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 31 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 578 722
Rank change year-on-year +9 +144 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 159 80 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 140 61 153
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -

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 87,015 39,108 95,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.39% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 58,017 22,034 69,856
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -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 31 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 15 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 31 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 +14 153 £70,000 - 14
UK excluding London +10 114 £65,000 +4.00% 14
London -17 43 £80,000 - 2
Work from Home +36 41 £72,500 +18.37% 6
South East +11 27 £65,000 +36.84% 7
East of England -5 24 £65,000 -7.14% 2
North of England -30 24 £80,000 +11.13%
South West -40 18 £85,000 +41.67% 5
West Midlands -20 15 £50,000 +8.70% 2
Midlands -26 15 £50,000 +8.70% 2
Yorkshire -31 12 £80,000 +52.38%
North East - 7 £45,000 -
North West -10 5 £85,000 +18.07%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales - 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 145 (91.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (50.31%) Azure
3 45 (28.30%) AWS
3 45 (28.30%) Microsoft
4 34 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (18.87%) Active Directory
5 30 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (18.87%) Terraform
6 29 (18.24%) Firewall
7 27 (16.98%) VMware
8 24 (15.09%) DevOps
9 23 (14.47%) DNS
9 23 (14.47%) IaaS
9 23 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (13.84%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (13.84%) Windows
11 21 (13.21%) VPN
12 20 (12.58%) High Availability
13 19 (11.95%) Docker
13 19 (11.95%) Entra ID
14 18 (11.32%) Datadog
14 18 (11.32%) SaaS
15 17 (10.69%) Azure Certification
15 17 (10.69%) Linux
15 17 (10.69%) Mentoring
15 17 (10.69%) PowerShell
15 17 (10.69%) SQL Server
16 16 (10.06%) Agile
16 16 (10.06%) Kubernetes
17 15 (9.43%) Python

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 80 (50.31%) Azure
2 45 (28.30%) AWS
3 30 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (14.47%) IaaS
5 19 (11.95%) Entra ID
6 18 (11.32%) Datadog
6 18 (11.32%) SaaS
7 14 (8.81%) Serverless
8 13 (8.18%) PaaS
9 11 (6.92%) OCI
10 7 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.40%) GCP
11 6 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.14%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.52%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.89%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.24%) Firewall
2 23 (14.47%) DNS
3 21 (13.21%) VPN
4 14 (8.81%) DHCP
5 13 (8.18%) SAN
6 12 (7.55%) VLAN
7 7 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.77%) VoIP
9 5 (3.14%) DMZ
9 5 (3.14%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (3.14%) STUN
10 4 (2.52%) Network Security
10 4 (2.52%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.89%) WAN
12 2 (1.26%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.26%) Wireless
13 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (8.18%) GitLab
2 9 (5.66%) Git
3 8 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.40%) Chocolatey
5 6 (3.77%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.81%) Banking
2 14 (8.81%) Finance
3 11 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.66%) Legal
5 7 (4.40%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.89%) Advertising
7 3 (1.89%) Law
7 3 (1.89%) Military
8 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.14%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (3.14%) Kafka
3 2 (1.26%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.26%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.26%) Middleware
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (5.03%) Replication
3 7 (4.40%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.52%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.89%) CMDB
7 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.63%) Clustering
9 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.84%) Windows
2 17 (10.69%) Linux
3 13 (8.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (91.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (15.09%) DevOps
4 23 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (13.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (12.58%) High Availability
7 17 (10.69%) Mentoring
8 16 (10.06%) Agile
9 14 (8.81%) CI/CD
9 14 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.18%) Migration
11 12 (7.55%) Containerisation
12 11 (6.92%) AI
12 11 (6.92%) Incident Response
13 10 (6.29%) Cloud Security
13 10 (6.29%) ITIL
13 10 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (5.66%) Load Balancing
14 9 (5.66%) Platform Engineering
15 8 (5.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.69%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.43%) Python
3 14 (8.81%) Bash
3 14 (8.81%) 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
Qualifications
1 17 (10.69%) Azure Certification
2 10 (6.29%) Degree
3 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.40%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.77%) MCSE
6 5 (3.14%) CCNP
6 5 (3.14%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.26%) SSCP
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.63%) CCNA
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) IISP
8 1 (0.63%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) PCI DSS
2 8 (5.03%) GDPR
2 8 (5.03%) SLA
3 7 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.77%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 30 (18.87%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.95%) Docker
3 14 (8.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.14%) KVM
6 4 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.89%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.89%) VMware Server
7 3 (1.89%) vSphere
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (18.87%) Terraform
2 16 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.81%) Ansible
3 14 (8.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.40%) Grafana
4 7 (4.40%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.40%) SCCM
5 5 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.89%) Nagios
7 2 (1.26%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.98%) VMware
3 11 (6.92%) Oracle
4 8 (5.03%) Veeam
5 7 (4.40%) AppDynamics
5 7 (4.40%) Cisco
5 7 (4.40%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.40%) Tenable
6 5 (3.14%) Zerto
7 3 (1.89%) Citrix
7 3 (1.89%) iManage
7 3 (1.89%) Intapp
8 2 (1.26%) Apple
8 2 (1.26%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.26%) EMC
8 2 (1.26%) Meraki
8 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.26%) Sophos
8 2 (1.26%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (0.63%) Computacenter