Cloud Engineer salary

Typical advertised pay for Cloud Engineer roles, from real job postings on FindRole.

Median advertised base salary

$142,450

Most postings fall between $130,789 and $201,088.

Based on 46 postings across 13 companies. Updated October 30, 2026.

As of October 2026, the median advertised base salary for Cloud Engineer roles is $142,450, based on 46 live job postings from 13 employers tracked by FindRole.

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Skills employers ask for

Share of Cloud Engineer postings that name each skill.

AWS 91% · 42 of 46
Kubernetes 76% · 35 of 46
Python 74% · 34 of 46
CI/CD 70% · 32 of 46
Terraform 63% · 29 of 46
Azure 57% · 26 of 46
GCP 43% · 20 of 46
Linux 43% · 20 of 46
Docker 41% · 19 of 46
Infrastructure as Code 37% · 17 of 46
CloudFormation 35% · 16 of 46
Ansible 33% · 15 of 46

Counted once per posting across 46 Cloud Engineer postings with an extracted skill list, as of October 2026. Spellings are folded to one name (K8s → Kubernetes) — see methodology.

Related roles

Titles whose postings ask for many of the same skills.

DevOps Engineer shares AWS, Kubernetes, Python median $129,500
Platform Engineer shares AWS, Kubernetes, Python median $156,250
Site Reliability Engineer shares AWS, Kubernetes, Python median $187,000
Security Engineer shares AWS, Kubernetes, Python median $193,000
Platform Software Engineer shares AWS, Kubernetes, Python median $156,000
Engineer shares AWS, Kubernetes, Python median $179,250

Top companies hiring Cloud Engineers

Booz Allen Hamilton 21 postings · median $142,400
General Dynamics 8 postings · median $155,317
Capital One Financial 4 postings · median $276,300
Cisco 2 postings · median $206,450
T. Rowe Price 2 postings · median $215,500
Apple Inc 2 postings · median $242,950
Cardinal Health 1 postings · median $116,950
Unum Group 1 postings · median $166,550

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These figures are the midpoint of the advertised salary range on real Cloud Engineer job postings indexed by FindRole — employer-stated base pay, not total compensation (they exclude equity and bonuses), and they reflect the roles we index rather than the whole market. A guide, not a guarantee.