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 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 607 617
Rank change year-on-year +75 +10 +229
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 113 107 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 96 68 88
10th Percentile £47,125 £44,594 £43,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £86,253 £76,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,875 £90,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £56,250 £53,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +6.13% +1.85%

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 54,127 49,926 51,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 92.94% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 33,436 25,964 39,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +69 100 £75,000 +15.38% 12
UK excluding London +68 81 £75,000 +33.33% 12
Work from Home +78 50 £82,511 +32.02% 4
North of England +27 31 £82,511 +73.71% 2
London +45 22 £75,000 +11.11% 1
East of England +32 17 £75,000 +15.38% 1
North West +33 16 £66,250 +12.77% 2
Midlands +30 13 £50,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +29 12 £50,000 +14.29% 2
Yorkshire -7 10 £82,511 +73.71%
South East +20 8 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Scotland +8 6 £48,000 -12.73% 1
South West -5 5 £62,500 -7.41% 1
North East - 5 £85,000 -
Wales +1 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -6 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 January 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.

1 112 (99.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (62.83%) Azure
3 40 (35.40%) Windows
4 35 (30.97%) Terraform
5 32 (28.32%) VPN
6 30 (26.55%) Windows Server
7 29 (25.66%) DNS
8 28 (24.78%) Firewall
8 28 (24.78%) Roadmaps
9 27 (23.89%) Active Directory
10 23 (20.35%) Migration
10 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (19.47%) AWS
12 20 (17.70%) Kubernetes
12 20 (17.70%) Microsoft
13 19 (16.81%) PowerShell
14 18 (15.93%) DevOps
15 17 (15.04%) Cloud Security
15 17 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (15.04%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (15.04%) Microsoft Exchange
16 16 (14.16%) Coaching
16 16 (14.16%) IaaS
16 16 (14.16%) SQL
17 15 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
17 15 (13.27%) VMware
18 14 (12.39%) Azure Logic Apps
18 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Intune
18 14 (12.39%) Technology Roadmap
19 13 (11.50%) Agile

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 17 (15.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.31%) IIS
3 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 71 (62.83%) Azure
2 22 (19.47%) AWS
3 17 (15.04%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (14.16%) IaaS
5 14 (12.39%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (11.50%) Power Platform
7 12 (10.62%) PowerApps
8 11 (9.73%) PaaS
9 10 (8.85%) SaaS
10 8 (7.08%) Datadog
10 8 (7.08%) Entra ID
11 6 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.31%) Azure Storage
11 6 (5.31%) GCP
12 5 (4.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.54%) Azure App Service
13 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 32 (28.32%) VPN
2 29 (25.66%) DNS
3 28 (24.78%) Firewall
4 12 (10.62%) WAN
5 10 (8.85%) DHCP
5 10 (8.85%) SD-WAN
5 10 (8.85%) VLAN
6 7 (6.19%) SAN
7 6 (5.31%) SSL
8 5 (4.42%) DMZ
8 5 (4.42%) STUN
8 5 (4.42%) VoIP
8 5 (4.42%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.65%) Network Security
10 2 (1.77%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (11.50%) Git
1 13 (11.50%) GitLab
2 5 (4.42%) Chocolatey
3 3 (2.65%) JIRA
4 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (12.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.73%) Finance
3 10 (8.85%) Banking
4 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Law
6 5 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (2.65%) Middleware
3 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) CMDB
1 6 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.42%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (4.42%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (35.40%) Windows
2 30 (26.55%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.96%) Linux
4 5 (4.42%) Debian
5 4 (3.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (99.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (24.78%) Roadmaps
3 23 (20.35%) Migration
3 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.93%) DevOps
5 17 (15.04%) Cloud Security
5 17 (15.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (14.16%) Coaching
7 15 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (12.39%) Technology Roadmap
9 13 (11.50%) Agile
9 13 (11.50%) Cost Management
9 13 (11.50%) Mentoring
9 13 (11.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (10.62%) Architecture Roadmap
10 12 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (9.73%) CI/CD
12 8 (7.08%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (7.08%) ITIL
13 7 (6.19%) AI
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.81%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.16%) SQL
3 7 (6.19%) Python
4 5 (4.42%) Bicep
5 1 (0.88%) Bash
5 1 (0.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (7.08%) Degree
2 7 (6.19%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) SLA
2 6 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.42%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (23.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.96%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (7.08%) Docker
3 8 (7.08%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.42%) Kamailio
4 5 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.88%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 35 (30.97%) Terraform
2 20 (17.70%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.42%) Ansible
4 5 (4.42%) SCCM
5 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.27%) VMware
3 6 (5.31%) SonicWALL
4 5 (4.42%) AppDynamics
4 5 (4.42%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.42%) Google
4 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.42%) Tenable
5 4 (3.54%) Oracle
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco
6 3 (2.65%) F5
6 3 (2.65%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.77%) EMC
8 1 (0.88%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.88%) New Relic