Cloud Computing Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 147 192
Rank change year-on-year -31 +45 -25
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 36 22 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.40% 0.68% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.10% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5 21 11
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile £24,500 - £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £15,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -77.78% +26.76%
75th Percentile £30,000 £66,250 £82,072
90th Percentile £42,600 £67,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.95% -4.40% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,009 1,050 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.20% 32.56% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,449 846 1,019
10th Percentile £33,530 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% +8.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +1.56%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the West Midlands

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Birmingham -5 31 £27,500 -48.55% 8
Coventry - 3 - - 1
Shropshire -20 2 - - 5
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (5.56%) DHCP
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) LAN
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
2 2 (5.56%) WAN
2 2 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
General
1 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Banking
2 2 (5.56%) Retail
2 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (77.78%) IT Support
2 26 (72.22%) Trainee
3 21 (58.33%) IT Assistant
3 21 (58.33%) IT Support Assistant
3 21 (58.33%) Support Assistant
3 21 (58.33%) Trainee IT Support
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) IT Support Technician
5 4 (11.11%) IT Technician
5 4 (11.11%) Support Technician
5 4 (11.11%) Trainee IT Technician
5 4 (11.11%) Trainee Technician
6 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Graduate
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) NHS
2 5 (13.89%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) Cloud Security
2 24 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.89%) Cloud Operations
4 5 (13.89%) Configuration Management
4 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
4 5 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) Continuous Deployment
4 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (13.89%) DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) DevSecOps
4 5 (13.89%) Incident Management
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (13.89%) SDLC
4 5 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (13.89%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) Postgraduate
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) YouTube