Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 725 838 908
Rank change year-on-year +113 +70 -180
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 184 109 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 166 89 220
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £44,875
25th Percentile £43,813 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% +14.83%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 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 1 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 +96 167 £60,000 -5.51% 55
UK excluding London +77 148 £60,000 - 47
Work from Home +79 76 £62,783 +6.86% 38
North of England +84 62 £62,783 +9.19% 10
North West +23 32 £43,500 -15.12% 5
South East +13 29 £65,000 +52.94% 12
Midlands +7 26 £57,500 +40.24% 3
London +71 22 £62,500 -3.85% 6
East Midlands +2 21 £55,000 +1.38% 1
East of England - 18 £56,250 - 14
Yorkshire +77 16 £62,783 +4.64% 5
North East 0 14 £62,783 +9.19%
South West -31 7 £55,000 -15.38% 11
West Midlands -13 5 £60,000 +52.87% 2
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 1 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.

1 175 (95.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 102 (55.43%) Azure
3 88 (47.83%) AWS
4 71 (38.59%) Windows
5 56 (30.43%) Terraform
6 52 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (28.26%) Microsoft
6 52 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (27.17%) Linux
8 42 (22.83%) Windows Server
9 41 (22.28%) Ansible
10 39 (21.20%) Active Directory
11 38 (20.65%) ITIL
12 34 (18.48%) DevOps
13 33 (17.93%) Docker
13 33 (17.93%) Microsoft Exchange
14 32 (17.39%) VMware
14 32 (17.39%) Firewall
15 31 (16.85%) Hybrid Cloud
16 27 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (14.67%) CI/CD
16 27 (14.67%) Kubernetes
16 27 (14.67%) Migration
17 26 (14.13%) GitLab
18 25 (13.59%) Public Cloud
18 25 (13.59%) DHCP
18 25 (13.59%) DNS
18 25 (13.59%) Hyper-V
18 25 (13.59%) Social Skills
19 23 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 (17.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 102 (55.43%) Azure
2 88 (47.83%) AWS
3 52 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (10.87%) Serverless
5 18 (9.78%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (9.24%) SaaS
7 15 (8.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (7.61%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.61%) IaaS
9 13 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (6.52%) Route 53
11 9 (4.89%) CloudFront
12 8 (4.35%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.35%) GitHub
13 6 (3.26%) Azure Pipelines
14 5 (2.72%) GCP
15 3 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.39%) Firewall
2 25 (13.59%) DHCP
2 25 (13.59%) DNS
3 14 (7.61%) VPN
4 11 (5.98%) VLAN
5 10 (5.43%) WAN
6 8 (4.35%) Network Security
7 7 (3.80%) LAN
8 6 (3.26%) DMZ
9 2 (1.09%) SAN
9 2 (1.09%) Wireless
10 1 (0.54%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.54%) SSL
10 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.63%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.09%) Power BI
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (14.13%) GitLab
2 21 (11.41%) Artifactory
3 13 (7.07%) Git
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) JIRA
4 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 25 (13.59%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.41%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.15%) Finance
4 6 (3.26%) Legal
5 5 (2.72%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Advertising
8 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.54%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Local Government
8 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.63%) Django
1 3 (1.63%) GraphQL
1 3 (1.63%) RESTful
2 2 (1.09%) JSON
2 2 (1.09%) Kafka
3 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.54%) Node.js
3 1 (0.54%) SAML
3 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (13.59%) Public Cloud
3 19 (10.33%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.72%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.63%) Clustering
6 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.54%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.54%) PKI
6 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Replication
6 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (38.59%) Windows
2 50 (27.17%) Linux
3 42 (22.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.63%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.54%) CentOS
6 1 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (95.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (28.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (20.65%) ITIL
4 34 (18.48%) DevOps
5 27 (14.67%) CI/CD
5 27 (14.67%) Migration
5 27 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (12.50%) Service Management
6 23 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (11.41%) Agile
7 21 (11.41%) Coaching
7 21 (11.41%) Mentoring
7 21 (11.41%) Operational Stability
8 19 (10.33%) Containerisation
8 19 (10.33%) Incident Management
9 17 (9.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (9.24%) Server Management
10 16 (8.70%) Computer Science
11 15 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.61%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.70%) Python
2 15 (8.15%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.26%) Bash
4 5 (2.72%) Bicep
4 5 (2.72%) SQL
5 2 (1.09%) Java
5 2 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (10.87%) AWS Certification
2 17 (9.24%) Degree
3 16 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (8.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.07%) Security Cleared
6 12 (6.52%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (4.89%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.63%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.54%) CCNA
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.54%) MCSE
10 1 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.43%) QA
2 8 (4.35%) SLA
3 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) NCSC
4 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (21.20%) Active Directory
2 33 (17.93%) Docker
3 25 (13.59%) Hyper-V
4 21 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (30.43%) Terraform
2 41 (22.28%) Ansible
3 27 (14.67%) Kubernetes
4 17 (9.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.89%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (2.17%) Puppet
7 3 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.63%) SCCM
7 3 (1.63%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.09%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.54%) Grafana
9 1 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.54%) Nagios
9 1 (0.54%) Packer
9 1 (0.54%) Salt
9 1 (0.54%) SCOM
9 1 (0.54%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 52 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.39%) VMware
3 12 (6.52%) Citrix
4 7 (3.80%) Dell
5 6 (3.26%) Cisco
5 6 (3.26%) HP
6 5 (2.72%) Google
7 4 (2.17%) Veeam
8 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.09%) UiPath
9 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.54%) BMC
9 1 (0.54%) Commvault
9 1 (0.54%) NetApp
9 1 (0.54%) Qualys
9 1 (0.54%) Remedy
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.54%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.54%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.54%) Sophos