Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 584 736
Rank change year-on-year +4 +152 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 161 81 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 142 65 137
10th Percentile £46,300 £44,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,375 £102,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +21.74% -

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 86,118 39,518 92,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.61% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,984 22,887 67,462
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £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 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +14 155 £70,000 - 21
UK excluding London +12 116 £70,000 - 21
Work from Home +42 45 £75,000 +4.18% 10
London -3 42 £75,000 -6.25% 2
North of England -23 28 £80,000 +21.22%
South East +3 27 £65,000 +36.84% 4
East of England -4 23 £65,000 -7.14% 1
Midlands -20 17 £50,000 +8.70% 4
West Midlands -20 16 £50,000 +8.70% 4
South West -57 15 £85,000 +17.24% 12
Yorkshire -34 14 £80,000 +52.38%
North East - 8 £45,000 -
North West -4 6 £83,755 +16.34%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -31 1 £55,000 -
Wales - 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 148 (91.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 83 (51.55%) Azure
3 47 (29.19%) AWS
4 43 (26.71%) Microsoft
5 42 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (22.36%) Terraform
7 30 (18.63%) Active Directory
7 30 (18.63%) Firewall
8 29 (18.01%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (17.39%) DNS
9 28 (17.39%) VMware
10 25 (15.53%) Windows
11 24 (14.91%) DevOps
12 23 (14.29%) IaaS
12 23 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 22 (13.66%) Agile
13 22 (13.66%) VPN
14 20 (12.42%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (12.42%) High Availability
15 19 (11.80%) Docker
15 19 (11.80%) Entra ID
15 19 (11.80%) GitLab
15 19 (11.80%) SaaS
16 18 (11.18%) Azure Certification
16 18 (11.18%) Datadog
16 18 (11.18%) PowerShell
17 17 (10.56%) Linux
18 16 (9.94%) Kubernetes
18 16 (9.94%) SQL Server

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 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (6.21%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.86%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 83 (51.55%) Azure
2 47 (29.19%) AWS
3 29 (18.01%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (14.29%) IaaS
5 19 (11.80%) Entra ID
5 19 (11.80%) SaaS
6 18 (11.18%) Datadog
7 14 (8.70%) Serverless
8 13 (8.07%) PaaS
9 11 (6.83%) OCI
10 7 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.35%) GCP
11 6 (3.73%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.11%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.48%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 30 (18.63%) Firewall
2 28 (17.39%) DNS
3 22 (13.66%) VPN
4 14 (8.70%) DHCP
5 13 (8.07%) SAN
5 13 (8.07%) VLAN
6 8 (4.97%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (3.73%) VoIP
8 5 (3.11%) DMZ
8 5 (3.11%) Network Security
8 5 (3.11%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (3.11%) STUN
9 4 (2.48%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.24%) WAN
11 1 (0.62%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.62%) VSAN
11 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.73%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (11.80%) GitLab
2 15 (9.32%) Git
3 8 (4.97%) Chocolatey
3 8 (4.97%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.73%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (16.15%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.32%) Banking
2 15 (9.32%) Finance
3 13 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.73%) Legal
6 3 (1.86%) Advertising
6 3 (1.86%) Military
7 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.62%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.11%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (3.11%) Kafka
3 2 (1.24%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.24%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.24%) Middleware
4 1 (0.62%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (4.97%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (4.35%) Replication
4 6 (3.73%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.86%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.62%) Clustering
8 1 (0.62%) CMDB
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.53%) Windows
2 17 (10.56%) Linux
3 13 (8.07%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (91.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (14.91%) DevOps
4 23 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 22 (13.66%) Agile
6 20 (12.42%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (12.42%) High Availability
7 16 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (8.70%) CI/CD
8 14 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (8.70%) Migration
9 13 (8.07%) AI
10 12 (7.45%) Architecture Roadmap
10 12 (7.45%) Coaching
10 12 (7.45%) Containerisation
10 12 (7.45%) Roadmaps
11 11 (6.83%) Cloud Security
11 11 (6.83%) Incident Response
11 11 (6.83%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.18%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.32%) Python
3 14 (8.70%) Bash
4 12 (7.45%) SQL
5 5 (3.11%) Go
6 3 (1.86%) Bicep
6 3 (1.86%) Java
7 2 (1.24%) C#
8 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (11.18%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.83%) Degree
3 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.73%) MCSE
7 5 (3.11%) CCNP
7 5 (3.11%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.24%) SSCP
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.62%) CCNA
9 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.62%) IISP
9 1 (0.62%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) PCI DSS
1 9 (5.59%) SLA
2 8 (4.97%) GDPR
3 6 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.73%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
5 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 30 (18.63%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.80%) Docker
3 13 (8.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.11%) KVM
6 4 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.24%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.24%) VMware Server
7 2 (1.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (22.36%) Terraform
2 16 (9.94%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (8.70%) Ansible
5 8 (4.97%) SCCM
6 7 (4.35%) Grafana
6 7 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.86%) Nagios
8 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.62%) Puppet
9 1 (0.62%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 43 (26.71%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.39%) VMware
3 11 (6.83%) Oracle
4 8 (4.97%) AppDynamics
4 8 (4.97%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.97%) Tenable
5 7 (4.35%) Veeam
6 6 (3.73%) Cisco
7 5 (3.11%) Zerto
8 3 (1.86%) Citrix
8 3 (1.86%) iManage
8 3 (1.86%) Intapp
9 2 (1.24%) Apple
9 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.62%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.62%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.62%) Meraki
10 1 (0.62%) Qualys
10 1 (0.62%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.62%) Sophos