Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 734 869 904
Rank change year-on-year +135 +35 -156
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 150 106 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 136 84 221
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,875 £43,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £63,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +7.63% +12.65%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £72,647
90th Percentile £69,500 £82,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 20 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 20 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 +114 135 £57,500 -9.45% 22
UK excluding London +69 116 £57,500 - 16
Work from Home +122 75 £62,783 +14.15% 14
North of England +79 53 £62,783 +9.19% 1
North West +22 28 £43,500 -15.12%
South East +23 23 £65,000 +44.44% 6
London +70 22 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Midlands +9 22 £55,000 +34.14% 2
East Midlands 0 19 £55,000 +1.38% 2
Yorkshire +93 13 £62,783 +4.64% 1
North East +8 12 £62,783 +9.19%
East of England - 10 £45,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £60,000 -
West Midlands +12 3 £60,000 +52.87%
South West -31 2 £45,000 -30.77% 6
Scotland - 2 £63,750 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 139 (92.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 97 (64.67%) Azure
3 83 (55.33%) AWS
4 70 (46.67%) Windows
5 55 (36.67%) Terraform
6 54 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (34.67%) Microsoft 365
8 51 (34.00%) Microsoft
9 46 (30.67%) Linux
10 42 (28.00%) Ansible
11 41 (27.33%) Windows Server
12 37 (24.67%) Active Directory
13 36 (24.00%) ITIL
14 33 (22.00%) Microsoft Exchange
14 33 (22.00%) Docker
15 32 (21.33%) VMware
16 31 (20.67%) Firewall
17 30 (20.00%) Migration
17 30 (20.00%) DevOps
18 29 (19.33%) Kubernetes
19 28 (18.67%) CI/CD
20 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
20 26 (17.33%) GitLab
20 26 (17.33%) DNS
20 26 (17.33%) Hyper-V
21 25 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
21 25 (16.67%) Social Skills
22 24 (16.00%) Public Cloud
22 24 (16.00%) DHCP
23 23 (15.33%) Service Management

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 33 (22.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 97 (64.67%) Azure
2 83 (55.33%) AWS
3 52 (34.67%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (15.33%) Serverless
5 21 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (11.33%) Amazon S3
7 17 (11.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (11.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (10.00%) Route 53
9 13 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (8.67%) SaaS
10 12 (8.00%) IaaS
11 11 (7.33%) GitHub
12 9 (6.00%) CloudFront
13 8 (5.33%) Entra ID
14 6 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
15 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (20.67%) Firewall
2 26 (17.33%) DNS
3 24 (16.00%) DHCP
4 13 (8.67%) VPN
5 10 (6.67%) VLAN
6 9 (6.00%) WAN
7 8 (5.33%) Network Security
8 7 (4.67%) LAN
9 6 (4.00%) DMZ
10 2 (1.33%) Wireless
11 1 (0.67%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.67%) SAN
11 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.67%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.33%) Power BI
5 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (17.33%) GitLab
2 21 (14.00%) Artifactory
3 13 (8.67%) Git
4 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.67%) JIRA
4 4 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (2.67%) Subversion
General
1 25 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.33%) Finance
4 6 (4.00%) Legal
5 5 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Local Government
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.67%) SAML
2 3 (2.00%) Django
2 3 (2.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (2.00%) RESTful
3 2 (1.33%) JSON
3 2 (1.33%) Kafka
4 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.67%) Node.js
4 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (16.00%) Public Cloud
3 19 (12.67%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.67%) Clustering
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 70 (46.67%) Windows
2 46 (30.67%) Linux
3 41 (27.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.67%) VMS
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (92.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (24.00%) ITIL
4 30 (20.00%) DevOps
4 30 (20.00%) Migration
5 28 (18.67%) CI/CD
6 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (15.33%) Service Management
7 23 (15.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 21 (14.00%) Coaching
8 21 (14.00%) Mentoring
8 21 (14.00%) Operational Stability
9 19 (12.67%) Containerisation
9 19 (12.67%) Incident Management
10 18 (12.00%) Agile
10 18 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (11.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (11.33%) Server Management
12 16 (10.67%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.67%) Python
2 13 (8.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.00%) Bash
4 5 (3.33%) Java
5 4 (2.67%) Bicep
5 4 (2.67%) SQL
6 2 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 16 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (10.67%) Degree
3 15 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 11 (7.33%) SC Cleared
6 9 (6.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.00%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.67%) CCNA
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.67%) MCSE
9 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.67%) QA
2 8 (5.33%) SLA
3 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) NCSC
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (24.67%) Active Directory
2 33 (22.00%) Docker
3 26 (17.33%) Hyper-V
4 19 (12.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (36.67%) Terraform
2 42 (28.00%) Ansible
3 29 (19.33%) Kubernetes
4 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (6.00%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (4.67%) Puppet
7 6 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.67%) Packer
8 4 (2.67%) Salt
9 3 (2.00%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.33%) SCCM
11 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 51 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (21.33%) VMware
3 12 (8.00%) Citrix
4 6 (4.00%) Cisco
4 6 (4.00%) Dell
5 5 (3.33%) Google
5 5 (3.33%) HP
6 4 (2.67%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.00%) Veeam
8 2 (1.33%) UiPath
9 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.67%) BMC
9 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.67%) NetApp
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