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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 262 253
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 954 1,197 2,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.05% 1.42% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.56% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 641 808 1,147
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,411 £42,500
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 £95,000 £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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 2 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 2 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 +39 276 £60,000 +3.79% 34
London -33 261 £82,865 +10.49% 61
South East -32 134 £53,000 -18.46% 32
Midlands +30 121 £60,000 +9.09% 24
North West -12 120 £59,526 +2.97% 16
Yorkshire +43 117 £62,783 +4.64% 15
South West -29 80 £52,500 -19.23% 27
West Midlands +1 67 £65,000 +18.18% 11
East of England -18 58 £65,000 - 19
East Midlands +18 54 £56,250 +18.42% 13
North East +12 39 £61,250 +8.89% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 444 (46.54%) Azure
2 342 (35.85%) AWS
3 277 (29.04%) Terraform
4 246 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 242 (25.37%) DevOps
6 211 (22.12%) Microsoft
7 195 (20.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 191 (20.02%) Kubernetes
9 187 (19.60%) CI/CD
10 174 (18.24%) Windows
11 164 (17.19%) Python
12 152 (15.93%) Linux
13 144 (15.09%) Roadmaps
14 140 (14.68%) Finance
15 132 (13.84%) PowerShell
16 127 (13.31%) Technical Leadership
17 125 (13.10%) Social Skills
18 122 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
19 120 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
20 118 (12.37%) Agile
21 117 (12.26%) Docker
22 113 (11.84%) Technology Roadmap
23 107 (11.22%) Active Directory
24 106 (11.11%) Windows Server
25 104 (10.90%) Ansible
26 96 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
27 95 (9.96%) Firewall
28 94 (9.85%) Cloud Security
29 92 (9.64%) Software Engineering
30 90 (9.43%) Google

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 70 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.41%) Confluence
4 13 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.15%) Apache
5 11 (1.15%) SharePoint 2010
5 11 (1.15%) SharePoint 2013
6 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.31%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) Moodle
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 444 (46.54%) Azure
2 342 (35.85%) AWS
3 122 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (9.01%) GCP
5 85 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (7.65%) Serverless
7 66 (6.92%) PaaS
8 60 (6.29%) Entra ID
9 57 (5.97%) SaaS
10 54 (5.66%) IaaS
11 52 (5.45%) Amazon S3
11 52 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (5.14%) GitHub
14 47 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
15 46 (4.82%) OneDrive
16 43 (4.51%) Dropbox
17 42 (4.40%) Google Drive
18 41 (4.30%) OCI
19 36 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 95 (9.96%) Firewall
2 40 (4.19%) DNS
3 36 (3.77%) DHCP
4 33 (3.46%) WAN
5 30 (3.14%) Network Security
6 26 (2.73%) LAN
7 24 (2.52%) VPN
8 10 (1.05%) VLAN
9 8 (0.84%) IPv4
10 6 (0.63%) HTTP
10 6 (0.63%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.63%) Wireless
11 5 (0.52%) SAN
11 5 (0.52%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.42%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.42%) Multicast
12 4 (0.42%) SSL
13 3 (0.31%) Internet
13 3 (0.31%) MQTT
13 3 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 13 (1.36%) Power BI
5 12 (1.26%) BigQuery
6 10 (1.05%) MySQL
7 6 (0.63%) DB2
7 6 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.52%) Tableau
9 4 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.31%) Airbyte
10 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.31%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.31%) Looker
11 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.21%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (8.18%) Git
2 46 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.56%) GitLab
4 23 (2.41%) JIRA
5 21 (2.20%) Artifactory
6 17 (1.78%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.63%) Spinnaker
8 6 (0.63%) Subversion
9 4 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.31%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.31%) JMeter
10 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.21%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.10%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.10%) sqlmap
General
1 140 (14.68%) Finance
2 125 (13.10%) Social Skills
3 65 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (4.40%) Law
6 28 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 27 (2.83%) Banking
8 23 (2.41%) Aerospace
9 19 (1.99%) Legal
10 14 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.36%) Retail
12 8 (0.84%) Local Government
