Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 720 704
Rank change year-on-year +80 -16 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 117 41 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.068% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.076% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 112 33 105
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £54,713
Median % change year-on-year - +5.09% +9.43%
75th Percentile £67,968 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 - £67,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £63,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year -9.45% +9.01% +10.95%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
North of England +99 55 £61,391 +6.77%
North West +39 30 £43,500 -15.12%
South East +12 23 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Midlands +4 20 £55,000 +34.14% 3
East Midlands 0 17 £55,000 +1.38% 1
Yorkshire +101 13 £62,783 +4.64%
North East +5 12 £62,783 +9.19%
East of England - 11 £45,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £60,000 -
West Midlands +11 3 £60,000 +52.87% 2
South West -32 2 £45,000 -30.77% 5
Scotland - 2 £63,750 -
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 113 (96.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (68.38%) Azure
3 70 (59.83%) AWS
4 61 (52.14%) Windows
5 49 (41.88%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (40.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (38.46%) Terraform
8 42 (35.90%) Microsoft
9 38 (32.48%) Windows Server
10 37 (31.62%) Linux
11 35 (29.91%) ITIL
12 34 (29.06%) Active Directory
13 33 (28.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 33 (28.21%) Ansible
14 31 (26.50%) VMware
15 26 (22.22%) Hyper-V
16 25 (21.37%) Docker
16 25 (21.37%) DevOps
16 25 (21.37%) Migration
16 25 (21.37%) Hybrid Cloud
17 24 (20.51%) Public Cloud
17 24 (20.51%) DHCP
18 23 (19.66%) Kubernetes
19 22 (18.80%) Firewall
20 21 (17.95%) Service Management
20 21 (17.95%) Mentoring
20 21 (17.95%) Coaching
20 21 (17.95%) Artifactory
20 21 (17.95%) GitLab
20 21 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 33 (28.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (68.38%) Azure
2 70 (59.83%) AWS
3 49 (41.88%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (13.68%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (12.82%) Serverless
6 14 (11.97%) Amazon S3
7 13 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (10.26%) Route 53
9 11 (9.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.55%) CloudFront
11 7 (5.98%) SaaS
12 6 (5.13%) Azure Pipelines
12 6 (5.13%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.42%) GitHub
14 2 (1.71%) Amazon ELB
14 2 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.71%) IaaS
14 2 (1.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.51%) DHCP
2 22 (18.80%) Firewall
3 19 (16.24%) DNS
4 8 (6.84%) WAN
5 7 (5.98%) LAN
6 5 (4.27%) VPN
7 4 (3.42%) VLAN
8 2 (1.71%) DMZ
8 2 (1.71%) Network Security
8 2 (1.71%) Wireless
9 1 (0.85%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.71%) Power BI
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.85%) MySQL
3 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (17.95%) Artifactory
1 21 (17.95%) GitLab
2 9 (7.69%) Git
General
1 21 (17.95%) Public Sector
2 12 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.84%) Finance
4 5 (4.27%) Legal
5 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.85%) Law
6 1 (0.85%) Local Government
6 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (20.51%) Public Cloud
3 19 (16.24%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.85%) CCTV
4 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.85%) PKI
4 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (52.14%) Windows
2 38 (32.48%) Windows Server
3 37 (31.62%) Linux
4 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (96.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (40.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (29.91%) ITIL
4 25 (21.37%) DevOps
4 25 (21.37%) Migration
5 21 (17.95%) Coaching
5 21 (17.95%) Mentoring
5 21 (17.95%) Operational Stability
5 21 (17.95%) Service Management
5 21 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 20 (17.09%) Incident Management
7 19 (16.24%) Containerisation
8 18 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (15.38%) Server Management
9 17 (14.53%) CI/CD
10 14 (11.97%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.97%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.55%) Python
2 7 (5.98%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.27%) Bash
4 4 (3.42%) Bicep
5 1 (0.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.53%) AWS Certification
2 14 (11.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (11.97%) Degree
3 13 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.55%) Security Cleared
5 9 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.85%) MCSE
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) QA
2 7 (5.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (29.06%) Active Directory
2 26 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 25 (21.37%) Docker
4 18 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (38.46%) Terraform
2 33 (28.21%) Ansible
3 23 (19.66%) Kubernetes
4 13 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (6.84%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.56%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 31 (26.50%) VMware
3 14 (11.97%) Citrix
4 6 (5.13%) Dell
5 5 (4.27%) HP
6 4 (3.42%) Google
7 3 (2.56%) Veeam
8 2 (1.71%) Cisco
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) Meraki
9 1 (0.85%) NetApp
9 1 (0.85%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.85%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds