Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 558 725
Rank change year-on-year -26 +167 +139
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 146 82 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 125 66 135
10th Percentile £44,150 £44,478 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -9.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,188 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +8.70% +1.93%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 83,975 37,966 90,660
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 89.30% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,064 23,403 66,761
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.21%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 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 3 May 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
England +11 140 £70,000 - 25
UK excluding London -17 102 £67,500 +8.00% 23
Work from Home +25 44 £75,000 +20.00% 15
London +1 41 £80,000 - 4
North of England -46 27 £80,000 +21.22% 2
East of England -6 22 £75,000 +7.14% 3
South East -8 22 £65,000 +36.84% 8
Midlands -25 17 £50,000 +8.70% 3
West Midlands -9 16 £50,000 +8.70% 3
Yorkshire -49 12 £80,000 +52.38% 2
South West -56 8 £85,000 +17.24% 7
North East - 8 £45,000 -
North West -22 7 £82,511 +14.61%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -28 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -40 1 £55,000 -

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (93.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 81 (55.48%) Azure
3 46 (31.51%) AWS
4 43 (29.45%) Microsoft
5 42 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (26.03%) Terraform
7 30 (20.55%) Active Directory
8 29 (19.86%) Firewall
9 27 (18.49%) DNS
9 27 (18.49%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (17.81%) VMware
11 23 (15.75%) DevOps
11 23 (15.75%) IaaS
11 23 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (15.75%) Mentoring
11 23 (15.75%) VPN
11 23 (15.75%) Windows
12 20 (13.70%) Agile
12 20 (13.70%) Entra ID
13 19 (13.01%) GitLab
14 18 (12.33%) Datadog
14 18 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (12.33%) Docker
14 18 (12.33%) High Availability
14 18 (12.33%) PowerShell
14 18 (12.33%) SaaS
15 17 (11.64%) Azure Certification
15 17 (11.64%) Kubernetes
16 16 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
16 16 (10.96%) Technical Leadership

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.05%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 81 (55.48%) Azure
2 46 (31.51%) AWS
3 27 (18.49%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (15.75%) IaaS
5 20 (13.70%) Entra ID
6 18 (12.33%) Datadog
6 18 (12.33%) SaaS
7 14 (9.59%) Serverless
8 13 (8.90%) PaaS
9 8 (5.48%) GCP
10 7 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.79%) OCI
11 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.42%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.74%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 29 (19.86%) Firewall
2 27 (18.49%) DNS
3 23 (15.75%) VPN
4 13 (8.90%) DHCP
4 13 (8.90%) VLAN
5 11 (7.53%) SAN
6 8 (5.48%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (3.42%) DMZ
7 5 (3.42%) Network Security
7 5 (3.42%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (3.42%) STUN
7 5 (3.42%) VoIP
8 4 (2.74%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.37%) WAN
10 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.27%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (13.01%) GitLab
2 15 (10.27%) Git
3 8 (5.48%) Chocolatey
3 8 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.11%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 23 (15.75%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.27%) Banking
3 14 (9.59%) Finance
4 13 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.79%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Legal
8 3 (2.05%) Advertising
8 3 (2.05%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.42%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (3.42%) Kafka
3 3 (2.05%) Middleware
4 2 (1.37%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.37%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.68%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (5.48%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.42%) Replication
5 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.37%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Clustering
7 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.75%) Windows
2 13 (8.90%) Linux
3 11 (7.53%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.42%) Debian
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (93.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (15.75%) DevOps
3 23 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (15.75%) Mentoring
4 20 (13.70%) Agile
5 18 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (12.33%) High Availability
6 16 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (9.59%) CI/CD
7 14 (9.59%) Migration
8 13 (8.90%) AI
9 12 (8.22%) Architecture Roadmap
9 12 (8.22%) Coaching
9 12 (8.22%) Containerisation
9 12 (8.22%) Roadmaps
10 11 (7.53%) Cloud Security
10 11 (7.53%) ITIL
11 10 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (6.16%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.33%) PowerShell
2 15 (10.27%) Python
3 14 (9.59%) Bash
4 11 (7.53%) SQL
5 5 (3.42%) Go
6 3 (2.05%) Bicep
6 3 (2.05%) Java
7 2 (1.37%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (11.64%) Azure Certification
2 10 (6.85%) Degree
3 8 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (5.48%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.42%) CCNP
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.42%) MCSE
5 5 (3.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) IISP
6 1 (0.68%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) SLA
2 8 (5.48%) GDPR
2 8 (5.48%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.11%) SOC 2
4 5 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 30 (20.55%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.33%) Docker
3 12 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.42%) KVM
5 5 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.68%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (26.03%) Terraform
2 17 (11.64%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (8.90%) Ansible
5 8 (5.48%) SCCM
6 7 (4.79%) Grafana
6 7 (4.79%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.37%) Nagios
8 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (29.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.81%) VMware
3 8 (5.48%) AppDynamics
3 8 (5.48%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.48%) Tenable
4 7 (4.79%) Oracle
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco
5 5 (3.42%) Veeam
5 5 (3.42%) Zerto
6 3 (2.05%) Citrix
6 3 (2.05%) iManage
6 3 (2.05%) Intapp
6 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.37%) Apple
8 1 (0.68%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.68%) Google
8 1 (0.68%) New Relic
8 1 (0.68%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.68%) Qualys
8 1 (0.68%) SAP