13 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.31%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.21%) Advertising
16 2 (0.21%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.21%) Marketing
16 2 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.20%) Kafka
2 20 (2.10%) Node.js
3 18 (1.89%) ARM Templates
4 8 (0.84%) React
4 8 (0.84%) Svelte
5 6 (0.63%) Django
5 6 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.63%) GraphQL
5 6 (0.63%) RESTful
5 6 (0.63%) SAML
6 5 (0.52%) .NET
6 5 (0.52%) AWS CDK
7 4 (0.42%) JSON
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Beam
8 3 (0.31%) CSS
8 3 (0.31%) HTML
8 3 (0.31%) REST
8 3 (0.31%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.21%) Spring
9 2 (0.21%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 46 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (4.40%) iPad
6 39 (4.09%) Data Centre
7 32 (3.35%) Legacy Code
8 19 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (1.78%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.68%) Private Cloud
11 15 (1.57%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.15%) Blog
12 11 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.15%) IoT
13 9 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.94%) Replication
14 7 (0.73%) PKI
15 6 (0.63%) Handset
15 6 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 174 (18.24%) Windows
2 152 (15.93%) Linux
3 106 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (0.73%) CentOS
7 7 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.63%) Unix
9 5 (0.52%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) SUSE
10 3 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 242 (25.37%) DevOps
3 195 (20.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 187 (19.60%) CI/CD
5 144 (15.09%) Roadmaps
6 127 (13.31%) Technical Leadership
7 120 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (12.37%) Agile
9 113 (11.84%) Technology Roadmap
10 96 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
11 94 (9.85%) Cloud Security
12 92 (9.64%) Software Engineering
13 71 (7.44%) ITIL
14 70 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (6.81%) Migration
16 64 (6.71%) Containerisation
17 58 (6.08%) Mentoring
18 50 (5.24%) Configuration Management
18 50 (5.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 49 (5.14%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 164 (17.19%) Python
2 132 (13.84%) PowerShell
3 75 (7.86%) Bash
4 63 (6.60%) Go
5 42 (4.40%) Java
6 40 (4.19%) SQL
7 36 (3.77%) Bicep
8 26 (2.73%) C
9 25 (2.62%) C++
9 25 (2.62%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.52%) Rust
11 22 (2.31%) C#
12 15 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.94%) PHP
15 8 (0.84%) Perl
16 6 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.42%) AWK
17 4 (0.42%) sed
18 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 64 (6.71%) Degree
2 60 (6.29%) AWS Certification
3 54 (5.66%) Azure Certification
4 52 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 38 (3.98%) SC Cleared
6 28 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.47%) MCSE
10 11 (1.15%) MCITP
11 9 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.63%) CISSP
13 6 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.42%) CISM
14 4 (0.42%) PhD
15 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 2 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (1.78%) QA
3 13 (1.36%) SLA
4 11 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.63%) NCSC
7 5 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.52%) NIST
8 4 (0.42%) GDPR
8 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.21%) 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
1 117 (12.26%) Docker
2 107 (11.22%) Active Directory
3 47 (4.93%) Hyper-V
4 46 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (1.89%) XenApp
7 17 (1.78%) XenDesktop
8 15 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.52%) 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
Systems Management
1 277 (29.04%) Terraform
2 191 (20.02%) Kubernetes
3 104 (10.90%) Ansible
4 60 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (2.10%) Puppet
6 17 (1.78%) SCCM
7 15 (1.57%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.26%) Grafana
10 11 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.73%) Opsgenie
12 7 (0.73%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.63%) Packer
13 6 (0.63%) Salt
14 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.42%) Istio
15 4 (0.42%) Nagios
15 4 (0.42%) SCOM
16 3 (0.31%) Observium
Vendors
1 211 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.43%) Google
3 58 (6.08%) VMware
4 44 (4.61%) Oracle
5 32 (3.35%) Citrix
6 28 (2.94%) Cisco
7 20 (2.10%) HP
8 18 (1.89%) Dell
9 15 (1.57%) Splunk
10 12 (1.26%) Remedy
11 11 (1.15%) Symantec
12 10 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.05%) SolarWinds
13 9 (0.94%) New Relic
14 8 (0.84%) BMC
15 7 (0.73%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.63%) IBM
16 6 (0.63%) Veeam
17 5 (0.52%) Palo Alto
18 4 (0.42%) ServiceNow