Public Cloud Job Trends in the Midlands

Public Cloud
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 218 238
Rank change year-on-year -29 +20 -41
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 20 12 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.21% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.50% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 32
10th Percentile £59,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,375 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £64,375
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +16.50% -4.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,125 £71,250
90th Percentile - £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% +10.29% -10.13%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,144 2,424 2,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.11% 42.71% 27.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,069 1,233 1,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the Midlands

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 September 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 -17 18 £77,500 +8.77% 25
East Midlands -37 1 - - 11
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) PaaS
3 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 2 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.00%) VLAN
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Big Data
1 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
1 4 (20.00%) QlikView
1 4 (20.00%) Redis
1 4 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Digital Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Principal Architect
5 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.00%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Product Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (20.00%) RESTful
1 4 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 4 (20.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) AI
3 6 (30.00%) Coaching
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Analytics
4 5 (25.00%) Project Management
5 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (20.00%) Data Management
5 4 (20.00%) Data Security
5 4 (20.00%) Deep Learning
5 4 (20.00%) ERP
5 4 (20.00%) ETL
5 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (25.00%) Workday
2 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 4 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Meraki