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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 55 192
Rank change year-on-year -29 +137 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3,183 5,256 3,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.10% 5.40% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 5.65% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,677 1,725 2,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
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% +9.38%

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 28 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 28 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 -21 2,956 £50,000 -4.76% 487
UK excluding London -38 2,620 £47,500 -2.06% 414
Work from Home +46 1,087 £50,000 -9.09% 238
North of England -23 701 £46,000 -3.16% 101
South East -12 662 £50,000 +1.01% 93
London -11 482 £65,000 +1.17% 119
South West -16 466 £50,000 - 66
Midlands -33 426 £45,000 -6.74% 66
North West -37 334 £48,500 +1.04% 52
Yorkshire -1 263 £45,000 - 43
West Midlands -41 216 £45,000 -5.26% 45
East of England -42 211 £45,000 -16.67% 48
East Midlands -15 210 £45,000 -14.29% 21
North East -24 102 £44,274 +0.62% 6
Scotland -112 92 £45,000 -10.00% 35
Wales -18 59 £41,067 -3.37% 14
Northern Ireland -20 6 £60,000 +29.73% 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
1 332 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 199 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.95%) IIS
4 11 (0.35%) CMS
5 10 (0.31%) Confluence
6 9 (0.28%) WordPress
7 7 (0.22%) Apache
8 6 (0.19%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.094%) nginx
12 2 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.031%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.031%) Site Server
13 1 (0.031%) WebSphere
Applications
1 93 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
3 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
4 5 (0.16%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.063%) CATIA
6 2 (0.063%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.063%) Trello
7 1 (0.031%) 1Password
7 1 (0.031%) Notion
7 1 (0.031%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 10 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.063%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.031%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.031%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.031%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.031%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,301 (40.87%) Azure
2 936 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 529 (16.62%) AWS
4 314 (9.86%) Entra ID
5 185 (5.81%) IaaS
6 176 (5.53%) SaaS
7 110 (3.46%) PaaS
8 89 (2.80%) GCP
9 77 (2.42%) OneDrive
10 65 (2.04%) Nutanix
11 55 (1.73%) Power Platform
12 54 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
13 50 (1.57%) OpenShift
14 38 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (1.13%) GitHub
16 33 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
17 30 (0.94%) Amazon S3
18 29 (0.91%) Serverless
19 28 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
20 21 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 621 (19.51%) Firewall
2 464 (14.58%) DNS
3 388 (12.19%) WAN
4 342 (10.74%) DHCP
5 323 (10.15%) LAN
6 277 (8.70%) SAN
7 216 (6.79%) VPN
8 160 (5.03%) TCP/IP
9 151 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
10 120 (3.77%) Wireless
11 117 (3.68%) SD-WAN
12 116 (3.64%) VLAN
13 96 (3.02%) Internet
14 90 (2.83%) Network Security
15 76 (2.39%) HTTP
16 74 (2.32%) MPLS
17 70 (2.20%) NAS
18 61 (1.92%) WLAN
19 57 (1.79%) VoIP
20 55 (1.73%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.25%) SQL Server
2 75 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (1.29%) MySQL
4 30 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.53%) Power BI
7 14 (0.44%) Big Data
8 10 (0.31%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.25%) DB2
9 8 (0.25%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.25%) 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
13 3 (0.094%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.094%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.094%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (1.98%) GitLab
2 59 (1.85%) Git
3 43 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.26%) JIRA
5 21 (0.66%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.31%) 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 (0.094%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.094%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.063%) Ant
11 2 (0.063%) Gradle
11 2 (0.063%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.063%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.063%) Visual Studio
General
1 559 (17.56%) Social Skills
2 343 (10.78%) Finance
3 155 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 118 (3.71%) Law
6 93 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 93 (2.92%) Telecoms
7 92 (2.89%) Aerospace
8 81 (2.54%) Retail
9 73 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 58 (1.82%) Banking
11 44 (1.38%) Legal
12 41 (1.29%) Automotive
13 37 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 36 (1.13%) Advertising
14 36 (1.13%) Electronics
15 33 (1.04%) Games
16 25 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (0.63%) Police
18 14 (0.44%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 2,362 (74.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 582 (18.28%) Senior
3 496 (15.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 400 (12.57%) IT Engineer
5 320 (10.05%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 204 (6.41%) Support Engineer
7 186 (5.84%) Network Engineer
8 185 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 171 (5.37%) Infrastructure Support
10 154 (4.84%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 150 (4.71%) Lead
12 138 (4.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 134 (4.21%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 120 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 112 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
16 110 (3.46%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
17 98 (3.08%) Security Engineer
