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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 647 709
Rank change year-on-year +108 +62 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 49 117 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.16% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.17% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 35 112 32
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £49,375 £42,750 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - +5.09%
75th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £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 36,224 67,834 52,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 94.85% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,759 47,939 30,034
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
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 18 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 18 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 +7 15 £65,996 +5.12% 18
North West -16 13 £71,991 +65.50% 9
South West +117 10 £72,500 +61.11% 8
East of England +39 10 £70,000 +55.56%
South East +72 7 £47,500 -26.92% 7
Midlands +50 7 £46,000 -16.36% 4
West Midlands +49 4 £46,000 -23.33% 2
East Midlands +8 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +55 2 £52,500 -16.38% 5
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 18 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 46 (93.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (77.55%) Azure
3 37 (75.51%) Microsoft
4 27 (55.10%) Windows
5 21 (42.86%) DevOps
5 21 (42.86%) Azure Certification
6 20 (40.82%) Terraform
7 19 (38.78%) Cloud Security
8 18 (36.73%) Windows Server
9 17 (34.69%) Firewall
9 17 (34.69%) PowerShell
10 16 (32.65%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (30.61%) Cost Management
11 15 (30.61%) SQL Server
12 14 (28.57%) Kubernetes
12 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (26.53%) Active Directory
13 13 (26.53%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (24.49%) VMware
14 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
14 12 (24.49%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (22.45%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (22.45%) Migration
15 11 (22.45%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (22.45%) Microsoft Exchange
16 10 (20.41%) VPN
16 10 (20.41%) GCP
16 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
17 9 (18.37%) PowerApps

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 11 (22.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.04%) IIS
3 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 38 (77.55%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (20.41%) GCP
3 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
4 9 (18.37%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (18.37%) PowerApps
5 8 (16.33%) AWS
5 8 (16.33%) Entra ID
6 7 (14.29%) IaaS
6 7 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (12.24%) Route 53
8 5 (10.20%) PaaS
8 5 (10.20%) SaaS
9 4 (8.16%) Azure AKS
9 4 (8.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (4.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.69%) Firewall
2 10 (20.41%) VPN
3 7 (14.29%) SAN
3 7 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 7 (14.29%) WAN
4 6 (12.24%) DHCP
4 6 (12.24%) DNS
4 6 (12.24%) NAS
5 5 (10.20%) VSAN
6 4 (8.16%) HTTPS
6 4 (8.16%) Network Security
6 4 (8.16%) VLAN
7 3 (6.12%) LAN
8 2 (4.08%) SNMP
9 1 (2.04%) Internet
9 1 (2.04%) MPLS
9 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
9 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
9 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.61%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (4.08%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Banking
2 7 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Automotive
5 2 (4.08%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Advertising
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) ARM Templates
1 5 (10.20%) Middleware
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.08%) Web Services
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.04%) JSON
3 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (55.10%) Windows
2 18 (36.73%) Windows Server
3 8 (16.33%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (93.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (42.86%) DevOps
3 19 (38.78%) Cloud Security
4 16 (32.65%) Performance Optimisation
5 15 (30.61%) Cost Management
6 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (26.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (22.45%) Migration
9 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
9 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (16.33%) Configuration Management
10 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
11 7 (14.29%) Agile
11 7 (14.29%) Architectural Design
11 7 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
12 6 (12.24%) Identity Management
12 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (12.24%) Load Balancing
13 5 (10.20%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.33%) Python
2 8 (16.33%) SQL
3 5 (10.20%) Bicep
4 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 11 (22.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (12.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.16%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.04%) CCNA
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) MCITP
5 1 (2.04%) MCSE
5 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.12%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.29%) Docker
2 7 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 6 (12.24%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.12%) vSphere
5 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (40.82%) Terraform
2 14 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.37%) Ansible
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (10.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.04%) SCCM
5 1 (2.04%) SCOM
5 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (75.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.49%) VMware
3 8 (16.33%) Google
4 7 (14.29%) Oracle
5 5 (10.20%) Cisco
6 3 (6.12%) Veeam
7 2 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (4.08%) Tenable
7 2 (4.08%) Varonis
8 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.04%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (2.04%) F5
8 1 (2.04%) Facebook
8 1 (2.04%) Okta
8 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.04%) Zscaler