Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 584 643
Rank change year-on-year -1 +59 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 183 94 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 156 73 160
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,688 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.45% +0.45%

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 97,263 44,589 81,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 90.05% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 66,554 26,541 55,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 15 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 1 August 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 +10 173 £65,000 -7.14% 31
UK excluding London +10 154 £65,000 +4.00% 25
South East +4 50 £65,000 +36.84% 9
Work from Home +8 46 £60,000 +26.32% 18
London -35 29 £81,750 +9.00% 10
South West -45 29 £80,000 +39.13% 5
North of England -29 27 £80,000 +52.38% 5
East of England -17 21 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire -14 18 £80,000 +52.38% 3
West Midlands -18 17 £55,000 +19.57% 2
Midlands -22 17 £55,000 +19.57% 2
North East - 6 £46,000 - 2
Wales - 5 £55,000 - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North West -13 3 £60,000 +11.63%

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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.

1 160 (87.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 89 (48.63%) Azure
3 49 (26.78%) Microsoft
4 34 (18.58%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (16.39%) AWS
5 30 (16.39%) VMware
6 28 (15.30%) Oracle
7 26 (14.21%) Entra ID
8 24 (13.11%) DevOps
8 24 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (13.11%) Terraform
9 23 (12.57%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (12.02%) Active Directory
10 22 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (11.48%) Linux
12 20 (10.93%) OCI
13 19 (10.38%) Docker
13 19 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (9.84%) PowerShell
15 17 (9.29%) Windows
16 16 (8.74%) Project Delivery
16 16 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
16 16 (8.74%) VPN
17 15 (8.20%) CI/CD
17 15 (8.20%) Cloud Operations
17 15 (8.20%) Firewall
18 14 (7.65%) DNS
18 14 (7.65%) High Availability
18 14 (7.65%) 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 10 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.73%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 89 (48.63%) Azure
2 34 (18.58%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (16.39%) AWS
4 26 (14.21%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.93%) OCI
6 14 (7.65%) IaaS
7 11 (6.01%) SaaS
7 11 (6.01%) Serverless
8 10 (5.46%) Datadog
9 9 (4.92%) PaaS
10 7 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.28%) GCP
12 5 (2.73%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.73%) Nutanix
13 4 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.19%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.64%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.74%) VPN
2 15 (8.20%) Firewall
3 14 (7.65%) DNS
4 7 (3.83%) DHCP
4 7 (3.83%) VLAN
5 4 (2.19%) SAN
5 4 (2.19%) VoIP
6 3 (1.64%) DMZ
6 3 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.64%) STUN
6 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.64%) WAN
7 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.09%) Wireless
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.55%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.55%) Network Security
8 1 (0.55%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.19%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.28%) GitLab
1 6 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.19%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.09%) Git
General
1 24 (13.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.74%) Finance
3 6 (3.28%) Aerospace
3 6 (3.28%) Legal
4 5 (2.73%) Law
5 4 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.64%) Banking
6 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Advertising
7 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.19%) Kafka
4 3 (1.64%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.64%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (1.09%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.55%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.56%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.37%) Replication
4 7 (3.83%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.64%) CMDB
7 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.48%) Linux
2 17 (9.29%) Windows
3 13 (7.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.64%) Debian
5 2 (1.09%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (87.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (13.11%) DevOps
2 24 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (12.57%) Platform Engineering
4 22 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (8.74%) Project Delivery
8 15 (8.20%) CI/CD
8 15 (8.20%) Cloud Operations
9 14 (7.65%) High Availability
10 11 (6.01%) Agile
10 11 (6.01%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (5.46%) Cloud Security
11 10 (5.46%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (5.46%) Mentoring
12 9 (4.92%) Containerisation
12 9 (4.92%) Customer Service
13 8 (4.37%) Load Balancing
14 7 (3.83%) AI
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.84%) PowerShell
2 13 (7.10%) SQL
3 12 (6.56%) Bash
3 12 (6.56%) Python
4 6 (3.28%) Bicep
5 4 (2.19%) Go
6 2 (1.09%) C#
6 2 (1.09%) Java
7 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.28%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (3.28%) MCSE
2 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (3.28%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.73%) CCNP
3 5 (2.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (1.09%) Degree
4 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.09%) SSCP
5 1 (0.55%) CCNA
5 1 (0.55%) IISP
5 1 (0.55%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (3.83%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.19%) GDPR
3 4 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.19%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.09%) QA
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (12.02%) Active Directory
2 19 (10.38%) Docker
3 16 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (4.37%) VMware Server
5 8 (4.37%) vSphere
6 6 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.73%) KVM
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (13.11%) Terraform
2 12 (6.56%) Ansible
2 12 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (3.28%) Grafana
4 6 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.19%) Nagios
7 2 (1.09%) Puppet
7 2 (1.09%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 49 (26.78%) Microsoft
2 30 (16.39%) VMware
3 28 (15.30%) Oracle
4 9 (4.92%) Veeam
5 6 (3.28%) Cisco
6 5 (2.73%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (2.73%) Zerto
7 3 (1.64%) ConnectWise
7 3 (1.64%) Meraki
8 2 (1.09%) Apple
8 2 (1.09%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.09%) EMC
8 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.09%) Sophos
9 1 (0.55%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.55%) iManage
9 1 (0.55%) Intapp
9 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.55%) SAP