Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 592 612
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 196 97 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 166 76 156
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,438 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,875 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 100,469 44,986 78,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 89.94% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 68,644 26,650 52,502
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -1 183 £65,000 -7.14% 11
UK excluding London -4 164 £65,000 +4.00% 12
South East +1 55 £65,000 +36.84% 2
Work from Home -4 49 £60,000 +26.32% 9
London -47 31 £85,000 +13.33% 2
South West -49 31 £60,000 +4.35% 1
North of England -42 30 £65,000 +26.83% 7
Yorkshire -11 22 £80,000 +52.38% 3
East of England -33 20 £55,000 -26.67%
Midlands -16 16 £55,000 +19.57% 1
West Midlands -17 16 £55,000 +19.57% 1
Wales - 8 £57,500 - 1
North East - 5 £47,000 - 2
North West -20 3 £60,000 +37.93% 2
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
Scotland -1 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 August 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.

1 170 (86.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 94 (47.96%) Azure
3 50 (25.51%) Microsoft
4 37 (18.88%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (16.33%) AWS
5 32 (16.33%) VMware
6 28 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 28 (14.29%) Oracle
7 26 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
7 26 (13.27%) Terraform
8 25 (12.76%) DevOps
8 25 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (11.73%) Active Directory
10 22 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (10.20%) Linux
11 20 (10.20%) OCI
12 19 (9.69%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (9.69%) Project Delivery
12 19 (9.69%) Windows
13 18 (9.18%) Firewall
14 17 (8.67%) PowerShell
14 17 (8.67%) VPN
15 16 (8.16%) Cloud Operations
15 16 (8.16%) DNS
15 16 (8.16%) Docker
16 15 (7.65%) CI/CD
16 15 (7.65%) VMware Infrastructure
17 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
18 12 (6.12%) Cloud Security

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 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.55%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 94 (47.96%) Azure
2 37 (18.88%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (16.33%) AWS
4 28 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.20%) OCI
6 12 (6.12%) SaaS
7 11 (5.61%) PaaS
8 10 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (5.10%) IaaS
9 9 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.59%) Datadog
10 8 (4.08%) GCP
10 8 (4.08%) Serverless
11 6 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.55%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.18%) Firewall
2 17 (8.67%) VPN
3 16 (8.16%) DNS
4 9 (4.59%) DHCP
5 6 (3.06%) VLAN
6 5 (2.55%) SAN
7 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.53%) WAN
8 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.02%) VoIP
8 2 (1.02%) Wireless
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.51%) DMZ
9 1 (0.51%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.51%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (0.51%) STUN
9 1 (0.51%) VSAN
9 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.04%) GitLab
1 4 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.02%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.51%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 19 (9.69%) Finance
2 16 (8.16%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.08%) Law
4 7 (3.57%) Banking
5 6 (3.06%) Aerospace
5 6 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.06%) Legal
6 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.51%) Advertising
7 1 (0.51%) Automotive
7 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.53%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.02%) Kafka
5 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.51%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (0.51%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.12%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.06%) Replication
6 5 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.53%) CMDB
8 3 (1.53%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.02%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Clustering
10 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.20%) Linux
2 19 (9.69%) Windows
3 12 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Debian
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (86.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
3 25 (12.76%) DevOps
3 25 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (9.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (9.69%) Project Delivery
6 16 (8.16%) Cloud Operations
7 15 (7.65%) CI/CD
8 12 (6.12%) Cloud Security
9 11 (5.61%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (5.61%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (5.61%) Identity Management
10 10 (5.10%) High Availability
10 10 (5.10%) ITIL
10 10 (5.10%) Migration
11 9 (4.59%) Agile
11 9 (4.59%) AI
12 8 (4.08%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.67%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.61%) Python
3 9 (4.59%) Bash
3 9 (4.59%) SQL
4 7 (3.57%) Bicep
5 2 (1.02%) Go
6 1 (0.51%) C#
6 1 (0.51%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.04%) Degree
3 4 (2.04%) MCSE
3 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.53%) CCNP
4 3 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) SSCP
6 1 (0.51%) CCNA
6 1 (0.51%) IISP
6 1 (0.51%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.55%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.02%) GDPR
4 2 (1.02%) QA
4 2 (1.02%) SLA
4 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (11.73%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.16%) Docker
3 15 (7.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.12%) Hyper-V
5 11 (5.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (4.08%) VMware Server
6 8 (4.08%) vSphere
7 5 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.53%) KVM
9 2 (1.02%) Lustre
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (13.27%) Terraform
2 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (5.10%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.08%) Ansible
5 5 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.04%) Grafana
6 4 (2.04%) Nagios
6 4 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.02%) Argo
7 2 (1.02%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.02%) Puppet
7 2 (1.02%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (25.51%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.33%) VMware
3 28 (14.29%) Oracle
4 7 (3.57%) Veeam
5 5 (2.55%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (2.04%) Cisco
7 3 (1.53%) ConnectWise
7 3 (1.53%) Meraki
7 3 (1.53%) Zerto
8 2 (1.02%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.02%) EMC
8 2 (1.02%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.02%) Sophos
9 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.51%) Apple
9 1 (0.51%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.51%) Google
9 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.51%) SAP