Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £62,783 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 685 809 901
Rank change year-on-year +124 +92 -149
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 220 110 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 197 90 225
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +1.60% +19.62%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £82,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.64% +9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +124 201 £62,783 -1.13% 25
UK excluding London +91 181 £62,783 +4.64% 19
Work from Home +69 80 £62,783 +9.19% 21
North of England +66 67 £62,783 +9.19% 4
North West +9 37 £48,256 -5.84% 1
South East 0 35 £65,000 +52.94% 3
Midlands -11 32 £58,750 +43.29% 2
East of England - 28 £65,000 - 5
London +51 23 £61,250 -5.77% 4
East Midlands -9 21 £55,000 +1.38% 2
Yorkshire +81 17 £62,783 +4.64% 3
North East -9 13 £62,783 +9.19%
South West -39 13 £65,000 - 5
West Midlands -3 11 £65,000 +65.60%
Northern Ireland - 4 £60,000 -
Scotland - 2 £63,750 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 211 (95.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 107 (48.64%) Azure
3 93 (42.27%) AWS
4 70 (31.82%) Windows
5 61 (27.73%) Terraform
6 55 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (24.09%) Linux
7 53 (24.09%) Microsoft
8 51 (23.18%) Microsoft 365
9 42 (19.09%) Ansible
10 41 (18.64%) Windows Server
11 40 (18.18%) DevOps
12 38 (17.27%) ITIL
13 37 (16.82%) Active Directory
14 34 (15.45%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (14.55%) Docker
15 32 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
16 31 (14.09%) Firewall
17 30 (13.64%) VMware
18 27 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
19 26 (11.82%) CI/CD
19 26 (11.82%) GitLab
19 26 (11.82%) Kubernetes
20 25 (11.36%) Public Cloud
20 25 (11.36%) Hyper-V
20 25 (11.36%) Social Skills
21 24 (10.91%) Migration
21 24 (10.91%) DHCP
21 24 (10.91%) DNS
22 23 (10.45%) 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 32 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.82%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 107 (48.64%) Azure
2 93 (42.27%) AWS
3 51 (23.18%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.64%) Serverless
5 18 (8.18%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (8.18%) SaaS
6 17 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (6.36%) IaaS
9 13 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (5.91%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (5.00%) Route 53
11 9 (4.09%) CloudFront
12 7 (3.18%) GCP
12 7 (3.18%) GitHub
13 6 (2.73%) Azure Pipelines
13 6 (2.73%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.09%) Firewall
2 24 (10.91%) DHCP
2 24 (10.91%) DNS
3 14 (6.36%) VPN
4 12 (5.45%) WAN
5 11 (5.00%) VLAN
6 8 (3.64%) LAN
6 8 (3.64%) Network Security
7 6 (2.73%) DMZ
8 3 (1.36%) SSL
9 2 (0.91%) Wireless
10 1 (0.45%) MPLS
10 1 (0.45%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.36%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.91%) Power BI
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (11.82%) GitLab
2 21 (9.55%) Artifactory
3 13 (5.91%) Git
General
1 25 (11.36%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.55%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.82%) Finance
4 6 (2.73%) Legal
5 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.91%) Advertising
7 2 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.45%) Law
8 1 (0.45%) Local Government
8 1 (0.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.36%) Django
1 3 (1.36%) GraphQL
1 3 (1.36%) RESTful
2 2 (0.91%) JSON
2 2 (0.91%) Kafka
3 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.45%) Node.js
3 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (11.36%) Public Cloud
3 19 (8.64%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.82%) Clustering
7 1 (0.45%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.45%) PKI
7 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.45%) Replication
7 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 70 (31.82%) Windows
2 53 (24.09%) Linux
3 41 (18.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.91%) VMS
5 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.45%) CentOS
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (95.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (18.18%) DevOps
4 38 (17.27%) ITIL
5 27 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (11.82%) CI/CD
7 24 (10.91%) Migration
8 23 (10.45%) Service Management
8 23 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 22 (10.00%) Agile
10 21 (9.55%) Coaching
10 21 (9.55%) Mentoring
10 21 (9.55%) Operational Stability
11 19 (8.64%) Containerisation
11 19 (8.64%) Incident Management
12 18 (8.18%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (7.27%) Server Management
14 15 (6.82%) Computer Science
15 14 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (6.36%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.73%) PowerShell
2 16 (7.27%) Python
3 7 (3.18%) Bash
4 6 (2.73%) Bicep
5 5 (2.27%) SQL
6 2 (0.91%) Ruby
7 1 (0.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (9.55%) AWS Certification
2 16 (7.27%) Degree
3 15 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 15 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.91%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.64%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.36%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.45%) CCNA
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) MCSE
10 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.55%) QA
2 8 (3.64%) SLA
3 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) NCSC
4 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (16.82%) Active Directory
2 32 (14.55%) Docker
3 25 (11.36%) Hyper-V
4 19 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (27.73%) Terraform
2 42 (19.09%) Ansible
3 26 (11.82%) Kubernetes
4 18 (8.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.09%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (1.82%) Puppet
7 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.36%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.91%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.91%) SCCM
9 1 (0.45%) Grafana
9 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.45%) Nagios
9 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.45%) SCOM
9 1 (0.45%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 53 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.64%) VMware
3 12 (5.45%) Citrix
4 7 (3.18%) Cisco
4 7 (3.18%) Dell
5 6 (2.73%) HP
6 5 (2.27%) Google
7 4 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.82%) Veeam
8 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.91%) UiPath
9 1 (0.45%) Aruba
9 1 (0.45%) BMC
9 1 (0.45%) Commvault
9 1 (0.45%) Juniper
9 1 (0.45%) NetApp
9 1 (0.45%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.45%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.45%) ScienceLogic