Cloud Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Birmingham is £46,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 126 126
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 7 22 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.48% 0.81% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.85% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 15
10th Percentile £42,900 £35,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £48,375 £82,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £50,250 - £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,382 2,575 1,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 94.32% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 801 2,103 1,426
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,994 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Birmingham

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Cost Optimisation
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
3 4 (57.14%) Cost Management
3 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (57.14%) Route 53
3 4 (57.14%) Load Balancing
3 4 (57.14%) Problem Management
3 4 (57.14%) VLAN
3 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (57.14%) HTTPS
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) Identity Management
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (57.14%) Route 53
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) HTTPS
1 4 (57.14%) SD-WAN
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (57.14%) Cost Management
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) Identity Management
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (57.14%) Load Balancing
2 4 (57.14%) Privileged Identity Management
2 4 (57.14%) Proactive Management
2 4 (57.14%) Problem Management
2 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
2 4 (57.14%) Threat Management
2 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (57.14%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ConnectWise
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) VMware