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 17 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
17 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 205 189
Rank change year-on-year +16 -16 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 59 58 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.93% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.03% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 40 54 88
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,050 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.99% +3.85% +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 7,036 5,639 6,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.14% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 3,228 4,778
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +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 17 May 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 17 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
Birmingham -4 21 £61,250 +8.89% 5
Staffordshire -15 15 £55,000 +2.33%
Warwickshire +48 9 £65,000 - 2
Coventry +29 4 £60,000 -4.00% 1
Solihull 0 1 £75,000 +2.04% 1
Herefordshire - 1 £45,000 -
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 West Midlands region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (64.41%) Azure
2 24 (40.68%) DevOps
3 20 (33.90%) Microsoft
4 18 (30.51%) Network Virtualisation
5 17 (28.81%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (25.42%) Terraform
6 15 (25.42%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (25.42%) Windows
7 14 (23.73%) Windows Server
7 14 (23.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
10 11 (18.64%) Linux
10 11 (18.64%) Firewall
10 11 (18.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (18.64%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
11 10 (16.95%) Cloud Security
11 10 (16.95%) Bicep
11 10 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (16.95%) PowerShell
12 9 (15.25%) Bash
12 9 (15.25%) Entra ID
12 9 (15.25%) Performance Monitoring
12 9 (15.25%) Technology Roadmap
12 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
13 8 (13.56%) IaaS
13 8 (13.56%) PaaS
13 8 (13.56%) Continuous Integration

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:

Cloud Services
1 38 (64.41%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) Azure Logic Apps
3 10 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (15.25%) Entra ID
5 8 (13.56%) IaaS
5 8 (13.56%) PaaS
6 6 (10.17%) AWS
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (10.17%) Serverless
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.78%) OCI
9 3 (5.08%) Dropbox
9 3 (5.08%) Google Drive
9 3 (5.08%) OneDrive
9 3 (5.08%) SaaS
9 3 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.39%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.69%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.69%) sqlmap
General
1 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.78%) Finance
3 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.69%) Legal
4 1 (1.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.69%) LDAP
2 1 (1.69%) Middleware
2 1 (1.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.08%) iPad
3 3 (5.08%) Replication
4 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.69%) PKI
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Windows
2 14 (23.73%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.64%) Linux
4 3 (5.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.69%) CentOS
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) DevOps
2 18 (30.51%) Network Virtualisation
3 15 (25.42%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (18.64%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (16.95%) Cloud Security
6 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
7 9 (15.25%) Performance Monitoring
7 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (15.25%) Technology Roadmap
8 8 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (13.56%) Identity Management
9 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
10 6 (10.17%) Business Strategy
10 6 (10.17%) Continuous Deployment
11 4 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 3 (5.08%) Deployment Automation
12 3 (5.08%) Fintech
12 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) Bicep
1 10 (16.95%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.25%) Bash
3 2 (3.39%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.39%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) NIST
2 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (28.81%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.78%) Docker
4 4 (6.78%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Terraform
2 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.08%) Ansible
3 3 (5.08%) SCCM
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (33.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) VMware
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) Google
4 3 (5.08%) Veeam
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco
5 1 (1.69%) NetApp
176 Cloud Engineer jobs in England