Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 208 183
Rank change year-on-year +9 -25 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 39 36 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.44% 0.61% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.65% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 29 21 70
10th Percentile £46,650 £41,250 £48,628
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,886 £63,938
90th Percentile £77,000 £70,000 £66,025
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -5.99%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 8,021 5,525 7,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 93.11% 93.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,925 2,608 6,428
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies 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 16 February 2026.

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 16 February 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 +15 29 £50,000 -4.30% 6
East Midlands -8 9 £65,000 +23.81% 3
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 February 2026, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (33.33%) DevOps
4 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 12 (30.77%) Terraform
5 8 (20.51%) PaaS
6 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.95%) GCP
6 7 (17.95%) Serverless
7 6 (15.38%) Agile
7 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (15.38%) Firewall
7 6 (15.38%) IaaS
7 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (12.82%) Ansible
8 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
8 5 (12.82%) DNS
8 5 (12.82%) Docker
8 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
8 5 (12.82%) GitLab
8 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
8 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (51.28%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) PaaS
4 7 (17.95%) GCP
4 7 (17.95%) Serverless
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (15.38%) IaaS
6 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
6 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (7.69%) Datadog
8 3 (7.69%) SaaS
9 2 (5.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Firewall
2 5 (12.82%) DNS
3 3 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) GitLab
2 3 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (12.82%) Banking
1 5 (12.82%) Investment Banking
2 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Automotive
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Advertising
4 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (33.33%) DevOps
3 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.38%) Agile
5 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
7 3 (7.69%) Analytics
7 3 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (7.69%) Incident Management
7 3 (7.69%) ITIL
7 3 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.13%) Architecture Roadmap
8 2 (5.13%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (5.13%) Coaching
8 2 (5.13%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (5.13%) Observability
8 2 (5.13%) SDLC
8 2 (5.13%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (5.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) Go
2 2 (5.13%) Java
2 2 (5.13%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) Bash
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) SLA
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.69%) VMware
4 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.56%) OpenAI