18 97 (3.05%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
19 93 (2.92%) Systems Engineer
20 86 (2.70%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.10%) .NET
2 18 (0.57%) ARM Templates
3 15 (0.47%) JSON
3 15 (0.47%) Kafka
3 15 (0.47%) LDAP
3 15 (0.47%) XML
4 14 (0.44%) .NET Framework
5 13 (0.41%) Web Services
6 12 (0.38%) Node.js
7 11 (0.35%) LAMP
8 9 (0.28%) OLE
8 9 (0.28%) RESTful
9 8 (0.25%) React
10 7 (0.22%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (0.19%) Compass CSS Framework
11 6 (0.19%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.19%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.19%) web3js
11 6 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 350 (11.00%) Data Centre
2 146 (4.59%) Public Cloud
3 94 (2.95%) Driving Licence
4 87 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 85 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 68 (2.14%) PKI
7 67 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 49 (1.54%) Replication
9 42 (1.32%) IoT
9 42 (1.32%) Private Cloud
10 36 (1.13%) Clustering
11 29 (0.91%) Onboarding
12 28 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (0.75%) Security Posture
14 22 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
15 21 (0.66%) CCTV
15 21 (0.66%) Client/Server
16 20 (0.63%) Operational Technology
16 20 (0.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,402 (44.05%) Windows
2 790 (24.82%) Windows Server
3 683 (21.46%) Linux
4 190 (5.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 157 (4.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 145 (4.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 131 (4.12%) Windows 10
8 104 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 74 (2.32%) Ubuntu
10 54 (1.70%) Unix
11 46 (1.45%) VMS
12 31 (0.97%) Android
13 30 (0.94%) Apple iOS
13 30 (0.94%) CentOS
14 29 (0.91%) Mac OS
15 28 (0.88%) Windows 7
16 26 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
17 20 (0.63%) Debian
17 20 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
18 17 (0.53%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (15.14%) ITIL
2 408 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
3 350 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
4 327 (10.27%) DevOps
5 282 (8.86%) Mentoring
6 221 (6.94%) Customer Service
7 219 (6.88%) Agile
7 219 (6.88%) Disaster Recovery
8 201 (6.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 173 (5.44%) Migration
10 157 (4.93%) Roadmaps
11 154 (4.84%) Change Management
12 149 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 140 (4.40%) Coaching
13 140 (4.40%) Service Management
14 130 (4.08%) Project Management
15 126 (3.96%) CI/CD
16 124 (3.90%) Project Delivery
16 124 (3.90%) Service Delivery
17 104 (3.27%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 522 (16.40%) PowerShell
2 219 (6.88%) Python
3 175 (5.50%) SQL
4 146 (4.59%) Bash
5 59 (1.85%) Java
6 30 (0.94%) C#
6 30 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 26 (0.82%) Perl
8 22 (0.69%) Ruby
9 15 (0.47%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.41%) Go
11 12 (0.38%) ActionScript
11 12 (0.38%) C++
11 12 (0.38%) VB
12 10 (0.31%) Bicep
12 10 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.31%) Swift
12 10 (0.31%) VBScript
13 9 (0.28%) Korn
14 6 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 502 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 288 (9.05%) DV Cleared
3 270 (8.48%) Degree
4 269 (8.45%) SC Cleared
5 160 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
6 130 (4.08%) CCNA
7 114 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 81 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 65 (2.04%) CCNP
9 65 (2.04%) MCSE
10 50 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 39 (1.23%) CISSP
13 37 (1.16%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.82%) DBS Check
15 23 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.66%) A+ Certification
17 20 (0.63%) MCSA
17 20 (0.63%) PMI Certification
18 18 (0.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (5.03%) SLA
2 73 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 70 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (0.75%) GDPR
5 21 (0.66%) NIST
5 21 (0.66%) QA
6 18 (0.57%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 14 (0.44%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.25%) NCSC
11 7 (0.22%) PMO
12 5 (0.16%) SOC 1
13 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.094%) GRC
15 1 (0.031%) COBIT
15 1 (0.031%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 942 (29.59%) Active Directory
2 629 (19.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 436 (13.70%) Hyper-V
4 171 (5.37%) Docker
5 140 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
6 119 (3.74%) vSphere
7 93 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
9 35 (1.10%) Firmware
9 35 (1.10%) XenApp
10 31 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
11 20 (0.63%) XenDesktop
12 17 (0.53%) NFS
13 14 (0.44%) pfSense
14 12 (0.38%) OpenSSH
15 11 (0.35%) KVM
16 10 (0.31%) VMware NSX
17 9 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
17 9 (0.28%) VMware Server
18 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 318 (9.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 261 (8.20%) Ansible
3 234 (7.35%) Terraform
4 197 (6.19%) SCCM
5 188 (5.91%) Kubernetes
6 112 (3.52%) vCenter Server
7 91 (2.86%) Puppet
8 69 (2.17%) WSUS
9 54 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 49 (1.54%) FortiGate
11 43 (1.35%) SCOM
12 38 (1.19%) EMC NetWorker
13 31 (0.97%) ZABBIX
14 30 (0.94%) Nagios
15 26 (0.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 21 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
17 20 (0.63%) NetBackup
18 18 (0.57%) Progress Chef
18 18 (0.57%) VxRail
19 17 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,096 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 1,006 (31.61%) VMware
3 408 (12.82%) Cisco
4 230 (7.23%) Veeam
5 205 (6.44%) Citrix
6 138 (4.34%) HP
7 116 (3.64%) Red Hat
8 106 (3.33%) Dell
9 105 (3.30%) Fortinet
10 93 (2.92%) Palo Alto
11 87 (2.73%) Meraki
12 75 (2.36%) Aruba
13 69 (2.17%) SolarWinds
14 67 (2.10%) Juniper
14 67 (2.10%) NetApp
15 65 (2.04%) Google
16 60 (1.89%) ServiceNow
17 53 (1.67%) EMC
18 48 (1.51%) Oracle
19 42 (1.32%) IBM