Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £62,783 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 652 775 902
Rank change year-on-year +123 +127 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 191 112 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 166 98 224
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - +24.40%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,560 £83,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.45% +13.64% +10.00%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +107 178 £62,783 -2.28% 10
UK excluding London +85 151 £62,783 +0.45% 11
Work from Home +78 73 £60,000 +4.35% 10
North of England +44 44 £62,783 +6.86% 1
Midlands +8 33 £57,500 +20.73% 1
London +46 32 £65,000 - 2
South East +23 27 £65,000 +20.93% 4
North West +14 25 £62,783 +28.78%
East of England - 25 £65,000 -
East Midlands -8 20 £55,000 +1.38%
South West 0 16 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands +7 13 £65,000 +58.53% 1
Yorkshire +68 12 £62,783 +4.64% 1
North East -8 7 £70,000 +9.80%
Northern Ireland - 4 £60,000 -
Scotland - 2 £63,750 - 1

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 182 (95.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 87 (45.55%) Azure
3 67 (35.08%) AWS
4 54 (28.27%) Windows
5 49 (25.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (25.65%) Terraform
6 44 (23.04%) Linux
7 43 (22.51%) Microsoft
8 42 (21.99%) DevOps
9 39 (20.42%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (17.28%) Windows Server
11 32 (16.75%) Firewall
11 32 (16.75%) Ansible
12 29 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.66%) CI/CD
13 28 (14.66%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (14.14%) VMware
15 26 (13.61%) Docker
16 25 (13.09%) Active Directory
17 24 (12.57%) ITIL
18 23 (12.04%) Agile
18 23 (12.04%) SaaS
19 21 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
19 21 (10.99%) Kubernetes
20 20 (10.47%) Social Skills
21 19 (9.95%) PowerShell
22 18 (9.42%) AWS Certification
22 18 (9.42%) Microsoft Exchange
23 17 (8.90%) Python
23 17 (8.90%) Public Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (9.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (7.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.09%) IIS
4 2 (1.05%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 87 (45.55%) Azure
2 67 (35.08%) AWS
3 39 (20.42%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (12.04%) SaaS
5 14 (7.33%) IaaS
6 13 (6.81%) GCP
7 12 (6.28%) Serverless
7 12 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.19%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.19%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.14%) Azure Pipelines
13 5 (2.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (2.09%) CloudFront
14 4 (2.09%) Route 53
15 3 (1.57%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.75%) Firewall
2 15 (7.85%) VPN
3 13 (6.81%) DHCP
4 12 (6.28%) DNS
4 12 (6.28%) VLAN
5 8 (4.19%) WAN
6 5 (2.62%) DMZ
6 5 (2.62%) LAN
6 5 (2.62%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.09%) Network Security
8 3 (1.57%) BGP
8 3 (1.57%) MPLS
8 3 (1.57%) SSL
9 2 (1.05%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.05%) SAN
9 2 (1.05%) Wireless
10 1 (0.52%) IPsec
10 1 (0.52%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.33%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.05%) Power BI
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (7.85%) GitLab
2 13 (6.81%) Git
3 12 (6.28%) Artifactory
General
1 20 (10.47%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.38%) Finance
3 12 (6.28%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.14%) Legal
5 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.57%) Back Office
6 3 (1.57%) Banking
6 3 (1.57%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.57%) Law
6 3 (1.57%) Retail
6 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.05%) Advertising
7 2 (1.05%) Games
7 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) iGaming
8 1 (0.52%) Local Government
8 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.14%) RESTful
2 3 (1.57%) Django
2 3 (1.57%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.05%) JSON
4 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.52%) LDAP
4 1 (0.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (8.90%) Public Cloud
3 15 (7.85%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.62%) Clustering
6 3 (1.57%) Blog
6 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.05%) Mobile Games
7 2 (1.05%) Online Games
7 2 (1.05%) PKI
8 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Replication
8 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 54 (28.27%) Windows
2 44 (23.04%) Linux
3 33 (17.28%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.57%) VMS
5 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.52%) CentOS
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (95.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (25.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (21.99%) DevOps
4 29 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (14.66%) CI/CD
6 24 (12.57%) ITIL
7 23 (12.04%) Agile
8 16 (8.38%) Service Management
9 15 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (7.85%) Migration
10 14 (7.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (6.81%) Containerisation
12 12 (6.28%) Coaching
12 12 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (6.28%) Mentoring
12 12 (6.28%) Operational Stability
13 10 (5.24%) Analytics
13 10 (5.24%) Computer Science
13 10 (5.24%) Scrum
14 9 (4.71%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.95%) PowerShell
2 17 (8.90%) Python
3 9 (4.71%) Bash
4 8 (4.19%) Bicep
5 5 (2.62%) SQL
6 4 (2.09%) Java
7 3 (1.57%) Go
8 1 (0.52%) PHP
8 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) AWS Certification
2 14 (7.33%) Degree
3 10 (5.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.14%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.62%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.52%) CCNA
10 1 (0.52%) CCNP
10 1 (0.52%) MCSE
10 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.24%) QA
2 6 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.09%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.57%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.05%) NCSC
5 2 (1.05%) SLA
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 26 (13.61%) Docker
2 25 (13.09%) Active Directory
3 21 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (6.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (25.65%) Terraform
2 32 (16.75%) Ansible
3 21 (10.99%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.71%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (2.62%) Puppet
7 4 (2.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (1.57%) SCCM
8 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.57%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.52%) Grafana
10 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.52%) Nagios
10 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.52%) SCOM
10 1 (0.52%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 43 (22.51%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.14%) VMware
3 8 (4.19%) Google
4 6 (3.14%) Cisco
5 4 (2.09%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.09%) Veeam
6 3 (1.57%) Citrix
6 3 (1.57%) Dell
6 3 (1.57%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.05%) NetApp
7 2 (1.05%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.52%) Aruba
8 1 (0.52%) BMC
8 1 (0.52%) Forcepoint
8 1 (0.52%) Juniper
8 1 (0.52%) Qualys
8 1 (0.52%) Remedy
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.52%) Sophos