Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 160 147
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 27 38 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.51% 0.92% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.98% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21 21 21
10th Percentile £46,750 - £36,250
25th Percentile - £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,196 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -10.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £65,886 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -2.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 4,766 3,874 3,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 93.35% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,761 1,845 2,938
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 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 +22 15 £50,000 -2.34% 5
Shropshire - 4 £50,000 -
Staffordshire -11 3 - -
Coventry - 2 £67,500 -
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (48.15%) AWS
2 13 (48.15%) Azure
3 8 (29.63%) DevOps
4 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
4 7 (25.93%) Terraform
5 6 (22.22%) Serverless
6 5 (18.52%) DNS
6 5 (18.52%) Firewall
6 5 (18.52%) IaaS
6 5 (18.52%) PaaS
7 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
7 4 (14.81%) GCP
7 4 (14.81%) Google
7 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (11.11%) Ansible
8 3 (11.11%) AWS CDK
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 3 (11.11%) Datadog

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) AWS
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Serverless
3 5 (18.52%) IaaS
3 5 (18.52%) PaaS
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (11.11%) Datadog
5 3 (11.11%) SaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
1 5 (18.52%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) GitLab
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (18.52%) Banking
1 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
2 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Advertising
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 3 (11.11%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (7.41%) Agile
6 2 (7.41%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security
6 2 (7.41%) Coaching
6 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (3.70%) API Management
7 1 (3.70%) Data Engineering
7 1 (3.70%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.70%) Python
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) SLA
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Google
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 3 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) OpenAI