Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £52,375 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 128 94
Rank change year-on-year -6 -34 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 12 44 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.52% 1.12% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.18% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10 33 17
10th Percentile - £51,500 £45,463
25th Percentile £31,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,375 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.35% -0.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,152 3,736 1,641
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 94.73% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 2,033 1,138
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,750 £60,000 £63,938
90th Percentile £72,250 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the East Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the East Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +17 6 £32,500 -45.83% 1
Lincolnshire - 3 £55,000 - 1
Nottinghamshire +2 2 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Derbyshire -14 1 £49,750 -13.48% 2
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 East Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (33.33%) CCNA
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Cloudera
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) Go
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) Docker
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Agile
1 2 (16.67%) Analytics
1 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
1 2 (16.67%) DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) ERP
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (16.67%) Observability
1 2 (16.67%) SDLC
1 2 (16.67%) TDD
1 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL
2 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Go
1 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCNA
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (16.67%) Cloudera