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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 582 675
Rank change year-on-year +1 +93 +127
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 156 86 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 133 65 196
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -1.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,250 £102,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.43% +4.64%

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 87,667 39,868 102,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.44% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,134 22,590 73,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,501 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 16 June 2026.

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 16 June 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 -14 151 £65,000 -7.14% 51
UK excluding London +12 113 £65,000 +8.33% 55
London -20 43 £80,000 +3.23% 6
Work from Home +14 34 £60,000 +14.83% 38
South East +6 32 £65,000 +36.84% 13
East of England -5 24 £65,000 -7.14% 6
South West -38 21 £85,000 +47.83% 14
North of England -26 18 £80,000 +21.22% 6
Midlands -6 13 £50,000 +8.70% 11
West Midlands -13 13 £50,000 +8.70% 6
Yorkshire -29 10 £80,000 +52.38% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North East - 5 £45,000 - 2
North West -5 3 £87,500 +21.54% 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 139 (89.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 79 (50.64%) Azure
3 53 (33.97%) Microsoft
4 41 (26.28%) AWS
5 35 (22.44%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (19.87%) Active Directory
7 29 (18.59%) VMware
8 27 (17.31%) Firewall
8 27 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (15.38%) Terraform
10 23 (14.74%) DevOps
11 22 (14.10%) IaaS
11 22 (14.10%) Windows
12 21 (13.46%) Entra ID
12 21 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (12.82%) High Availability
13 20 (12.82%) VPN
14 19 (12.18%) DNS
14 19 (12.18%) PowerShell
15 18 (11.54%) Datadog
15 18 (11.54%) Docker
15 18 (11.54%) Linux
15 18 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
16 17 (10.90%) SaaS
17 16 (10.26%) Azure Certification
17 16 (10.26%) SQL Server
18 15 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 15 (9.62%) DHCP
18 15 (9.62%) Kubernetes

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 11 (7.05%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 79 (50.64%) Azure
2 41 (26.28%) AWS
3 35 (22.44%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (14.10%) IaaS
5 21 (13.46%) Entra ID
6 18 (11.54%) Datadog
7 17 (10.90%) SaaS
8 14 (8.97%) Serverless
9 12 (7.69%) PaaS
10 10 (6.41%) OCI
11 7 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.49%) GCP
12 6 (3.85%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.21%) Nutanix
14 4 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (2.56%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.92%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 27 (17.31%) Firewall
2 20 (12.82%) VPN
3 19 (12.18%) DNS
4 15 (9.62%) DHCP
5 13 (8.33%) VLAN
6 10 (6.41%) SAN
7 6 (3.85%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.85%) VoIP
7 6 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (3.21%) DMZ
8 5 (3.21%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (3.21%) STUN
9 3 (1.92%) WAN
10 2 (1.28%) Network Security
10 2 (1.28%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.28%) Wireless
11 1 (0.64%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.49%) GitLab
3 6 (3.85%) Chocolatey
3 6 (3.85%) CircleCI
4 5 (3.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.92%) Git
General
1 27 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.33%) Banking
2 13 (8.33%) Finance
3 9 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.77%) Legal
4 7 (4.49%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.92%) Advertising
6 3 (1.92%) Law
6 3 (1.92%) Military
7 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.21%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (3.21%) Kafka
3 2 (1.28%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.28%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.28%) Middleware
3 2 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (5.13%) Replication
3 7 (4.49%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.49%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.92%) CMDB
7 3 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.28%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.64%) Clustering
9 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.10%) Windows
2 18 (11.54%) Linux
3 14 (8.97%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.21%) Debian
5 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (89.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (14.74%) DevOps
5 21 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (12.82%) High Availability
7 15 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (8.97%) CI/CD
9 12 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 12 (7.69%) Mentoring
9 12 (7.69%) Migration
10 11 (7.05%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (7.05%) ITIL
11 10 (6.41%) AI
11 10 (6.41%) Cloud Operations
12 9 (5.77%) Agile
12 9 (5.77%) Load Balancing
12 9 (5.77%) Project Delivery
13 8 (5.13%) Incident Response
13 8 (5.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.18%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.62%) Python
3 14 (8.97%) Bash
3 14 (8.97%) SQL
4 5 (3.21%) Go
5 3 (1.92%) Bicep
5 3 (1.92%) Java
6 2 (1.28%) C#
7 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (10.26%) Azure Certification
2 10 (6.41%) Degree
3 9 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.49%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.85%) MCSE
6 5 (3.21%) CCNP
6 5 (3.21%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.28%) SSCP
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.64%) CCNA
8 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.64%) IISP
8 1 (0.64%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (5.77%) PCI DSS
2 7 (4.49%) GDPR
2 7 (4.49%) SLA
3 6 (3.85%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.64%) NCSC
5 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 31 (19.87%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.54%) Docker
2 18 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (4.49%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.21%) KVM
7 4 (2.56%) VMware Server
7 4 (2.56%) vSphere
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (15.38%) Terraform
2 15 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (8.97%) Ansible
4 7 (4.49%) Grafana
4 7 (4.49%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.85%) SCCM
6 5 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.92%) Nagios
8 2 (1.28%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (33.97%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.59%) VMware
3 12 (7.69%) Oracle
4 8 (5.13%) Veeam
5 7 (4.49%) Cisco
6 6 (3.85%) AppDynamics
6 6 (3.85%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.85%) Tenable
7 5 (3.21%) Zerto
8 4 (2.56%) Ubiquiti
9 3 (1.92%) Citrix
9 3 (1.92%) iManage
9 3 (1.92%) Intapp
9 3 (1.92%) Litera
10 2 (1.28%) Apple
10 2 (1.28%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.28%) EMC
10 2 (1.28%) Meraki
10 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.28%) Sophos