Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 518 632
Rank change year-on-year +156 +114 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 35 74 41
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.22% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.23% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 24 71 35
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,717 £52,500 £44,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,783 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +14.15% -
75th Percentile £74,477 £67,968 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -9.45% +10.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (94.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (88.57%) Azure
3 28 (80.00%) Microsoft
4 21 (60.00%) Azure Certification
5 16 (45.71%) DevOps
5 16 (45.71%) Windows
6 13 (37.14%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (34.29%) Terraform
8 11 (31.43%) Agile
8 11 (31.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
8 11 (31.43%) PowerShell
8 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
9 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
9 10 (28.57%) VMware
10 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (25.71%) VPN
10 9 (25.71%) SQL
10 9 (25.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (22.86%) GCP
11 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
11 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (22.86%) Finance
11 8 (22.86%) Migration
11 8 (22.86%) Firewall
11 8 (22.86%) Architectural Design
12 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 31 (88.57%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (22.86%) GCP
3 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (20.00%) IaaS
4 7 (20.00%) SaaS
5 6 (17.14%) PaaS
6 5 (14.29%) AWS
6 5 (14.29%) GitHub
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (11.43%) Azure AKS
7 4 (11.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (11.43%) Route 53
8 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.71%) OCI
9 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) VPN
2 8 (22.86%) Firewall
3 7 (20.00%) SAN
4 5 (14.29%) DHCP
4 5 (14.29%) DNS
4 5 (14.29%) NAS
4 5 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 5 (14.29%) VSAN
4 5 (14.29%) WAN
5 4 (11.43%) HTTPS
5 4 (11.43%) VLAN
6 2 (5.71%) SNMP
6 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.86%) Internet
7 1 (2.86%) LAN
7 1 (2.86%) MPLS
7 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Banking
3 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.86%) Advertising
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Middleware
2 4 (11.43%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.71%) Web Services
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (17.14%) Linux
4 1 (2.86%) VMS
4 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (94.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (45.71%) DevOps
3 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (31.43%) Agile
4 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
4 11 (31.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (22.86%) Architectural Design
5 8 (22.86%) Migration
6 7 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (14.29%) Defect Management
8 5 (14.29%) Fintech
8 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (14.29%) Load Balancing
8 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 5 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (14.29%) Service Design
8 5 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) PowerShell
2 9 (25.71%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Bicep
3 4 (11.43%) Python
4 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
4 4 (11.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.71%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 6 (17.14%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (11.43%) Docker
5 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Terraform
2 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 4 (11.43%) Ansible
5 1 (2.86%) SCCM
5 1 (2.86%) SCOM
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) VMware
3 7 (20.00%) Oracle
4 6 (17.14%) Google
5 4 (11.43%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.86%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.86%) F5
6 1 (2.86%) Okta
6 1 (2.86%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.86%) Zscaler