Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 690 791
Rank change year-on-year +51 +101 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 94 219 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70 195 99
10th Percentile £46,025 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,314 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -3.41% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £79,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,783 £61,250
% change year-on-year -0.45% +2.50% +11.36%

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 53,646 100,958 81,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 94.82% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 29,258 71,135 54,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,573 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.74%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +38 89 £70,000 +11.50% 48
UK excluding London +59 57 £62,500 -0.45% 26
London +115 36 £76,250 +17.31% 28
Work from Home +64 22 £52,250 -16.59% 15
East of England +21 15 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North of England -5 15 £65,996 +5.12% 2
North West -12 13 £71,991 +46.54% 2
South East +52 11 £47,500 -26.92% 2
Midlands +55 8 £46,000 -21.70% 8
West Midlands +63 6 £46,000 -29.23% 2
South West +98 4 £57,500 -4.17% 5
Scotland +94 4 - - 6
Yorkshire +38 2 £52,500 -16.38%
East Midlands +32 2 - - 6

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 89 (94.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (81.91%) Azure
3 51 (54.26%) Windows
4 50 (53.19%) Terraform
5 48 (51.06%) Microsoft
6 40 (42.55%) Kubernetes
7 39 (41.49%) Windows Server
8 35 (37.23%) Firewall
8 35 (37.23%) PowerShell
9 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (32.98%) DevOps
11 29 (30.85%) CI/CD
11 29 (30.85%) Cloud Security
12 28 (29.79%) SQL Server
13 27 (28.72%) Finance
13 27 (28.72%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (26.60%) Azure Certification
15 23 (24.47%) Microsoft Exchange
16 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (23.40%) Cost Management
17 21 (22.34%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (22.34%) Disaster Recovery
18 19 (20.21%) GCP
18 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
19 18 (19.15%) VMware
20 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Intune
20 17 (18.09%) Power Platform
21 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
21 15 (15.96%) AWS
22 14 (14.89%) Python

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (24.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.13%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.06%) IIS
4 1 (1.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (81.91%) Azure
2 21 (22.34%) Azure Logic Apps
3 19 (20.21%) GCP
4 17 (18.09%) Power Platform
5 15 (15.96%) AWS
6 14 (14.89%) PowerApps
7 12 (12.77%) Entra ID
8 10 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (9.57%) Azure AKS
9 9 (9.57%) IaaS
9 9 (9.57%) PaaS
10 8 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (8.51%) Route 53
11 7 (7.45%) SaaS
12 6 (6.38%) Datadog
12 6 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 35 (37.23%) Firewall
2 11 (11.70%) DNS
2 11 (11.70%) VPN
3 8 (8.51%) Network Security
3 8 (8.51%) WAN
4 7 (7.45%) DHCP
4 7 (7.45%) NAS
4 7 (7.45%) SAN
4 7 (7.45%) SD-WAN
5 5 (5.32%) VSAN
6 4 (4.26%) HTTPS
6 4 (4.26%) LAN
6 4 (4.26%) VLAN
7 3 (3.19%) SNMP
8 1 (1.06%) BGP
8 1 (1.06%) Internet
8 1 (1.06%) MPLS
8 1 (1.06%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.79%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.57%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
General
1 27 (28.72%) Finance
2 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.45%) Automotive
5 6 (6.38%) Banking
5 6 (6.38%) Law
6 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Marketing
7 2 (2.13%) Games
7 2 (2.13%) iGaming
7 2 (2.13%) Legal
7 2 (2.13%) Publishing
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.77%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.32%) .NET
2 5 (5.32%) Middleware
3 4 (4.26%) SAML
4 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.06%) Django
4 1 (1.06%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.06%) Flask
4 1 (1.06%) JSON
4 1 (1.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.32%) Clustering
3 5 (5.32%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.19%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.13%) Mobile Games
5 2 (2.13%) Online Games
5 2 (2.13%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.06%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (54.26%) Windows
2 39 (41.49%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.83%) Linux
4 3 (3.19%) Android
4 3 (3.19%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.13%) VMS
6 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (94.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (32.98%) DevOps
4 29 (30.85%) CI/CD
4 29 (30.85%) Cloud Security
5 27 (28.72%) Performance Optimisation
6 22 (23.40%) Cost Management
6 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (22.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (14.89%) Fintech
9 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (11.70%) Migration
11 10 (10.64%) High Availability
12 9 (9.57%) Configuration Management
12 9 (9.57%) Incident Management
12 9 (9.57%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (8.51%) Cost Optimisation
13 8 (8.51%) Mentoring
13 8 (8.51%) Problem Management
14 7 (7.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.23%) PowerShell
2 14 (14.89%) Python
3 12 (12.77%) SQL
4 3 (3.19%) Bash
5 1 (1.06%) Bicep
5 1 (1.06%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (26.60%) Azure Certification
2 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (6.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.13%) Degree
5 2 (2.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) CCNA
6 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.06%) MCITP
6 1 (1.06%) MCSE
6 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) GDPR
2 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.26%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.83%) Docker
3 9 (9.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.45%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (7.45%) VMware NSX
5 6 (6.38%) Hyper-V
6 5 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.13%) vSphere
8 1 (1.06%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 50 (53.19%) Terraform
2 40 (42.55%) Kubernetes
3 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (13.83%) SCCM
5 11 (11.70%) Ansible
6 5 (5.32%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.19%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.13%) Istio
9 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.06%) Grafana
9 1 (1.06%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.06%) linkerd
9 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.06%) SCOM
9 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (51.06%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.15%) VMware
3 14 (14.89%) Palo Alto
4 11 (11.70%) Google
5 5 (5.32%) Oracle
6 4 (4.26%) Cisco
7 2 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.13%) F5
7 2 (2.13%) Tenable
7 2 (2.13%) Varonis
7 2 (2.13%) Veeam
8 1 (1.06%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.06%) Citrix
8 1 (1.06%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.06%) Facebook
8 1 (1.06%) Okta
8 1 (1.06%) OneLogin
8 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.06%) Splunk
8 1 (1.06%) Zscaler