Cloud Engineer Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median Cloud Engineer Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 130,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 100 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cloud Engineer salary lies between USD 100,000 and USD 169,200 in the United States. 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.
- Job title
- Cloud Engineer
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 100
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Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). 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 | 215 jobs Engineering | 197 jobs Security | 191 jobs AWS | 188 jobs Machine Learning | 176 jobs Architecture | 162 jobs Terraform | 160 jobs Azure | 155 jobs CI/CD | 153 jobs DevOps | 147 jobs Kubernetes | 143 jobs Pipelines | 143 jobs Computer Science | 132 jobs GCP | 128 jobs Docker | 115 jobs Agile | 91 jobs CloudFormation | 78 jobs Ansible | 75 jobs Java | 70 jobs Google Cloud | 65 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 | 201 jobs Health care | 94 jobs Flex hours | 76 jobs Competitive pay | 60 jobs Startup environment | 54 jobs Insurance | 53 jobs Flex vacation | 51 jobs Equity / stock options | 45 jobs Team events | 44 jobs Salary bonus | 40 jobs Wellness | 39 jobs 401(k) matching | 28 jobs Medical leave | 28 jobs Fitness / gym | 26 jobs Parental leave | 25 jobs Conferences | 21 jobs Gear | 16 jobs Home office stipend | 10 jobs Flexible spending account | 8 jobs Transparency | 7 jobsRelated salaries
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