Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 87 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 6 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.78% 0.47% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £49,500 £61,563 -
90th Percentile - £64,375 -
Scotland median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 652 1,209 1,104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.24% 94.82% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 276 707 885
10th Percentile £25,406 £35,000 £30,220
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% +0.80% +0.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,572 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 13 September 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 Edinburgh region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) VMS
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (66.67%) Coaching
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Azure App Service
3 4 (66.67%) Bicep
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (33.33%) GCP

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure App Service
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Law
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (66.67%) Coaching
2 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bicep
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible