Cloud Automation Engineer Jobs

Cloud Automation Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Automation Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 886 933 1226
Rank change year-on-year +47 +293 -318
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Automation Engineer 21 14 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.015% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.016% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 21 11 17
10th Percentile £52,500 - £52,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +54.55% - -

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Cloud Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Automation Engineer in the UK

Cloud Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Automation Engineer in the UK

Cloud Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Automation Engineer in the UK

Cloud Automation Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +43 19 £75,000 +11.11% 1
London +123 17 £75,000 +3.45%
Work from Home +50 16 £75,000 +15.38% 3
UK excluding London -34 4 £85,000 +54.55% 3
Scotland -65 2 £85,000 +30.77% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £85,000 - 1
North of England - 2 £85,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cloud Automation 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 Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (80.95%) AWS
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 16 (76.19%) Java
3 15 (71.43%) Terraform
4 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (66.67%) DevOps
5 13 (61.90%) Azure
6 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
7 11 (52.38%) Docker
8 10 (47.62%) Innovative Thinking
9 9 (42.86%) Agile
9 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
10 7 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
10 7 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (33.33%) GitHub
10 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
10 7 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (33.33%) Route 53
10 7 (33.33%) Serverless
10 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (28.57%) Puppet
11 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management

Cloud Automation 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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) Azure
3 7 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 7 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (33.33%) GitHub
3 7 (33.33%) Route 53
3 7 (33.33%) Serverless
3 7 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Storage
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 6 (28.57%) JIRA
2 6 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (28.57%) Subversion
3 4 (19.05%) Cucumber
4 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
1 2 (9.52%) YAML
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (23.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (23.81%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
1 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 14 (66.67%) DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (47.62%) Innovative Thinking
4 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 7 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 6 (28.57%) Data Migration
6 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (28.57%) Migration
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
8 4 (19.05%) BDD
8 4 (19.05%) SDLC
8 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) TDD
8 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 16 (76.19%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) Perl
3 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 4 (19.05%) Bicep
5 2 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (4.76%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (71.43%) Terraform
2 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
3 6 (28.57%) Ansible
3 6 (28.57%) Packer
3 6 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 6 (28.57%) Puppet
3 6 (28.57%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Atlassian