Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 609 750 878
Rank change year-on-year +141 +128 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 83 146 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 64 133 90
10th Percentile £44,287 £41,250 £40,450
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -9.45% +10.43%
75th Percentile £84,063 £67,968 £69,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £70,000 £84,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £55,704
% change year-on-year +6.52% +3.22% +1.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +123 80 £70,000 +21.74% 33
UK excluding London +141 48 £61,250 +6.52% 30
Work from Home +156 35 £62,500 -0.45% 30
London +124 32 £81,250 +8.33% 6
North of England +46 15 £65,996 +5.12% 13
North West +16 13 £71,991 +65.50% 8
South West +115 10 £72,500 +61.11% 8
East of England +55 9 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Midlands +71 8 £46,000 -16.36% 2
South East +90 5 £47,500 -26.92% 5
West Midlands +52 5 £46,000 -23.33% 1
East Midlands +37 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +66 2 £52,500 -16.38% 3
Wales - 1 £49,104 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (91.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (83.13%) Azure
3 45 (54.22%) Microsoft
4 39 (46.99%) Windows
5 35 (42.17%) Terraform
6 33 (39.76%) PowerShell
7 32 (38.55%) DevOps
7 32 (38.55%) CI/CD
8 31 (37.35%) Kubernetes
8 31 (37.35%) Firewall
9 29 (34.94%) Windows Server
10 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (31.33%) Azure Certification
12 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
12 22 (26.51%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (24.10%) Finance
13 20 (24.10%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (22.89%) VMware
15 18 (21.69%) Active Directory
15 18 (21.69%) Performance Optimisation
16 17 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (20.48%) SQL Server
16 17 (20.48%) Cloud Security
17 15 (18.07%) GCP
17 15 (18.07%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (18.07%) IaaS
17 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (18.07%) SCCM
17 15 (18.07%) Microsoft Exchange
17 15 (18.07%) Migration

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (18.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (12.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.20%) IIS
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 69 (83.13%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (18.07%) GCP
3 15 (18.07%) IaaS
3 15 (18.07%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (15.66%) Azure AKS
4 13 (15.66%) PaaS
5 12 (14.46%) Entra ID
5 12 (14.46%) SaaS
6 9 (10.84%) AWS
6 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
7 8 (9.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (9.64%) PowerApps
8 6 (7.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (7.23%) Datadog
9 5 (6.02%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (6.02%) GitHub
10 4 (4.82%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 31 (37.35%) Firewall
2 14 (16.87%) VPN
3 11 (13.25%) DNS
4 8 (9.64%) DHCP
5 7 (8.43%) SAN
5 7 (8.43%) SD-WAN
5 7 (8.43%) WAN
6 5 (6.02%) NAS
6 5 (6.02%) VSAN
7 4 (4.82%) HTTPS
7 4 (4.82%) Network Security
7 4 (4.82%) VLAN
8 3 (3.61%) LAN
9 2 (2.41%) SNMP
9 2 (2.41%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.20%) BGP
10 1 (1.20%) Internet
10 1 (1.20%) MPLS
10 1 (1.20%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.84%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) Git
3 2 (2.41%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.20%) GitLab
General
1 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.10%) Finance
3 8 (9.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.43%) Banking
5 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Games
6 2 (2.41%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.41%) iGaming
6 2 (2.41%) Legal
6 2 (2.41%) Publishing
7 1 (1.20%) Advertising
7 1 (1.20%) Law
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Police
7 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) ARM Templates
2 5 (6.02%) .NET
2 5 (6.02%) Middleware
3 3 (3.61%) SAML
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.41%) Web Services
5 1 (1.20%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.20%) Django
5 1 (1.20%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.20%) Flask
5 1 (1.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.02%) Clustering
3 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.61%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.41%) Mobile Games
5 2 (2.41%) Online Games
5 2 (2.41%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (46.99%) Windows
2 29 (34.94%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.46%) Linux
4 3 (3.61%) Android
4 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.20%) VMS
5 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (91.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (38.55%) CI/CD
2 32 (38.55%) DevOps
3 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (26.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (21.69%) Performance Optimisation
6 17 (20.48%) Cloud Security
7 15 (18.07%) Migration
7 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (16.87%) Fintech
9 13 (15.66%) Agile
9 13 (15.66%) Cost Management
9 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (13.25%) Problem Management
11 10 (12.05%) High Availability
12 9 (10.84%) Incident Management
12 9 (10.84%) ITIL
13 8 (9.64%) Architectural Design
13 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (39.76%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.25%) SQL
3 8 (9.64%) Python
4 5 (6.02%) Bicep
5 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 26 (31.33%) Azure Certification
2 11 (13.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.20%) CCNA
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.20%) Degree
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.20%) MCITP
5 1 (1.20%) MCSE
5 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.82%) NIST
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
2 2 (2.41%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (21.69%) Active Directory
2 14 (16.87%) Docker
3 9 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.64%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (8.43%) VMware NSX
6 5 (6.02%) Hyper-V
6 5 (6.02%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (42.17%) Terraform
2 31 (37.35%) Kubernetes
3 20 (24.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (18.07%) SCCM
5 8 (9.64%) Ansible
6 5 (6.02%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.61%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.20%) Istio
9 1 (1.20%) SCOM
9 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (54.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (22.89%) VMware
3 14 (16.87%) Palo Alto
4 9 (10.84%) Google
5 7 (8.43%) Oracle
6 6 (7.23%) Cisco
7 2 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.41%) Tenable
7 2 (2.41%) Varonis
7 2 (2.41%) Veeam
8 1 (1.20%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.20%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.20%) F5
8 1 (1.20%) Facebook
8 1 (1.20%) Okta
8 1 (1.20%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.20%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.20%) Zscaler