Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 701 818
Rank change year-on-year +104 +117 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 80 133 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 63 124 89
10th Percentile £44,450 £41,250 £42,100
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -9.45% +7.63%
75th Percentile £81,875 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £70,000 £85,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -9.45% +8.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 43,278 80,816 83,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.49% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 24,456 60,386 53,004
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,125 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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
London +120 33 £80,000 +6.67% 16
North of England +30 15 £65,996 +7.50% 13
North West -12 13 £71,991 +65.50% 9
South West +131 10 £72,500 +61.11% 7
East of England +46 8 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Midlands +36 8 £46,000 -16.36% 3
South East +90 6 £47,500 -26.92% 10
West Midlands +48 5 £46,000 -23.33% 1
East Midlands +25 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +49 2 £52,500 -16.38% 3
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Cloud Infrastructure 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 England region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (91.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 66 (82.50%) Azure
3 44 (55.00%) Microsoft
4 39 (48.75%) Windows
5 35 (43.75%) Terraform
6 33 (41.25%) Kubernetes
7 32 (40.00%) PowerShell
8 30 (37.50%) Windows Server
9 29 (36.25%) DevOps
9 29 (36.25%) Firewall
10 28 (35.00%) CI/CD
11 25 (31.25%) Azure Certification
12 24 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
14 20 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (23.75%) Finance
15 19 (23.75%) VMware
15 19 (23.75%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (23.75%) Microsoft Intune
15 19 (23.75%) Cloud Security
16 18 (22.50%) SQL Server
17 16 (20.00%) Active Directory
17 16 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
17 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (18.75%) Docker
18 15 (18.75%) GCP
19 14 (17.50%) Fintech
19 14 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
19 14 (17.50%) SCCM
19 14 (17.50%) Migration

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (11.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 66 (82.50%) Azure
2 15 (18.75%) GCP
3 14 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (16.25%) Azure AKS
4 13 (16.25%) IaaS
4 13 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (13.75%) PaaS
5 11 (13.75%) Power Platform
5 11 (13.75%) SaaS
6 10 (12.50%) AWS
6 10 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 10 (12.50%) PowerApps
7 6 (7.50%) Datadog
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (6.25%) Route 53
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 29 (36.25%) Firewall
2 12 (15.00%) VPN
3 11 (13.75%) DNS
4 8 (10.00%) DHCP
5 7 (8.75%) SAN
5 7 (8.75%) SD-WAN
5 7 (8.75%) WAN
6 6 (7.50%) NAS
7 5 (6.25%) VSAN
8 4 (5.00%) HTTPS
8 4 (5.00%) Network Security
8 4 (5.00%) VLAN
9 3 (3.75%) LAN
10 2 (2.50%) SNMP
11 1 (1.25%) BGP
11 1 (1.25%) Internet
11 1 (1.25%) MPLS
11 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
11 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.25%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) Git
3 2 (2.50%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.75%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Banking
3 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Games
5 2 (2.50%) General Ledger
5 2 (2.50%) iGaming
5 2 (2.50%) Legal
5 2 (2.50%) Publishing
6 1 (1.25%) Advertising
6 1 (1.25%) Automotive
6 1 (1.25%) Law
6 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.25%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) ARM Templates
2 5 (6.25%) .NET
2 5 (6.25%) Middleware
3 3 (3.75%) SAML
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.50%) Web Services
5 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.25%) Django
5 1 (1.25%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.25%) Flask
5 1 (1.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.00%) Clustering
4 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.50%) Mobile Games
5 2 (2.50%) Online Games
5 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (48.75%) Windows
2 30 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 12 (15.00%) Linux
4 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.50%) Android
5 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (91.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (36.25%) DevOps
3 28 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (23.75%) Cloud Security
6 19 (23.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (17.50%) Cost Management
8 14 (17.50%) Fintech
8 14 (17.50%) Migration
9 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Management
10 12 (15.00%) Agile
11 11 (13.75%) Problem Management
12 9 (11.25%) High Availability
12 9 (11.25%) Incident Management
12 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (11.25%) ITIL
13 8 (10.00%) Configuration Management
13 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.50%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) Python
4 5 (6.25%) Bicep
5 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (31.25%) Azure Certification
2 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.50%) Degree
6 1 (1.25%) CCNA
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.25%) MCITP
6 1 (1.25%) MCSE
6 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.75%) NIST
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (18.75%) Docker
3 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (8.75%) VMware NSX
6 5 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (43.75%) Terraform
2 33 (41.25%) Kubernetes
3 19 (23.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (17.50%) SCCM
5 10 (12.50%) Ansible
6 5 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.25%) Istio
8 1 (1.25%) SCOM
8 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (23.75%) VMware
3 13 (16.25%) Palo Alto
4 10 (12.50%) Google
5 7 (8.75%) Oracle
6 5 (6.25%) Cisco
7 3 (3.75%) Veeam
8 2 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.50%) Tenable
8 2 (2.50%) Varonis
9 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.25%) F5
9 1 (1.25%) Facebook
9 1 (1.25%) Okta
9 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.25%) Zscaler