Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 March 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 476 568
Rank change year-on-year +24 +92 +162
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 87 57 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 77 36 93
10th Percentile £46,500 £44,478 £42,550
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,188 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -2.08% +21.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,886 £67,968
90th Percentile £89,252 £77,500 £69,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +15.38% +3.53% +4.64%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 46,986 26,863 50,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 90.96% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 29,576 13,968 38,940
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,178 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 5 March 2026.

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 5 March 2026. 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 -12 31 £82,511 +14.61% 5
Midlands +7 16 £50,000 +0.70%
East of England +18 15 £87,500 +34.62% 1
West Midlands +15 15 £50,000 +0.70%
Yorkshire -30 12 £82,511 +57.16% 3
South East -20 11 £60,000 -7.69%
North East - 10 £63,755 -
North West -13 9 £85,000 +18.07% 2
South West -23 5 £62,500 -13.79%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland -11 3 £48,000 -12.73%
Wales -10 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -27 1 £55,000 -
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 March 2026, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (49.43%) Azure
3 29 (33.33%) AWS
4 22 (25.29%) DNS
5 20 (22.99%) Firewall
5 20 (22.99%) Microsoft
6 18 (20.69%) Terraform
6 18 (20.69%) VPN
7 17 (19.54%) Active Directory
7 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (17.24%) Windows
9 13 (14.94%) Entra ID
9 13 (14.94%) IaaS
9 13 (14.94%) Kubernetes
9 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
9 13 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (14.94%) VMware
10 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
11 11 (12.64%) Coaching
11 11 (12.64%) Git
12 10 (11.49%) Agile
12 10 (11.49%) Architecture Roadmap
12 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (11.49%) GitLab
12 10 (11.49%) Roadmaps
13 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
14 8 (9.20%) Cloud Security
14 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (49.43%) Azure
2 29 (33.33%) AWS
3 13 (14.94%) Entra ID
3 13 (14.94%) IaaS
4 9 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (6.90%) GCP
6 5 (5.75%) Nutanix
6 5 (5.75%) SaaS
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.45%) Datadog
7 3 (3.45%) OCI
7 3 (3.45%) PaaS
7 3 (3.45%) Serverless
7 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.29%) DNS
2 20 (22.99%) Firewall
3 18 (20.69%) VPN
4 8 (9.20%) DHCP
5 5 (5.75%) DMZ
5 5 (5.75%) Network Security
5 5 (5.75%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (5.75%) STUN
5 5 (5.75%) VLAN
5 5 (5.75%) VoIP
6 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.45%) WAN
7 2 (2.30%) LAN
7 2 (2.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) Git
2 10 (11.49%) GitLab
3 5 (5.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.75%) Banking
2 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (5.75%) Investment Banking
3 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (1.15%) Advertising
5 1 (1.15%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.75%) Replication
3 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.24%) Windows
2 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.75%) Debian
4 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
3 13 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (12.64%) Coaching
5 10 (11.49%) Agile
5 10 (11.49%) Architecture Roadmap
5 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (11.49%) Roadmaps
6 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (9.20%) Cloud Security
7 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.05%) Incident Response
9 6 (6.90%) DevOps
9 6 (6.90%) High Availability
10 5 (5.75%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (5.75%) Migration
10 5 (5.75%) Performance Monitoring
10 5 (5.75%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) Bash
4 6 (6.90%) SQL
5 1 (1.15%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (8.05%) Azure Certification
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.75%) CCNP
2 5 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (5.75%) Degree
2 5 (5.75%) MCSE
2 5 (5.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
2 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.90%) Docker
4 5 (5.75%) KVM
4 5 (5.75%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (20.69%) Terraform
2 13 (14.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.60%) Ansible
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.94%) VMware
3 5 (5.75%) Cisco
3 5 (5.75%) Veeam
3 5 (5.75%) Zerto
4 3 (3.45%) Citrix
4 3 (3.45%) Google
4 3 (3.45%) Oracle
4 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.15%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.15%) New Relic