Cloud Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the Midlands is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 244 208
Rank change year-on-year +24 -36 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 104 81 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.89% 0.87% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.97% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 72 70 127
10th Percentile £37,875 £42,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £69,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £74,250
England median annual salary £62,783 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.99% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 11,062 8,311 10,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 89.66% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,270 4,658 7,067
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,925 £27,539
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,054
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +18 59 £60,000 +4.35% 8
East Midlands +9 45 £57,500 +17.95% 9
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 61 (58.65%) Azure
2 43 (41.35%) DevOps
3 29 (27.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (25.96%) Firewall
5 26 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 24 (23.08%) Terraform
6 24 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 23 (22.12%) Network Virtualisation
7 23 (22.12%) AWS
8 22 (21.15%) Docker
8 22 (21.15%) Linux
9 21 (20.19%) Windows
9 21 (20.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (19.23%) Windows Server
10 20 (19.23%) Kubernetes
11 19 (18.27%) Roadmaps
12 18 (17.31%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (17.31%) Technology Roadmap
12 18 (17.31%) PowerShell
13 17 (16.35%) Virtual Machines
13 17 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (16.35%) Bicep
14 16 (15.38%) Cloud Security
14 16 (15.38%) Git
15 15 (14.42%) Bash
15 15 (14.42%) Disaster Recovery
16 14 (13.46%) Active Directory
16 14 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
16 14 (13.46%) Agile
16 14 (13.46%) Hybrid Cloud

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 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (58.65%) Azure
2 23 (22.12%) AWS
3 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (10.58%) Azure Logic Apps
4 11 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (8.65%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.65%) SaaS
6 8 (7.69%) IaaS
6 8 (7.69%) PaaS
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (5.77%) Dropbox
7 6 (5.77%) Google Drive
7 6 (5.77%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.81%) Serverless
9 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.85%) OCI
10 3 (2.88%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 27 (25.96%) Firewall
2 8 (7.69%) Network Security
3 3 (2.88%) VLAN
4 2 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.92%) LAN
4 2 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.92%) MySQL
2 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (15.38%) Git
2 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.96%) GitLab
General
1 14 (13.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.81%) Finance
4 2 (1.92%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.92%) Law
5 1 (0.96%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.96%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.96%) LDAP
2 1 (0.96%) Middleware
2 1 (0.96%) Node.js
2 1 (0.96%) Spring
2 1 (0.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.77%) iPad
3 5 (4.81%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.88%) Replication
6 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.96%) IoT
7 1 (0.96%) PKI
7 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.15%) Linux
2 21 (20.19%) Windows
3 20 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.88%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.96%) CentOS
6 1 (0.96%) Debian
6 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (41.35%) DevOps
2 29 (27.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 23 (22.12%) Network Virtualisation
5 21 (20.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (18.27%) Roadmaps
7 18 (17.31%) Technical Leadership
7 18 (17.31%) Technology Roadmap
8 17 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (15.38%) Cloud Security
10 15 (14.42%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (13.46%) Agile
11 14 (13.46%) Containerisation
11 14 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (8.65%) Performance Monitoring
13 9 (8.65%) Scrum
14 8 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (7.69%) Identity Management
15 7 (6.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.31%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.35%) Bicep
3 15 (14.42%) Bash
4 8 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (1.92%) SQL
6 1 (0.96%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (1.92%) Degree
2 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) QA
2 6 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.92%) NCSC
4 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (21.15%) Docker
2 17 (16.35%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (13.46%) Active Directory
4 9 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (23.08%) Terraform
2 20 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.58%) Ansible
4 7 (6.73%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (3.85%) Grafana
5 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.88%) SCCM
7 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.65%) VMware
3 6 (5.77%) Google
4 4 (3.85%) Oracle
4 4 (3.85%) Splunk
5 3 (2.88%) Veeam
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco
6 1 (0.96%) NetApp