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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 574 664
Rank change year-on-year -8 +90 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 180 97 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 151 75 186
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
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 £94,500 £80,000
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 94,139 44,347 91,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.90% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,646 26,264 64,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 20 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 20 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 +17 171 £65,000 -7.14% 30
UK excluding London -6 142 £65,000 +4.00% 31
Work from Home +11 45 £62,500 +31.58% 21
South East +11 43 £65,000 +36.84% 14
London -20 38 £81,000 +8.00% 1
East of England -11 26 £63,750 -8.93%
South West -39 26 £85,000 +41.67% 2
North of England -16 23 £80,000 +45.45% 8
West Midlands -9 15 £55,000 +19.57% 6
Yorkshire -11 15 £80,000 +52.38% 5
Midlands -21 15 £55,000 +19.57% 6
North East - 5 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales - 4 £55,000 - 1
North West -17 3 £60,000 +2.13% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 158 (87.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 94 (52.22%) Azure
3 56 (31.11%) Microsoft
4 37 (20.56%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (17.78%) VMware
6 31 (17.22%) Active Directory
6 31 (17.22%) AWS
7 27 (15.00%) Entra ID
7 27 (15.00%) Oracle
8 26 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (14.44%) Terraform
9 23 (12.78%) DevOps
9 23 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (12.22%) Linux
11 21 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.11%) Firewall
13 19 (10.56%) High Availability
13 19 (10.56%) OCI
13 19 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (10.56%) PowerShell
13 19 (10.56%) VMware Infrastructure
14 18 (10.00%) Docker
14 18 (10.00%) IaaS
14 18 (10.00%) VPN
14 18 (10.00%) Windows
15 16 (8.89%) CI/CD
15 16 (8.89%) DNS
15 16 (8.89%) Python
15 16 (8.89%) SQL

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 12 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 94 (52.22%) Azure
2 37 (20.56%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (17.22%) AWS
4 27 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.56%) OCI
6 18 (10.00%) IaaS
7 14 (7.78%) Datadog
8 13 (7.22%) Serverless
9 12 (6.67%) SaaS
10 9 (5.00%) PaaS
11 8 (4.44%) GCP
12 6 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.78%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.78%) Nutanix
14 4 (2.22%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.67%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.11%) Firewall
2 18 (10.00%) VPN
3 16 (8.89%) DNS
4 10 (5.56%) DHCP
4 10 (5.56%) VLAN
5 6 (3.33%) SAN
5 6 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.33%) VoIP
6 5 (2.78%) DMZ
6 5 (2.78%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.78%) STUN
7 3 (1.67%) WAN
8 2 (1.11%) Network Security
8 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.11%) Wireless
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.56%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.44%) GitLab
1 8 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.33%) CircleCI
3 5 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.11%) Chocolatey
4 2 (1.11%) Git
General
1 28 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.44%) Finance
3 9 (5.00%) Legal
4 6 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.22%) Banking
7 3 (1.67%) Law
7 3 (1.67%) Military
8 2 (1.11%) Advertising
8 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Automotive
9 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.78%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (2.78%) Kafka
4 2 (1.11%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.11%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.56%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 9 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.44%) Replication
4 7 (3.89%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.67%) CMDB
8 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.56%) Clustering
9 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.22%) Linux
2 18 (10.00%) Windows
3 12 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.78%) Debian
5 2 (1.11%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (87.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (12.78%) DevOps
3 23 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (10.56%) High Availability
6 19 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (8.89%) CI/CD
8 15 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
8 15 (8.33%) Project Delivery
9 14 (7.78%) Mentoring
10 13 (7.22%) Agile
11 12 (6.67%) Containerisation
12 11 (6.11%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (5.00%) Load Balancing
15 8 (4.44%) AI
15 8 (4.44%) ITIL
15 8 (4.44%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.56%) PowerShell
2 16 (8.89%) Python
2 16 (8.89%) SQL
3 15 (8.33%) Bash
4 5 (2.78%) Go
5 4 (2.22%) Bicep
6 3 (1.67%) Java
7 2 (1.11%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) Ruby
8 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 12 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (3.33%) Degree
3 6 (3.33%) MCSE
3 6 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.78%) CCNP
4 5 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.11%) SSCP
6 1 (0.56%) CCNA
6 1 (0.56%) IISP
6 1 (0.56%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.33%) GDPR
3 6 (3.33%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.67%) SLA
6 2 (1.11%) QA
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (17.22%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.00%) Docker
4 10 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (4.44%) vSphere
7 6 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.33%) VMware Server
8 5 (2.78%) KVM
9 2 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (14.44%) Terraform
2 15 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.78%) Ansible
3 14 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.44%) Grafana
4 8 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.67%) Nagios
7 2 (1.11%) Puppet
7 2 (1.11%) SCCM
7 2 (1.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 56 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.78%) VMware
3 27 (15.00%) Oracle
4 8 (4.44%) Cisco
4 8 (4.44%) Veeam
5 5 (2.78%) Ubiquiti
5 5 (2.78%) Zerto
6 3 (1.67%) Citrix
6 3 (1.67%) ConnectWise
6 3 (1.67%) iManage
6 3 (1.67%) Intapp
6 3 (1.67%) Litera
6 3 (1.67%) Meraki
7 2 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.11%) Apple
7 2 (1.11%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.11%) EMC
7 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.11%) Sophos