Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 241 286
Rank change year-on-year +127 +45 -110
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,386 1,502 2,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.36% 1.52% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% 1.67% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,972 1,186 1,748
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,088
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £59,988 £61,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -

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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
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 £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +127 2,221 £50,000 - 352
UK excluding London +113 1,978 £47,500 +1.06% 313
Work from Home +106 804 £50,000 - 160
North of England +108 490 £45,000 - 59
South East +79 484 £50,000 +11.11% 97
South West +79 402 £50,000 +5.26% 53
London +64 349 £62,500 +4.17% 98
Midlands +67 324 £45,000 -5.26% 48
North West +72 259 £45,000 -4.26% 28
East Midlands +80 169 £45,000 -10.00% 17
East of England +64 167 £45,000 -10.00% 36
West Midlands +37 155 £45,000 -5.26% 29
Yorkshire +85 154 £44,274 -1.61% 24
North East +38 75 £44,274 +0.62% 8
Scotland -36 65 £47,500 +5.56% 22
Wales +38 39 £41,067 +2.67% 5
Northern Ireland +19 8 £60,000 +33.33% 3

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,300 (96.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,088 (45.60%) Windows
3 961 (40.28%) Azure
4 845 (35.41%) Microsoft
5 840 (35.21%) VMware
6 724 (30.34%) Active Directory
7 689 (28.88%) Microsoft 365
8 609 (25.52%) Windows Server
9 550 (23.05%) Linux
10 540 (22.63%) VMware Infrastructure
11 481 (20.16%) Firewall
12 426 (17.85%) Social Skills
13 416 (17.44%) PowerShell
14 385 (16.14%) DNS
15 383 (16.05%) AWS
16 357 (14.96%) Security Cleared
17 354 (14.84%) Hyper-V
18 341 (14.29%) ITIL
19 309 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
20 287 (12.03%) Microsoft Exchange
21 283 (11.86%) WAN
22 282 (11.82%) Cisco
23 279 (11.69%) Data Centre
24 268 (11.23%) Finance
25 267 (11.19%) DHCP
26 234 (9.81%) DevOps
27 231 (9.68%) LAN
28 230 (9.64%) Microsoft Intune
29 221 (9.26%) SAN
30 220 (9.22%) Entra ID

