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 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 589 633
Rank change year-on-year +6 +44 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 197 95 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 167 74 158
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,825 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%

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 101,401 44,799 79,009
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 89.89% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 69,411 26,484 52,056
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.25% -4.63% -5.21%

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 22 August 2026.

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 22 August 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 -6 184 £65,000 -7.14% 18
UK excluding London +11 164 £62,500 - 19
South East +17 55 £65,000 +36.84% 6
Work from Home -7 50 £60,000 +26.32% 12
London -44 32 £85,000 +13.33% 5
South West -46 31 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North of England -40 30 £65,000 +30.00% 8
Yorkshire -14 23 £80,000 +52.38% 3
East of England -28 20 £55,000 -26.67%
West Midlands -15 16 £55,000 +19.57% 2
Midlands -28 16 £55,000 +19.57% 2
Wales - 9 £60,000 - 1
North East - 4 £47,000 - 2
North West -23 3 £60,000 +37.93% 3
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -
Scotland +5 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 22 August 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.

1 171 (86.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 94 (47.72%) Azure
3 50 (25.38%) Microsoft
4 39 (19.80%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (16.75%) VMware
6 32 (16.24%) AWS
7 29 (14.72%) Entra ID
8 28 (14.21%) Oracle
9 27 (13.71%) DevOps
10 26 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (13.20%) Terraform
11 23 (11.68%) Active Directory
12 21 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (10.15%) Firewall
13 20 (10.15%) OCI
13 20 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (10.15%) Project Delivery
13 20 (10.15%) Windows
14 19 (9.64%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (9.64%) Linux
15 18 (9.14%) DNS
15 18 (9.14%) VPN
16 17 (8.63%) PowerShell
17 16 (8.12%) Cloud Operations
17 16 (8.12%) Docker
18 15 (7.61%) CI/CD
18 15 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
18 15 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
19 13 (6.60%) PaaS

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 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.54%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 94 (47.72%) Azure
2 39 (19.80%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (16.24%) AWS
4 29 (14.72%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.15%) OCI
6 13 (6.60%) PaaS
7 12 (6.09%) SaaS
8 11 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (5.08%) Datadog
10 9 (4.57%) IaaS
10 9 (4.57%) Serverless
11 8 (4.06%) GCP
12 6 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.03%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.15%) Firewall
2 18 (9.14%) DNS
2 18 (9.14%) VPN
3 11 (5.58%) DHCP
4 6 (3.05%) SAN
4 6 (3.05%) VLAN
5 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.52%) WAN
6 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.02%) Wireless
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.51%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.51%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (0.51%) VoIP
7 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.03%) GitLab
1 4 (2.03%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.02%) Chocolatey
2 2 (1.02%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.51%) Git
General
1 20 (10.15%) Finance
2 15 (7.61%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.57%) Banking
4 8 (4.06%) Law
5 7 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.05%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.54%) Legal
8 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Automotive
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.20%) Terraform
2 7 (3.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.52%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.02%) Kafka
6 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.51%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.09%) Driving Licence
2 9 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.06%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.54%) Replication
5 5 (2.54%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.03%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.03%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.52%) CMDB
8 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Clustering
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.15%) Windows
2 19 (9.64%) Linux
3 12 (6.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (86.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (13.71%) DevOps
3 26 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
4 21 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (10.15%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (10.15%) Project Delivery
6 19 (9.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (8.12%) Cloud Operations
8 15 (7.61%) CI/CD
9 12 (6.09%) Cloud Security
9 12 (6.09%) Identity Management
10 11 (5.58%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (5.58%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (5.58%) ITIL
10 11 (5.58%) Migration
11 9 (4.57%) Agile
11 9 (4.57%) Containerisation
11 9 (4.57%) Cost Optimisation
11 9 (4.57%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.63%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.08%) Python
3 8 (4.06%) Bash
3 8 (4.06%) Bicep
3 8 (4.06%) SQL
4 2 (1.02%) Go
5 1 (0.51%) C#
5 1 (0.51%) Java
5 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.54%) Degree
4 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.52%) MCSE
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.02%) CCNP
6 2 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.02%) SSCP
6 2 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.51%) CCNA
7 1 (0.51%) IISP
7 1 (0.51%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.54%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.52%) SLA
5 2 (1.02%) GDPR
5 2 (1.02%) QA
5 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (11.68%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.12%) Docker
3 15 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.09%) Hyper-V
4 12 (6.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (4.06%) VMware Server
5 8 (4.06%) vSphere
6 5 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.02%) KVM
7 2 (1.02%) Lustre
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.06%) Ansible
4 5 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.03%) Grafana
5 4 (2.03%) Nagios
5 4 (2.03%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.02%) Argo
6 2 (1.02%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.02%) Puppet
6 2 (1.02%) SCCM
6 2 (1.02%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 50 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 33 (16.75%) VMware
3 28 (14.21%) Oracle
4 6 (3.05%) Veeam
5 5 (2.54%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (1.52%) Cisco
6 3 (1.52%) ConnectWise
6 3 (1.52%) Meraki
7 2 (1.02%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.02%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.02%) EMC
7 2 (1.02%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.02%) Sophos
7 2 (1.02%) Tenable
7 2 (1.02%) Zerto
8 1 (0.51%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.51%) Google
8 1 (0.51%) NVIDIA