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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 594 618
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 +72
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 201 94 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 172 72 155
10th Percentile £45,100 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 103,220 45,012 77,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.83% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 70,861 26,764 49,481
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,521 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +9 188 £65,000 -7.14% 46
UK excluding London -15 166 £61,250 -2.00% 28
South East +16 55 £65,000 +36.84% 7
Work from Home -15 51 £60,000 +26.32% 18
London -40 34 £84,750 +13.00% 19
North of England -49 34 £65,000 +75.68% 9
South West -45 30 £60,000 +9.09%
Yorkshire - 25 £80,000 - 4
East of England -16 20 £55,000 -26.67% 4
West Midlands -17 15 £55,000 +19.57% 4
Midlands -24 15 £55,000 +19.57% 6
Wales - 10 £60,000 -
North East - 5 £47,000 - 3
North West -19 4 £60,000 +62.16% 2
Scotland -7 1 - - 3
Channel Islands - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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.

1 175 (87.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 95 (47.26%) Azure
3 51 (25.37%) Microsoft
4 40 (19.90%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (16.92%) AWS
5 34 (16.92%) VMware
6 30 (14.93%) DevOps
6 30 (14.93%) Entra ID
7 29 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (13.93%) Oracle
8 28 (13.93%) Terraform
9 27 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (11.94%) Active Directory
11 23 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (11.44%) Windows
12 22 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (10.95%) Firewall
12 22 (10.95%) Project Delivery
13 20 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (9.95%) DNS
13 20 (9.95%) Linux
13 20 (9.95%) OCI
13 20 (9.95%) VPN
14 18 (8.96%) Docker
14 18 (8.96%) PowerShell
15 17 (8.46%) CI/CD
15 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Intune
16 16 (7.96%) Cloud Operations
17 15 (7.46%) Cloud Security
17 15 (7.46%) ITIL

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 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.49%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 95 (47.26%) Azure
2 40 (19.90%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (16.92%) AWS
4 30 (14.93%) Entra ID
5 20 (9.95%) OCI
6 14 (6.97%) PaaS
7 13 (6.47%) SaaS
8 12 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.97%) Serverless
9 11 (5.47%) Datadog
10 10 (4.98%) IaaS
11 8 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.98%) GCP
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.95%) Firewall
2 20 (9.95%) DNS
2 20 (9.95%) VPN
3 12 (5.97%) DHCP
4 7 (3.48%) SAN
4 7 (3.48%) VLAN
5 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.49%) WAN
5 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.00%) Wireless
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.50%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.50%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.50%) VoIP
7 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.99%) GitLab
1 4 (1.99%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.49%) Chocolatey
3 2 (1.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 21 (10.45%) Finance
2 15 (7.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.98%) Banking
3 10 (4.98%) Law
4 9 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.49%) Legal
7 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.50%) Advertising
8 1 (0.50%) Automotive
8 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.93%) Terraform
2 7 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.49%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.00%) Kafka
6 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.50%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.97%) Driving Licence
2 10 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.49%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.99%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.99%) Replication
8 3 (1.49%) CMDB
8 3 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Clustering
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.44%) Windows
2 20 (9.95%) Linux
3 13 (6.47%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Unix
4 2 (1.00%) VMS
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (87.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (14.93%) DevOps
3 29 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (10.95%) Project Delivery
7 20 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (8.46%) CI/CD
9 16 (7.96%) Cloud Operations
10 15 (7.46%) Cloud Security
10 15 (7.46%) ITIL
11 14 (6.97%) Identity Management
11 14 (6.97%) Migration
12 11 (5.47%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (5.47%) Cost Optimisation
12 11 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (4.48%) Agile
13 9 (4.48%) Containerisation
13 9 (4.48%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.96%) PowerShell
2 13 (6.47%) Python
3 11 (5.47%) Bash
4 8 (3.98%) Bicep
4 8 (3.98%) SQL
5 2 (1.00%) Go
6 1 (0.50%) C#
6 1 (0.50%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (5.97%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.99%) Degree
2 6 (2.99%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) MCSE
5 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.00%) SSCP
6 1 (0.50%) CCNA
6 1 (0.50%) CCNP
6 1 (0.50%) IISP
6 1 (0.50%) ISACA
6 1 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.49%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.99%) SLA
4 2 (1.00%) GDPR
4 2 (1.00%) QA
4 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.96%) Docker
3 15 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.97%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (3.98%) VMware Server
5 8 (3.98%) vSphere
6 5 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.00%) Lustre
7 2 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.50%) KVM
8 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.98%) Ansible
4 5 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.99%) Grafana
5 4 (1.99%) Nagios
5 4 (1.99%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.49%) SCCM
7 2 (1.00%) Argo
7 2 (1.00%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.00%) Puppet
7 2 (1.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 51 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.92%) VMware
3 28 (13.93%) Oracle
4 5 (2.49%) Ubiquiti
4 5 (2.49%) Veeam
5 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.49%) Cisco
5 3 (1.49%) ConnectWise
5 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.49%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.49%) Meraki
5 3 (1.49%) Tenable
6 2 (1.00%) Broadcom
6 2 (1.00%) EMC
6 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.00%) Sophos
7 1 (0.50%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.50%) Google
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.50%) Zerto