Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 739 883 920
Rank change year-on-year +144 +37 -192
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 149 112 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 136 90 207
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £52,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% +9.48% +10.48%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £72,573
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,500 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,250 £54,713
% change year-on-year +2.22% +2.81% +9.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +101 134 £57,500 -9.45% 16
UK excluding London +66 117 £57,500 +2.22% 13
Work from Home +102 74 £62,783 +14.15% 12
North of England +85 55 £61,391 +9.14% 1
North West +31 30 £43,500 -15.12%
South East +28 23 £65,000 +44.44% 2
London +81 20 £68,750 +5.77% 4
Midlands +18 20 £55,000 +34.14% 3
East Midlands +3 17 £55,000 +1.38% 1
Yorkshire +91 13 £62,783 +4.64%
North East +6 12 £62,783 +11.61% 1
East of England - 11 £45,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £60,000 -
West Midlands +11 3 £60,000 +52.87% 2
South West -36 2 £45,000 -30.77% 5
Scotland - 2 £63,750 -

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 job ads featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 138 (92.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 98 (65.77%) Azure
3 83 (55.70%) AWS
4 72 (48.32%) Windows
5 55 (36.91%) Terraform
6 54 (36.24%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (35.57%) Microsoft
7 53 (35.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (30.20%) Linux
9 43 (28.86%) Windows Server
10 40 (26.85%) Ansible
11 39 (26.17%) Active Directory
12 38 (25.50%) ITIL
13 36 (24.16%) Microsoft Exchange
14 33 (22.15%) VMware
14 33 (22.15%) Docker
15 31 (20.81%) Firewall
16 30 (20.13%) Migration
17 29 (19.46%) Kubernetes
18 28 (18.79%) DevOps
18 28 (18.79%) Hyper-V
19 27 (18.12%) DNS
20 26 (17.45%) DHCP
20 26 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
20 26 (17.45%) CI/CD
21 25 (16.78%) GitLab
21 25 (16.78%) Hybrid Cloud
21 25 (16.78%) Public Cloud
22 23 (15.44%) Serverless
22 23 (15.44%) Social Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (24.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 98 (65.77%) Azure
2 83 (55.70%) AWS
3 54 (36.24%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (15.44%) Serverless
5 21 (14.09%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (13.42%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (12.08%) Amazon S3
7 18 (12.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (11.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (10.74%) Route 53
10 13 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (7.38%) GitHub
11 11 (7.38%) IaaS
12 10 (6.71%) CloudFront
12 10 (6.71%) SaaS
13 8 (5.37%) Entra ID
14 6 (4.03%) Azure Pipelines
15 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.01%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (20.81%) Firewall
2 27 (18.12%) DNS
3 26 (17.45%) DHCP
4 12 (8.05%) VPN
5 9 (6.04%) Network Security
5 9 (6.04%) VLAN
6 8 (5.37%) WAN
7 7 (4.70%) LAN
8 6 (4.03%) DMZ
9 2 (1.34%) Wireless
10 1 (0.67%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.67%) SAN
10 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.08%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.34%) Power BI
4 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (16.78%) GitLab
2 21 (14.09%) Artifactory
3 11 (7.38%) Git
4 4 (2.68%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.68%) JIRA
4 4 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.68%) Subversion
General
1 23 (15.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.09%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.05%) Finance
4 6 (4.03%) Legal
5 5 (3.36%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.67%) Law
7 1 (0.67%) Local Government
7 1 (0.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.68%) SAML
2 2 (1.34%) Django
2 2 (1.34%) GraphQL
2 2 (1.34%) JSON
2 2 (1.34%) Kafka
2 2 (1.34%) RESTful
3 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.67%) Node.js
3 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.78%) Hybrid Cloud
1 25 (16.78%) Public Cloud
2 19 (12.75%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.67%) CCTV
6 1 (0.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.67%) PKI
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
6 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (48.32%) Windows
2 45 (30.20%) Linux
3 43 (28.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.34%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.67%) VMS
7 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (92.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (35.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (25.50%) ITIL
4 30 (20.13%) Migration
5 28 (18.79%) DevOps
6 26 (17.45%) CI/CD
6 26 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (15.44%) Service Management
8 22 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (14.09%) Coaching
9 21 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (14.09%) Incident Management
9 21 (14.09%) Mentoring
9 21 (14.09%) Operational Stability
10 20 (13.42%) Containerisation
11 19 (12.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (12.75%) Server Management
12 16 (10.74%) Computer Science
13 15 (10.07%) Agile
14 14 (9.40%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.41%) Python
2 12 (8.05%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.03%) Bash
4 5 (3.36%) SQL
5 4 (2.68%) Bicep
5 4 (2.68%) Java
6 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (13.42%) AWS Certification
2 16 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (10.74%) Degree
3 15 (10.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (8.72%) Security Cleared
5 12 (8.05%) SC Cleared
6 9 (6.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.37%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.67%) CCNA
10 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.67%) MCSE
10 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) QA
2 8 (5.37%) SLA
3 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) NCSC
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (26.17%) Active Directory
2 33 (22.15%) Docker
3 28 (18.79%) Hyper-V
4 19 (12.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (36.91%) Terraform
2 40 (26.85%) Ansible
3 29 (19.46%) Kubernetes
4 17 (11.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.37%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (4.03%) Puppet
7 5 (3.36%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.68%) Packer
8 4 (2.68%) Salt
9 3 (2.01%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (35.57%) Microsoft
2 33 (22.15%) VMware
3 14 (9.40%) Citrix
4 6 (4.03%) Cisco
4 6 (4.03%) Dell
5 5 (3.36%) HP
6 4 (2.68%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.68%) Google
7 3 (2.01%) Veeam
8 2 (1.34%) UiPath
9 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.67%) IBM
9 1 (0.67%) Meraki
9 1 (0.67%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.67%) Qualys
9 1 (0.67%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds