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 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 687 816
Rank change year-on-year +75 +129 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 81 136 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 64 126 84
10th Percentile £44,675 £41,250 £41,100
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,750 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -9.45% +7.63%
75th Percentile £81,563 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £70,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.51% +7.63%

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 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 18 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 18 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 +124 32 £80,000 +28.00% 15
North of England +7 15 £65,996 +5.12% 18
North West -16 13 £71,991 +65.50% 9
South West +117 10 £72,500 +61.11% 9
East of England +39 10 £70,000 +55.56%
South East +72 7 £47,500 -26.92% 7
Midlands +50 7 £46,000 -16.36% 4
West Midlands +49 4 £46,000 -23.33% 2
East Midlands +8 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +55 2 £52,500 -16.38% 5
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 74 (91.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (82.72%) Azure
3 45 (55.56%) Microsoft
4 42 (51.85%) Windows
5 36 (44.44%) Terraform
6 34 (41.98%) Kubernetes
7 33 (40.74%) Windows Server
8 32 (39.51%) PowerShell
9 31 (38.27%) Firewall
10 30 (37.04%) DevOps
11 29 (35.80%) CI/CD
12 25 (30.86%) Azure Certification
12 25 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (25.93%) Performance Optimisation
13 21 (25.93%) SQL Server
13 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
13 21 (25.93%) Cloud Security
14 19 (23.46%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (23.46%) Finance
15 18 (22.22%) VMware
15 18 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (20.99%) Microsoft Exchange
17 16 (19.75%) Cost Management
18 15 (18.52%) Docker
18 15 (18.52%) GCP
18 15 (18.52%) Active Directory
19 14 (17.28%) Migration
19 14 (17.28%) Power Platform
19 14 (17.28%) Fintech

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 17 (20.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (8.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.23%) IIS
4 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 67 (82.72%) Azure
2 15 (18.52%) GCP
3 14 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (17.28%) Power Platform
4 13 (16.05%) Azure AKS
4 13 (16.05%) Azure Logic Apps
4 13 (16.05%) PowerApps
5 11 (13.58%) IaaS
5 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (12.35%) AWS
6 10 (12.35%) Entra ID
7 9 (11.11%) PaaS
7 9 (11.11%) SaaS
8 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (7.41%) Datadog
8 6 (7.41%) Route 53
9 4 (4.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.27%) Firewall
2 12 (14.81%) VPN
3 11 (13.58%) DNS
4 8 (9.88%) DHCP
5 7 (8.64%) SAN
5 7 (8.64%) SD-WAN
5 7 (8.64%) WAN
6 6 (7.41%) NAS
7 5 (6.17%) VSAN
8 4 (4.94%) HTTPS
8 4 (4.94%) Network Security
8 4 (4.94%) VLAN
9 3 (3.70%) LAN
10 2 (2.47%) SNMP
11 1 (1.23%) BGP
11 1 (1.23%) Internet
11 1 (1.23%) MPLS
11 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
11 1 (1.23%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.93%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.23%) GitLab
General
1 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.46%) Finance
3 7 (8.64%) Banking
4 6 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Automotive
6 2 (2.47%) Games
6 2 (2.47%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.47%) iGaming
6 2 (2.47%) Legal
6 2 (2.47%) Publishing
7 1 (1.23%) Advertising
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 5 (6.17%) .NET
2 5 (6.17%) Middleware
3 3 (3.70%) SAML
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.47%) Web Services
5 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.23%) Django
5 1 (1.23%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.23%) Flask
5 1 (1.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.94%) Clustering
4 2 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.47%) Mobile Games
4 2 (2.47%) Online Games
4 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Sports Betting
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (51.85%) Windows
2 33 (40.74%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.81%) Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.47%) Android
5 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (91.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (37.04%) DevOps
3 29 (35.80%) CI/CD
4 25 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (25.93%) Cloud Security
5 21 (25.93%) Performance Optimisation
6 19 (23.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (19.75%) Cost Management
9 14 (17.28%) Fintech
9 14 (17.28%) Migration
10 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Management
11 11 (13.58%) Agile
12 10 (12.35%) Problem Management
13 9 (11.11%) High Availability
13 9 (11.11%) Incident Management
13 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
14 8 (9.88%) Configuration Management
14 8 (9.88%) ITIL
14 8 (9.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.51%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.35%) SQL
3 9 (11.11%) Python
4 5 (6.17%) Bicep
5 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (30.86%) Azure Certification
2 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.94%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.47%) Degree
6 1 (1.23%) CCNA
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.23%) MCITP
6 1 (1.23%) MCSE
6 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.70%) NIST
2 2 (2.47%) GDPR
2 2 (2.47%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Active Directory
1 15 (18.52%) Docker
2 8 (9.88%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.64%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (44.44%) Terraform
2 34 (41.98%) Kubernetes
3 18 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (16.05%) SCCM
5 10 (12.35%) Ansible
6 5 (6.17%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.47%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.23%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.23%) Istio
8 1 (1.23%) SCOM
8 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.22%) VMware
3 13 (16.05%) Palo Alto
4 10 (12.35%) Google
5 7 (8.64%) Oracle
6 5 (6.17%) Cisco
7 3 (3.70%) Veeam
8 2 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.47%) Tenable
8 2 (2.47%) Varonis
9 1 (1.23%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.23%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.23%) F5
9 1 (1.23%) Facebook
9 1 (1.23%) Okta
9 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.23%) Zscaler