Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 262 301
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 13 30 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.31% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.32% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 4
10th Percentile £50,750 £41,250 £44,875
25th Percentile £58,438 £42,750 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £43,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +65.50% -15.12% -10.09%
75th Percentile £73,886 £63,476 £55,313
90th Percentile - £67,968 £58,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -9.45% +7.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 7,191 9,301 6,978
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 94.61% 89.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 7,150 4,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 9 May 2025.

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 9 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
Manchester +73 13 £71,991 +14.67% 6
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 9 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 North West region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (84.62%) Terraform
4 10 (76.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (76.92%) Azure Certification
5 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
6 6 (46.15%) GCP
6 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (46.15%) DevOps
6 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
6 6 (46.15%) DHCP
6 6 (46.15%) DNS
6 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (46.15%) VMware
6 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (46.15%) Windows
7 5 (38.46%) Linux
7 5 (38.46%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (38.46%) SQL
7 5 (38.46%) Oracle
7 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
7 5 (38.46%) SAN
7 5 (38.46%) Middleware
7 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
7 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (38.46%) NAS
7 5 (38.46%) Finance

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DHCP
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) NAS
2 5 (38.46%) SAN
2 5 (38.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) ARM Templates
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Architectural Design
4 5 (38.46%) Configuration Management
4 5 (38.46%) Defect Management
4 5 (38.46%) Fintech
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (38.46%) Service Design
5 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.69%) FinOps
5 1 (7.69%) Presales
5 1 (7.69%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Azure Certification
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (38.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (7.69%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) MCITP
4 1 (7.69%) MCSE
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Google
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Facebook
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam