Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 598 641
Rank change year-on-year +65 +43 +196
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 116 114 129
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 98 75 111
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,625 £97,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £58,750 £53,000
% change year-on-year +19.15% +10.85% +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 57,468 48,384 64,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 92.28% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 35,727 24,872 50,479
10th Percentile £28,785 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,648 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 29 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 29 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 +59 103 £75,000 +15.38% 20
UK excluding London +33 78 £70,000 +19.15% 21
Work from Home +58 49 £82,511 +29.43% 17
London +40 28 £80,000 +14.29% 5
North of England +18 27 £82,511 +16.22% 4
Midlands +15 14 £50,000 +11.11% 2
West Midlands +39 13 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East of England +31 13 £100,000 +53.85% 3
South East +18 12 £60,000 -7.69% 6
North West +25 11 £82,511 +14.61% 2
Yorkshire -16 10 £82,511 +73.71% 1
Scotland -2 6 £48,000 -12.73% 1
North East - 6 £83,755 - 1
South West -3 5 £62,500 -1.96% 3
Wales +6 1 £55,000 +12.01% 1
East Midlands -13 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 115 (99.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (57.76%) Azure
3 40 (34.48%) Terraform
4 36 (31.03%) Firewall
4 36 (31.03%) VPN
5 33 (28.45%) DNS
6 31 (26.72%) AWS
7 30 (25.86%) Windows
8 29 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (23.28%) Active Directory
9 27 (23.28%) Microsoft
10 25 (21.55%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (21.55%) Migration
11 22 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (18.97%) Kubernetes
12 21 (18.10%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (18.10%) PowerShell
13 20 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (15.52%) DevOps
14 18 (15.52%) VMware
15 17 (14.66%) IaaS
15 17 (14.66%) Roadmaps
15 17 (14.66%) Windows Server
16 16 (13.79%) Coaching
17 15 (12.93%) Agile
17 15 (12.93%) Mentoring
17 15 (12.93%) SaaS
18 14 (12.07%) CI/CD
18 14 (12.07%) DHCP
18 14 (12.07%) 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 10 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.17%) IIS
2 6 (5.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 67 (57.76%) Azure
2 31 (26.72%) AWS
3 25 (21.55%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (14.66%) IaaS
5 15 (12.93%) SaaS
6 14 (12.07%) PaaS
7 12 (10.34%) Datadog
7 12 (10.34%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.03%) GCP
9 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.17%) Azure Storage
9 6 (5.17%) Serverless
10 5 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.31%) GitHub
11 4 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (31.03%) Firewall
1 36 (31.03%) VPN
2 33 (28.45%) DNS
3 14 (12.07%) DHCP
4 12 (10.34%) WAN
5 11 (9.48%) VLAN
6 10 (8.62%) SAN
6 10 (8.62%) SD-WAN
7 8 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (5.17%) SSL
9 4 (3.45%) Network Security
10 3 (2.59%) DMZ
10 3 (2.59%) STUN
10 3 (2.59%) VoIP
11 2 (1.72%) LAN
11 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (12.07%) GitLab
2 13 (11.21%) Git
3 8 (6.90%) Chocolatey
4 3 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.59%) JIRA
5 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 15 (12.93%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.07%) Banking
3 13 (11.21%) Finance
4 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.17%) Law
6 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Advertising
9 1 (0.86%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (2.59%) Middleware
2 1 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (5.17%) CMDB
2 6 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.86%) Windows
2 17 (14.66%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.03%) Linux
4 4 (3.45%) VMS
5 3 (2.59%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (99.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (21.55%) Migration
4 22 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (15.52%) DevOps
7 17 (14.66%) Roadmaps
8 16 (13.79%) Coaching
9 15 (12.93%) Agile
9 15 (12.93%) Mentoring
10 14 (12.07%) CI/CD
10 14 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (11.21%) ITIL
12 12 (10.34%) Architecture Roadmap
13 11 (9.48%) Cloud Security
14 9 (7.76%) Identity Access Management
15 8 (6.90%) Analytical Thinking
15 8 (6.90%) Computer Science
15 8 (6.90%) ITSM
15 8 (6.90%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.10%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.07%) SQL
3 10 (8.62%) Python
4 5 (4.31%) Bicep
5 4 (3.45%) Bash
6 1 (0.86%) Java
6 1 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Azure Certification
1 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 8 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.72%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.72%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) SLA
2 5 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.72%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (23.28%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.48%) Docker
3 9 (7.76%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (6.03%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.72%) Kamailio
7 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.86%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 40 (34.48%) Terraform
2 22 (18.97%) Kubernetes
3 21 (18.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (6.90%) SCCM
5 7 (6.03%) Ansible
6 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.86%) Grafana
6 1 (0.86%) Kibana
6 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.52%) VMware
3 8 (6.90%) AppDynamics
3 8 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.90%) Tenable
4 6 (5.17%) SonicWALL
5 4 (3.45%) Cisco
5 4 (3.45%) Oracle
6 3 (2.59%) F5
6 3 (2.59%) Google
6 3 (2.59%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.72%) EMC
7 2 (1.72%) iManage
7 2 (1.72%) Intapp
7 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.86%) Citrix
8 1 (0.86%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.86%) New Relic
8 1 (0.86%) Qualys