Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in Manchester is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 218 233
Rank change year-on-year +86 +15 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 12 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.56% 0.078% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.083% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £50,750 £50,269 £44,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £54,980 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £62,783 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% +25.57% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £56,250
90th Percentile - - £58,500
North West median annual salary £71,991 £43,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +65.50% -15.12% -10.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,928 4,846 4,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.61% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,745 2,665
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Manchester region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (83.33%) Terraform
4 9 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (75.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (50.00%) GCP
6 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (50.00%) DHCP
6 6 (50.00%) DNS
6 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (50.00%) VMware
6 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (50.00%) Windows
7 5 (41.67%) Linux
7 5 (41.67%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (41.67%) SQL
7 5 (41.67%) Oracle
7 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
7 5 (41.67%) SAN
7 5 (41.67%) Middleware
7 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (41.67%) NAS
7 5 (41.67%) Finance
7 5 (41.67%) Agile
7 5 (41.67%) Banking
7 5 (41.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (41.67%) Google

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) GCP
3 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) NAS
2 5 (41.67%) SAN
2 5 (41.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Middleware
2 4 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) Architectural Design
4 5 (41.67%) Defect Management
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Fintech
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (41.67%) Service Design
5 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (8.33%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) Line Management
6 1 (8.33%) Migration
6 1 (8.33%) Presales
6 1 (8.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (41.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (8.33%) MCITP
4 1 (8.33%) MCSE
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Progress Chef
3 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) Google
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Facebook
4 1 (8.33%) Veeam