Cloud Engineer Jobs in the South West

Cloud Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the South West is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 186 176
Rank change year-on-year -37 -10 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 77 81 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.78% 1.23% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.38% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 51 59 79
10th Percentile - £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,550 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £65,978 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.84% +1.50% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 9,502 5,869 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.14% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,957 3,670 5,129
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £36,365 £37,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Bristol -19 28 £59,526 -4.76% 4
Cornwall +2 15 £40,000 -14.44% 1
Gloucestershire -38 12 £56,000 -18.55% 8
Somerset +5 7 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Dorset -23 6 £37,000 -40.80% 2
Wiltshire -9 5 £55,000 -42.11% 1
Devon -12 4 £77,500 +158.33% 6
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 South West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (41.56%) Azure
2 27 (35.06%) Microsoft
3 25 (32.47%) AWS
4 20 (25.97%) Windows
5 18 (23.38%) Security Cleared
6 17 (22.08%) Linux
6 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (20.78%) Terraform
7 16 (20.78%) SC Cleared
7 16 (20.78%) Ansible
8 14 (18.18%) DevOps
9 13 (16.88%) Docker
9 13 (16.88%) Oracle
9 13 (16.88%) Roadmaps
10 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
10 12 (15.58%) Python
10 12 (15.58%) Configuration Management
11 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
11 10 (12.99%) OCI
12 9 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (11.69%) Agile
12 9 (11.69%) Google
12 9 (11.69%) Active Directory
12 9 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (11.69%) PowerShell
13 8 (10.39%) Bash
13 8 (10.39%) Puppet
13 8 (10.39%) Technology Roadmap
13 8 (10.39%) GCP
13 8 (10.39%) Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (7.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.19%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (5.19%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (3.90%) CloudStack
4 1 (1.30%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 32 (41.56%) Azure
2 25 (32.47%) AWS
3 10 (12.99%) OCI
4 9 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (10.39%) GCP
6 7 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (9.09%) PaaS
7 6 (7.79%) IaaS
8 5 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.90%) Dropbox
10 3 (3.90%) Google Drive
10 3 (3.90%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.90%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.60%) GitHub
11 2 (2.60%) SaaS
12 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) LAN
1 7 (9.09%) WAN
2 6 (7.79%) Firewall
3 5 (6.49%) IPv4
3 5 (6.49%) VPN
4 3 (3.90%) iSCSI
4 3 (3.90%) OSPF
4 3 (3.90%) VLAN
5 2 (2.60%) Wireless
6 1 (1.30%) DHCP
6 1 (1.30%) DNS
6 1 (1.30%) MPLS
6 1 (1.30%) Network Security
6 1 (1.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.90%) MySQL
2 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.19%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.90%) Eclipse
3 3 (3.90%) JMeter
3 3 (3.90%) Robot Framework
3 3 (3.90%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (7.79%) Aerospace
1 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.49%) Banking
3 4 (5.19%) Finance
4 3 (3.90%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.60%) Local Government
5 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Advertising
6 1 (1.30%) Aviation
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.60%) Kafka
2 2 (2.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.90%) iPad
3 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.30%) Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.97%) Windows
2 17 (22.08%) Linux
3 7 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.19%) VMS
5 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.90%) SUSE
5 3 (3.90%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.60%) Unix
7 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (18.18%) DevOps
3 13 (16.88%) Roadmaps
4 12 (15.58%) Configuration Management
5 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
6 9 (11.69%) Agile
6 9 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (10.39%) Technology Roadmap
8 7 (9.09%) Cloud Security
8 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (7.79%) Migration
10 5 (6.49%) Containerisation
10 5 (6.49%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (6.49%) Task Automation
11 4 (5.19%) Cloud Operations
11 4 (5.19%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (5.19%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (5.19%) Mobile Device Management
11 4 (5.19%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.58%) Python
2 9 (11.69%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.39%) Bash
4 4 (5.19%) Go
5 3 (3.90%) Java
5 3 (3.90%) Perl
6 1 (1.30%) Bicep
6 1 (1.30%) Groovy
6 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.19%) MCITP
4 4 (5.19%) MCSE
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.60%) Degree
6 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
2 9 (11.69%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 7 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.19%) XenApp
4 4 (5.19%) XenDesktop
5 3 (3.90%) Ceph
5 3 (3.90%) Gluster
5 3 (3.90%) KVM
5 3 (3.90%) oVirt
5 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (20.78%) Ansible
1 16 (20.78%) Terraform
2 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.39%) Puppet
4 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.49%) SCCM
6 3 (3.90%) Graylog
6 3 (3.90%) Observium
6 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.90%) ZABBIX
7 2 (2.60%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.30%) SCOM
8 1 (1.30%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 27 (35.06%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.88%) Oracle
3 9 (11.69%) Google
4 7 (9.09%) VMware
5 5 (6.49%) Dell
5 5 (6.49%) HP
6 4 (5.19%) Cisco
6 4 (5.19%) Citrix
6 4 (5.19%) Symantec
7 3 (3.90%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.90%) Splunk
8 1 (1.30%) Commvault
8 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.30%) Sophos
8 1 (1.30%) Twitter
8 1 (1.30%) Veeam