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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 192 134
Rank change year-on-year +177 -58 +105
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 660 24 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 14.14% 0.48% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.97% 1.57% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 32
10th Percentile £15,000 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £25,938 £63,485 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £69,308 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +113.25% -33.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,072 £68,013
90th Percentile £68,125 £90,000 £78,625
England median annual salary £52,500 £69,654 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.63% +16.09% -20.00%

All Cloud 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 1,738 1,531 1,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.22% 30.71% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 853 915 1,125
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,840 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 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
Staffordshire - 184 £65,000 -
Warwickshire +76 159 - -
Worcestershire +29 112 £15,000 -
Birmingham +54 32 - - 2
Shropshire +12 28 - -
Wolverhampton - 11 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 10 - -
Coventry +8 6 - -
Solihull +3 6 - -
Stourbridge - 6 - -
Tipton - 6 - -
Walsall - 6 - -
Wednesbury - 6 - -
Dudley - 6 - -
Halesowen - 6 - -
Kingswinford - 6 - -
Brierley Hill - 6 - -
Bilston - 6 - -
Smethwick - 6 - -
Rowley Regis - 5 - -
West Bromwich - 5 - -
Willenhall - 4 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (0.61%) Azure
1 4 (0.61%) GCP
2 2 (0.30%) AWS
2 2 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 653 (98.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.15%) MongoDB
General
1 657 (99.55%) Social Skills
2 653 (98.94%) Banking
2 653 (98.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (0.30%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (0.30%) Law
3 2 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 458 (69.39%) Lecturer
2 2 (0.30%) Architect
2 2 (0.30%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (0.30%) IT Support
2 2 (0.30%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.15%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (0.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (0.15%) Consultant
3 1 (0.15%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (0.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (0.15%) Sales Consultant
3 1 (0.15%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (0.15%) Technical Sales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.30%) OAuth
1 2 (0.30%) SAML
2 1 (0.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 653 (98.94%) IoT
2 2 (0.30%) EPoS
2 2 (0.30%) Onboarding
2 2 (0.30%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (0.15%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.15%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (99.55%) Cybersecurity
2 653 (98.94%) AI
2 653 (98.94%) Machine Learning
2 653 (98.94%) User Experience
2 653 (98.94%) Web Development
3 5 (0.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (0.30%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (0.30%) Computer Science
4 2 (0.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (0.30%) DevOps
4 2 (0.30%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (0.30%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (0.30%) Information Assurance
4 2 (0.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (0.30%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (0.30%) ITIL
4 2 (0.30%) Mathematics
4 2 (0.30%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (0.30%) Software Testing
4 2 (0.30%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.15%) C#
1 1 (0.15%) Python
1 1 (0.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 655 (99.24%) Degree
2 653 (98.94%) Master's Degree
2 653 (98.94%) PhD
2 653 (98.94%) Postgraduate
3 3 (0.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (0.30%) CCSP
4 2 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.30%) CISSP
4 2 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (0.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.30%) Ansible
1 2 (0.30%) Terraform
2 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes