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 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 562 629
Rank change year-on-year -20 +67 +229
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 84 197 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.30% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 64 148 91
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,160
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £71,875
90th Percentile £82,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +14.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,529 65,119 52,818
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 95.27% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,452 37,047 40,937
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,874
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,988 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -5.02% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025. 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 -30 68 £75,000 +15.38% 34
UK excluding London -38 57 £62,500 -3.85% 33
Work from Home +32 30 £57,500 +0.88% 28
London +44 20 £75,000 +11.11% 6
East of England +5 17 £75,000 +6.81% 5
North of England 0 14 £49,000 -24.62% 14
North West +6 11 £37,000 -43.08% 6
Scotland +7 10 £48,000 -12.73%
South East -13 7 - - 7
South West +30 6 £62,500 +2.04% 1
West Midlands +38 3 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Midlands +32 3 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Yorkshire -2 2 £66,500 +40.00% 4
North East +12 1 £85,000 +21.43% 4

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, 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 84 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (79.76%) Azure
3 48 (57.14%) Windows
4 42 (50.00%) Windows Server
5 35 (41.67%) Terraform
6 33 (39.29%) Cloud Security
7 29 (34.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 28 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (29.76%) Kubernetes
10 24 (28.57%) Cost Management
10 24 (28.57%) Microsoft
10 24 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
11 23 (27.38%) DevOps
11 23 (27.38%) Power Platform
12 22 (26.19%) Firewall
13 21 (25.00%) Active Directory
13 21 (25.00%) PowerShell
13 21 (25.00%) VPN
14 20 (23.81%) PowerApps
14 20 (23.81%) SQL
15 18 (21.43%) Roadmaps
16 17 (20.24%) Python
17 16 (19.05%) CI/CD
17 16 (19.05%) SQL Server
17 16 (19.05%) Technology Roadmap
18 15 (17.86%) AWS
18 15 (17.86%) Migration
19 12 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
20 11 (13.10%) GCP

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 29 (34.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.14%) IIS
3 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.19%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 67 (79.76%) Azure
2 28 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 23 (27.38%) Power Platform
4 20 (23.81%) PowerApps
5 15 (17.86%) AWS
6 11 (13.10%) GCP
7 10 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (10.71%) IaaS
9 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.14%) Azure Storage
10 6 (7.14%) PaaS
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (4.76%) Azure App Service
12 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (4.76%) GitHub
12 4 (4.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (26.19%) Firewall
2 21 (25.00%) VPN
3 11 (13.10%) WAN
4 9 (10.71%) DNS
4 9 (10.71%) SD-WAN
5 6 (7.14%) SSL
6 5 (5.95%) DMZ
6 5 (5.95%) STUN
6 5 (5.95%) VLAN
6 5 (5.95%) VoIP
7 4 (4.76%) Network Security
8 3 (3.57%) DHCP
8 3 (3.57%) LAN
9 2 (2.38%) NAS
9 2 (2.38%) SAN
10 1 (1.19%) SNMP
10 1 (1.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) GitLab
1 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 15 (17.86%) Finance
2 10 (11.90%) Law
2 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Automotive
4 5 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.76%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) ARM Templates
1 5 (5.95%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (1.19%) OAuth
2 1 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) CMDB
1 6 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.95%) Driving Licence
2 5 (5.95%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (57.14%) Windows
2 42 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.90%) Linux
4 6 (7.14%) VMS
5 5 (5.95%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (39.29%) Cloud Security
3 25 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (28.57%) Cost Management
4 24 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 23 (27.38%) DevOps
6 18 (21.43%) Roadmaps
7 16 (19.05%) CI/CD
7 16 (19.05%) Technology Roadmap
8 15 (17.86%) Migration
9 12 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
13 6 (7.14%) Information Security
13 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
13 6 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
13 6 (7.14%) Storage Management
14 5 (5.95%) Containerisation
14 5 (5.95%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (23.81%) SQL
3 17 (20.24%) Python
4 5 (5.95%) Bicep
5 4 (4.76%) Bash
6 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.19%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.95%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.57%) GDPR
4 2 (2.38%) NIST
4 2 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.90%) Hyper-V
3 9 (10.71%) Docker
3 9 (10.71%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (5.95%) Kamailio
4 5 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.19%) Terminal Server
6 1 (1.19%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (41.67%) Terraform
2 25 (29.76%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.52%) Ansible
4 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.19%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.19%) Istio
5 1 (1.19%) linkerd
5 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) VMware
3 6 (7.14%) SonicWALL
4 5 (5.95%) Google
4 5 (5.95%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.57%) F5
5 3 (3.57%) Oracle
6 2 (2.38%) Cisco
6 2 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.19%) Citrix
7 1 (1.19%) EMC
7 1 (1.19%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.19%) Splunk
7 1 (1.19%) Veeam