Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 597 609
Rank change year-on-year +80 +12 +236
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 118 112 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 100 70 84
10th Percentile £47,425 £42,489 £44,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,375 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £86,253 £76,250 £70,313
90th Percentile £94,375 £90,250 £81,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £55,625 £53,000
% change year-on-year +34.83% +4.95% +1.85%

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 53,612 51,163 49,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 93.12% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,999 26,912 38,093
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +63 105 £75,000 +15.38% 15
UK excluding London +63 83 £75,000 +34.83% 14
Work from Home +70 50 £82,511 +32.02% 8
North of England +36 31 £82,511 +73.71% 4
London +37 25 £75,000 +11.11% 1
East of England +42 19 £75,000 +15.38%
North West +46 16 £66,250 +12.77% 4
Midlands +23 12 £52,500 +21.63% 3
West Midlands +30 11 £50,000 +14.29% 2
Yorkshire -6 10 £82,511 +73.71%
South East +19 8 £55,000 -15.38% 2
South West +6 6 £62,500 -7.41% 4
Scotland 0 6 £48,000 -12.73% 1
North East - 5 £85,000 -
Wales +1 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -18 1 £55,000 +27.42% 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 January 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.

1 117 (99.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (65.25%) Azure
3 43 (36.44%) Windows
4 38 (32.20%) Terraform
5 33 (27.97%) Windows Server
6 32 (27.12%) VPN
7 30 (25.42%) DNS
7 30 (25.42%) Roadmaps
8 29 (24.58%) Active Directory
8 29 (24.58%) Firewall
9 24 (20.34%) Migration
10 23 (19.49%) AWS
10 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (18.64%) Kubernetes
11 22 (18.64%) Microsoft
12 21 (17.80%) PowerShell
13 20 (16.95%) Cloud Security
13 20 (16.95%) DevOps
13 20 (16.95%) Microsoft Exchange
14 18 (15.25%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (14.41%) IaaS
15 17 (14.41%) SQL
15 17 (14.41%) VMware
16 16 (13.56%) Azure Logic Apps
16 16 (13.56%) Coaching
16 16 (13.56%) Power Platform
16 16 (13.56%) Technology Roadmap
17 15 (12.71%) Cost Management

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 20 (16.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.08%) IIS
3 5 (4.24%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (65.25%) Azure
2 23 (19.49%) AWS
3 18 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (14.41%) IaaS
5 16 (13.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (13.56%) Power Platform
6 14 (11.86%) PowerApps
7 12 (10.17%) PaaS
8 11 (9.32%) SaaS
9 8 (6.78%) Datadog
9 8 (6.78%) Entra ID
9 8 (6.78%) GCP
10 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.08%) Azure Storage
11 5 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (4.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (3.39%) Azure App Service
12 4 (3.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (27.12%) VPN
2 30 (25.42%) DNS
3 29 (24.58%) Firewall
4 13 (11.02%) WAN
5 10 (8.47%) DHCP
5 10 (8.47%) SD-WAN
5 10 (8.47%) VLAN
6 8 (6.78%) SAN
7 6 (5.08%) SSL
8 5 (4.24%) DMZ
8 5 (4.24%) Network Security
8 5 (4.24%) STUN
8 5 (4.24%) VoIP
8 5 (4.24%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.54%) LAN
10 1 (0.85%) NAS
10 1 (0.85%) SNMP
10 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) GitLab
2 13 (11.02%) Git
3 5 (4.24%) Chocolatey
4 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.54%) JIRA
5 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
General
1 14 (11.86%) Finance
1 14 (11.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.47%) Banking
3 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.08%) Law
5 5 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (2.54%) Middleware
3 2 (1.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.08%) CMDB
1 6 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (4.24%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.24%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (36.44%) Windows
2 33 (27.97%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.63%) Linux
4 5 (4.24%) Debian
5 4 (3.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (99.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (25.42%) Roadmaps
3 24 (20.34%) Migration
4 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (16.95%) Cloud Security
5 20 (16.95%) DevOps
6 18 (15.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (13.56%) Coaching
7 16 (13.56%) Technology Roadmap
8 15 (12.71%) Cost Management
8 15 (12.71%) Performance Optimisation
9 13 (11.02%) Agile
9 13 (11.02%) CI/CD
9 13 (11.02%) Mentoring
10 12 (10.17%) Architecture Roadmap
10 12 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (7.63%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (6.78%) AI
12 8 (6.78%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.80%) PowerShell
2 17 (14.41%) SQL
3 10 (8.47%) Python
4 5 (4.24%) Bicep
5 3 (2.54%) Bash
6 1 (0.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (6.78%) Degree
2 7 (5.93%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) SLA
2 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.24%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (24.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.47%) Docker
2 10 (8.47%) Hyper-V
3 9 (7.63%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (4.24%) Kamailio
4 5 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.85%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.85%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 38 (32.20%) Terraform
2 22 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.24%) Ansible
4 5 (4.24%) SCCM
5 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.85%) Grafana
5 1 (0.85%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.85%) Istio
5 1 (0.85%) Kibana
5 1 (0.85%) linkerd
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.41%) VMware
3 6 (5.08%) Google
3 6 (5.08%) SonicWALL
4 5 (4.24%) AppDynamics
4 5 (4.24%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.24%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.24%) Tenable
5 4 (3.39%) F5
5 4 (3.39%) Oracle
6 3 (2.54%) Cisco
6 3 (2.54%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.69%) EMC
8 1 (0.85%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.85%) New Relic
8 1 (0.85%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.85%) Splunk