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 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 563 682
Rank change year-on-year +7 +119 +210
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 127 104 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.25% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 110 73 131
10th Percentile £47,425 £46,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £86,252 £81,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - +20.00%

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 66,296 42,207 76,699
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 91.15% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 41,997 23,429 59,277
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.04%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +25 117 £75,000 +15.38% 11
UK excluding London +18 85 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Work from Home +43 47 £82,511 +32.02% 2
London +30 35 £80,000 -3.03% 5
North of England -3 31 £82,511 +25.02% 5
East of England +24 16 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Midlands +7 16 £50,000 +8.70%
West Midlands +19 15 £50,000 +8.70%
Yorkshire -30 12 £82,511 +57.16% 3
South East +2 11 £60,000 -7.69%
North East - 10 £63,755 - 1
North West -7 9 £85,000 +18.07% 1
South West -15 5 £62,500 -10.71%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -9 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -25 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 March 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.

1 125 (98.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (55.91%) Azure
3 38 (29.92%) Microsoft
3 38 (29.92%) Terraform
4 35 (27.56%) AWS
5 34 (26.77%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (25.98%) Firewall
7 30 (23.62%) VPN
8 29 (22.83%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (22.05%) Active Directory
9 28 (22.05%) DNS
10 25 (19.69%) VMware
10 25 (19.69%) Windows
11 24 (18.90%) IaaS
12 22 (17.32%) Disaster Recovery
12 22 (17.32%) Kubernetes
13 21 (16.54%) PowerShell
14 20 (15.75%) Mentoring
14 20 (15.75%) Microsoft Intune
15 19 (14.96%) Migration
16 18 (14.17%) Azure Certification
16 18 (14.17%) Entra ID
16 18 (14.17%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (13.39%) Agile
17 17 (13.39%) SaaS
18 16 (12.60%) DevOps
18 16 (12.60%) GitLab
18 16 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
19 15 (11.81%) Datadog
20 14 (11.02%) Git

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 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (7.09%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.15%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 71 (55.91%) Azure
2 35 (27.56%) AWS
3 29 (22.83%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (18.90%) IaaS
5 18 (14.17%) Entra ID
6 17 (13.39%) SaaS
7 15 (11.81%) Datadog
8 14 (11.02%) PaaS
9 11 (8.66%) Serverless
10 7 (5.51%) GCP
11 6 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.94%) Nutanix
12 5 (3.94%) OCI
13 4 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.15%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 33 (25.98%) Firewall
2 30 (23.62%) VPN
3 28 (22.05%) DNS
4 13 (10.24%) DHCP
4 13 (10.24%) VLAN
5 10 (7.87%) SAN
6 8 (6.30%) SD-WAN
6 8 (6.30%) WAN
6 8 (6.30%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (3.94%) DMZ
7 5 (3.94%) Network Security
7 5 (3.94%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (3.94%) STUN
7 5 (3.94%) VoIP
8 4 (3.15%) SSL
8 4 (3.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (12.60%) GitLab
2 14 (11.02%) Git
3 8 (6.30%) Chocolatey
4 5 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (3.15%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.36%) JIRA
General
1 25 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.02%) Banking
3 13 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.09%) Finance
5 6 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.15%) Legal
8 3 (2.36%) Law
8 3 (2.36%) Military
9 2 (1.57%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.94%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.36%) Kafka
3 3 (2.36%) Middleware
4 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.30%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.94%) Replication
5 4 (3.15%) CMDB
6 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.69%) Windows
2 13 (10.24%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.72%) Linux
4 5 (3.94%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (98.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (26.77%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (17.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (15.75%) Mentoring
5 19 (14.96%) Migration
6 18 (14.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (13.39%) Agile
8 16 (12.60%) DevOps
8 16 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (11.02%) High Availability
10 13 (10.24%) ITIL
10 13 (10.24%) Roadmaps
11 12 (9.45%) Architecture Roadmap
11 12 (9.45%) CI/CD
11 12 (9.45%) Cloud Security
11 12 (9.45%) Coaching
12 11 (8.66%) AI
13 10 (7.87%) Containerisation
14 8 (6.30%) Analytical Thinking
14 8 (6.30%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.54%) PowerShell
2 13 (10.24%) Python
2 13 (10.24%) SQL
3 11 (8.66%) Bash
4 3 (2.36%) Go
4 3 (2.36%) Java
5 1 (0.79%) Bicep
5 1 (0.79%) C#
5 1 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (14.17%) Azure Certification
2 13 (10.24%) Degree
3 8 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.94%) CCNP
4 5 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.94%) MCSE
4 5 (3.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.57%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) SLA
2 6 (4.72%) GDPR
3 4 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.15%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (22.05%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.45%) Docker
3 9 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.94%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.94%) KVM
6 4 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.15%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.79%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 38 (29.92%) Terraform
2 22 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 20 (15.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (7.09%) Ansible
5 8 (6.30%) SCCM
6 4 (3.15%) Grafana
6 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (29.92%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.69%) VMware
3 8 (6.30%) AppDynamics
3 8 (6.30%) Cisco
3 8 (6.30%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.30%) Tenable
4 5 (3.94%) Oracle
4 5 (3.94%) Veeam
4 5 (3.94%) Zerto
5 4 (3.15%) SonicWALL
6 3 (2.36%) Citrix
6 3 (2.36%) F5
6 3 (2.36%) Google
6 3 (2.36%) iManage
6 3 (2.36%) Intapp
6 3 (2.36%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.57%) EMC
8 1 (0.79%) Apple
8 1 (0.79%) New Relic