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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 584 666
Rank change year-on-year -16 +82 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 175 97 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 147 73 192
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,450 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £47,128
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 £101,500 £79,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.45% +2.50%

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 92,998 44,238 95,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.85% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 63,730 26,125 68,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 13 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 13 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 +7 167 £65,000 -7.14% 34
UK excluding London +7 137 £65,000 +4.00% 36
Work from Home +11 42 £62,500 +28.21% 25
South East +9 41 £65,000 +36.84% 14
London -24 38 £81,000 +8.00% 1
East of England -8 26 £63,750 -8.93%
South West -41 26 £85,000 +41.67% 4
North of England -20 23 £80,000 +36.17% 7
Yorkshire -21 15 £80,000 +52.38% 3
West Midlands -14 13 £52,500 +14.13% 8
Midlands -27 13 £52,500 +14.13% 8
North East - 5 £45,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North West -25 3 £60,000 -9.08% 3
Wales - 3 £55,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 154 (88.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 89 (50.86%) Azure
3 53 (30.29%) Microsoft
4 35 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (18.86%) AWS
6 31 (17.71%) VMware
7 30 (17.14%) Active Directory
8 26 (14.86%) Oracle
9 25 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (14.29%) Terraform
10 24 (13.71%) Entra ID
11 23 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (12.57%) DevOps
12 22 (12.57%) Linux
13 21 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (11.43%) Firewall
15 19 (10.86%) High Availability
15 19 (10.86%) OCI
15 19 (10.86%) VMware Infrastructure
16 18 (10.29%) Docker
16 18 (10.29%) IaaS
16 18 (10.29%) PowerShell
16 18 (10.29%) Windows
17 17 (9.71%) VPN
18 16 (9.14%) DNS
18 16 (9.14%) Platform Engineering
18 16 (9.14%) Python
19 15 (8.57%) Bash
19 15 (8.57%) CI/CD

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 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.71%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 89 (50.86%) Azure
2 35 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (18.86%) AWS
4 24 (13.71%) Entra ID
5 19 (10.86%) OCI
6 18 (10.29%) IaaS
7 14 (8.00%) Datadog
8 13 (7.43%) Serverless
9 12 (6.86%) SaaS
10 8 (4.57%) GCP
10 8 (4.57%) PaaS
11 6 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.86%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.29%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (1.71%) Cloudflare
14 3 (1.71%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.43%) Firewall
2 17 (9.71%) VPN
3 16 (9.14%) DNS
4 10 (5.71%) DHCP
4 10 (5.71%) VLAN
5 6 (3.43%) SAN
5 6 (3.43%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.43%) VoIP
6 5 (2.86%) DMZ
6 5 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.86%) STUN
7 3 (1.71%) WAN
8 2 (1.14%) Network Security
8 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.14%) Wireless
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.57%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (4.57%) GitLab
1 8 (4.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.43%) CircleCI
3 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.14%) Chocolatey
4 2 (1.14%) Git
General
1 28 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.14%) Finance
3 9 (5.14%) Legal
4 6 (3.43%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.29%) Banking
7 3 (1.71%) Law
7 3 (1.71%) Military
8 2 (1.14%) Advertising
8 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.86%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (2.86%) Kafka
4 2 (1.14%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.14%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.57%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.71%) Driving Licence
2 9 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.57%) Replication
4 7 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.71%) CMDB
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.57%) Linux
2 18 (10.29%) Windows
3 12 (6.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.86%) Debian
5 2 (1.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (88.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (12.57%) DevOps
5 21 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (10.86%) High Availability
8 16 (9.14%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (8.57%) CI/CD
9 15 (8.57%) Cloud Operations
9 15 (8.57%) Project Delivery
10 14 (8.00%) Mentoring
11 13 (7.43%) Agile
12 12 (6.86%) Containerisation
13 11 (6.29%) Collaborative Working
14 10 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
15 9 (5.14%) Load Balancing
16 8 (4.57%) AI
16 8 (4.57%) ITIL
16 8 (4.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 16 (9.14%) Python
3 15 (8.57%) Bash
3 15 (8.57%) SQL
4 5 (2.86%) Go
5 3 (1.71%) Bicep
5 3 (1.71%) Java
6 2 (1.14%) C#
7 1 (0.57%) Ruby
7 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.86%) Azure Certification
1 12 (6.86%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (3.43%) Degree
3 6 (3.43%) MCSE
3 6 (3.43%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.86%) CCNP
4 5 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.14%) SSCP
6 1 (0.57%) CCNA
6 1 (0.57%) IISP
6 1 (0.57%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (5.14%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.43%) GDPR
3 6 (3.43%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.71%) SLA
6 2 (1.14%) QA
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.29%) Docker
4 10 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (4.00%) vSphere
7 6 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.43%) VMware Server
8 5 (2.86%) KVM
9 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (14.29%) Terraform
2 15 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.00%) Ansible
4 12 (6.86%) 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%) SCCM
8 2 (1.14%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 53 (30.29%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.71%) VMware
3 26 (14.86%) Oracle
4 8 (4.57%) Cisco
4 8 (4.57%) Veeam
5 5 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
5 5 (2.86%) Zerto
6 3 (1.71%) Citrix
6 3 (1.71%) ConnectWise
6 3 (1.71%) iManage
6 3 (1.71%) Intapp
6 3 (1.71%) Litera
6 3 (1.71%) Meraki
7 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.14%) Apple
7 2 (1.14%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.14%) EMC
7 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.14%) Sophos