Cloud Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the Midlands is £46,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 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
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 216 235
Rank change year-on-year -29 +19 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 17 108 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.25% 0.87% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.93% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 15 76 70
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £42,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £52,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £76,625
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 6,318 11,669 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.52% 89.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,603 8,595 4,557
10th Percentile £26,550 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £52,550 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.52% -13.57% +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 24 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 24 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 +2 10 £46,750 -22.08% 108
East Midlands -10 7 £32,500 -43.48% 73
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 12 (70.59%) Windows Server
3 11 (64.71%) Azure
4 10 (58.82%) PowerShell
4 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
4 10 (58.82%) Azure Certification
5 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (41.18%) IaaS
6 7 (41.18%) AWS
6 7 (41.18%) DevOps
7 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
7 6 (35.29%) PaaS
7 6 (35.29%) VPN
7 6 (35.29%) WAN
7 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (35.29%) Firewall
7 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
7 6 (35.29%) Migration
7 6 (35.29%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (35.29%) Cost Management
7 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
7 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (35.29%) SD-WAN
8 5 (29.41%) Terraform
8 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
9 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
9 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune

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 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) IaaS
3 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
3 6 (35.29%) PaaS
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (23.53%) Route 53
5 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
1 6 (35.29%) SD-WAN
1 6 (35.29%) VPN
1 6 (35.29%) WAN
2 4 (23.53%) HTTPS
2 4 (23.53%) VLAN
3 2 (11.76%) LAN
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (23.53%) Advertising
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
1 12 (70.59%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Cost Management
2 6 (35.29%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (35.29%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
4 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (23.53%) Privileged Identity Management
4 4 (23.53%) Proactive Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
4 4 (23.53%) Security Operations
4 4 (23.53%) Threat Management
4 4 (23.53%) Zero Trust
5 3 (17.65%) High Availability
5 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Azure Certification
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 4 (23.53%) CCNA
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) ConnectWise
3 1 (5.88%) Google