Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 590 562
Rank change year-on-year +1 -28 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 229 79 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 177 59 147
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,900 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 110,105 43,964 67,208
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 89.90% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 74,779 25,831 38,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 16 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 16 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 +7 207 £65,000 -7.14% 115
UK excluding London +3 188 £60,000 -4.00% 89
Work from Home -11 58 £60,000 +10.09% 61
South East -12 50 £65,000 - 15
North of England -38 40 £60,000 +62.16% 31
London -57 38 £84,500 +12.67% 33
South West -40 34 £60,000 -4.00% 8
Midlands -17 31 £55,000 - 13
West Midlands -21 25 £55,000 - 9
Yorkshire -17 19 £70,000 +45.83% 9
North West -26 15 £60,000 +62.16% 17
East of England -50 14 £40,000 -46.67% 6
Wales - 11 £60,000 - 4
Scotland +2 8 £100,000 +108.33% 11
East Midlands - 6 - - 4
North East - 6 £47,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Infrastructure Engineering92.1%211
2Azure49.3%113
3Microsoft27.1%62
4Infrastructure as Code20.1%46
5Microsoft 36519.7%45
6AWS16.6%38
6Entra ID16.6%38
8Terraform15.7%36
9DevOps14.4%33
9VMware14.4%33
11PowerShell12.7%29
12Problem-Solving12.2%28
12Windows12.2%28
14Active Directory11.8%27
14Linux11.8%27
14Platform Engineering11.8%27
17Continuous Improvement11.4%26
17Firewall11.4%26
17VPN11.4%26
20Project Delivery10.9%25
21Cloud Security10.5%24
21Disaster Recovery10.5%24
21DNS10.5%24
21Microsoft Intune10.5%24
21Oracle10.5%24
26CI/CD9.6%22
27Python9.2%21
28Cloud Operations8.7%20
29ITIL7.9%18
29Migration7.9%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 Engineer19.2%44
1Senior Infrastructure Engineer19.2%44
3Azure Infrastructure Engineer18.3%42
4Lead Cloud Engineer10.9%25
4Lead Infrastructure Engineer10.9%25
6AWS Infrastructure Engineer9.2%21
7Cloud Platform Engineer7.4%17
8Oracle Infrastructure Engineer7.0%16
9Infrastructure Services Engineer6.6%15
10IT Infrastructure Engineer5.2%12
11Infrastructure Operations Engineer4.8%11
11Infrastructure Security Engineer4.8%11
13Linux Infrastructure Engineer4.4%10
14AWS Infrastructure Lead3.5%8
14Infrastructure Support Engineer3.5%8
16Azure Platform Engineer3.1%7
16Cloud Automation Engineer3.1%7
16Senior Automation Engineer3.1%7
16Senior Linux Engineer3.1%7
16Senior VMware Engineer3.1%7
141 Cloud Infrastructure Engineer jobs Nationwide