Cloud Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Cloud Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Cloud Engineer salary in South Wales is £50,685 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 April 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 99 109
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 16 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.13% 0.79% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 0.88% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 4
10th Percentile - - £37,225
25th Percentile £48,829 £40,000 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,685 £51,104 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% +22.40% -12.11%
75th Percentile £54,375 £77,500 £47,813
90th Percentile £57,500 £79,000 £55,125
Wales median annual salary £50,685 £45,875 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.48% -8.25% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,278 1,017 1,391
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 89.21% 97.27%
Number of salaries quoted 845 581 874
10th Percentile £27,081 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,029 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,925
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +10.47%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in South Wales

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in South Wales.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in South Wales

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
Cardiff +7 12 £50,685 -15.53% 2
Bridgend - 3 £52,500 - 2
Newport +3 1 £60,000 +17.41% 1
Cloud Engineer
Wales

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 20 April 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 South Wales region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Azure
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Puppet
2 6 (37.50%) Ansible
2 6 (37.50%) Identity Management
2 6 (37.50%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) Oracle
3 5 (31.25%) OCI
4 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (18.75%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 3 (18.75%) Power BI
6 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (12.50%) REST
6 2 (12.50%) Git
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Agile
7 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
7 1 (6.25%) Life Science
7 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
7 1 (6.25%) Games
7 1 (6.25%) Workflow
7 1 (6.25%) Windows
7 1 (6.25%) VPN

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) OCI
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Life Science
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Identity Management
1 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (6.25%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
5 1 (6.25%) Visualisation
5 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Ansible
2 6 (37.50%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft