Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 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 678 691 788
Rank change year-on-year +13 +97 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 229 257 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.30% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 186 181 187
10th Percentile £50,250 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,597 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £70,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.63% +17.08% -4.00%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 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
England +36 183 £68,750 -11.29% 26
UK excluding London +2 151 £62,783 -10.63% 9
Work from Home +61 94 £62,783 -10.95% 14
North of England +52 68 £62,783 -8.37% 3
London +40 58 £90,000 +12.50% 18
North West -8 31 £62,783 -21.52% 2
Yorkshire +67 27 £62,783 -8.37% 1
South West -11 26 £40,000 -40.74% 2
Scotland -65 24 £63,750 -29.17%
South East -7 16 £67,500 -3.57% 2
North East -2 10 £66,391 +20.71%
West Midlands -8 8 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Midlands -14 8 £70,000 +21.74% 1
East of England -2 4 £69,500 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £90,000 -
Wales -1 1 £90,000 +76.11% 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 114 (49.78%) Azure
2 95 (41.48%) Terraform
3 94 (41.05%) AWS
4 73 (31.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (26.20%) DevOps
6 58 (25.33%) Python
7 57 (24.89%) Linux
7 57 (24.89%) Kubernetes
8 53 (23.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 50 (21.83%) Microsoft
10 48 (20.96%) Windows
11 47 (20.52%) Ansible
12 42 (18.34%) Cloud Security
13 41 (17.90%) Finance
14 37 (16.16%) Hybrid Cloud
15 36 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
16 33 (14.41%) Public Cloud
17 32 (13.97%) Mentoring
17 32 (13.97%) PowerShell
18 30 (13.10%) Cloud Native
19 28 (12.23%) Docker
20 27 (11.79%) GitHub
20 27 (11.79%) ITIL
21 26 (11.35%) SaaS
21 26 (11.35%) PaaS
21 26 (11.35%) Public Sector
22 25 (10.92%) Containerisation
22 25 (10.92%) Coaching
23 24 (10.48%) Amazon S3
23 24 (10.48%) Software Engineering

Senior 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 13 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.18%) Apache
3 5 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 114 (49.78%) Azure
2 94 (41.05%) AWS
3 36 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (11.79%) GitHub
5 26 (11.35%) PaaS
5 26 (11.35%) SaaS
6 24 (10.48%) Amazon S3
7 19 (8.30%) Serverless
8 18 (7.86%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (7.42%) GCP
10 16 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (6.55%) Entra ID
12 14 (6.11%) IaaS
12 14 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.93%) CloudFront
15 9 (3.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.30%) Firewall
2 8 (3.49%) VPN
3 7 (3.06%) IPv4
4 4 (1.75%) Wireless
5 3 (1.31%) DNS
5 3 (1.31%) HTTP
5 3 (1.31%) MQTT
5 3 (1.31%) Network Security
5 3 (1.31%) WAN
6 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.44%) BGP
7 1 (0.44%) DHCP
7 1 (0.44%) DMZ
7 1 (0.44%) Internet
7 1 (0.44%) LAN
7 1 (0.44%) OSPF
7 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.24%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.18%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.87%) Power BI
4 2 (0.87%) Tableau
5 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (9.17%) Artifactory
1 21 (9.17%) GitLab
2 17 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.06%) Bitbucket
3 7 (3.06%) Git
4 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 41 (17.90%) Finance
2 26 (11.35%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.68%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.24%) Banking
5 8 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.87%) Retail
7 1 (0.44%) Advertising
7 1 (0.44%) Billing
7 1 (0.44%) Games
7 1 (0.44%) Music Industry
7 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.37%) .NET
2 7 (3.06%) Node.js
3 4 (1.75%) React
3 4 (1.75%) Svelte
4 3 (1.31%) CSS
4 3 (1.31%) HTML
5 2 (0.87%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.87%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.44%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.44%) JDBC
6 1 (0.44%) Kafka
6 1 (0.44%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.44%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.44%) Swagger
6 1 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.16%) Hybrid Cloud
2 33 (14.41%) Public Cloud
3 30 (13.10%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.99%) Legacy Code
5 15 (6.55%) Data Centre
6 13 (5.68%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.49%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.62%) Blog
9 4 (1.75%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.87%) Life Science
10 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) PKI
10 2 (0.87%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.44%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 57 (24.89%) Linux
2 48 (20.96%) Windows
3 12 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.06%) Unix
5 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 60 (26.20%) DevOps
3 53 (23.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 42 (18.34%) Cloud Security
5 32 (13.97%) Mentoring
6 27 (11.79%) ITIL
7 25 (10.92%) Coaching
7 25 (10.92%) Containerisation
8 24 (10.48%) CI/CD
8 24 (10.48%) Migration
8 24 (10.48%) Software Engineering
9 22 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (9.17%) Operational Stability
10 21 (9.17%) Service Management
10 21 (9.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (7.86%) Agile
13 15 (6.55%) Roadmaps
14 14 (6.11%) Project Delivery
15 13 (5.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 58 (25.33%) Python
2 32 (13.97%) PowerShell
3 20 (8.73%) Bash
3 20 (8.73%) SQL
4 17 (7.42%) Go
5 12 (5.24%) C
5 12 (5.24%) C++
5 12 (5.24%) Rust
6 8 (3.49%) Java
7 5 (2.18%) Perl
8 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.75%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.31%) C#
10 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.87%) PHP
10 2 (0.87%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) AWK
11 1 (0.44%) Scala
11 1 (0.44%) sed
11 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (9.61%) Degree
2 21 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.86%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) VCP6
9 2 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.75%) Solvency II
2 2 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) NCSC
3 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (12.23%) Docker
2 10 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 95 (41.48%) Terraform
2 57 (24.89%) Kubernetes
3 47 (20.52%) Ansible
4 11 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.18%) Puppet
6 4 (1.75%) Grafana
6 4 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.31%) CASB
8 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.87%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 50 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.11%) Google
3 6 (2.62%) VMware
4 5 (2.18%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.75%) Cisco
5 4 (1.75%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.75%) Remedy
5 4 (1.75%) Zscaler
6 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.44%) Citrix
7 1 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.44%) Dell
7 1 (0.44%) NetApp
7 1 (0.44%) Twitter