Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 291 252
Rank change year-on-year +114 -39 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 10 2 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.022% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.022% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile £51,250 - £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -30.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £47,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,756 - -
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 West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,373 8,932 6,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 96.22% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,020 6,537 3,764
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £79,450
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol - 8 £72,500 - 2
Gloucestershire +74 2 £57,500 +27.78% 5
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 West region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (60.00%) Docker
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) Python
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Bicep
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
7 2 (20.00%) Oracle
7 2 (20.00%) Web Services
7 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (20.00%) Linux
7 2 (20.00%) ERP
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (20.00%) ETL
7 2 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (20.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) Agile

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) OCI
5 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) NAS
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) General Ledger
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Attestation
6 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (20.00%) ERP
6 2 (20.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
7 1 (10.00%) ITSM
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Bicep
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler