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 10 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 563 735
Rank change year-on-year +1 +172 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 151 83 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 131 65 136
10th Percentile £42,750 £44,382 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +21.74% -9.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -

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 84,643 39,171 91,241
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 89.53% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,266 23,359 67,069
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +31 145 £70,000 - 20
UK excluding London +1 109 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Work from Home +25 44 £75,000 +20.00% 8
London +5 39 £80,000 - 6
North of England -38 27 £80,000 +21.22%
South East -8 25 £65,000 +36.84% 7
East of England +9 23 £70,000 - 3
Midlands -8 16 £50,000 +8.70% 1
West Midlands -17 15 £50,000 +8.70% 1
Yorkshire -49 13 £80,000 +52.38%
South West -51 12 £85,000 +17.24% 4
North East - 8 £45,000 -
North West -4 6 £83,755 +16.34%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -27 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -30 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 140 (92.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 81 (53.64%) Azure
3 47 (31.13%) AWS
4 42 (27.81%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (27.15%) Microsoft
6 37 (24.50%) Terraform
7 29 (19.21%) Active Directory
8 28 (18.54%) Firewall
9 27 (17.88%) DNS
9 27 (17.88%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (17.22%) VMware
11 24 (15.89%) DevOps
11 24 (15.89%) Windows
12 23 (15.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (15.23%) Mentoring
13 22 (14.57%) IaaS
13 22 (14.57%) VPN
14 21 (13.91%) Agile
15 19 (12.58%) Docker
15 19 (12.58%) GitLab
15 19 (12.58%) High Availability
15 19 (12.58%) SaaS
16 18 (11.92%) Disaster Recovery
16 18 (11.92%) Entra ID
16 18 (11.92%) PowerShell
17 17 (11.26%) Azure Certification
17 17 (11.26%) Datadog
18 16 (10.60%) Kubernetes
18 16 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
19 15 (9.93%) Git

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 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.99%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 81 (53.64%) Azure
2 47 (31.13%) AWS
3 27 (17.88%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (14.57%) IaaS
5 19 (12.58%) SaaS
6 18 (11.92%) Entra ID
7 17 (11.26%) Datadog
8 14 (9.27%) Serverless
9 12 (7.95%) PaaS
10 9 (5.96%) OCI
11 7 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.64%) GCP
12 6 (3.97%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (3.31%) Nutanix
14 4 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (2.65%) Azure AKS
15 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.99%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 28 (18.54%) Firewall
2 27 (17.88%) DNS
3 22 (14.57%) VPN
4 13 (8.61%) DHCP
4 13 (8.61%) VLAN
5 11 (7.28%) SAN
6 8 (5.30%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (3.31%) DMZ
7 5 (3.31%) Network Security
7 5 (3.31%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (3.31%) STUN
7 5 (3.31%) VoIP
8 4 (2.65%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.66%) VSAN
9 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.93%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.97%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (12.58%) GitLab
2 15 (9.93%) Git
3 8 (5.30%) Chocolatey
3 8 (5.30%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.97%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (15.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.93%) Banking
3 14 (9.27%) Finance
4 13 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.64%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Legal
8 3 (1.99%) Advertising
8 3 (1.99%) Military
9 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (3.31%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (3.31%) Kafka
3 2 (1.32%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.32%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.32%) Middleware
4 1 (0.66%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (5.30%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.31%) Replication
5 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.99%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.66%) Clustering
7 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.89%) Windows
2 14 (9.27%) Linux
3 12 (7.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.31%) Debian
5 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (92.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (27.81%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (15.89%) DevOps
4 23 (15.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (15.23%) Mentoring
5 21 (13.91%) Agile
6 19 (12.58%) High Availability
7 18 (11.92%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (9.27%) CI/CD
10 13 (8.61%) AI
10 13 (8.61%) Migration
11 12 (7.95%) Architecture Roadmap
11 12 (7.95%) Coaching
11 12 (7.95%) Containerisation
11 12 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (7.95%) Roadmaps
12 11 (7.28%) Cloud Security
13 10 (6.62%) ITIL
14 9 (5.96%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.92%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.93%) Python
3 14 (9.27%) Bash
4 11 (7.28%) SQL
5 5 (3.31%) Go
6 3 (1.99%) Bicep
6 3 (1.99%) Java
7 2 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (11.26%) Azure Certification
2 10 (6.62%) Degree
3 8 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.64%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.97%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.31%) CCNP
6 5 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.31%) MCSE
6 5 (3.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) IISP
7 1 (0.66%) ISACA
7 1 (0.66%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) PCI DSS
2 8 (5.30%) GDPR
2 8 (5.30%) SLA
3 6 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.97%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.66%) NIST
5 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 29 (19.21%) Active Directory
2 19 (12.58%) Docker
3 11 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.31%) KVM
6 4 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.32%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (24.50%) Terraform
2 16 (10.60%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (9.27%) Ansible
5 8 (5.30%) SCCM
6 7 (4.64%) Grafana
6 7 (4.64%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.99%) Nagios
8 1 (0.66%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (27.15%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.22%) VMware
3 9 (5.96%) Oracle
4 8 (5.30%) AppDynamics
4 8 (5.30%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.30%) Tenable
5 5 (3.31%) Cisco
5 5 (3.31%) Veeam
5 5 (3.31%) Zerto
6 3 (1.99%) Citrix
6 3 (1.99%) iManage
6 3 (1.99%) Intapp
7 2 (1.32%) Apple
7 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.66%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.66%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.66%) Qualys
8 1 (0.66%) SAP