Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Birmingham

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in Birmingham is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 January 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 121 103
Rank change year-on-year +27 -18 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 8 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.46% 0.32% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.34% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £45,475 - -
25th Percentile £49,188 £34,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -31.67% +60.00%
75th Percentile £85,313 £44,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £44,775 -
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £43,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -27.08% +15.31%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,614 1,768 1,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 94.65% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,165 875 1,003
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,713 £31,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £88,250 £82,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Birmingham

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 3 January 2026, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Birmingham region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Git
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Coaching
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) Ansible
5 1 (12.50%) API Management
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
1 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft