Public Cloud Job Trends in Birmingham

Public Cloud
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 118 77
Rank change year-on-year +34 -41 +16
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 15 11 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.88% 0.58% 1.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.34% 1.73% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 14
10th Percentile £54,375 £51,196 £54,668
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,809 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,206 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -23.49% +39.13%
75th Percentile £109,375 £66,193 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £70,750 -
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £66,389 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.44% +2.14% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 449 635 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.21% 33.65% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 306 257 417
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,408
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -5.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,625 £82,748 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -2.86%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in Birmingham

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (13.33%) DSL
2 2 (13.33%) MPLS
2 2 (13.33%) NGN
2 2 (13.33%) PBX
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) BGP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) OSPF
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
3 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Back Office
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Account Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Head of IT
3 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) FMCG
2 2 (13.33%) Low-Code
2 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (53.33%) AI
2 8 (53.33%) Client Onboarding
2 8 (53.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 8 (53.33%) FinOps
2 8 (53.33%) Software Licensing
3 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (13.33%) Data Management
3 2 (13.33%) Data Strategy
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Enablement
3 2 (13.33%) Intelligent Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL
4 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Presales
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Adobe
1 8 (53.33%) Apple
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Meraki