Cloud Computing Job Trends in the Midlands

Cloud Computing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 195 258
Rank change year-on-year -39 +63 -10
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 30 38 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.21% 0.66% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 2.14% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 14 31 34
10th Percentile £24,838 - £32,375
25th Percentile £26,750 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £15,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -73.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £41,250 £62,113 £63,250
90th Percentile - £68,750 £74,725
England median annual salary £49,500 £67,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.89% -12.96%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,366 1,775 3,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.96% 31.05% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,215 1,433 2,371
10th Percentile £30,100 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. 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
West Midlands -33 28 £37,500 +150.00% 15
East Midlands -30 2 £31,875 -12.68% 9
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (26.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DHCP
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
1 8 (26.67%) Manufacturing
1 8 (26.67%) Retail
2 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Trainee
2 20 (66.67%) IT Support
3 15 (50.00%) Trainee IT Support
4 13 (43.33%) IT Assistant
4 13 (43.33%) IT Support Assistant
4 13 (43.33%) Support Assistant
5 7 (23.33%) IT Support Technician
5 7 (23.33%) IT Technician
5 7 (23.33%) Support Technician
6 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 6 (20.00%) Programmer
6 6 (20.00%) Trainee IT Technician
6 6 (20.00%) Trainee Programmer
6 6 (20.00%) Trainee Technician
7 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Junior
7 2 (6.67%) Junior Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Graduate
8 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Hugging Face
1 8 (26.67%) Matplotlib
1 8 (26.67%) NumPy
1 8 (26.67%) Pandas
1 8 (26.67%) scikit-learn
1 8 (26.67%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) NHS
2 8 (26.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 18 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (30.00%) AI
3 8 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Conversational UI
3 8 (26.67%) Customer Service
3 8 (26.67%) Data Privacy
3 8 (26.67%) LLM
3 8 (26.67%) Machine Learning
3 8 (26.67%) Neural Network
3 8 (26.67%) OO
3 8 (26.67%) OOP
3 8 (26.67%) Prompt Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 8 (26.67%) Sentiment Analysis
3 8 (26.67%) Visualisation
3 8 (26.67%) Workflow
4 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) Postgraduate
2 8 (26.67%) AWS Certification
2 8 (26.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Firmware
2 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco
2 1 (3.33%) VMware