Market evidence report — cloud-engineer

Source: 60 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 60), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-10. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

Seniority distribution

Seniority	Ads	Share
mid	45	75 %
senior	11	18 %
lead	3	5 %
junior	1	2 %

Tools — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	AWS	25	42 %
2	Terraform	21	35 %
3	Kubernetes	15	25 %
4	Docker	11	18 %
5	CloudFormation	10	17 %
6	Microsoft Azure	10	17 %
7	Amazon Web Services (AWS)	7	12 %
8	Ansible	7	12 %
9	Jenkins	7	12 %
10	Python	7	12 %
11	Azure	6	10 %
12	CloudWatch	6	10 %
13	GitLab CI	6	10 %
14	VPC	6	10 %
15	GitHub	5	8 %
16	PostgreSQL	5	8 %
17	Azure DevOps	4	7 %
18	EC2	4	7 %
19	Elastic Stack	4	7 %
20	RabbitMQ	4	7 %
21	Red Hat OpenShift	4	7 %
22	Redis	4	7 %
23	S3	4	7 %
24	vSphere	4	7 %
25	Amazon S3	3	5 %
26	Amazon Web Services	3	5 %
27	AWS GovCloud	3	5 %
28	Azure Monitor	3	5 %
29	BigQuery	3	5 %
30	Cloud Build	3	5 %
31	GCP	3	5 %
32	Google Cloud Platform (GCP)	3	5 %
33	IAM	3	5 %
34	PowerShell	3	5 %
35	Purview	3	5 %
36	RDS	3	5 %
37	Windows Server	3	5 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	troubleshooting	16	27 %
2	cloud infrastructure design	12	20 %
3	infrastructure as code	8	13 %
4	security compliance	8	13 %
5	automation	7	12 %
6	cloud engineering	6	10 %
7	cloud security	6	10 %
8	infrastructure automation	6	10 %
9	scripting	6	10 %
10	cloud architecture	5	8 %
11	infrastructure design	5	8 %
12	system administration	5	8 %
13	automation scripting	4	7 %
14	cloud computing	4	7 %
15	cloud migration	4	7 %
16	network administration	4	7 %
17	security implementation	4	7 %
18	system performance monitoring	4	7 %
19	ci/cd pipeline development	3	5 %
20	cloud deployment	3	5 %
21	cloud implementation	3	5 %
22	container orchestration	3	5 %
23	disaster recovery planning	3	5 %
24	documentation	3	5 %
25	incident response	3	5 %
26	network management	3	5 %
27	networking	3	5 %
28	problem-solving	3	5 %
29	process improvement	3	5 %
30	software development	3	5 %
31	software engineering	3	5 %
32	system integration	3	5 %
33	technical analysis	3	5 %
34	technical documentation	3	5 %

Methods — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	ci/cd pipelines	8	13 %
2	Infrastructure as Code	8	13 %
3	infrastructure as code (iac)	6	10 %
4	continuous integration	5	8 %
5	devops	5	8 %
6	devsecops	5	8 %
7	ci/cd	4	7 %
8	infrastructure-as-code	4	7 %
9	infrastructure-as-code (IaC)	4	7 %
10	Agile development	3	5 %
11	automation	3	5 %
12	continuous delivery	3	5 %

Responsibilities — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	security control implementation	6	10 %
2	incident response	4	7 %
3	security implementation	4	7 %
4	system monitoring	4	7 %
5	automation implementation	3	5 %
6	cloud infrastructure management	3	5 %
7	cloud solution design	3	5 %
8	data service support	3	5 %
9	documentation	3	5 %
10	infrastructure management	3	5 %
11	issue resolution	3	5 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 60 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

60 ads.

Top hard skills:

troubleshooting — 27 % (16 ads)
cloud infrastructure design — 20 % (12 ads)
infrastructure as code — 13 % (8 ads)
security compliance — 13 % (8 ads)
automation — 12 % (7 ads)
cloud engineering — 10 % (6 ads)
cloud security — 10 % (6 ads)
infrastructure automation — 10 % (6 ads)
scripting — 10 % (6 ads)
cloud architecture — 8 % (5 ads)

Top tools:

AWS — 42 % (25 ads)
Terraform — 35 % (21 ads)
Kubernetes — 25 % (15 ads)
Docker — 18 % (11 ads)
CloudFormation — 17 % (10 ads)
Microsoft Azure — 17 % (10 ads)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) — 12 % (7 ads)
Ansible — 12 % (7 ads)
Jenkins — 12 % (7 ads)
Python — 12 % (7 ads)

Seniority: mid 75 % · senior 18 % · lead 5 % · junior 2 %

UK (gb)

Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)