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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 603 634
Rank change year-on-year +5 +31 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 193 95 183
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 164 75 156
10th Percentile £43,425 £43,850 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% +4.17% -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 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 99,901 44,909 79,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.92% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 68,253 26,546 52,909
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%

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 13 August 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 13 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 -2 181 £65,000 -7.14% 45
UK excluding London 0 165 £63,750 +2.00% 24
South East +27 55 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Work from Home +8 48 £60,000 +30.43% 20
South West -29 31 £60,000 +4.35% 4
North of England -31 31 £65,000 +26.83% 11
London -56 28 £82,500 +10.00% 22
Yorkshire -4 22 £80,000 +52.38% 5
East of England -25 20 £55,000 -24.14%
West Midlands -17 16 £55,000 +19.57% 1
Midlands -29 16 £55,000 +19.57% 1
Wales - 8 £57,500 - 1
North East - 6 £47,000 - 4
North West -13 3 £60,000 +37.93% 2
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
Scotland +12 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 168 (87.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 91 (47.15%) Azure
3 49 (25.39%) Microsoft
4 35 (18.13%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (16.58%) AWS
5 32 (16.58%) VMware
6 28 (14.51%) Oracle
7 27 (13.99%) Entra ID
8 25 (12.95%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (12.95%) Terraform
9 24 (12.44%) DevOps
9 24 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (11.92%) Active Directory
11 22 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.36%) Linux
12 20 (10.36%) OCI
13 19 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (9.84%) Project Delivery
13 19 (9.84%) Windows
14 18 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (8.81%) Docker
15 17 (8.81%) Firewall
15 17 (8.81%) PowerShell
15 17 (8.81%) VPN
16 16 (8.29%) DNS
17 15 (7.77%) CI/CD
17 15 (7.77%) Cloud Operations
17 15 (7.77%) VMware Infrastructure
18 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Intune
18 13 (6.74%) Windows Server

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 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.59%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 91 (47.15%) Azure
2 35 (18.13%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (16.58%) AWS
4 27 (13.99%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.36%) OCI
6 12 (6.22%) SaaS
7 11 (5.70%) IaaS
8 10 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (5.18%) PaaS
9 9 (4.66%) Datadog
9 9 (4.66%) Serverless
10 8 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.63%) GCP
12 6 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.59%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.81%) Firewall
1 17 (8.81%) VPN
2 16 (8.29%) DNS
3 9 (4.66%) DHCP
4 7 (3.63%) VLAN
5 5 (2.59%) SAN
6 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.55%) VoIP
6 3 (1.55%) WAN
7 2 (1.04%) DMZ
7 2 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.04%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.04%) STUN
7 2 (1.04%) Wireless
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.52%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.52%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.52%) VSAN
8 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.07%) GitLab
1 4 (2.07%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
2 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.52%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.52%) Git
General
1 18 (9.33%) Finance
1 18 (9.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.15%) Law
3 6 (3.11%) Aerospace
3 6 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (3.11%) Legal
4 5 (2.59%) Banking
5 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.52%) Advertising
6 1 (0.52%) Automotive
6 1 (0.52%) Marketing
6 1 (0.52%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.55%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.04%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (1.04%) Kafka
5 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.52%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.22%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.63%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.11%) Replication
6 5 (2.59%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.55%) CMDB
8 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.52%) Clustering
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.36%) Linux
2 19 (9.84%) Windows
3 13 (6.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.04%) Debian
4 2 (1.04%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (87.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (12.95%) Platform Engineering
3 24 (12.44%) DevOps
3 24 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (9.84%) Project Delivery
6 18 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (7.77%) CI/CD
7 15 (7.77%) Cloud Operations
8 11 (5.70%) Cloud Security
8 11 (5.70%) Collaborative Working
8 11 (5.70%) High Availability
9 10 (5.18%) Agile
9 10 (5.18%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (5.18%) Identity Management
9 10 (5.18%) Migration
10 9 (4.66%) ITIL
11 8 (4.15%) AI
11 8 (4.15%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.81%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.70%) Python
3 10 (5.18%) Bash
3 10 (5.18%) SQL
4 6 (3.11%) Bicep
5 2 (1.04%) Go
6 1 (0.52%) C#
6 1 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.59%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.07%) Degree
4 4 (2.07%) MCSE
4 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.55%) CCNP
5 3 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) SSCP
7 1 (0.52%) CCNA
7 1 (0.52%) IISP
7 1 (0.52%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.59%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) QA
4 2 (1.04%) SLA
4 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (11.92%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.81%) Docker
3 15 (7.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (6.22%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (4.15%) VMware Server
6 8 (4.15%) vSphere
7 5 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.55%) KVM
9 2 (1.04%) Lustre
9 2 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (12.95%) Terraform
2 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (5.70%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.66%) Ansible
5 5 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.07%) Grafana
6 4 (2.07%) Nagios
6 4 (2.07%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.04%) Argo
7 2 (1.04%) Puppet
7 2 (1.04%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.58%) VMware
3 28 (14.51%) Oracle
4 7 (3.63%) Veeam
5 5 (2.59%) Cisco
5 5 (2.59%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (1.55%) ConnectWise
6 3 (1.55%) Meraki
6 3 (1.55%) Zerto
7 2 (1.04%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.04%) EMC
7 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.04%) Sophos
8 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.52%) Apple
8 1 (0.52%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.52%) Google
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) SAP