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 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 96 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 6 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.61% 0.49% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.52% -
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 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 887 1,159 959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.60% 94.54% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 430 478 773
10th Percentile £25,725 £35,105 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £56,413 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.34% -9.74% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -18.18% +9.45% -8.64%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
3 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
3 4 (66.67%) Azure App Service
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Bicep
3 4 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
3 4 (66.67%) Coaching
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) VMS
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) AWS

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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