Cloud Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 214 248
Rank change year-on-year +24 +34 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 123 73 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.06% 0.96% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.07% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 97 61 114
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +1.29%
75th Percentile £68,000 £62,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +3.17%

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 10,958 6,838 11,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 90.04% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,238 4,339 7,425
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,004 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 66 £65,000 +18.18% 7
East Midlands +6 57 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 72 (58.54%) Azure
2 39 (31.71%) DevOps
2 39 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 36 (29.27%) Terraform
4 31 (25.20%) Docker
4 31 (25.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (24.39%) AWS
5 30 (24.39%) Microsoft
6 29 (23.58%) CI/CD
7 27 (21.95%) Kubernetes
8 19 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (15.45%) Agile
9 18 (14.63%) Windows
9 18 (14.63%) Linux
9 18 (14.63%) Firewall
9 18 (14.63%) SaaS
9 18 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (13.82%) PowerShell
10 17 (13.82%) Bicep
11 16 (13.01%) Windows Server
11 16 (13.01%) Finance
12 15 (12.20%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.38%) Cloud Security
13 14 (11.38%) Network Virtualisation
13 14 (11.38%) Git
14 13 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.57%) Social Skills
15 12 (9.76%) Infrastructure Automation
15 12 (9.76%) Ansible
16 11 (8.94%) Analytics

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 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 72 (58.54%) Azure
2 30 (24.39%) AWS
3 18 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (14.63%) SaaS
4 11 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.50%) IaaS
5 8 (6.50%) PaaS
6 6 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (4.88%) Dropbox
6 6 (4.88%) Google Drive
6 6 (4.88%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.07%) Serverless
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.25%) OCI
9 3 (2.44%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.63%) Firewall
2 6 (4.88%) Network Security
3 3 (2.44%) VLAN
4 2 (1.63%) LAN
4 2 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.63%) MySQL
3 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (11.38%) Git
2 1 (0.81%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.81%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.81%) sqlmap
General
1 16 (13.01%) Finance
2 13 (10.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.44%) Automotive
6 2 (1.63%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.63%) Law
6 2 (1.63%) Legal
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.07%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.81%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.81%) JSON
2 1 (0.81%) LDAP
2 1 (0.81%) Middleware
2 1 (0.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (4.88%) iPad
3 5 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.44%) Replication
5 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) PKI
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.63%) Linux
1 18 (14.63%) Windows
2 16 (13.01%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (2.44%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.81%) CentOS
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.71%) DevOps
1 39 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (25.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (23.58%) CI/CD
4 19 (15.45%) Agile
4 19 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (12.20%) Containerisation
6 14 (11.38%) Cloud Security
6 14 (11.38%) Network Virtualisation
7 13 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (9.76%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (8.94%) Analytics
9 11 (8.94%) Roadmaps
10 10 (8.13%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (8.13%) Open Source
10 10 (8.13%) Scrum
10 10 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (8.13%) Technology Roadmap
11 9 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.32%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.82%) Bicep
1 17 (13.82%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.94%) Bash
3 7 (5.69%) Python
4 2 (1.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.07%) Degree
2 4 (3.25%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.63%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.13%) QA
2 7 (5.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (25.20%) Docker
2 10 (8.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.50%) Hyper-V
3 8 (6.50%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.69%) XenApp
4 7 (5.69%) XenDesktop
5 3 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (29.27%) Terraform
2 27 (21.95%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.76%) Ansible
4 9 (7.32%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (7.32%) Grafana
4 9 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.25%) SCCM
7 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.81%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.13%) VMware
3 9 (7.32%) Splunk
4 7 (5.69%) Citrix
5 6 (4.88%) Google
6 4 (3.25%) Oracle
7 3 (2.44%) Veeam
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco
8 1 (0.81%) NetApp