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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 592 640
Rank change year-on-year -3 +48 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 175 98 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 146 76 182
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £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 £94,375 £82,808
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 94,649 44,285 87,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.20% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,854 26,220 61,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,082
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% - -5.66%

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 23 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 23 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 -8 166 £65,000 -7.14% 30
UK excluding London +2 141 £65,000 +4.00% 26
Work from Home +6 44 £62,500 +31.58% 20
South East +12 43 £65,000 +36.84% 12
London -34 34 £81,000 +8.00% 7
East of England -2 26 £63,750 -8.93%
South West -37 26 £85,000 +41.67% 2
North of England -25 22 £80,000 +45.45% 6
Yorkshire -17 15 £80,000 +52.38% 4
West Midlands -21 15 £55,000 +19.57% 4
Midlands -23 15 £55,000 +19.57% 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North East - 4 £45,000 - 2
Wales - 4 £55,000 - 2
North West -12 3 £60,000 +2.13%

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 153 (87.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (51.43%) Azure
3 52 (29.71%) Microsoft
4 33 (18.86%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (17.71%) VMware
6 30 (17.14%) AWS
7 27 (15.43%) Oracle
8 26 (14.86%) Active Directory
9 25 (14.29%) Entra ID
10 24 (13.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (13.14%) DevOps
11 23 (13.14%) Terraform
12 22 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (12.00%) Linux
14 19 (10.86%) OCI
14 19 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (10.86%) VMware Infrastructure
15 18 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
15 18 (10.29%) Docker
15 18 (10.29%) PowerShell
16 16 (9.14%) CI/CD
16 16 (9.14%) Firewall
16 16 (9.14%) IaaS
16 16 (9.14%) Windows
17 15 (8.57%) Cloud Operations
17 15 (8.57%) DNS
17 15 (8.57%) High Availability
17 15 (8.57%) Kubernetes
17 15 (8.57%) Project Delivery

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 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.71%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 90 (51.43%) Azure
2 33 (18.86%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (17.14%) AWS
4 25 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.86%) OCI
6 16 (9.14%) IaaS
7 13 (7.43%) Datadog
7 13 (7.43%) Serverless
8 9 (5.14%) SaaS
9 8 (4.57%) GCP
9 8 (4.57%) PaaS
10 6 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.86%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.86%) Nutanix
12 4 (2.29%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.71%) Cloudflare
13 3 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.14%) Firewall
2 15 (8.57%) DNS
3 14 (8.00%) VPN
4 9 (5.14%) DHCP
5 8 (4.57%) VLAN
6 6 (3.43%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.86%) SAN
7 5 (2.86%) VoIP
8 4 (2.29%) DMZ
8 4 (2.29%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (2.29%) STUN
9 3 (1.71%) WAN
10 2 (1.14%) Network Security
10 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.14%) Wireless
11 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.57%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.57%) VSAN
11 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.57%) GitLab
1 8 (4.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.43%) CircleCI
3 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.14%) Git
5 1 (0.57%) Chocolatey
General
1 26 (14.86%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.14%) Finance
3 6 (3.43%) Aerospace
3 6 (3.43%) Legal
4 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.71%) Banking
5 3 (1.71%) Law
5 3 (1.71%) Military
6 2 (1.14%) Advertising
6 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.57%) Automotive
7 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.86%) Kafka
4 4 (2.29%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (1.14%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.14%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.57%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.71%) Driving Licence
2 9 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.57%) Replication
4 7 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.71%) CMDB
7 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.00%) Linux
2 16 (9.14%) Windows
3 11 (6.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.29%) Debian
5 2 (1.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (87.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (13.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (13.14%) DevOps
4 22 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (9.14%) CI/CD
8 15 (8.57%) Cloud Operations
8 15 (8.57%) High Availability
8 15 (8.57%) Project Delivery
9 14 (8.00%) Mentoring
10 12 (6.86%) Agile
10 12 (6.86%) Containerisation
11 11 (6.29%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (4.57%) AI
13 8 (4.57%) Continuous Delivery
13 8 (4.57%) Fintech
13 8 (4.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 15 (8.57%) Python
2 15 (8.57%) SQL
3 14 (8.00%) Bash
4 5 (2.86%) Go
5 4 (2.29%) Bicep
6 3 (1.71%) Java
7 2 (1.14%) C#
8 1 (0.57%) Ruby
8 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.43%) MCSE
4 6 (3.43%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.86%) CCNP
5 5 (2.86%) Degree
5 5 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) SSCP
7 1 (0.57%) CCNA
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) IISP
7 1 (0.57%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) PCI DSS
2 8 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.43%) GDPR
3 6 (3.43%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) QA
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (14.86%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.29%) Docker
4 10 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.57%) vSphere
6 6 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.43%) VMware Server
7 5 (2.86%) KVM
8 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (13.14%) Terraform
2 15 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.00%) Ansible
4 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.57%) Grafana
5 8 (4.57%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.71%) Nagios
8 2 (1.14%) Puppet
8 2 (1.14%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (29.71%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.71%) VMware
3 27 (15.43%) Oracle
4 8 (4.57%) Veeam
5 7 (4.00%) Cisco
6 5 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (2.86%) Zerto
7 3 (1.71%) Citrix
7 3 (1.71%) ConnectWise
7 3 (1.71%) Meraki
8 2 (1.14%) Apple
8 2 (1.14%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.14%) EMC
8 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.14%) Sophos
9 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.57%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.57%) iManage