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 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 599 638
Rank change year-on-year +74 +39 +213
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 110 110 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 93 72 95
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,960 £42,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,003 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £56,875 £50,000
% change year-on-year +31.87% +13.75% -1.96%

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 55,891 49,062 59,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.63% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 34,637 25,329 46,560
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,097
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.90% -8.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 21 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 21 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 +60 97 £75,000 +15.38% 17
UK excluding London +58 77 £75,000 +31.87% 12
Work from Home +64 47 £82,511 +32.02% 7
North of England +25 28 £82,511 +40.44% 1
London +41 23 £75,000 +7.14% 8
Midlands +30 14 £50,000 +14.29% 1
West Midlands +32 13 £50,000 +14.29% 1
North West +27 13 £82,511 +14.61%
East of England +24 13 £100,000 +53.85% 2
South East +18 10 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Yorkshire -14 10 £82,511 +73.71%
Scotland -1 6 £48,000 -12.73%
South West +4 5 £62,500 -7.41% 3
North East - 5 £85,000 - 1
Wales +4 1 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands -8 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 109 (99.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (59.09%) Azure
3 34 (30.91%) Terraform
3 34 (30.91%) Windows
4 33 (30.00%) VPN
5 31 (28.18%) DNS
5 31 (28.18%) Firewall
6 26 (23.64%) AWS
7 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (21.82%) Active Directory
8 24 (21.82%) Migration
9 22 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 22 (20.00%) Windows Server
10 21 (19.09%) Microsoft
11 20 (18.18%) Kubernetes
12 19 (17.27%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (17.27%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (17.27%) PowerShell
13 16 (14.55%) Coaching
13 16 (14.55%) DevOps
13 16 (14.55%) IaaS
13 16 (14.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (14.55%) VMware
14 14 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (11.82%) Agile
15 13 (11.82%) Cloud Security
15 13 (11.82%) Git
15 13 (11.82%) GitLab
15 13 (11.82%) Mentoring
15 13 (11.82%) PaaS

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 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.45%) IIS
3 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (59.09%) Azure
2 26 (23.64%) AWS
3 19 (17.27%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (14.55%) IaaS
5 13 (11.82%) PaaS
6 12 (10.91%) SaaS
7 10 (9.09%) Datadog
8 9 (8.18%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (7.27%) Entra ID
9 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
9 8 (7.27%) PowerApps
10 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.45%) Azure Storage
10 6 (5.45%) GCP
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.64%) Azure App Service
11 4 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.64%) GitHub
11 4 (3.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (30.00%) VPN
2 31 (28.18%) DNS
2 31 (28.18%) Firewall
3 12 (10.91%) DHCP
3 12 (10.91%) WAN
4 10 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 10 (9.09%) VLAN
5 9 (8.18%) SAN
6 7 (6.36%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (5.45%) SSL
8 3 (2.73%) DMZ
8 3 (2.73%) Network Security
8 3 (2.73%) STUN
8 3 (2.73%) VoIP
9 2 (1.82%) LAN
10 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (11.82%) Git
1 13 (11.82%) GitLab
2 7 (6.36%) Chocolatey
3 3 (2.73%) JIRA
4 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (11.82%) Banking
2 12 (10.91%) Finance
2 12 (10.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.45%) Law
5 5 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (2.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (5.45%) CMDB
2 6 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.73%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (30.91%) Windows
2 22 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.36%) Linux
4 4 (3.64%) VMS
5 3 (2.73%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (99.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (21.82%) Migration
4 22 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 19 (17.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (14.55%) Coaching
6 16 (14.55%) DevOps
7 14 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (11.82%) Agile
8 13 (11.82%) Cloud Security
8 13 (11.82%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.91%) Architecture Roadmap
9 12 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 10 (9.09%) ITIL
12 9 (8.18%) Technology Roadmap
13 8 (7.27%) Cost Management
13 8 (7.27%) Identity Access Management
13 8 (7.27%) Performance Optimisation
14 7 (6.36%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.27%) PowerShell
2 13 (11.82%) SQL
3 6 (5.45%) Python
4 5 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (0.91%) Bash
5 1 (0.91%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (9.09%) Degree
2 9 (8.18%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) SLA
2 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.73%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (21.82%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.18%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (7.27%) Docker
4 7 (6.36%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.73%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.91%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 34 (30.91%) Terraform
2 20 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.36%) SCCM
5 5 (4.55%) Ansible
6 1 (0.91%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.91%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.55%) VMware
3 7 (6.36%) AppDynamics
3 7 (6.36%) Dynatrace
3 7 (6.36%) Tenable
4 6 (5.45%) SonicWALL
5 4 (3.64%) Google
5 4 (3.64%) Oracle
6 3 (2.73%) Cisco
6 3 (2.73%) F5
6 3 (2.73%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.82%) EMC
8 1 (0.91%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.91%) New Relic
8 1 (0.91%) Qualys