Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 631 603 694
Rank change year-on-year -28 +91 -110
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 144 115 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 113 72 80
10th Percentile £40,000 £51,104 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £56,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,125 £83,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 74,774 47,981 75,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 88.83% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,171 28,880 43,676
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,459
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.03% +6.23%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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 +27 60 £62,783 -8.37% 1
North West -10 30 £62,783 -21.52%
South West +1 27 £40,000 -40.74%
Scotland -53 22 £65,000 -27.78%
Yorkshire +58 20 £62,783 -8.37% 1
South East -17 14 £67,500 -3.57%
North East - 10 £66,391 -
West Midlands -11 9 £60,000 -
Midlands -14 9 £60,000 +4.35%
East of England -9 5 £66,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 -
Wales +15 3 £90,000 +76.11%
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (48.61%) Azure
1 70 (48.61%) AWS
2 56 (38.89%) Terraform
3 48 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (32.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (28.47%) Windows
6 39 (27.08%) Linux
7 37 (25.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (21.53%) Ansible
9 30 (20.83%) Mentoring
10 29 (20.14%) Microsoft
11 27 (18.75%) ITIL
11 27 (18.75%) Python
12 24 (16.67%) Coaching
13 22 (15.28%) Migration
14 21 (14.58%) Service Management
14 21 (14.58%) Artifactory
14 21 (14.58%) GitLab
14 21 (14.58%) DevOps
14 21 (14.58%) Public Cloud
14 21 (14.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 21 (14.58%) Public Sector
14 21 (14.58%) Operational Stability
15 18 (12.50%) Kubernetes
16 17 (11.81%) AWS Certification
16 17 (11.81%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (11.81%) Amazon S3
16 17 (11.81%) PowerShell
17 16 (11.11%) Cloud Security
18 15 (10.42%) Docker

Senior 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 9 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (48.61%) AWS
1 70 (48.61%) Azure
2 17 (11.81%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (11.81%) Amazon S3
3 15 (10.42%) GitHub
4 14 (9.72%) SaaS
5 13 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (9.03%) Serverless
6 12 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (6.94%) Entra ID
9 9 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.56%) CloudFront
10 8 (5.56%) Route 53
11 7 (4.86%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.78%) IaaS
13 4 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.47%) Firewall
2 3 (2.08%) HTTP
2 3 (2.08%) MQTT
3 2 (1.39%) DHCP
3 2 (1.39%) DMZ
3 2 (1.39%) DNS
3 2 (1.39%) IPv4
4 1 (0.69%) Network Security
4 1 (0.69%) OSPF
4 1 (0.69%) VLAN
4 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (14.58%) Artifactory
1 21 (14.58%) GitLab
2 6 (4.17%) Git
3 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (14.58%) Public Sector
2 10 (6.94%) Finance
3 5 (3.47%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.39%) Retail
5 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.25%) .NET
2 3 (2.08%) CSS
2 3 (2.08%) HTML
2 3 (2.08%) Node.js
3 2 (1.39%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (14.58%) Public Cloud
3 11 (7.64%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.17%) Blog
4 6 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.08%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.08%) PKI
7 2 (1.39%) IoT
7 2 (1.39%) Life Science
7 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (28.47%) Windows
2 39 (27.08%) Linux
3 8 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.17%) Unix
5 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 47 (32.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 27 (18.75%) ITIL
5 24 (16.67%) Coaching
6 22 (15.28%) Migration
7 21 (14.58%) DevOps
7 21 (14.58%) Operational Stability
7 21 (14.58%) Service Management
7 21 (14.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 16 (11.11%) Cloud Security
9 14 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (9.03%) Containerisation
11 11 (7.64%) Project Delivery
12 10 (6.94%) Computer Science
13 9 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (6.25%) OpenUP
14 8 (5.56%) Data Protection
14 8 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
15 7 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.75%) Python
2 17 (11.81%) PowerShell
3 14 (9.72%) Bash
4 9 (6.25%) SQL
5 5 (3.47%) Java
5 5 (3.47%) Perl
6 2 (1.39%) C#
6 2 (1.39%) PHP
6 2 (1.39%) Ruby
7 1 (0.69%) AWK
7 1 (0.69%) Bicep
7 1 (0.69%) sed
7 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (11.81%) AWS Certification
2 13 (9.03%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.33%) Degree
4 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.39%) NCSC
2 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (10.42%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.08%) Firmware
4 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (38.89%) Terraform
2 31 (21.53%) Ansible
3 18 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.78%) Grafana
5 4 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.78%) Puppet
6 3 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.39%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.08%) VMware
3 2 (1.39%) Dell
3 2 (1.39%) NetApp
3 2 (1.39%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.39%) SolarWinds
3 2 (1.39%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.69%) Google
4 1 (0.69%) Twitter