Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 595 636
Rank change year-on-year +53 +41 +217
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 115 112 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 98 74 104
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,375 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £68,813
90th Percentile £95,625 £95,508 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% +15.00% -0.99%

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 56,751 49,013 62,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 92.29% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,238 25,292 48,562
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.75% +6.10% -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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +66 102 £75,000 +15.38% 20
UK excluding London +39 79 £72,500 +26.09% 17
Work from Home +73 49 £82,511 +29.43% 12
North of England +22 29 £82,511 +17.87% 2
London +39 26 £80,000 +14.29% 7
Midlands +23 14 £50,000 +11.11% 1
West Midlands +45 13 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East of England +33 13 £100,000 +53.85% 4
North West +24 13 £82,511 +14.61% 1
South East +28 11 £57,500 -11.54% 8
Yorkshire -20 10 £82,511 +73.71%
Scotland -8 6 £48,000 -12.73%
North East - 6 £83,755 - 1
South West -2 5 £62,500 -7.41% 3
Wales +4 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -4 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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.

1 114 (99.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (60.00%) Azure
3 38 (33.04%) Terraform
4 36 (31.30%) VPN
5 35 (30.43%) Firewall
6 33 (28.70%) Windows
7 32 (27.83%) DNS
8 28 (24.35%) AWS
9 27 (23.48%) Active Directory
10 26 (22.61%) Microsoft
10 26 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (20.87%) Migration
12 23 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (18.26%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (18.26%) Kubernetes
13 21 (18.26%) Windows Server
14 20 (17.39%) PowerShell
14 20 (17.39%) Roadmaps
15 19 (16.52%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (14.78%) DevOps
16 17 (14.78%) IaaS
16 17 (14.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (14.78%) VMware
17 16 (13.91%) Coaching
18 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
18 15 (13.04%) SQL
19 14 (12.17%) Agile
19 14 (12.17%) GitLab
19 14 (12.17%) SaaS
19 14 (12.17%) Technical Leadership

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 12 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.22%) IIS
2 6 (5.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 69 (60.00%) Azure
2 28 (24.35%) AWS
3 23 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (14.78%) IaaS
5 14 (12.17%) SaaS
6 13 (11.30%) PaaS
7 12 (10.43%) Entra ID
8 11 (9.57%) Datadog
9 7 (6.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (6.09%) GCP
10 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.22%) Azure Storage
10 6 (5.22%) Power Platform
10 6 (5.22%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.48%) Azure App Service
11 4 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.48%) OCI
11 4 (3.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (31.30%) VPN
2 35 (30.43%) Firewall
3 32 (27.83%) DNS
4 13 (11.30%) DHCP
5 12 (10.43%) WAN
6 11 (9.57%) VLAN
7 10 (8.70%) SD-WAN
8 9 (7.83%) SAN
9 7 (6.09%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (5.22%) SSL
11 4 (3.48%) DMZ
11 4 (3.48%) STUN
11 4 (3.48%) VoIP
12 3 (2.61%) Network Security
13 2 (1.74%) LAN
13 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
14 1 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) GitLab
2 13 (11.30%) Git
3 7 (6.09%) Chocolatey
4 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.87%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 15 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.30%) Banking
3 12 (10.43%) Finance
4 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.22%) Law
6 5 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (2.61%) Middleware
3 1 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (5.22%) CMDB
2 6 (5.22%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.61%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.70%) Windows
2 21 (18.26%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.96%) Linux
4 4 (3.48%) Debian
4 4 (3.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (99.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (20.87%) Migration
4 21 (18.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 17 (14.78%) DevOps
6 17 (14.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (13.91%) Coaching
8 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 14 (12.17%) Agile
9 14 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (11.30%) Cloud Security
11 12 (10.43%) Architecture Roadmap
11 12 (10.43%) CI/CD
11 12 (10.43%) ITIL
12 9 (7.83%) High Availability
12 9 (7.83%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (6.09%) Computer Science
13 7 (6.09%) ITSM
13 7 (6.09%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 15 (13.04%) SQL
3 8 (6.96%) Python
4 5 (4.35%) Bicep
5 3 (2.61%) Bash
6 1 (0.87%) Java
6 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (9.57%) Azure Certification
1 11 (9.57%) Degree
2 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.74%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) SLA
2 6 (5.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
4 3 (2.61%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (23.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.83%) Docker
2 9 (7.83%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (6.09%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.61%) Kamailio
5 3 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.87%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 38 (33.04%) Terraform
2 21 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 19 (16.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.09%) SCCM
5 6 (5.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.87%) Grafana
6 1 (0.87%) Kibana
6 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.78%) VMware
3 7 (6.09%) AppDynamics
3 7 (6.09%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.09%) Tenable
4 6 (5.22%) SonicWALL
5 4 (3.48%) Cisco
5 4 (3.48%) Google
5 4 (3.48%) Oracle
6 3 (2.61%) F5
6 3 (2.61%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.74%) EMC
7 2 (1.74%) iManage
7 2 (1.74%) Intapp
8 1 (0.87%) Citrix
8 1 (0.87%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.87%) New Relic
8 1 (0.87%) Qualys