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 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 594 650
Rank change year-on-year +50 +56 +212
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 124 106 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 105 69 122
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,300 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,641
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +3.77% +4.40%
75th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +18.81%

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 58,910 47,011 69,257
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 91.97% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 36,785 24,356 54,349
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +79 111 £75,000 +15.38% 14
UK excluding London +51 83 £72,500 +11.54% 14
Work from Home +56 53 £78,755 +21.16% 6
London +49 31 £80,000 +14.29% 5
North of England +8 27 £82,511 +16.22% 1
East of England +31 17 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Midlands +32 15 £50,000 -6.19% 1
West Midlands +37 14 £50,000 -6.19% 1
South East +14 12 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North West +5 10 £83,755 +16.34%
Yorkshire -19 10 £82,511 +73.71%
North East - 7 £82,511 - 1
Scotland -3 6 £48,000 -12.73%
South West 0 5 £62,500 -13.79% 2
Wales +1 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -13 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 February 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.

1 123 (99.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 74 (59.68%) Azure
3 43 (34.68%) Terraform
4 39 (31.45%) Firewall
5 36 (29.03%) VPN
6 35 (28.23%) DNS
7 34 (27.42%) AWS
8 32 (25.81%) Microsoft
8 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (24.19%) Active Directory
9 30 (24.19%) Windows
10 28 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (20.16%) Migration
12 24 (19.35%) Kubernetes
13 23 (18.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (18.55%) PowerShell
14 22 (17.74%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (16.94%) Microsoft Intune
16 20 (16.13%) VMware
17 19 (15.32%) DevOps
17 19 (15.32%) Mentoring
18 17 (13.71%) CI/CD
18 17 (13.71%) IaaS
18 17 (13.71%) Roadmaps
18 17 (13.71%) Windows Server
19 16 (12.90%) Coaching
19 16 (12.90%) DHCP
19 16 (12.90%) GitLab
19 16 (12.90%) SQL
19 16 (12.90%) Technical Leadership

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 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.84%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 74 (59.68%) Azure
2 34 (27.42%) AWS
3 28 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (13.71%) IaaS
5 15 (12.10%) Entra ID
5 15 (12.10%) SaaS
6 14 (11.29%) Datadog
6 14 (11.29%) PaaS
7 9 (7.26%) GCP
7 9 (7.26%) Serverless
8 6 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (4.84%) Azure Storage
9 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.03%) GitHub
10 4 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (31.45%) Firewall
2 36 (29.03%) VPN
3 35 (28.23%) DNS
4 16 (12.90%) DHCP
5 12 (9.68%) WAN
6 11 (8.87%) VLAN
7 10 (8.06%) SAN
7 10 (8.06%) SD-WAN
8 8 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (4.84%) SSL
10 5 (4.03%) Network Security
11 4 (3.23%) TCP/IP
12 3 (2.42%) DMZ
12 3 (2.42%) STUN
12 3 (2.42%) VoIP
13 2 (1.61%) LAN
13 2 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.87%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (12.90%) GitLab
2 13 (10.48%) Git
3 8 (6.45%) Chocolatey
4 5 (4.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.42%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.42%) JIRA
6 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (14.52%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.29%) Banking
3 13 (10.48%) Finance
4 12 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.84%) Law
6 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.42%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (2.42%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (2.42%) Middleware
2 2 (1.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (4.84%) CMDB
2 6 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.42%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.19%) Windows
2 17 (13.71%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.65%) Linux
4 4 (3.23%) VMS
5 3 (2.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (99.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (20.16%) Migration
4 23 (18.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (17.74%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (15.32%) DevOps
6 19 (15.32%) Mentoring
7 17 (13.71%) CI/CD
7 17 (13.71%) Roadmaps
8 16 (12.90%) Coaching
8 16 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (12.10%) Agile
10 13 (10.48%) ITIL
11 12 (9.68%) Architecture Roadmap
12 11 (8.87%) Cloud Security
13 10 (8.06%) High Availability
14 9 (7.26%) Containerisation
14 9 (7.26%) Identity Access Management
15 8 (6.45%) Analytical Thinking
15 8 (6.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.55%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.90%) SQL
3 14 (11.29%) Python
4 8 (6.45%) Bash
5 5 (4.03%) Bicep
6 3 (2.42%) Java
7 2 (1.61%) Go
8 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (11.29%) Azure Certification
2 13 (10.48%) Degree
3 8 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.61%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.61%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) SLA
2 5 (4.03%) GDPR
3 4 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.42%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (24.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.29%) Docker
3 9 (7.26%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (5.65%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.81%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.81%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 43 (34.68%) Terraform
2 24 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 21 (16.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (7.26%) Ansible
5 8 (6.45%) SCCM
6 3 (2.42%) Grafana
6 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.81%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.13%) VMware
3 8 (6.45%) AppDynamics
3 8 (6.45%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.45%) Tenable
4 6 (4.84%) SonicWALL
5 5 (4.03%) Cisco
6 4 (3.23%) Oracle
7 3 (2.42%) Citrix
7 3 (2.42%) F5
7 3 (2.42%) Google
7 3 (2.42%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.61%) EMC
8 2 (1.61%) iManage
8 2 (1.61%) Intapp
9 1 (0.81%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.81%) New Relic
9 1 (0.81%) Qualys
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce