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Cloud Engineer: salary 2026 at a glance

Salary at a glance: this is what Cloud Engineer earn in Germany – from 104 job ads with a stated salary and 65 salary data sets.

Median, gross

€62,308

€43,338 lower 10 % €87,115 upper 10 %

How salaries are distributed

Each column = number of salary figures per €5,000 band · basis 169

  • Between lower and upper 10 % (€43,338 – €87,115)
  • Edges

Salary rises with experience

Median and middle 50 % per level · jobs + data sets

€52,000

Junior

46,500 – 54,500

25 values

€60,000

Mid-level

54,500 – 70,000

+15 % · 95 values

€67,000

Senior

59,000 – 76,000

+29 % · 30 values

€73,000

Lead/Principal

65,500 – 76,000

+40 % · 18 values

Salary by federal state

Median of the salary data sets for Cloud Engineer per federal state. The samples are small here – read the figures as a trend, not a guarantee.

  1. Baden-Württemberg €70,000 n = 6
  2. North Rhine-Westphalia €67,000 n = 5
  3. Bavaria €67,000 n = 5
  4. Hamburg €66,000 n = 7
  5. Hesse €63,500 n = 4
  6. Berlin €61,000 n = 8
  7. Schleswig-Holstein €59,500 n = 4
  8. Rhineland-Palatinate €57,500 n = 5
  9. Lower Saxony €55,500 n = 4
  10. Saarland €53,500 n = 4
  11. Brandenburg €53,500 n = 4
  12. Thuringia €53,000 n = 4
  13. Saxony €48,500 n = 5

Remote, hybrid or on site?

Median from job ads for Cloud Engineer per work model

Hybrid

€64,500

€55,000 – €73,000

54 jobs

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On site

€60,500

€54,500 – €70,000

50 jobs

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What a skill is worth

Median of jobs with the technology compared with jobs without – both groups at least 20 jobs

  • Terraform +12.5 % €67,500 n = 55
  • AWS +11.7 % €67,000 n = 35
  • Python +8.9 % €67,500 n = 23
  • Ansible +4.9 % €64,000 n = 29
  • Azure −1.6 % €63,000 n = 34
  • Kubernetes −1.6 % €63,000 n = 38
  • Docker −17.3 % €55,000 n = 22

Centre = same salary as jobs without the technology · bars up to ±17 %

Open positions as Cloud Engineer

All in the job search
Microsoft Cloud Engineer (m/w/d) Freiburg im Breisgau · On site €45,000 – €64,000 below median
Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform (m/w/d) Mannheim · On site €65,000 – €100,000 above median
Erfahrener Cloud Engineer / Cloud Admin Betrieb Nürnberg · Remote Salary not stated
SAP ABAP Cloud Entwickler (w/m/d) Fürth · On site €38,000 – €56,000 below median
SAP ABAP Cloud Entwickler (w/m/d) Regensburg · On site €38,000 – €56,000 below median
Senior Cloud Engineer (m/w/d) Mainframe Storage Services Nürnberg · Remote Salary not stated

Cloud Engineer: job profile and outlook

Cloud Engineers design, implement and manage cloud infrastructures and enable organisations to use scalable, cost-efficient and highly available IT resources. They migrate existing systems to the cloud, optimise cloud costs and ensure that cloud environments are operated securely and compliantly. Core competencies include in-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. Experience with infrastructure as code, container orchestration, serverless computing and cloud networking is just as important as knowledge of identity and access management, encryption and compliance frameworks. Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator or Google Cloud Engineer are valuable qualifications. Salaries for cloud engineers are above average and continue to rise with increasing cloud adoption. Multi-cloud experts and specialists for cloud security or FinOps are in particularly high demand on the market. Technology companies, consulting firms and companies undergoing digital transformation offer particularly attractive remuneration packages, with career opportunities ranging from Junior Cloud Engineer to Senior Cloud Engineer to Cloud Architect, Cloud Security Specialist or Head of Cloud Infrastructure. The migration of on-premises systems to the cloud and the increasing spread of multi-cloud strategies ensure excellent future prospects for cloud engineers.

Similarly paid roles

Same axis – directly comparable

€40,000 – €100,000 · bar = lower to upper 10 %, line = median

How we calculate

  • Sources: job ads with a stated salary that are assigned to a role, plus recorded salary data sets. Currently 6,380 active IT jobs state their salary.
  • Range: lower 10 % to upper 10 % (P10–P90), so that individual outliers do not shift the limits. The median splits the values into two equal halves.
  • Plausible: only gross annual salaries between €15,000 and €250,000; placeholders and monthly values are excluded.
  • Calculator: role median × experience factor × federal state factor. The factors come from 4,290 salary data sets – each as a ratio to the median of its role, so the mix of roles does not distort them.
  • Minimum size: breakdowns by skill, city and work model only appear from 20 values; every figure states its basis.

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