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
1 287 (12.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 185 (7.75%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.97%) IIS
4 12 (0.50%) Confluence
5 9 (0.38%) Apache
5 9 (0.38%) CMS
5 9 (0.38%) WordPress
6 6 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.17%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.17%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.084%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.042%) JBoss
11 1 (0.042%) Moodle
11 1 (0.042%) Site Server
11 1 (0.042%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.042%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.29%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.084%) CATIA
5 2 (0.084%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.084%) Trello
6 1 (0.042%) 1Password
6 1 (0.042%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.084%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 961 (40.28%) Azure
2 689 (28.88%) Microsoft 365
3 383 (16.05%) AWS
4 220 (9.22%) Entra ID
5 145 (6.08%) IaaS
6 138 (5.78%) SaaS
7 68 (2.85%) PaaS
8 57 (2.39%) OneDrive
9 54 (2.26%) GCP
10 46 (1.93%) OpenShift
11 45 (1.89%) Nutanix
12 42 (1.76%) Power Platform
13 39 (1.63%) GitHub
14 34 (1.42%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (1.26%) Serverless
17 27 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
19 24 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
20 18 (0.75%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 481 (20.16%) Firewall
2 385 (16.14%) DNS
3 283 (11.86%) WAN
4 267 (11.19%) DHCP
5 231 (9.68%) LAN
6 221 (9.26%) SAN
7 174 (7.29%) VPN
8 139 (5.83%) TCP/IP
9 110 (4.61%) Wi-Fi
10 95 (3.98%) VLAN
11 82 (3.44%) SD-WAN
12 80 (3.35%) Wireless
13 62 (2.60%) NAS
14 61 (2.56%) HTTP
15 51 (2.14%) VoIP
16 48 (2.01%) Internet
16 48 (2.01%) MPLS
17 44 (1.84%) WLAN
18 43 (1.80%) Network Security
19 38 (1.59%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 44 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (1.34%) MySQL
4 21 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.63%) Big Data
7 10 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.25%) Power BI
9 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.17%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.17%) DB2
10 4 (0.17%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.13%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.084%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.084%) Apache Pinot
12 2 (0.084%) Flink
12 2 (0.084%) Presto
13 1 (0.042%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (2.39%) GitLab
2 42 (1.76%) Git
3 37 (1.55%) JIRA
4 31 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.42%) Trac
7 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.29%) MSI
8 6 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.17%) Subversion
10 2 (0.084%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.084%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.042%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.042%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.042%) Vagrant
General
1 426 (17.85%) Social Skills
2 268 (11.23%) Finance
3 113 (4.74%) Public Sector
4 95 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (3.27%) Aerospace
6 65 (2.72%) Law
7 64 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 64 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 56 (2.35%) Banking
8 56 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (2.31%) Retail
10 36 (1.51%) Legal
11 35 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (1.42%) Automotive
13 28 (1.17%) Advertising
14 16 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.63%) Games
16 13 (0.54%) Electronics
16 13 (0.54%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.26%) CSS
2 18 (0.75%) .NET
3 14 (0.59%) LDAP
4 13 (0.54%) Web Services
4 13 (0.54%) XML
5 12 (0.50%) JSON
6 11 (0.46%) LAMP
7 8 (0.34%) .NET Framework
8 7 (0.29%) Kafka
9 6 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (0.25%) JSON Schema
9 6 (0.25%) KML
9 6 (0.25%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.25%) Software Packaging
9 6 (0.25%) XML Schema
9 6 (0.25%) YAML
10 5 (0.21%) Middleware
10 5 (0.21%) Node.js
10 5 (0.21%) SAML
11 4 (0.17%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 279 (11.69%) Data Centre
2 98 (4.11%) Public Cloud
3 95 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 84 (3.52%) Driving Licence
5 55 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 53 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 53 (2.22%) PKI
7 40 (1.68%) Replication
8 36 (1.51%) Private Cloud
9 29 (1.22%) IoT
10 27 (1.13%) Clustering
11 25 (1.05%) Cloud Native
12 22 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (0.88%) CCTV
14 17 (0.71%) Client/Server
14 17 (0.71%) EMC VNX
14 17 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
15 14 (0.59%) Fat Client
15 14 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (0.59%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,088 (45.60%) Windows
2 609 (25.52%) Windows Server
3 550 (23.05%) Linux
4 152 (6.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 121 (5.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 118 (4.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 112 (4.69%) Windows 10
8 95 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 60 (2.51%) Ubuntu
10 46 (1.93%) Unix
11 44 (1.84%) VMS
12 30 (1.26%) Apple iOS
13 28 (1.17%) Android
14 27 (1.13%) Mac OS
15 26 (1.09%) Windows 7
16 25 (1.05%) CentOS
17 17 (0.71%) Windows XP
18 16 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
19 15 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
20 10 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,300 (96.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 341 (14.29%) ITIL
3 309 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
4 234 (9.81%) DevOps
5 213 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
6 180 (7.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 175 (7.33%) Mentoring
8 147 (6.16%) Agile
9 140 (5.87%) Migration
10 127 (5.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 113 (4.74%) Coaching
12 112 (4.69%) Change Management
13 105 (4.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 97 (4.07%) Roadmaps
14 97 (4.07%) Service Management
15 94 (3.94%) Customer Service
16 86 (3.60%) Project Management
17 83 (3.48%) CI/CD
17 83 (3.48%) Service Delivery
18 81 (3.39%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 416 (17.44%) PowerShell
2 165 (6.92%) Python
3 130 (5.45%) Bash
4 119 (4.99%) SQL
5 52 (2.18%) Java
6 25 (1.05%) Perl
7 21 (0.88%) Ruby
8 11 (0.46%) ActionScript
8 11 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.46%) VB
9 10 (0.42%) Korn
9 10 (0.42%) Swift
10 8 (0.34%) Go
11 7 (0.29%) Bicep
11 7 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.21%) C++
14 3 (0.13%) C#
14 3 (0.13%) Rust
14 3 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 357 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 204 (8.55%) DV Cleared
3 190 (7.96%) Degree
4 182 (7.63%) SC Cleared
5 101 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
6 88 (3.69%) CCNA
7 64 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 50 (2.10%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (1.59%) MCSE
11 31 (1.30%) HNC
12 30 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 30 (1.26%) CCNP
13 25 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 20 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.71%) A+ Certification
16 13 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.54%) MCP
16 13 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.81%) SLA
2 37 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (0.67%) GDPR
4 16 (0.67%) NIST
5 14 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.50%) QA
7 10 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.084%) PMO
12 1 (0.042%) NCSC
System Software
1 724 (30.34%) Active Directory
2 540 (22.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 354 (14.84%) Hyper-V
4 145 (6.08%) Docker
5 127 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
6 106 (4.44%) vSphere
7 88 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
8 31 (1.30%) XenApp
9 22 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
10 21 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
11 19 (0.80%) Firmware
12 18 (0.75%) XenDesktop
13 17 (0.71%) NFS
14 14 (0.59%) pfSense
15 11 (0.46%) OpenSSH
16 10 (0.42%) VMware NSX
17 9 (0.38%) VMware Server
18 8 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
19 7 (0.29%) KVM
19 7 (0.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 230 (9.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 218 (9.14%) Ansible
3 168 (7.04%) SCCM
4 167 (7.00%) Terraform
5 133 (5.57%) Kubernetes
6 104 (4.36%) vCenter Server
7 69 (2.89%) Puppet
8 62 (2.60%) WSUS
9 39 (1.63%) SCOM
10 36 (1.51%) EMC NetWorker
11 30 (1.26%) FortiGate
12 28 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 26 (1.09%) Nagios
14 25 (1.05%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 21 (0.88%) NetBackup
16 18 (0.75%) ZABBIX
17 16 (0.67%) Grafana
17 16 (0.67%) Progress Chef
17 16 (0.67%) SCDPM
17 16 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 845 (35.41%) Microsoft
2 840 (35.21%) VMware
3 282 (11.82%) Cisco
4 194 (8.13%) Veeam
5 157 (6.58%) Citrix
6 113 (4.74%) Red Hat
7 106 (4.44%) HP
8 76 (3.19%) Dell
9 75 (3.14%) Oracle
10 68 (2.85%) Meraki
11 67 (2.81%) Aruba
12 54 (2.26%) NetApp
13 49 (2.05%) EMC
14 48 (2.01%) Palo Alto
15 45 (1.89%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.76%) Google
16 42 (1.76%) SolarWinds
17 39 (1.63%) IBM
18 34 (1.42%) Juniper
19 31 (1.30%) ServiceNow