Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 372 390
Rank change year-on-year +82 +18 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 7 25 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.073% 0.15% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.16% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 3 25 9
10th Percentile - - £34,400
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +44.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £51,875 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £52,250 - £67,800
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,254 15,768 12,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.53% 94.01% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 11,302 8,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hampshire +69 4 £47,500 +2.15%
Kent +35 2 - - 2
Thames Valley +58 1 £50,000 -4.76%
Buckinghamshire +35 1 £50,000 -9.09%
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 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 South East region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) VMware
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
5 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (28.57%) GCP
5 2 (28.57%) Datadog
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 2 (28.57%) GitOps
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
1 2 (28.57%) Datadog
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (28.57%) Route 53
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 2 (28.57%) GitOps
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (28.57%) Logistics
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam