Infrastructure Engineering Jobs

Infrastructure Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 55 192
Rank change year-on-year -32 +137 -66
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3,117 5,293 3,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.09% 5.37% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 5.62% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,641 1,754 2,292
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,097 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -25 2,895 £50,000 -4.76% 461
UK excluding London -39 2,559 £47,500 -2.06% 397
Work from Home +49 1,078 £50,000 -9.09% 226
North of England -21 696 £46,000 -3.16% 98
South East -15 638 £50,000 +1.01% 92
London -9 479 £65,000 - 106
South West -17 460 £50,000 - 70
Midlands -34 413 £45,000 -8.42% 61
North West -40 330 £47,500 -1.04% 51
Yorkshire +1 263 £45,000 - 41
West Midlands -42 211 £45,000 -5.26% 39
East Midlands -13 202 £45,000 -12.20% 22
East of England -43 201 £45,000 -16.67% 41
North East -24 101 £44,274 +2.37% 7
Scotland -117 90 £45,000 -10.00% 33
Wales -14 58 £41,067 -3.37% 11
Northern Ireland -15 6 £60,000 +33.33% 3

Infrastructure Engineering
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
1 334 (10.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 201 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.99%) IIS
4 11 (0.35%) CMS
5 9 (0.29%) Confluence
5 9 (0.29%) WordPress
6 7 (0.22%) Apache
7 6 (0.19%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.096%) nginx
11 2 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.032%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.032%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.032%) OpenStack
Applications
1 92 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
3 6 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.16%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.064%) CATIA
6 2 (0.064%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.064%) Trello
7 1 (0.032%) 1Password
7 1 (0.032%) Notion
7 1 (0.032%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 9 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.064%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.064%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.032%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.032%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.032%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,294 (41.51%) Azure
2 938 (30.09%) Microsoft 365
3 524 (16.81%) AWS
4 314 (10.07%) Entra ID
5 187 (6.00%) IaaS
6 179 (5.74%) SaaS
7 112 (3.59%) PaaS
8 91 (2.92%) GCP
9 77 (2.47%) OneDrive
10 63 (2.02%) Nutanix
11 54 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
11 54 (1.73%) Power Platform
12 49 (1.57%) OpenShift
13 37 (1.19%) GitHub
14 34 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (0.96%) Serverless
16 29 (0.93%) Amazon S3
17 28 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 616 (19.76%) Firewall
2 463 (14.85%) DNS
3 386 (12.38%) WAN
4 339 (10.88%) DHCP
5 323 (10.36%) LAN
6 277 (8.89%) SAN
7 217 (6.96%) VPN
8 159 (5.10%) TCP/IP
9 153 (4.91%) Wi-Fi
10 120 (3.85%) Wireless
11 117 (3.75%) SD-WAN
12 116 (3.72%) VLAN
13 95 (3.05%) Internet
14 89 (2.86%) Network Security
15 73 (2.34%) HTTP
16 72 (2.31%) MPLS
17 71 (2.28%) NAS
18 60 (1.92%) WLAN
19 57 (1.83%) VoIP
20 54 (1.73%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 69 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (1.28%) MySQL
4 29 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 28 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.55%) Power BI
7 14 (0.45%) Big Data
8 10 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.26%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.26%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.19%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.19%) SQLite
12 5 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.16%) DB2
13 3 (0.096%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.096%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.096%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 63 (2.02%) GitLab
2 60 (1.92%) Git
3 43 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.25%) JIRA
5 21 (0.67%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.32%) Trac
7 7 (0.22%) MSI
7 7 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.19%) Subversion
9 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.096%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.096%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.064%) Ant
11 2 (0.064%) Gradle
11 2 (0.064%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.064%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.064%) Visual Studio
General
1 560 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 341 (10.94%) Finance
3 155 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (4.20%) Public Sector
5 122 (3.91%) Law
6 92 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (2.95%) Telecoms
7 91 (2.92%) Aerospace
8 78 (2.50%) Retail
9 69 (2.21%) Manufacturing
10 63 (2.02%) Banking
11 45 (1.44%) Legal
12 41 (1.32%) Automotive
13 37 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 36 (1.15%) Advertising
14 36 (1.15%) Electronics
15 30 (0.96%) Games
16 25 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.64%) Police
18 14 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2,300 (73.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 566 (18.16%) Senior
3 479 (15.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 389 (12.48%) IT Engineer
5 309 (9.91%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 196 (6.29%) Support Engineer
7 184 (5.90%) Network Engineer
8 171 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 164 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
10 141 (4.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 137 (4.40%) Lead
12 132 (4.23%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 130 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 119 (3.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 111 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
16 109 (3.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
17 99 (3.18%) Security Engineer
18 97 (3.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
19 92 (2.95%) Systems Engineer
