Cloud Engineer Jobs in the South West

Cloud Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the South West is £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 184 183
Rank change year-on-year -40 -1 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 69 85 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.75% 1.26% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.42% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 44 66 71
10th Percentile - £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,818 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,375 £77,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,625 £78,125 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 8,908 5,989 7,837
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.24% 89.07% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,530 3,737 5,143
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,275
25th Percentile £36,279 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,150 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -20 26 £59,526 -4.76% 12
Gloucestershire -30 14 £56,000 -13.85% 10
Cornwall -10 11 £40,000 +4.23% 4
Somerset - 7 £60,000 - 2
Dorset -22 6 £37,000 -17.78%
Wiltshire -5 5 £55,000 -42.11%
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (36.23%) Azure
2 23 (33.33%) AWS
3 20 (28.99%) Microsoft
4 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
4 19 (27.54%) Roadmaps
4 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (24.64%) Windows
6 16 (23.19%) Terraform
7 14 (20.29%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (20.29%) Python
8 13 (18.84%) Linux
8 13 (18.84%) SC Cleared
8 13 (18.84%) Technology Roadmap
8 13 (18.84%) Cloud Security
9 12 (17.39%) Oracle
10 11 (15.94%) Agile
10 11 (15.94%) Ansible
10 11 (15.94%) Docker
10 11 (15.94%) DevOps
10 11 (15.94%) CI/CD
10 11 (15.94%) OCI
11 10 (14.49%) Kubernetes
11 10 (14.49%) PaaS
11 10 (14.49%) Google
11 10 (14.49%) Configuration Management
12 9 (13.04%) Finance
12 9 (13.04%) GCP
13 8 (11.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (11.59%) Puppet
13 8 (11.59%) Microsoft 365

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.80%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (5.80%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (4.35%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.23%) Azure
2 23 (33.33%) AWS
3 11 (15.94%) OCI
4 10 (14.49%) PaaS
5 9 (13.04%) GCP
6 8 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (10.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (10.14%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (10.14%) IaaS
8 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.35%) Dropbox
9 3 (4.35%) GitHub
9 3 (4.35%) Google Drive
9 3 (4.35%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) Firewall
1 6 (8.70%) LAN
1 6 (8.70%) WAN
2 5 (7.25%) IPv4
2 5 (7.25%) VPN
3 4 (5.80%) DHCP
3 4 (5.80%) DNS
3 4 (5.80%) HTTP
3 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.35%) iSCSI
4 3 (4.35%) OSPF
4 3 (4.35%) VLAN
5 2 (2.90%) Wireless
6 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.45%) MySQL
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Git
1 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.45%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.45%) JMeter
2 1 (1.45%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (13.04%) Finance
2 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.90%) Local Government
8 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) SAML
2 4 (5.80%) HTML
2 4 (5.80%) OpenID
3 2 (2.90%) Kafka
4 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.80%) Cyberattack
4 3 (4.35%) iPad
4 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (24.64%) Windows
2 13 (18.84%) Linux
3 6 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.35%) SUSE
4 3 (4.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (4.35%) VMS
5 2 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
1 19 (27.54%) Roadmaps
2 14 (20.29%) Technical Leadership
3 13 (18.84%) Cloud Security
3 13 (18.84%) Technology Roadmap
4 11 (15.94%) Agile
4 11 (15.94%) CI/CD
4 11 (15.94%) DevOps
5 10 (14.49%) Configuration Management
6 6 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (8.70%) DevSecOps
6 6 (8.70%) Migration
7 5 (7.25%) Budget Management
7 5 (7.25%) Budgeting
7 5 (7.25%) Cost Management
7 5 (7.25%) Identity Management
7 5 (7.25%) Information Security
7 5 (7.25%) Task Automation
8 4 (5.80%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (5.80%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.29%) Python
2 7 (10.14%) Bash
2 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.80%) Go
3 4 (5.80%) Perl
4 3 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (1.45%) Groovy
5 1 (1.45%) Julia
5 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.25%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.80%) MCITP
6 4 (5.80%) MCSE
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Docker
2 8 (11.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 6 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.80%) XenApp
4 4 (5.80%) XenDesktop
5 3 (4.35%) Ceph
5 3 (4.35%) Gluster
5 3 (4.35%) KVM
5 3 (4.35%) oVirt
5 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Terraform
2 11 (15.94%) Ansible
3 10 (14.49%) Kubernetes
4 8 (11.59%) Puppet
5 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.80%) SCCM
7 3 (4.35%) Graylog
7 3 (4.35%) Observium
7 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.35%) ZABBIX
8 2 (2.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (28.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.39%) Oracle
3 10 (14.49%) Google
4 6 (8.70%) VMware
5 4 (5.80%) Cisco
5 4 (5.80%) Citrix
5 4 (5.80%) Dell
5 4 (5.80%) HP
5 4 (5.80%) Symantec
6 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk
6 1 (1.45%) Twitter