Cloud Engineer Jobs in the South West

Cloud Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the South West is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 175 175
Rank change year-on-year -48 0 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 68 105 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.75% 1.48% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.66% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43 82 73
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £48,091 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £77,750 -
England median annual salary £62,783 £65,956 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.81% +1.47% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,760 6,334 7,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.12% 89.34% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,432 3,910 5,108
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,918 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +3.84% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Bristol -19 28 £59,526 - 10
Gloucestershire -34 13 £56,000 -13.85% 4
Cornwall -2 10 £40,000 +4.23% 2
Wiltshire 0 7 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Somerset - 7 £60,000 - 2
Dorset -25 3 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (30.88%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) AWS
3 18 (26.47%) Roadmaps
3 18 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
4 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 15 (22.06%) Terraform
6 14 (20.59%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (20.59%) Cloud Security
6 14 (20.59%) Windows
6 14 (20.59%) Python
7 13 (19.12%) Agile
7 13 (19.12%) Docker
7 13 (19.12%) Technology Roadmap
8 12 (17.65%) Kubernetes
8 12 (17.65%) Linux
9 11 (16.18%) Oracle
9 11 (16.18%) Finance
9 11 (16.18%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (14.71%) PaaS
10 10 (14.71%) DevOps
10 10 (14.71%) Configuration Management
10 10 (14.71%) CI/CD
10 10 (14.71%) OCI
11 9 (13.24%) Ansible
12 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
12 8 (11.76%) Puppet
12 8 (11.76%) AWS Certification
12 8 (11.76%) GCP
12 8 (11.76%) Migration

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.41%) CloudStack
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.88%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) AWS
3 11 (16.18%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (14.71%) OCI
4 10 (14.71%) PaaS
5 8 (11.76%) GCP
6 7 (10.29%) IaaS
7 6 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.41%) Dropbox
10 3 (4.41%) GitHub
10 3 (4.41%) Google Drive
10 3 (4.41%) OneDrive
11 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) IPv4
1 5 (7.35%) VPN
2 4 (5.88%) DHCP
2 4 (5.88%) DNS
2 4 (5.88%) Firewall
2 4 (5.88%) HTTP
2 4 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.41%) iSCSI
3 3 (4.41%) LAN
3 3 (4.41%) OSPF
3 3 (4.41%) VLAN
3 3 (4.41%) WAN
4 2 (2.94%) Wireless
5 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (16.18%) Finance
2 8 (11.76%) Banking
2 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.41%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Local Government
6 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) SAML
2 4 (5.88%) HTML
2 4 (5.88%) Kafka
2 4 (5.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (10.29%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.88%) Cyberattack
4 4 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.41%) iPad
6 1 (1.47%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Windows
2 12 (17.65%) Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.41%) SUSE
3 3 (4.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (4.41%) VMS
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
1 18 (26.47%) Roadmaps
2 14 (20.59%) Cloud Security
2 14 (20.59%) Technical Leadership
3 13 (19.12%) Agile
3 13 (19.12%) Technology Roadmap
4 10 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 10 (14.71%) Configuration Management
4 10 (14.71%) DevOps
5 8 (11.76%) Migration
6 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (8.82%) DevSecOps
7 5 (7.35%) Budget Management
7 5 (7.35%) Budgeting
7 5 (7.35%) Containerisation
7 5 (7.35%) Cost Management
7 5 (7.35%) Identity Management
7 5 (7.35%) Information Security
7 5 (7.35%) Task Automation
8 4 (5.88%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) Python
2 6 (8.82%) Bash
2 6 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.35%) Java
4 4 (5.88%) Go
4 4 (5.88%) Perl
5 1 (1.47%) Groovy
5 1 (1.47%) Julia
5 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.94%) MCSE
5 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Degree
6 1 (1.47%) MCITP
6 1 (1.47%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.41%) Ceph
3 3 (4.41%) Gluster
3 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.41%) KVM
3 3 (4.41%) oVirt
3 3 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.47%) XenApp
5 1 (1.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (22.06%) Terraform
2 12 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.24%) Ansible
4 8 (11.76%) Puppet
5 3 (4.41%) Graylog
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.41%) Observium
5 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.41%) ZABBIX
6 2 (2.94%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Oracle
3 7 (10.29%) Google
4 3 (4.41%) VMware
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) Citrix
5 1 (1.47%) Dell
5 1 (1.47%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.47%) HP
5 1 (1.47%) Symantec
5 1 (1.47%) Twitter