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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 585 598
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 210 88 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 171 66 141
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,500 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 108,269 43,856 72,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.61% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,176 25,746 43,293
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £74,100
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 15 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 22 September 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 -10 193 £65,000 -7.14% 99
UK excluding London -25 171 £60,000 -4.00% 61
South East +3 54 £65,000 - 17
Work from Home -19 54 £60,000 +20.00% 34
London -55 37 £83,500 +11.33% 40
South West -49 31 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North of England -51 31 £62,500 +68.92% 19
Midlands -26 23 £55,000 +19.57% 11
West Midlands -30 23 £55,000 +19.57% 5
Yorkshire -25 20 £80,000 +66.67% 3
East of England -29 17 £40,000 -46.67% 2
Wales - 11 £60,000 - 2
North West -45 6 £60,000 +62.16% 12
North East - 5 £47,000 - 4
Scotland 0 4 £100,000 +108.33% 6

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 189 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 104 (49.52%) Azure
3 58 (27.62%) Microsoft
4 43 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (17.14%) Entra ID
7 35 (16.67%) AWS
8 34 (16.19%) Terraform
9 33 (15.71%) VMware
10 32 (15.24%) DevOps
11 28 (13.33%) Firewall
12 27 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (12.86%) Windows
13 26 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (11.90%) Active Directory
14 25 (11.90%) Oracle
14 25 (11.90%) PowerShell
15 24 (11.43%) VPN
16 23 (10.95%) Disaster Recovery
17 22 (10.48%) DNS
17 22 (10.48%) Linux
17 22 (10.48%) Microsoft Intune
17 22 (10.48%) Project Delivery
18 21 (10.00%) CI/CD
19 20 (9.52%) Cloud Security
20 18 (8.57%) ITIL
20 18 (8.57%) Python
21 17 (8.10%) Docker
21 17 (8.10%) OCI

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 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.38%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 104 (49.52%) Azure
2 43 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (17.14%) Entra ID
4 35 (16.67%) AWS
5 17 (8.10%) OCI
6 16 (7.62%) PaaS
7 15 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.14%) SaaS
8 14 (6.67%) IaaS
9 12 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (5.24%) GCP
11 10 (4.76%) Serverless
12 8 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.81%) Datadog
13 7 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.86%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.33%) Firewall
2 24 (11.43%) VPN
3 22 (10.48%) DNS
4 12 (5.71%) DHCP
5 7 (3.33%) SAN
5 7 (3.33%) VLAN
6 5 (2.38%) WAN
7 3 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.95%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.95%) Wireless
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.48%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (0.48%) VoIP
9 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Chocolatey
1 3 (1.43%) GitLab
1 3 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.48%) Git
General
1 23 (10.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.00%) Finance
3 11 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.76%) Law
5 8 (3.81%) Banking
6 6 (2.86%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.38%) Legal
8 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.48%) Advertising
9 1 (0.48%) Automotive
9 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (16.19%) Terraform
2 7 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.43%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.48%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 12 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.90%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.43%) CMDB
8 3 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.43%) Replication
9 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.48%) Clustering
10 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.86%) Windows
2 22 (10.48%) Linux
3 17 (8.10%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.38%) VMS
5 3 (1.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (15.24%) DevOps
4 27 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (10.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (10.48%) Project Delivery
8 21 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 20 (9.52%) Cloud Security
10 18 (8.57%) ITIL
11 16 (7.62%) Cloud Operations
11 16 (7.62%) Migration
12 14 (6.67%) Identity Management
13 13 (6.19%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (5.71%) AI
15 11 (5.24%) Cost Optimisation
16 10 (4.76%) Incident Response
16 10 (4.76%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.90%) PowerShell
2 18 (8.57%) Python
3 12 (5.71%) Bash
4 9 (4.29%) Bicep
4 9 (4.29%) SQL
5 1 (0.48%) C#
5 1 (0.48%) Java
5 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 7 (3.33%) Degree
2 7 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.95%) SSCP
5 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.48%) CCNA
5 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.48%) IISP
5 1 (0.48%) ISACA
5 1 (0.48%) MCSE
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.38%) SLA
3 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.43%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.43%) QA
5 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (11.90%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.10%) Docker
3 13 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.71%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (3.81%) VMware Server
5 8 (3.81%) vSphere
6 7 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.95%) Lustre
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (10.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (3.33%) Ansible
5 4 (1.90%) Nagios
6 3 (1.43%) Grafana
6 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.43%) Puppet
6 3 (1.43%) SCCM
7 2 (0.95%) Argo
7 2 (0.95%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.95%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 58 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.71%) VMware
3 25 (11.90%) Oracle
4 5 (2.38%) Fortinet
4 5 (2.38%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (1.90%) Google
5 4 (1.90%) Veeam
6 3 (1.43%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.43%) Cisco
6 3 (1.43%) ConnectWise
6 3 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.43%) Meraki
6 3 (1.43%) Tenable
7 2 (0.95%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.95%) EMC
7 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.95%) Sophos
8 1 (0.48%) Apple
8 1 (0.48%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat