Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 192 214
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 9 9 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.19% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.21% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 33
10th Percentile £66,000 £56,923 -
25th Percentile £78,768 £70,097 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £71,991 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.07% +56.50% -12.38%
75th Percentile £86,253 £73,886 £67,968
90th Percentile £93,750 - £70,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +15.38% +3.53% +4.64%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 6,355 4,223 6,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.79% 91.05% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,733 2,249 5,207
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,748 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,552
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 the North West.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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
Lancashire - 5 £85,000 - 1
Manchester +10 4 £78,750 +9.39% 1
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 15 February 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 North West region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Coaching
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
3 2 (22.22%) iPaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (22.22%) Middleware
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) iPaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
2 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Coaching
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft