Cloud Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the Midlands is £46,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 205 250
Rank change year-on-year -34 +45 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 21 105 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.89% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.95% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 18 73 69
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £41,938 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,783 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.50% -6.99% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 6,562 11,105 8,444
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 94.32% 89.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,827 8,295 4,715
10th Percentile £27,331 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,887 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
West Midlands 0 13 £50,000 -16.67% 19
East Midlands +1 8 £32,500 -43.48% 7
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 14 (66.67%) Azure
3 13 (61.90%) Windows Server
4 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
5 11 (52.38%) PowerShell
6 10 (47.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (47.62%) Azure Certification
7 9 (42.86%) IaaS
7 9 (42.86%) DevOps
8 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (38.10%) PaaS
8 8 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (33.33%) Firewall
9 7 (33.33%) VPN
9 7 (33.33%) AWS
9 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (33.33%) Entra ID
9 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
9 7 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
10 6 (28.57%) Cost Management
10 6 (28.57%) SD-WAN
10 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (28.57%) WAN
10 6 (28.57%) Identity Management
10 6 (28.57%) Migration
11 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (23.81%) VMware
11 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) IaaS
3 8 (38.10%) PaaS
4 7 (33.33%) AWS
4 7 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (19.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (19.05%) Route 53
8 3 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (9.52%) GCP
9 2 (9.52%) SaaS
10 1 (4.76%) GitHub
10 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
10 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
1 7 (33.33%) VPN
2 6 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 6 (28.57%) WAN
3 4 (19.05%) HTTPS
3 4 (19.05%) VLAN
4 2 (9.52%) LAN
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security
4 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 10 (47.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (19.05%) Advertising
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Police
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 13 (61.90%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (28.57%) Cost Management
4 6 (28.57%) Identity Management
4 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
4 6 (28.57%) Migration
5 5 (23.81%) Load Balancing
6 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (19.05%) Privileged Identity Management
6 4 (19.05%) Proactive Management
6 4 (19.05%) Problem Management
6 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
6 4 (19.05%) Threat Management
6 4 (19.05%) Zero Trust
7 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Azure Certification
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
2 4 (19.05%) CCNA
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (19.05%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) Docker
4 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) ConnectWise
3 1 (4.76%) Google