Cloud Engineer Salary in 2025
💰 The median Cloud Engineer Salary in 2025 is USD 126,100
✏️ This salary info is based on 102 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cloud Engineer salary lies between USD 99,000 and USD 160,000 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
- 102
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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 | 208 jobs Engineering | 191 jobs Security | 186 jobs AWS | 181 jobs Machine Learning | 169 jobs Architecture | 156 jobs Terraform | 155 jobs Azure | 151 jobs CI/CD | 149 jobs DevOps | 145 jobs Pipelines | 140 jobs Kubernetes | 138 jobs Computer Science | 129 jobs GCP | 126 jobs Docker | 111 jobs Agile | 88 jobs CloudFormation | 75 jobs Ansible | 70 jobs Java | 69 jobs Testing | 63 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 | 195 jobs Health care | 91 jobs Flex hours | 73 jobs Competitive pay | 56 jobs Startup environment | 54 jobs Insurance | 51 jobs Flex vacation | 49 jobs Equity / stock options | 45 jobs Team events | 40 jobs Salary bonus | 40 jobs Wellness | 38 jobs 401(k) matching | 27 jobs Medical leave | 27 jobs Parental leave | 25 jobs Fitness / gym | 25 jobs Conferences | 19 jobs Gear | 14 jobs Home office stipend | 8 jobs Flexible spending account | 8 jobs Transparency | 7 jobsRelated salaries
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