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 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 561 626
Rank change year-on-year -14 +65 +221
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 91 197 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 70 144 92
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,375 £43,100
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile - £71,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +17.92%

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 45,855 63,874 51,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.02% 94.86% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 28,423 35,882 39,632
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,436 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 9 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 9 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 75 £75,000 +15.38% 45
UK excluding London -4 61 £65,000 - 38
Work from Home +47 35 £57,500 +1.77% 29
London +43 23 £75,000 +11.11% 17
North of England +19 19 £62,500 -3.85% 2
East of England +18 16 £75,000 +15.38% 4
North West +20 11 £50,000 -23.08%
Scotland +8 10 £48,000 -12.73% 1
South East +9 6 - - 16
Yorkshire +5 6 £85,000 +78.95% 2
Midlands +36 5 £55,000 -8.33% 11
West Midlands +29 5 £55,000 -15.38% 7
South West +17 5 £62,500 +2.04% 5
North East +7 2 £85,000 +21.43%

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 91 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (73.63%) Azure
3 46 (50.55%) Windows
4 40 (43.96%) Windows Server
5 35 (38.46%) Terraform
6 31 (34.07%) Cloud Security
7 28 (30.77%) Kubernetes
8 27 (29.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 24 (26.37%) Firewall
10 24 (26.37%) Microsoft
10 24 (26.37%) VPN
11 23 (25.27%) Active Directory
11 23 (25.27%) Cost Management
11 23 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (25.27%) Performance Optimisation
12 21 (23.08%) DevOps
12 21 (23.08%) Power Platform
12 21 (23.08%) PowerShell
13 20 (21.98%) SQL
14 18 (19.78%) PowerApps
14 18 (19.78%) Roadmaps
15 17 (18.68%) Migration
16 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
16 16 (17.58%) Python
16 16 (17.58%) Technology Roadmap
17 15 (16.48%) AWS
18 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
19 13 (14.29%) GCP
19 13 (14.29%) WAN

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 27 (29.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.59%) IIS
3 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 67 (73.63%) Azure
2 26 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 21 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 18 (19.78%) PowerApps
5 15 (16.48%) AWS
6 13 (14.29%) GCP
7 12 (13.19%) IaaS
8 10 (10.99%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (9.89%) PaaS
10 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.59%) Azure Storage
10 6 (6.59%) Entra ID
11 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (4.40%) GitHub
12 4 (4.40%) SaaS
12 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (26.37%) Firewall
1 24 (26.37%) VPN
2 13 (14.29%) WAN
3 11 (12.09%) DNS
4 10 (10.99%) SD-WAN
5 6 (6.59%) SSL
6 5 (5.49%) DMZ
6 5 (5.49%) STUN
6 5 (5.49%) VLAN
6 5 (5.49%) VoIP
7 4 (4.40%) Network Security
8 3 (3.30%) DHCP
8 3 (3.30%) LAN
9 1 (1.10%) NAS
9 1 (1.10%) SAN
9 1 (1.10%) SNMP
9 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) GitLab
2 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.10%) CircleCI
General
1 15 (16.48%) Finance
2 11 (12.09%) Law
2 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Automotive
4 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.40%) Marketing
6 2 (2.20%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (3.30%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.10%) OAuth
3 1 (1.10%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) CMDB
1 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
1 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.49%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (50.55%) Windows
2 40 (43.96%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.99%) Linux
4 6 (6.59%) VMS
5 5 (5.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (34.07%) Cloud Security
3 23 (25.27%) Cost Management
3 23 (25.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (25.27%) Performance Optimisation
4 21 (23.08%) DevOps
5 18 (19.78%) Roadmaps
6 17 (18.68%) Migration
7 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
7 16 (17.58%) Technology Roadmap
8 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (10.99%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (6.59%) Information Security
11 6 (6.59%) Proactive Monitoring
11 6 (6.59%) Storage Management
12 5 (5.49%) Cloud Operations
12 5 (5.49%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (5.49%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 20 (21.98%) SQL
3 16 (17.58%) Python
4 5 (5.49%) Bicep
5 4 (4.40%) Bash
6 1 (1.10%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.30%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.49%) ISO 9001
3 4 (4.40%) SLA
4 3 (3.30%) GDPR
5 2 (2.20%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (25.27%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.09%) Hyper-V
3 9 (9.89%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (8.79%) Docker
5 5 (5.49%) Kamailio
5 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.10%) Terminal Server
7 1 (1.10%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 35 (38.46%) Terraform
2 28 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (5.49%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
5 1 (1.10%) linkerd
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) VMware
3 6 (6.59%) Google
3 6 (6.59%) SonicWALL
4 5 (5.49%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.40%) F5
6 3 (3.30%) Cisco
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle
6 3 (3.30%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.20%) EMC
8 1 (1.10%) Citrix
8 1 (1.10%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.10%) New Relic
8 1 (1.10%) OneLogin
8 1 (1.10%) Splunk