113 (9.16%) Technology Roadmap
12 106 (8.60%) Machine Learning
13 104 (8.43%) Platform Engineering
13 104 (8.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 101 (8.19%) Cloud Security
15 97 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence
16 95 (7.70%) SDLC
17 83 (6.73%) Community of Practice
18 82 (6.65%) Architectural Design
18 82 (6.65%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 192 (15.57%) Python
2 155 (12.57%) PowerShell
3 137 (11.11%) Java
4 91 (7.38%) Bash
5 66 (5.35%) Go
6 51 (4.14%) SQL
7 45 (3.65%) Bicep
8 28 (2.27%) C
9 27 (2.19%) C#
9 27 (2.19%) C++
10 26 (2.11%) Rust
11 25 (2.03%) JavaScript
12 16 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.97%) Perl
15 11 (0.89%) PHP
16 6 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.41%) Ruby
18 4 (0.32%) AWK
18 4 (0.32%) sed
Qualifications
1 79 (6.41%) AWS Certification
2 76 (6.16%) Degree
3 66 (5.35%) Security Cleared
4 63 (5.11%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.41%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.38%) MCSE
10 14 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.05%) CCNA
12 12 (0.97%) 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 (0.32%) PhD
18 3 (0.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (2.84%) SLA
2 25 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.38%) QA
4 11 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.57%) GDPR
7 6 (0.49%) NCSC
8 5 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.41%) NIST
9 4 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.081%) COBIT
11 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.081%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.081%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.081%) SEPA
System Software
1 120 (9.73%) Active Directory
2 119 (9.65%) Docker
3 57 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (3.89%) Hyper-V
5 46 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.62%) XenApp
6 20 (1.62%) 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
1 382 (30.98%) Terraform
2 204 (16.55%) Kubernetes
3 132 (10.71%) Ansible
4 69 (5.60%) Grafana
5 63 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (2.19%) Puppet
7 20 (1.62%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.46%) SCCM
9 15 (1.22%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.89%) 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%) SCOM
14 5 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.32%) Istio
15 4 (0.32%) Nagios
15 4 (0.32%) Packer
15 4 (0.32%) Salt
Vendors
1 238 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 94 (7.62%) Google
3 69 (5.60%) Oracle
3 69 (5.60%) VMware
4 68 (5.52%) Splunk
5 52 (4.22%) Dynatrace
6 45 (3.65%) Cisco
7 35 (2.84%) Citrix
8 21 (1.70%) HP
9 19 (1.54%) Dell
10 14 (1.14%) Remedy
11 12 (0.97%) Symantec
12 11 (0.89%) Zscaler
13 10 (0.81%) BMC
13 10 (0.81%) SolarWinds
14 9 (0.73%) NetApp
14 9 (0.73%) New Relic
15 8 (0.65%) Atlassian
16 7 (0.57%) Meraki
16 7 (0.57%) Veeam