Cloud Engineer Salary in 2025
💰 The median Cloud Engineer Salary in 2025 is USD 146,375
✏️ This salary info is based on 40 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cloud Engineer salary lies between USD 110,000 and USD 180,000 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.
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- Cloud Engineer
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 40
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All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
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Top 20 Job Tags for Cloud Engineer roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Cloud Engineer job listings are Python, Engineering and Security. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:
Python | 88 jobs Engineering | 83 jobs Security | 81 jobs AWS | 79 jobs Machine Learning | 75 jobs Terraform | 64 jobs Architecture | 63 jobs Kubernetes | 62 jobs DevOps | 62 jobs CI/CD | 62 jobs Azure | 61 jobs Pipelines | 61 jobs Computer Science | 59 jobs GCP | 56 jobs Docker | 51 jobs Agile | 32 jobs CloudFormation | 30 jobs Google Cloud | 29 jobs Big Data | 28 jobs ETL | 26 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Cloud Engineer roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Cloud Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:
Career development | 77 jobs Health care | 29 jobs Flex hours | 27 jobs Startup environment | 22 jobs Competitive pay | 22 jobs Equity / stock options | 20 jobs Team events | 20 jobs Insurance | 20 jobs Flex vacation | 17 jobs Salary bonus | 17 jobs Fitness / gym | 14 jobs Wellness | 13 jobs Conferences | 11 jobs Medical leave | 9 jobs 401(k) matching | 8 jobs Parental leave | 7 jobs Gear | 7 jobs Transparency | 4 jobs Home office stipend | 3 jobs Flexible spending account | 2 jobsRelated salaries
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