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 £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 656 698
Rank change year-on-year +119 +42 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 45 115 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.16% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.17% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 32 110 31
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £42,750 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,889 £68,750 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.51% +7.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 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
North of England +13 14 £71,991 +14.67% 25
North West -16 12 £71,991 +65.50% 10
East of England +41 11 £70,000 +55.56% 12
South East +77 7 £47,500 -26.92% 23
South West +106 6 £60,000 +33.33% 17
Midlands +41 6 £46,000 -16.36% 30
West Midlands +69 4 £46,000 -23.33% 14
Yorkshire +56 2 £52,500 -16.38% 8
East Midlands +12 2 - - 15
Scotland +125 1 - - 8
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 22 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (97.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (80.00%) Azure
3 34 (75.56%) Microsoft
4 26 (57.78%) Windows
5 21 (46.67%) Terraform
6 20 (44.44%) Azure Certification
7 18 (40.00%) Cloud Security
8 17 (37.78%) Windows Server
8 17 (37.78%) Performance Optimisation
8 17 (37.78%) DevOps
9 16 (35.56%) SQL Server
9 16 (35.56%) Firewall
9 16 (35.56%) Cost Management
10 15 (33.33%) PowerShell
11 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
11 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (24.44%) Active Directory
13 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (24.44%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (22.22%) VMware
14 10 (22.22%) Power Platform
14 10 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
15 9 (20.00%) PowerApps
15 9 (20.00%) VPN
15 9 (20.00%) Ansible

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 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) IIS
3 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (80.00%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
2 10 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 9 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 8 (17.78%) AWS
4 8 (17.78%) GCP
5 7 (15.56%) Entra ID
6 6 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (13.33%) IaaS
6 6 (13.33%) Route 53
7 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (8.89%) PaaS
8 4 (8.89%) SaaS
9 3 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.44%) Cloud Run
10 2 (4.44%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 16 (35.56%) Firewall
2 9 (20.00%) VPN
3 7 (15.56%) SD-WAN
3 7 (15.56%) WAN
4 6 (13.33%) NAS
4 6 (13.33%) SAN
5 5 (11.11%) DHCP
5 5 (11.11%) DNS
5 5 (11.11%) VSAN
6 4 (8.89%) HTTPS
6 4 (8.89%) Network Security
6 4 (8.89%) VLAN
7 3 (6.67%) LAN
8 2 (4.44%) SNMP
9 1 (2.22%) Internet
9 1 (2.22%) MPLS
9 1 (2.22%) Unified Communications
9 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.56%) MongoDB
3 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (11.11%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Automotive
5 2 (4.44%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Advertising
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 5 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.22%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.44%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 26 (57.78%) Windows
2 17 (37.78%) Windows Server
3 8 (17.78%) Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (97.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 17 (37.78%) DevOps
3 17 (37.78%) Performance Optimisation
4 16 (35.56%) Cost Management
5 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (17.78%) Configuration Management
7 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
8 7 (15.56%) Architectural Design
8 7 (15.56%) Cost Optimisation
8 7 (15.56%) Migration
9 6 (13.33%) Identity Management
9 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (13.33%) Load Balancing
10 5 (11.11%) Agile
10 5 (11.11%) High Availability
10 5 (11.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.56%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (6.67%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (44.44%) Azure Certification
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.89%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.22%) CCNA
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) MCITP
5 1 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.56%) VMware NSX
3 5 (11.11%) Docker
3 5 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (46.67%) Terraform
2 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
3 9 (20.00%) Ansible
4 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.22%) SCCM
5 1 (2.22%) SCOM
5 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (75.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.22%) VMware
3 8 (17.78%) Google
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle
5 4 (8.89%) Cisco
6 2 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (4.44%) Tenable
6 2 (4.44%) Varonis
6 2 (4.44%) Veeam
7 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.22%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.22%) F5
7 1 (2.22%) Facebook
7 1 (2.22%) Okta
7 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.22%) Zscaler