Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 761 879 912
Rank change year-on-year +118 +33 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 147 119 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 134 99 198
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,400 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £49,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +9.17% +9.05%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +145 133 £57,500 -8.00% 15
UK excluding London +90 115 £56,250 +4.65% 12
Work from Home +130 73 £62,783 +14.15% 10
North of England +97 55 £61,391 +11.62% 3
North West +36 29 £43,500 -13.00% 1
South East +15 24 £65,000 +44.44% 3
London +106 20 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Midlands +29 19 £55,000 +34.14% 1
East Midlands - 15 £50,000 -
North East +5 14 £62,783 +11.61% 1
Yorkshire +109 12 £62,783 +4.64% 1
East of England - 10 £45,000 -
West Midlands +33 4 £60,000 +46.34% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £60,000 -
South West -18 2 £45,000 -29.41% 3
Scotland - 1 £65,000 - 1

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 137 (93.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 98 (66.67%) Azure
3 81 (55.10%) AWS
4 69 (46.94%) Windows
5 55 (37.41%) Terraform
6 52 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (35.37%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (34.69%) Microsoft
8 43 (29.25%) Linux
9 41 (27.89%) Windows Server
10 38 (25.85%) ITIL
11 37 (25.17%) Ansible
12 36 (24.49%) Microsoft Exchange
12 36 (24.49%) Active Directory
13 31 (21.09%) Migration
13 31 (21.09%) VMware
13 31 (21.09%) Docker
14 28 (19.05%) Firewall
15 27 (18.37%) Hyper-V
15 27 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (18.37%) Kubernetes
15 27 (18.37%) DevOps
16 25 (17.01%) GitLab
16 25 (17.01%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (17.01%) DNS
16 25 (17.01%) CI/CD
17 24 (16.33%) DHCP
17 24 (16.33%) Public Cloud
17 24 (16.33%) Serverless
18 23 (15.65%) Social Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (24.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 98 (66.67%) Azure
2 81 (55.10%) AWS
3 52 (35.37%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (16.33%) Serverless
5 21 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (13.61%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (12.24%) Amazon S3
7 18 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (11.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (10.88%) Route 53
10 13 (8.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (7.48%) GitHub
12 10 (6.80%) CloudFront
12 10 (6.80%) IaaS
13 9 (6.12%) SaaS
14 7 (4.76%) Entra ID
15 6 (4.08%) Azure Pipelines
16 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (19.05%) Firewall
2 25 (17.01%) DNS
3 24 (16.33%) DHCP
4 11 (7.48%) VPN
5 9 (6.12%) VLAN
6 8 (5.44%) Network Security
6 8 (5.44%) WAN
7 7 (4.76%) LAN
8 5 (3.40%) DMZ
9 2 (1.36%) Wireless
10 1 (0.68%) SAN
10 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.36%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.36%) MySQL
3 2 (1.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (17.01%) GitLab
2 21 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 10 (6.80%) Git
4 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.72%) JIRA
4 4 (2.72%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.72%) Subversion
General
1 23 (15.65%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.84%) Finance
4 6 (4.08%) Legal
5 5 (3.40%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.36%) Law
6 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.68%) Local Government
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.72%) SAML
2 2 (1.36%) Django
2 2 (1.36%) GraphQL
2 2 (1.36%) Kafka
2 2 (1.36%) RESTful
3 1 (0.68%) JSON
3 1 (0.68%) Node.js
3 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.01%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (16.33%) Public Cloud
3 17 (11.56%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.68%) CCTV
7 1 (0.68%) Clustering
7 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
7 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (46.94%) Windows
2 43 (29.25%) Linux
3 41 (27.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.04%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (93.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (25.85%) ITIL
4 31 (21.09%) Migration
5 27 (18.37%) DevOps
5 27 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (17.01%) CI/CD
7 22 (14.97%) Service Management
8 21 (14.29%) Coaching
8 21 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 21 (14.29%) Operational Stability
8 21 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 20 (13.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (13.61%) Incident Management
10 19 (12.93%) Server Management
11 17 (11.56%) Containerisation
12 15 (10.20%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.52%) Project Delivery
13 14 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.56%) Python
2 11 (7.48%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.08%) SQL
4 5 (3.40%) Bash
4 5 (3.40%) Bicep
5 4 (2.72%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (12.24%) AWS Certification
2 15 (10.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 15 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (10.20%) Degree
3 12 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) QA
1 7 (4.76%) SLA
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.68%) NCSC
2 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (24.49%) Active Directory
2 31 (21.09%) Docker
3 27 (18.37%) Hyper-V
4 18 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (37.41%) Terraform
2 37 (25.17%) Ansible
3 27 (18.37%) Kubernetes
4 16 (10.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (3.40%) Puppet
7 4 (2.72%) Packer
7 4 (2.72%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.72%) Salt
8 2 (1.36%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.68%) SCCM
9 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.09%) VMware
3 13 (8.84%) Citrix
4 6 (4.08%) Cisco
5 5 (3.40%) Dell
5 5 (3.40%) HP
6 4 (2.72%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.72%) Google
7 2 (1.36%) IBM
7 2 (1.36%) UiPath
7 2 (1.36%) Veeam
8 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) Meraki
8 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.68%) Qualys
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.68%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow