Hybrid/Remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £82,511 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 395 463
Rank change year-on-year +70 +68 +178
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 50 51 31
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.33% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.31% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 45 31 28
10th Percentile £39,900 £44,956 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,511 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.02% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £86,253 £70,625 £74,063
90th Percentile - £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 14,134 16,257 19,706
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 96.14% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,119 9,929 16,028
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,032
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (70.00%) Azure
3 28 (56.00%) Terraform
4 19 (38.00%) DNS
5 18 (36.00%) VPN
6 17 (34.00%) Windows
7 16 (32.00%) Coaching
8 15 (30.00%) Kubernetes
8 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (30.00%) SQL
9 14 (28.00%) Firewall
9 14 (28.00%) Roadmaps
9 14 (28.00%) Windows Server
10 13 (26.00%) DevOps
10 13 (26.00%) GitLab
11 12 (24.00%) Agile
11 12 (24.00%) Architecture Roadmap
11 12 (24.00%) Git
11 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (24.00%) Mentoring
11 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
11 12 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (22.00%) Migration
13 10 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (18.00%) Linux
14 9 (18.00%) Virtual Servers
14 9 (18.00%) WAN
15 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
15 8 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (14.00%) Hyper-V

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (12.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 35 (70.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (12.00%) Azure Storage
3 6 (12.00%) IaaS
4 5 (10.00%) AWS
4 5 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (8.00%) Azure App Service
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) GitHub
6 3 (6.00%) GCP
7 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.00%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 19 (38.00%) DNS
2 18 (36.00%) VPN
3 14 (28.00%) Firewall
4 9 (18.00%) WAN
5 6 (12.00%) SD-WAN
5 6 (12.00%) SSL
6 5 (10.00%) DMZ
6 5 (10.00%) STUN
6 5 (10.00%) VLAN
6 5 (10.00%) VoIP
7 3 (6.00%) DHCP
8 2 (4.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) GitLab
2 12 (24.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Law
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) CMDB
2 5 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.00%) Windows
2 14 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (18.00%) Linux
4 5 (10.00%) Debian
5 4 (8.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (32.00%) Coaching
3 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (28.00%) Roadmaps
5 13 (26.00%) DevOps
6 12 (24.00%) Agile
6 12 (24.00%) Architecture Roadmap
6 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (22.00%) Migration
8 10 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
10 6 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (12.00%) Proactive Monitoring
10 6 (12.00%) Storage Management
11 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (10.00%) High Availability
11 5 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (10.00%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) SQL
2 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (12.00%) Python
4 5 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (2.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (10.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Virtual Servers
2 7 (14.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (12.00%) Docker
4 5 (10.00%) Kamailio
5 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (56.00%) Terraform
2 15 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (8.00%) Ansible
5 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) SonicWALL
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.00%) New Relic
4 1 (2.00%) VMware