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 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 592 650
Rank change year-on-year +43 +58 +203
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 125 106 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 107 69 123
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,300 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +3.53% +4.64%
75th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £74,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% +25.00%

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 62,327 44,730 70,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 91.49% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 39,291 23,468 55,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,235 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,230
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 £73,750
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% -4.76%

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 19 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 17 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 February 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 +31 111 £75,000 +15.38% 10
UK excluding London +33 83 £72,500 +11.54% 8
Work from Home +58 55 £75,000 +15.38% 4
London +26 33 £80,000 +14.29% 5
North of England -14 29 £82,511 +14.61% 2
East of England +23 15 £87,500 +34.62% 1
Midlands +6 15 £50,000 +0.70% 1
West Midlands +25 14 £50,000 +0.70% 1
South East +6 11 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire -30 10 £82,511 +65.02%
North East - 10 £63,755 -
North West -2 9 £85,000 +18.07% 2
Scotland -10 5 £48,000 -12.73%
South West -11 4 £62,500 -13.79% 1
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
Wales -4 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -23 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 February 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.

1 124 (99.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 75 (60.00%) Azure
3 45 (36.00%) Terraform
4 40 (32.00%) Firewall
5 37 (29.60%) VPN
6 36 (28.80%) AWS
7 35 (28.00%) Microsoft
7 35 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (27.20%) DNS
9 30 (24.00%) Active Directory
10 29 (23.20%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (22.40%) Windows
12 27 (21.60%) Kubernetes
13 25 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (20.00%) PowerShell
14 24 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (19.20%) Migration
15 23 (18.40%) VMware
16 22 (17.60%) IaaS
17 21 (16.80%) DevOps
17 21 (16.80%) Microsoft Intune
18 20 (16.00%) Mentoring
19 18 (14.40%) Azure Certification
19 18 (14.40%) CI/CD
19 18 (14.40%) SQL
20 17 (13.60%) Agile
20 17 (13.60%) Docker
21 16 (12.80%) DHCP
21 16 (12.80%) Entra ID
21 16 (12.80%) GitLab

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 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.80%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 75 (60.00%) Azure
2 36 (28.80%) AWS
3 29 (23.20%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (17.60%) IaaS
5 16 (12.80%) Entra ID
5 16 (12.80%) SaaS
6 15 (12.00%) Datadog
7 14 (11.20%) PaaS
8 11 (8.80%) Serverless
9 10 (8.00%) GCP
10 7 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.80%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.80%) Azure Storage
11 6 (4.80%) GitHub
12 4 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 40 (32.00%) Firewall
2 37 (29.60%) VPN
3 34 (27.20%) DNS
4 16 (12.80%) DHCP
5 13 (10.40%) VLAN
6 12 (9.60%) WAN
7 10 (8.00%) SAN
7 10 (8.00%) SD-WAN
8 8 (6.40%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (4.80%) SSL
10 5 (4.00%) DMZ
10 5 (4.00%) Network Security
10 5 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (4.00%) STUN
10 5 (4.00%) VoIP
11 4 (3.20%) TCP/IP
12 2 (1.60%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.40%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.20%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (12.80%) GitLab
2 14 (11.20%) Git
3 8 (6.40%) Chocolatey
4 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (3.20%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.40%) JIRA
General
1 24 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.20%) Banking
3 12 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.60%) Finance
4 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.80%) Law
5 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Legal
6 3 (2.40%) Military
7 2 (1.60%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.40%) Kafka
3 3 (2.40%) Middleware
4 1 (0.80%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.80%) CMDB
3 6 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.40%) Replication
6 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.40%) Windows
2 15 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.20%) Linux
4 5 (4.00%) Debian
5 3 (2.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (99.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (19.20%) Migration
5 21 (16.80%) DevOps
6 20 (16.00%) Mentoring
7 18 (14.40%) CI/CD
8 17 (13.60%) Agile
9 16 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (12.00%) Coaching
11 13 (10.40%) High Availability
11 13 (10.40%) ITIL
11 13 (10.40%) Roadmaps
12 12 (9.60%) Architecture Roadmap
12 12 (9.60%) Containerisation
13 10 (8.00%) AI
13 10 (8.00%) Cloud Security
14 8 (6.40%) Computer Science
14 8 (6.40%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 18 (14.40%) SQL
3 16 (12.80%) Python
4 11 (8.80%) Bash
5 4 (3.20%) Bicep
6 3 (2.40%) Go
6 3 (2.40%) Java
7 1 (0.80%) C#
7 1 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (14.40%) Azure Certification
2 13 (10.40%) Degree
3 8 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.40%) CCNP
5 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.40%) MCSE
5 3 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.60%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.60%) SLA
2 6 (4.80%) GDPR
3 4 (3.20%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.20%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (13.60%) Docker
3 9 (7.20%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (5.60%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.40%) KVM
6 3 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.80%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 45 (36.00%) Terraform
2 27 (21.60%) Kubernetes
3 21 (16.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (9.60%) Ansible
5 8 (6.40%) SCCM
6 4 (3.20%) Grafana
6 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.80%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.40%) VMware
3 8 (6.40%) AppDynamics
3 8 (6.40%) Cisco
3 8 (6.40%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.40%) Tenable
4 6 (4.80%) SonicWALL
5 4 (3.20%) Oracle
6 3 (2.40%) Citrix
6 3 (2.40%) F5
6 3 (2.40%) Google
6 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.40%) Veeam
6 3 (2.40%) Zerto
7 2 (1.60%) EMC
7 2 (1.60%) iManage
7 2 (1.60%) Intapp
8 1 (0.80%) Apple
8 1 (0.80%) New Relic