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 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 599 614
Rank change year-on-year +61 +15 +251
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 111 124 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.23% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 93 81 86
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £73,125
90th Percentile £89,500 £83,121 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +36.36% +3.77% +1.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 52,958 53,740 46,330
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 93.73% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,584 29,046 35,911
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,885 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +63 98 £75,000 +15.38% 18
UK excluding London +53 80 £75,000 +36.36% 20
Work from Home +73 49 £82,511 +32.02% 9
North of England +33 28 £82,511 +73.71% 3
London +39 21 £75,000 +11.11% 4
East of England +40 19 £75,000 +15.38% 4
North West +41 13 £62,500 +29.52% 2
South East +32 10 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Midlands +26 10 £73,755 +70.87% 2
Yorkshire -10 10 £82,511 +73.71%
West Midlands +28 9 £82,511 +88.60% 2
Scotland +4 6 £48,000 -12.73% 3
South West -1 6 £62,500 -7.41% 2
North East - 5 £85,000 - 1
Wales +2 1 £55,000 +12.01% 1
East Midlands +1 1 £55,000 +27.42%

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, 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.

1 110 (99.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 76 (68.47%) Azure
3 41 (36.94%) Windows
4 40 (36.04%) Terraform
5 33 (29.73%) Windows Server
6 30 (27.03%) Roadmaps
6 30 (27.03%) VPN
7 26 (23.42%) DNS
8 25 (22.52%) Active Directory
8 25 (22.52%) Firewall
9 22 (19.82%) Kubernetes
10 21 (18.92%) Cloud Security
10 21 (18.92%) Migration
11 20 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
11 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (18.02%) PowerShell
11 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (17.12%) AWS
12 19 (17.12%) DevOps
13 18 (16.22%) Power Platform
13 18 (16.22%) SQL
14 17 (15.32%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (14.41%) Coaching
15 16 (14.41%) Cost Management
15 16 (14.41%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (14.41%) Technology Roadmap
15 16 (14.41%) VMware
16 15 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
16 15 (13.51%) IaaS

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 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.41%) IIS
3 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.90%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (68.47%) Azure
2 19 (17.12%) AWS
3 18 (16.22%) Power Platform
4 17 (15.32%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (13.51%) IaaS
5 15 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (13.51%) PowerApps
6 10 (9.01%) PaaS
7 9 (8.11%) GCP
8 7 (6.31%) SaaS
9 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.41%) Azure Storage
9 6 (5.41%) Datadog
9 6 (5.41%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 4 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.60%) GitHub
11 4 (3.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.03%) VPN
2 26 (23.42%) DNS
3 25 (22.52%) Firewall
4 13 (11.71%) WAN
5 10 (9.01%) SD-WAN
6 8 (7.21%) VLAN
7 6 (5.41%) DHCP
7 6 (5.41%) SAN
7 6 (5.41%) SSL
8 5 (4.50%) DMZ
8 5 (4.50%) Network Security
8 5 (4.50%) STUN
8 5 (4.50%) VoIP
9 3 (2.70%) LAN
9 3 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.90%) NAS
10 1 (0.90%) SNMP
10 1 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) GitLab
2 12 (10.81%) Git
3 3 (2.70%) Chocolatey
3 3 (2.70%) JIRA
4 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
General
1 13 (11.71%) Finance
1 13 (11.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.31%) Law
3 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.50%) Banking
3 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.80%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.50%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.90%) Middleware
3 1 (0.90%) OAuth
3 1 (0.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) CMDB
1 6 (5.41%) Data Centre
1 6 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.50%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (36.94%) Windows
2 33 (29.73%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.11%) Linux
4 5 (4.50%) Debian
5 4 (3.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (99.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (27.03%) Roadmaps
3 21 (18.92%) Cloud Security
3 21 (18.92%) Migration
4 20 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (17.12%) DevOps
6 16 (14.41%) Coaching
6 16 (14.41%) Cost Management
6 16 (14.41%) Performance Optimisation
6 16 (14.41%) Technology Roadmap
7 15 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (11.71%) Agile
8 13 (11.71%) CI/CD
8 13 (11.71%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.81%) Architecture Roadmap
9 12 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (8.11%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (6.31%) AI
11 7 (6.31%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.02%) PowerShell
2 18 (16.22%) SQL
3 12 (10.81%) Python
4 5 (4.50%) Bicep
5 3 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (0.90%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (5.41%) Degree
2 5 (4.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) SLA
2 6 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.50%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.80%) GDPR
5 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (22.52%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.91%) Hyper-V
3 9 (8.11%) Docker
3 9 (8.11%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (4.50%) Kamailio
4 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.90%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.90%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 40 (36.04%) Terraform
2 22 (19.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.50%) Ansible
5 3 (2.70%) SCCM
6 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.90%) Grafana
6 1 (0.90%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.90%) Istio
6 1 (0.90%) Kibana
6 1 (0.90%) linkerd
6 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.41%) VMware
3 6 (5.41%) Google
3 6 (5.41%) SonicWALL
4 5 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.60%) F5
5 4 (3.60%) Oracle
6 3 (2.70%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.70%) Cisco
6 3 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.70%) Tenable
7 2 (1.80%) EMC
8 1 (0.90%) Citrix
8 1 (0.90%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.90%) New Relic
8 1 (0.90%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.90%) Splunk