Side-by-side distribution
Cloud Engineer
$154,625
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 33.6%
- Live roles
- 2,368
DevOps
$175,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 36.2%
- Live roles
- 5,959
Highest-paying jobs
AWS Cloud Engineer (Infrastructure and Application)
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Launch Engineering
Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference
Software Engineer, Cloud Computer
Software Engineer, Cloud Agents
Senior Principal Presales Systems Engineer, Cloud and AI Networking
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)
Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Highest-paying jobs
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform
Platform Engineer
Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Fullstack Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Software Engineer, Systems & Platform Applied AI
Web Platform Lead Engineer
Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform
Software Engineer, Platform
Product Engineer, Studio Platform
Data Platform Engineer
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$142,400 | 59 |
Accenture Federal Services
|
$152,425 | 48 |
CACI
|
$168,100 | 30 |
GDIT
|
$148,000 | 21 |
Crusoe
|
$158,750 | 16 |
Leidos
|
$151,475 | 16 |
Northrop Grumman
|
$126,900 | 13 |
BMO
|
$141,450 | 10 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$126,800 | 81 |
|
Accenture Federal Services
|
$151,800 | 43 |
Anduril Industries
|
$222,000 | 32 |
|
CACI
|
$160,325 | 30 |
|
Leidos
|
$151,475 | 28 |
Elastic
|
$113,946 | 25 |
Coinbase
|
$202,483 | 22 |
Air Apps
|
$62,614 | 22 |
Cloud Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $212,000 | 49 |
| Seattle | $202,000 | 21 |
| Los Angeles | $175,000 | 21 |
| New York | $170,000 | 55 |
| Chicago | $167,500 | 22 |
| Boston | $165,000 | 25 |
| Austin | $162,050 | 20 |
| Berlin | $161,920 | 3 |
| Denver | $160,000 | 15 |
| London | $151,307 | 3 |
DevOps salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $228,700 | 301 |
| New York | $209,000 | 279 |
| Seattle | $201,500 | 125 |
| Boston | $185,000 | 63 |
| Los Angeles | $183,500 | 33 |
| Denver | $175,250 | 48 |
| Austin | $163,275 | 62 |
| Chicago | $160,000 | 82 |
| Atlanta | $153,300 | 34 |
| London | $150,839 | 31 |
Cloud Engineer vs DevOps: which pays more?
The median for Cloud Engineer is $154,625 per year (typically $126,750–$184,963), versus $175,000 for DevOps ($140,000–$213,125). That puts DevOps about 13% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Cloud Engineer and DevOps are compared on equal terms regardless of the currency each role was originally posted in. Only roles that publish a salary range feed the medians; numbers refresh every few hours as new roles post and older ones close, so this comparison reflects the market right now rather than a fixed survey. Use it as a directional benchmark when weighing one path against the other.