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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 589 575
Rank change year-on-year +6 -14 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 216 83 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.19% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 173 61 146
10th Percentile £45,200 £46,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,300 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%

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 109,576 44,426 71,253
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 89.79% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,908 25,599 41,366
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 1 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 IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +8 199 £65,000 -7.14% 126
UK excluding London -9 176 £60,000 -4.00% 84
Work from Home -19 54 £60,000 +10.09% 56
South East -13 53 £65,000 - 14
London -42 38 £84,500 +12.67% 41
North of England -54 34 £60,000 +62.16% 29
South West -49 31 £60,000 +2.13% 8
Midlands -21 27 £55,000 - 17
West Midlands -26 23 £55,000 - 11
Yorkshire -15 20 £80,000 +66.67% 7
East of England -30 16 £40,000 -46.67% 3
Wales - 11 £60,000 - 2
North West -34 9 £60,000 +62.16% 18
North East - 5 £47,000 - 4
Scotland +8 4 £100,000 +108.33% 10
East Midlands - 4 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 196 (90.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (50.00%) Azure
3 61 (28.24%) Microsoft
4 45 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (17.59%) Entra ID
7 36 (16.67%) AWS
8 35 (16.20%) Terraform
9 33 (15.28%) VMware
10 32 (14.81%) DevOps
11 28 (12.96%) Firewall
11 28 (12.96%) PowerShell
11 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (12.96%) Windows
12 27 (12.50%) Active Directory
12 27 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (11.57%) Linux
14 25 (11.57%) Oracle
14 25 (11.57%) VPN
15 24 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
15 24 (11.11%) Project Delivery
16 23 (10.65%) Cloud Security
16 23 (10.65%) DNS
17 22 (10.19%) CI/CD
18 20 (9.26%) Python
19 18 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
19 18 (8.33%) ITIL
19 18 (8.33%) Migration

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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.31%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 108 (50.00%) Azure
2 45 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (17.59%) Entra ID
4 36 (16.67%) AWS
5 17 (7.87%) OCI
6 16 (7.41%) PaaS
7 15 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.94%) SaaS
8 14 (6.48%) IaaS
9 12 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (5.56%) GCP
10 10 (4.63%) Serverless
11 9 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.70%) Datadog
13 7 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.78%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.96%) Firewall
2 25 (11.57%) VPN
3 23 (10.65%) DNS
4 12 (5.56%) DHCP
5 7 (3.24%) SAN
5 7 (3.24%) VLAN
6 5 (2.31%) WAN
7 3 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.93%) Wireless
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.46%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.46%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (0.46%) VoIP
9 1 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Chocolatey
1 3 (1.39%) GitLab
1 3 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.46%) Git
General
1 25 (11.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.72%) Finance
3 11 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.63%) Law
5 8 (3.70%) Banking
6 6 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.31%) Legal
8 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.46%) Advertising
9 1 (0.46%) Automotive
9 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.20%) Terraform
2 7 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.39%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.46%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.46%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.48%) Driving Licence
2 12 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.70%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) CMDB
9 3 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.39%) Replication
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.46%) Clustering
11 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.96%) Windows
2 25 (11.57%) Linux
3 17 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.31%) VMS
5 3 (1.39%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (90.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (14.81%) DevOps
4 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 26 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 24 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 23 (10.65%) Cloud Security
9 22 (10.19%) CI/CD
10 18 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
10 18 (8.33%) ITIL
10 18 (8.33%) Migration
11 14 (6.48%) Identity Management
12 13 (6.02%) AI
12 13 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (5.09%) Business Continuity
13 11 (5.09%) Cost Optimisation
13 11 (5.09%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.96%) PowerShell
2 20 (9.26%) Python
3 13 (6.02%) Bash
4 9 (4.17%) Bicep
4 9 (4.17%) SQL
5 1 (0.46%) C#
5 1 (0.46%) Java
5 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (6.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.24%) Azure Certification
2 7 (3.24%) Degree
2 7 (3.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.93%) SSCP
5 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.46%) CCNA
5 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.46%) IISP
5 1 (0.46%) ISACA
5 1 (0.46%) MCSE
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.31%) SLA
3 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.39%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.39%) QA
5 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 17 (7.87%) Docker
3 14 (6.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 8 (3.70%) VMware Server
6 8 (3.70%) vSphere
7 7 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.93%) Lustre
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (3.24%) Ansible
5 4 (1.85%) Nagios
6 3 (1.39%) Grafana
6 3 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.39%) Puppet
6 3 (1.39%) SCCM
7 2 (0.93%) Argo
7 2 (0.93%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.93%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 61 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.28%) VMware
3 25 (11.57%) Oracle
4 6 (2.78%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.31%) Google
5 5 (2.31%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (1.85%) Veeam
7 3 (1.39%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.39%) Cisco
7 3 (1.39%) ConnectWise
7 3 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.39%) Meraki
7 3 (1.39%) Tenable
8 2 (0.93%) Broadcom
8 2 (0.93%) EMC
8 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.93%) Sophos
8 2 (0.93%) SOTI
9 1 (0.46%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat