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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 558 610
Rank change year-on-year +22 +52 +253
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 96 184 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.28% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.30% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 75 130 94
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,938 £70,938
90th Percentile £86,253 £90,000 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.92% +13.04% +10.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,825 61,698 48,588
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.27% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30,770 34,403 37,837
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,416 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% -0.16% -

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 30 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 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 30 November 2025. 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 +19 82 £75,000 +15.38% 23
UK excluding London +23 66 £63,750 -1.92% 24
Work from Home +67 40 £60,000 -4.00% 12
London +46 22 £75,000 +11.11% 5
North of England +44 22 £72,505 +11.55% 3
East of England +29 16 £75,000 +15.38% 4
North West +48 12 £50,000 -23.08% 3
West Midlands +45 8 £56,750 -12.69% 3
Midlands +40 8 £56,750 -9.20% 3
Scotland +11 8 £48,000 -12.73%
Yorkshire +6 7 £85,000 +78.95%
South East +26 6 £52,500 -19.23% 12
South West +14 6 £62,500 -3.85% 2
North East +11 3 £85,000 +21.43%

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 2025, 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 96 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (72.92%) Azure
3 43 (44.79%) Windows
4 37 (38.54%) Terraform
5 35 (36.46%) Windows Server
6 26 (27.08%) Cloud Security
6 26 (27.08%) VPN
7 24 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 24 (25.00%) Firewall
7 24 (25.00%) Kubernetes
8 23 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (23.96%) Roadmaps
9 22 (22.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (22.92%) Microsoft
9 22 (22.92%) PowerShell
10 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (20.83%) SQL
12 19 (19.79%) Cost Management
12 19 (19.79%) DevOps
12 19 (19.79%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (18.75%) Migration
13 18 (18.75%) Power Platform
14 17 (17.71%) DNS
15 16 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
16 15 (15.63%) PowerApps
17 14 (14.58%) AWS
17 14 (14.58%) CI/CD
17 14 (14.58%) Python
18 13 (13.54%) Disaster Recovery
18 13 (13.54%) IaaS

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 23 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.25%) IIS
3 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (72.92%) Azure
2 22 (22.92%) Azure Logic Apps
3 18 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 15 (15.63%) PowerApps
5 14 (14.58%) AWS
6 13 (13.54%) IaaS
7 12 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (11.46%) GCP
9 10 (10.42%) PaaS
10 7 (7.29%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (6.25%) Azure Storage
12 5 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (5.21%) SaaS
12 5 (5.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (4.17%) Azure App Service
13 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (4.17%) Datadog
13 4 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (27.08%) VPN
2 24 (25.00%) Firewall
3 17 (17.71%) DNS
4 13 (13.54%) WAN
5 10 (10.42%) SD-WAN
6 6 (6.25%) SSL
6 6 (6.25%) VLAN
7 5 (5.21%) DMZ
7 5 (5.21%) Network Security
7 5 (5.21%) STUN
7 5 (5.21%) VoIP
8 4 (4.17%) DHCP
9 3 (3.13%) LAN
10 2 (2.08%) SAN
11 1 (1.04%) NAS
11 1 (1.04%) SNMP
11 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) GitLab
2 5 (5.21%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.04%) Chocolatey
5 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
General
1 14 (14.58%) Finance
2 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Law
4 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Automotive
5 3 (3.13%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.08%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.04%) Middleware
3 1 (1.04%) OAuth
3 1 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) CMDB
1 6 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 6 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.21%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (44.79%) Windows
2 35 (36.46%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.42%) Linux
4 6 (6.25%) VMS
5 5 (5.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (27.08%) Cloud Security
3 23 (23.96%) Roadmaps
4 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (19.79%) Cost Management
5 19 (19.79%) DevOps
5 19 (19.79%) Performance Optimisation
6 18 (18.75%) Migration
7 16 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
8 14 (14.58%) CI/CD
9 13 (13.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (9.38%) Coaching
12 7 (7.29%) Capacity Planning
13 6 (6.25%) Proactive Monitoring
13 6 (6.25%) Storage Management
14 5 (5.21%) Architecture Roadmap
14 5 (5.21%) Cloud Operations
14 5 (5.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.92%) PowerShell
2 20 (20.83%) SQL
3 14 (14.58%) Python
4 5 (5.21%) Bicep
5 4 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (1.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.17%) Degree
3 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.21%) ISO 9001
2 5 (5.21%) SLA
3 3 (3.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.46%) Hyper-V
3 9 (9.38%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (8.33%) Docker
5 5 (5.21%) Kamailio
5 5 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.04%) Terminal Server
7 1 (1.04%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 37 (38.54%) Terraform
2 24 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (5.21%) Ansible
5 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.04%) Grafana
5 1 (1.04%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.04%) Istio
5 1 (1.04%) Kibana
5 1 (1.04%) linkerd
5 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.46%) VMware
3 6 (6.25%) Google
3 6 (6.25%) SonicWALL
4 5 (5.21%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.17%) F5
6 3 (3.13%) Cisco
6 3 (3.13%) Oracle
6 3 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.08%) EMC
8 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.04%) Citrix
8 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.04%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.04%) New Relic
8 1 (1.04%) OneLogin
8 1 (1.04%) Splunk
8 1 (1.04%) Tenable