Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 October 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 584 565
Rank change year-on-year -19 -19 +59
Permanent Cloud Infrastructure Engineer jobs 232 88 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.20% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 183 68 148
10th Percentile £45,150 £46,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,875 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,200 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
29 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 112,351 44,727 64,938
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.02% 90.11% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 75,241 26,876 36,920
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,974 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.63% -8.05% -4.76%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job postings 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 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer jobs over the 6 months to 29 October 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 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 29 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England -6 208 £65,000 -13.33% 17
UK excluding London -24 198 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Work from Home -12 65 £70,000 +21.74% 12
North of England -35 51 £60,000 -4.00% 2
South East -20 48 £65,000 - 6
Midlands -38 33 £55,000 - 4
South West -45 31 £52,500 -16.00% 4
London -51 31 £85,000 +13.33% 1
West Midlands -33 24 £55,000 - 2
North West -23 23 £60,000 +62.16% 2
Yorkshire -19 20 £71,603 -15.76%
East of England -50 14 £40,000 -46.67%
Wales - 11 £60,000 -
Scotland +8 10 £80,000 +66.67% 3
East Midlands - 9 - - 2
North East -67 8 £49,750 -41.47%

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

For the 6 months to 29 October 2026, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job ads cited 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 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Infrastructure Engineering92.2%214
2Azure46.6%108
3Microsoft26.3%61
4Microsoft 36520.3%47
5Infrastructure as Code19.8%46
6Entra ID16.4%38
7Terraform14.7%34
8AWS13.4%31
8PowerShell13.4%31
8VMware13.4%31
11Platform Engineering12.5%29
11Windows12.5%29
13DevOps12.1%28
13Firewall12.1%28
15Active Directory11.2%26
15Disaster Recovery11.2%26
15Linux11.2%26
18Cloud Security10.8%25
18Microsoft Intune10.8%25
18Problem-Solving10.8%25
18VPN10.8%25
22Cloud Operations10.3%24
22Continuous Improvement10.3%24
22DNS10.3%24
25Oracle9.9%23
26Project Delivery9.5%22
27CI/CD9.1%21
28Python8.6%20
29ITIL7.8%18
29Migration7.8%18

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Cloud Engineer23.7%55
1Senior Infrastructure Engineer23.7%55
3Azure Infrastructure Engineer16.8%39
4Lead Cloud Engineer10.8%25
4Lead Infrastructure Engineer10.8%25
6Cloud Platform Engineer7.3%17
7AWS Infrastructure Engineer6.9%16
7Oracle Infrastructure Engineer6.9%16
9Infrastructure Services Engineer5.6%13
9Linux Infrastructure Engineer5.6%13
11IT Infrastructure Engineer5.2%12
12Infrastructure Operations Engineer4.7%11
13Cloud Automation Engineer4.3%10
13Infrastructure Security Engineer4.3%10
13Senior Automation Engineer4.3%10
13Senior Linux Engineer4.3%10
17AWS Infrastructure Lead3.4%8
17Infrastructure Support Engineer3.4%8
19Azure Platform Engineer3.0%7
19Senior VMware Engineer3.0%7
21 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer jobs Nationwide