Cloud Operations Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 185 178
Rank change year-on-year +23 -7 +102
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Operations 12 13 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.34% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 6
10th Percentile - £45,875 £39,190
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,563 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £46,000 £55,313 £75,625
90th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £86,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,125 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +13.54% -8.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,323 3,783 3,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.09% 91.51% 87.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 1,682 2,769
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,719 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cloud Operations
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Cloud Operations
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 Operations within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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 +28 9 £44,000 -12.00%
Shropshire - 2 £50,000 -
Warwickshire +23 1 - -
Cloud Operations
England

Cloud Operations
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 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) SaaS
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Support Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
1 9 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 9 (75.00%) Migration
2 9 (75.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security
3 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (8.33%) SIEM
3 1 (8.33%) SOAR
3 1 (8.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk