Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 583 669
Rank change year-on-year +1 +86 +132
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 159 88 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 135 65 200
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £55,000 £47,407
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -1.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,750 £102,500 £78,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.43% +4.64%

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 89,062 40,399 103,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.44% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,111 23,040 74,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,567
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 23 June 2026.

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 23 June 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 +16 154 £65,000 -7.14% 23
UK excluding London -1 119 £65,000 +8.33% 21
London -24 40 £80,000 +3.23% 4
Work from Home +28 38 £60,000 +14.83% 14
South East 0 35 £65,000 +36.84% 6
South West -37 24 £85,000 +47.83% 4
East of England -6 23 £65,000 -7.14% 2
North of England -28 18 £80,000 +21.22% 3
West Midlands -13 14 £50,000 +8.70% 5
Midlands -30 14 £50,000 +8.70% 5
Yorkshire -24 10 £80,000 +52.38% 1
North East - 5 £45,000 -
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North West -2 3 £87,500 +21.54% 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 140 (88.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (53.46%) Azure
3 55 (34.59%) Microsoft
4 37 (23.27%) AWS
4 37 (23.27%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (20.13%) Active Directory
6 30 (18.87%) VMware
7 26 (16.35%) Firewall
8 25 (15.72%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (15.72%) Terraform
9 23 (14.47%) Windows
10 22 (13.84%) DevOps
10 22 (13.84%) Entra ID
10 22 (13.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (13.21%) IaaS
11 21 (13.21%) PowerShell
12 20 (12.58%) DNS
12 20 (12.58%) VPN
13 19 (11.95%) High Availability
13 19 (11.95%) Linux
13 19 (11.95%) VMware Infrastructure
14 18 (11.32%) Docker
15 17 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (10.69%) Datadog
16 16 (10.06%) Python
16 16 (10.06%) SaaS
17 15 (9.43%) Azure Certification
17 15 (9.43%) Bash
17 15 (9.43%) CI/CD

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 11 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.89%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 85 (53.46%) Azure
2 37 (23.27%) AWS
2 37 (23.27%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (13.84%) Entra ID
4 21 (13.21%) IaaS
5 17 (10.69%) Datadog
6 16 (10.06%) SaaS
7 13 (8.18%) Serverless
8 11 (6.92%) OCI
8 11 (6.92%) PaaS
9 8 (5.03%) GCP
10 6 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.14%) Nutanix
12 4 (2.52%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.89%) Cloudflare
13 3 (1.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.35%) Firewall
2 20 (12.58%) DNS
2 20 (12.58%) VPN
3 15 (9.43%) DHCP
4 13 (8.18%) VLAN
5 9 (5.66%) SAN
6 7 (4.40%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.77%) VoIP
8 5 (3.14%) DMZ
8 5 (3.14%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (3.14%) STUN
8 5 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.89%) WAN
10 2 (1.26%) Network Security
10 2 (1.26%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.26%) Wireless
11 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) GitLab
1 8 (5.03%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.77%) CircleCI
3 5 (3.14%) Chocolatey
3 5 (3.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.26%) Git
General
1 27 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.43%) Finance
3 10 (6.29%) Banking
4 9 (5.66%) Legal
5 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.89%) Law
8 3 (1.89%) Military
9 2 (1.26%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.14%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (3.14%) Kafka
3 3 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.26%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.26%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.26%) Middleware
5 1 (0.63%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Driving Licence
1 9 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (5.03%) Replication
3 7 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.89%) CMDB
7 3 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.26%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.63%) Clustering
9 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.47%) Windows
2 19 (11.95%) Linux
3 15 (9.43%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.14%) Debian
5 2 (1.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (88.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (15.72%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (13.84%) DevOps
3 22 (13.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (11.95%) High Availability
5 17 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (9.43%) CI/CD
7 14 (8.81%) Mentoring
8 12 (7.55%) Containerisation
8 12 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (7.55%) Project Delivery
9 11 (6.92%) Cloud Operations
9 11 (6.92%) ITIL
9 11 (6.92%) Migration
10 10 (6.29%) Agile
11 9 (5.66%) Load Balancing
11 9 (5.66%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (5.03%) Customer Service
12 8 (5.03%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.21%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.06%) Python
3 15 (9.43%) Bash
3 15 (9.43%) SQL
4 5 (3.14%) Go
5 3 (1.89%) Bicep
5 3 (1.89%) Java
6 2 (1.26%) C#
7 1 (0.63%) Ruby
7 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (9.43%) Azure Certification
2 9 (5.66%) Degree
2 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (3.77%) MCSE
3 6 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.14%) CCNP
4 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.26%) SSCP
6 1 (0.63%) CCNA
6 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) IISP
6 1 (0.63%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (5.66%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.40%) GDPR
4 6 (3.77%) SLA
4 6 (3.77%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.26%) QA
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (20.13%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (11.32%) Docker
4 9 (5.66%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.14%) KVM
6 5 (3.14%) VMware Server
7 4 (2.52%) vSphere
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (15.72%) Terraform
2 15 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.81%) Ansible
3 14 (8.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.03%) Grafana
4 8 (5.03%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.14%) SCCM
5 5 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.89%) Nagios
7 2 (1.26%) Puppet
7 2 (1.26%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 55 (34.59%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.87%) VMware
3 15 (9.43%) Oracle
4 8 (5.03%) Veeam
5 7 (4.40%) Cisco
6 5 (3.14%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.14%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.14%) Tenable
6 5 (3.14%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (3.14%) Zerto
7 3 (1.89%) Citrix
7 3 (1.89%) ConnectWise
7 3 (1.89%) iManage
7 3 (1.89%) Intapp
7 3 (1.89%) Litera
8 2 (1.26%) Apple
8 2 (1.26%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.26%) EMC
8 2 (1.26%) Meraki
8 2 (1.26%) Sophos