20 88 (2.82%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.12%) .NET
2 18 (0.58%) ARM Templates
3 16 (0.51%) JSON
4 15 (0.48%) XML
5 14 (0.45%) .NET Framework
5 14 (0.45%) Kafka
5 14 (0.45%) LDAP
6 13 (0.42%) Web Services
7 12 (0.38%) Node.js
8 11 (0.35%) LAMP
9 9 (0.29%) OLE
9 9 (0.29%) RESTful
10 8 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.26%) React
11 7 (0.22%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.19%) JSON Schema
12 6 (0.19%) Middleware
12 6 (0.19%) Regular Expression
12 6 (0.19%) web3js
12 6 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 346 (11.10%) Data Centre
2 144 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 94 (3.02%) Driving Licence
4 88 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 84 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 67 (2.15%) PKI
7 62 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 52 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 48 (1.54%) Replication
10 43 (1.38%) Private Cloud
11 41 (1.32%) IoT
12 34 (1.09%) Clustering
13 29 (0.93%) Onboarding
14 28 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (0.77%) Security Posture
16 21 (0.67%) Client/Server
16 21 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (0.64%) CCTV
17 20 (0.64%) Operational Technology
17 20 (0.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,393 (44.69%) Windows
2 791 (25.38%) Windows Server
3 676 (21.69%) Linux
4 188 (6.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 155 (4.97%) Windows Server 2012
6 146 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 130 (4.17%) Windows 10
8 105 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 73 (2.34%) Ubuntu
10 54 (1.73%) Unix
11 45 (1.44%) VMS
12 31 (0.99%) Android
13 30 (0.96%) Apple iOS
14 29 (0.93%) Mac OS
15 28 (0.90%) CentOS
15 28 (0.90%) Windows 7
16 26 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
17 22 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
18 19 (0.61%) Debian
19 17 (0.55%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (15.50%) ITIL
2 406 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
3 348 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
4 330 (10.59%) DevOps
5 279 (8.95%) Mentoring
6 222 (7.12%) Customer Service
7 220 (7.06%) Agile
8 217 (6.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 203 (6.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 173 (5.55%) Migration
11 155 (4.97%) Roadmaps
12 153 (4.91%) Change Management
13 152 (4.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 140 (4.49%) Coaching
15 139 (4.46%) Service Management
16 129 (4.14%) Project Management
17 127 (4.07%) CI/CD
18 124 (3.98%) Project Delivery
19 120 (3.85%) Service Delivery
20 101 (3.24%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 524 (16.81%) PowerShell
2 222 (7.12%) Python
3 174 (5.58%) SQL
4 149 (4.78%) Bash
5 57 (1.83%) Java
6 30 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 29 (0.93%) C#
8 27 (0.87%) Perl
9 23 (0.74%) Ruby
10 15 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.42%) Go
12 12 (0.38%) C++
12 12 (0.38%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.35%) ActionScript
13 11 (0.35%) VB
14 10 (0.32%) Korn
14 10 (0.32%) Swift
14 10 (0.32%) VBScript
15 9 (0.29%) Bicep
16 6 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 493 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 287 (9.21%) DV Cleared
3 268 (8.60%) Degree
4 264 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 159 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
6 130 (4.17%) CCNA
7 116 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 79 (2.53%) Azure Certification
9 67 (2.15%) MCSE
10 64 (2.05%) CCNP
11 51 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 45 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 38 (1.22%) AWS Certification
13 38 (1.22%) CISSP
14 25 (0.80%) DBS Check
15 23 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.71%) MCSA
17 21 (0.67%) A+ Certification
18 20 (0.64%) PMI Certification
19 18 (0.58%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (5.00%) SLA
2 72 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 70 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (0.77%) GDPR
5 21 (0.67%) NIST
5 21 (0.67%) QA
6 18 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 14 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.29%) NCSC
11 8 (0.26%) PMO
12 5 (0.16%) SOC 1
13 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.096%) GRC
15 1 (0.032%) COBIT
15 1 (0.032%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.032%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 943 (30.25%) Active Directory
2 622 (19.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 428 (13.73%) Hyper-V
4 171 (5.49%) Docker
5 139 (4.46%) VMware ESXi
6 117 (3.75%) vSphere
7 94 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
9 36 (1.15%) Firmware
10 35 (1.12%) XenApp
11 32 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
12 21 (0.67%) XenDesktop
13 17 (0.55%) NFS
14 14 (0.45%) pfSense
15 11 (0.35%) KVM
15 11 (0.35%) OpenSSH
16 10 (0.32%) VMware NSX
17 9 (0.29%) VMware Server
18 8 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
18 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 318 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 263 (8.44%) Ansible
3 232 (7.44%) Terraform
4 197 (6.32%) SCCM
5 184 (5.90%) Kubernetes
6 110 (3.53%) vCenter Server
7 91 (2.92%) Puppet
8 70 (2.25%) WSUS
9 53 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 47 (1.51%) FortiGate
11 43 (1.38%) SCOM
12 36 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
13 30 (0.96%) ZABBIX
14 28 (0.90%) Nagios
15 25 (0.80%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 21 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
16 21 (0.67%) NetBackup
17 18 (0.58%) Progress Chef
17 18 (0.58%) VxRail
18 17 (0.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1,099 (35.26%) Microsoft
2 991 (31.79%) VMware
3 407 (13.06%) Cisco
4 227 (7.28%) Veeam
5 204 (6.54%) Citrix
6 136 (4.36%) HP
7 118 (3.79%) Red Hat
8 106 (3.40%) Fortinet
9 105 (3.37%) Dell
10 91 (2.92%) Palo Alto
11 86 (2.76%) Meraki
12 74 (2.37%) Aruba
13 67 (2.15%) Google
13 67 (2.15%) SolarWinds
14 66 (2.12%) Juniper
14 66 (2.12%) NetApp
15 60 (1.92%) ServiceNow
16 51 (1.64%) EMC
17 47 (1.51%) Oracle
18 41 (1.32%) Sophos