Cloud Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 220 174
Rank change year-on-year +20 -46 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 60 59 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.83% 0.87% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.97% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 41 54 90
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,954 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% -0.08% -5.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,050 £77,500
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,806 6,079 6,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.99% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 3,364 4,759
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,912 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the West Midlands

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer 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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
Birmingham 0 23 £58,750 +6.82% 2
Staffordshire -12 15 £55,000 +2.33%
Warwickshire +58 9 £65,000 - 1
Coventry +35 4 £60,000 -4.00% 2
Herefordshire - 1 £45,000 - 1
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 West Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (65.00%) Azure
2 24 (40.00%) DevOps
3 20 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 18 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 17 (28.33%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (25.00%) Windows
7 15 (25.00%) Terraform
8 14 (23.33%) Windows Server
8 14 (23.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (20.00%) Active Directory
9 12 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (18.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (18.33%) Linux
10 11 (18.33%) Firewall
10 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
11 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 10 (16.67%) Bicep
12 9 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
12 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security
12 9 (15.00%) Entra ID
12 9 (15.00%) Performance Monitoring
12 9 (15.00%) PaaS
12 9 (15.00%) Bash
13 8 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (13.33%) Identity Management
13 8 (13.33%) IaaS

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (65.00%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 9 (15.00%) PaaS
5 8 (13.33%) IaaS
6 6 (10.00%) AWS
6 6 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (8.33%) Serverless
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.67%) OCI
9 3 (5.00%) Dropbox
9 3 (5.00%) Google Drive
9 3 (5.00%) OneDrive
9 3 (5.00%) SaaS
10 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.33%) MySQL
1 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
General
1 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Law
4 1 (1.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.67%) LDAP
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) Node.js
2 1 (1.67%) Spring
2 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Replication
3 3 (5.00%) iPad
4 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.67%) Clustering
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.00%) Windows
2 14 (23.33%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.33%) Linux
4 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.67%) CentOS
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) DevOps
2 18 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 16 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security
7 9 (15.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 9 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
8 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (13.33%) Identity Management
9 6 (10.00%) Business Strategy
9 6 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (6.67%) Fintech
10 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.67%) Bicep
3 9 (15.00%) Bash
4 3 (5.00%) SQL
5 1 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.67%) QA
1 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (28.33%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.67%) Docker
4 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) Ansible
3 3 (5.00%) SCCM
4 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) VMware
3 4 (6.67%) Oracle
4 3 (5.00%) Google
4 3 (5.00%) Veeam
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) NetApp