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 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 591 642
Rank change year-on-year -4 +51 +105
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 177 96 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 148 75 169
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £84,496
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.45% +0.45%

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 95,392 44,432 84,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 90.12% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 65,258 26,408 58,586
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -13 168 £65,000 -7.14% 32
UK excluding London -3 144 £65,000 +4.00% 28
South East +3 44 £65,000 +36.84% 13
Work from Home 0 44 £60,000 +26.32% 22
London -27 33 £80,500 +7.33% 7
South West -43 27 £85,000 +41.67% 3
North of England -25 25 £80,000 +52.38% 6
East of England -14 24 £63,750 -8.93%
Yorkshire -23 16 £80,000 +52.38% 4
West Midlands -11 15 £55,000 +19.57% 4
Midlands -28 15 £55,000 +19.57% 4
North East - 6 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales - 4 £55,000 - 2
North West -9 3 £60,000 +4.35%

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 155 (87.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (50.85%) Azure
3 52 (29.38%) Microsoft
4 34 (19.21%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (17.51%) VMware
6 29 (16.38%) AWS
7 28 (15.82%) Oracle
8 26 (14.69%) Active Directory
9 25 (14.12%) Entra ID
10 24 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (12.99%) DevOps
12 22 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (12.43%) Terraform
13 21 (11.86%) Linux
14 20 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (11.30%) OCI
14 20 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (10.73%) Disaster Recovery
16 18 (10.17%) PowerShell
16 18 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
17 17 (9.60%) Docker
17 17 (9.60%) Windows
18 16 (9.04%) Firewall
18 16 (9.04%) IaaS
18 16 (9.04%) Project Delivery
19 15 (8.47%) CI/CD
19 15 (8.47%) Cloud Operations
19 15 (8.47%) DNS
19 15 (8.47%) High Availability
19 15 (8.47%) VPN

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 10 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.26%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 90 (50.85%) Azure
2 34 (19.21%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (16.38%) AWS
4 25 (14.12%) Entra ID
5 20 (11.30%) OCI
6 16 (9.04%) IaaS
7 12 (6.78%) Datadog
7 12 (6.78%) Serverless
8 9 (5.08%) SaaS
9 8 (4.52%) PaaS
10 7 (3.95%) GCP
11 6 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.82%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.82%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.26%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.69%) GitHub
14 3 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.04%) Firewall
2 15 (8.47%) DNS
2 15 (8.47%) VPN
3 9 (5.08%) DHCP
3 9 (5.08%) VLAN
4 5 (2.82%) SAN
4 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.82%) VoIP
5 4 (2.26%) DMZ
5 4 (2.26%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (2.26%) STUN
6 3 (1.69%) WAN
7 2 (1.13%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.13%) Wireless
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.56%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.56%) Network Security
8 1 (0.56%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.56%) VSAN
8 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.95%) GitLab
1 7 (3.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.82%) CircleCI
3 4 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.13%) Git
5 1 (0.56%) Chocolatey
General
1 26 (14.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.04%) Finance
3 6 (3.39%) Aerospace
3 6 (3.39%) Legal
4 4 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (2.26%) Law
5 3 (1.69%) Banking
5 3 (1.69%) Military
6 2 (1.13%) Advertising
6 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Automotive
7 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (3.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (2.82%) Kafka
3 4 (2.26%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (1.13%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.13%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.56%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.21%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.52%) Replication
5 7 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.69%) CMDB
8 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.56%) Clustering
10 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.86%) Linux
2 17 (9.60%) Windows
3 12 (6.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.26%) Debian
5 2 (1.13%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (87.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (12.99%) DevOps
4 22 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (10.73%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (9.04%) Project Delivery
8 15 (8.47%) CI/CD
8 15 (8.47%) Cloud Operations
8 15 (8.47%) High Availability
9 13 (7.34%) Mentoring
10 12 (6.78%) Agile
11 11 (6.21%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (5.65%) Containerisation
12 10 (5.65%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (5.08%) Customer Service
14 8 (4.52%) AI
15 7 (3.95%) Cloud Security
15 7 (3.95%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.17%) PowerShell
2 14 (7.91%) Python
2 14 (7.91%) SQL
3 13 (7.34%) Bash
4 5 (2.82%) Go
5 4 (2.26%) Bicep
6 3 (1.69%) Java
7 2 (1.13%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.08%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.39%) MCSE
4 6 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.82%) CCNP
5 5 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (2.26%) Degree
7 2 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.13%) SSCP
8 1 (0.56%) CCNA
8 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) IISP
8 1 (0.56%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.52%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.82%) GDPR
3 5 (2.82%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.13%) QA
5 2 (1.13%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (14.69%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (9.60%) Docker
4 11 (6.21%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.52%) vSphere
6 7 (3.95%) VMware Server
7 6 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.82%) KVM
9 2 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (12.43%) Terraform
2 14 (7.91%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.34%) Ansible
4 11 (6.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.95%) Grafana
5 7 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.69%) Nagios
8 2 (1.13%) Puppet
8 2 (1.13%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (29.38%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.51%) VMware
3 28 (15.82%) Oracle
4 9 (5.08%) Veeam
5 7 (3.95%) Cisco
6 5 (2.82%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (2.82%) Zerto
7 3 (1.69%) ConnectWise
7 3 (1.69%) Meraki
8 2 (1.13%) Apple
8 2 (1.13%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.13%) Citrix
8 2 (1.13%) EMC
8 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.13%) Sophos
9 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.56%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.56%) SAP