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 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 590 617
Rank change year-on-year +51 +27 +232
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 114 109 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 97 68 87
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,594 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,883 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £56,250 £53,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +6.13% +3.92%

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 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

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 14 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 14 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 +65 101 £75,000 +15.38% 14
UK excluding London +67 80 £75,000 +33.33% 12
Work from Home +67 49 £82,511 +32.02% 6
North of England +21 30 £82,511 +73.71% 2
London +44 24 £75,000 +7.14% 2
East of England +37 16 £75,000 +15.38% 1
North West +28 15 £70,000 - 2
Midlands +26 14 £50,000 +14.29% 1
West Midlands +26 13 £50,000 +14.29% 1
Yorkshire -12 10 £82,511 +73.71%
South East +29 8 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Scotland +7 6 £48,000 -12.73%
South West +3 5 £62,500 -10.71% 2
North East - 5 £85,000 -
Wales +7 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -8 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 113 (99.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (62.28%) Azure
3 40 (35.09%) Windows
4 35 (30.70%) Terraform
5 33 (28.95%) VPN
6 30 (26.32%) DNS
6 30 (26.32%) Firewall
7 29 (25.44%) Windows Server
8 27 (23.68%) Active Directory
8 27 (23.68%) Roadmaps
9 24 (21.05%) AWS
9 24 (21.05%) Migration
9 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (19.30%) Microsoft
11 20 (17.54%) Kubernetes
11 20 (17.54%) PowerShell
12 19 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (14.91%) Cloud Security
14 17 (14.91%) DevOps
15 16 (14.04%) Coaching
15 16 (14.04%) IaaS
15 16 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
15 16 (14.04%) VMware
16 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
16 15 (13.16%) SQL
17 13 (11.40%) Agile
17 13 (11.40%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (11.40%) 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 16 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.26%) IIS
3 4 (3.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 71 (62.28%) Azure
2 24 (21.05%) AWS
3 19 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (14.04%) IaaS
5 13 (11.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
6 12 (10.53%) PaaS
6 12 (10.53%) PowerApps
7 11 (9.65%) SaaS
8 9 (7.89%) Datadog
9 8 (7.02%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.26%) Azure Storage
10 6 (5.26%) GCP
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.51%) Azure App Service
11 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.51%) OCI
11 4 (3.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (28.95%) VPN
2 30 (26.32%) DNS
2 30 (26.32%) Firewall
3 12 (10.53%) WAN
4 11 (9.65%) DHCP
5 10 (8.77%) SD-WAN
5 10 (8.77%) VLAN
6 8 (7.02%) SAN
7 6 (5.26%) SSL
7 6 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.51%) DMZ
8 4 (3.51%) STUN
8 4 (3.51%) VoIP
9 3 (2.63%) Network Security
10 2 (1.75%) LAN
11 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (11.40%) Git
1 13 (11.40%) GitLab
2 6 (5.26%) Chocolatey
3 3 (2.63%) JIRA
4 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (11.40%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.53%) Banking
2 12 (10.53%) Finance
3 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Law
5 5 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.51%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.26%) CMDB
1 6 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.51%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (35.09%) Windows
2 29 (25.44%) Windows Server
3 8 (7.02%) Linux
4 4 (3.51%) Debian
4 4 (3.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (99.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (23.68%) Roadmaps
3 24 (21.05%) Migration
3 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (14.91%) Cloud Security
5 17 (14.91%) DevOps
6 16 (14.04%) Coaching
7 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (11.40%) Agile
8 13 (11.40%) Mentoring
8 13 (11.40%) Technology Roadmap
9 12 (10.53%) Architecture Roadmap
9 12 (10.53%) Cost Management
9 12 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (9.65%) CI/CD
11 9 (7.89%) ITIL
12 8 (7.02%) Identity Access Management
13 7 (6.14%) AI
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.54%) PowerShell
2 15 (13.16%) SQL
3 7 (6.14%) Python
4 5 (4.39%) Bicep
5 1 (0.88%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (7.89%) Degree
2 8 (7.02%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) SLA
2 5 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.51%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.89%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (7.02%) Docker
3 8 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.51%) Kamailio
6 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.88%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 35 (30.70%) Terraform
2 20 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 15 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.26%) SCCM
5 5 (4.39%) Ansible
6 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.04%) VMware
3 6 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 6 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 6 (5.26%) SonicWALL
3 6 (5.26%) Tenable
4 5 (4.39%) Google
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle
5 4 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.63%) Cisco
6 3 (2.63%) F5
6 3 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.75%) EMC
8 1 (0.88%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.88%) New Relic
8 1 (0.88%) Qualys