Infrastructure Specialist Jobs in England

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Specialist salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 633 857 1023
Rank change year-on-year +224 +166 -229
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 203 68 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.074% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.081% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 134 54 87
10th Percentile £30,385 £37,750 £37,200
25th Percentile £40,313 £43,494 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.28% -7.00%
75th Percentile £62,313 £65,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £73,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £46,500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +15.59% -7.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in England

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England +126 112 £52,500 +22.09% 10
Yorkshire +122 46 £58,000 +42.33% 2
North East +33 39 £41,500 -33.60% 6
South East +43 34 £55,000 +15.79% 3
South West - 29 £30,385 - 3
North West +34 27 £50,000 +0.70% 2
Midlands +30 15 £41,500 -33.06%
West Midlands +28 14 £41,500 -33.06%
London +95 12 £63,264 +15.03% 2
East of England - 2 £50,000 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 76 (37.44%) Windows
2 71 (34.98%) Azure
3 68 (33.50%) Active Directory
4 63 (31.03%) Windows Server
5 57 (28.08%) Microsoft
5 57 (28.08%) VMware
6 55 (27.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 48 (23.65%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (19.21%) Entra ID
9 38 (18.72%) Security Cleared
10 33 (16.26%) SC Cleared
11 30 (14.78%) Migration
11 30 (14.78%) SAN
12 27 (13.30%) Roadmaps
13 26 (12.81%) Windows Server 2016
13 26 (12.81%) Finance
13 26 (12.81%) ITIL
14 25 (12.32%) OneDrive
15 23 (11.33%) Cisco
15 23 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
16 22 (10.84%) Oracle
16 22 (10.84%) Firewall
16 22 (10.84%) Windows Server 2012
17 21 (10.34%) Mentoring
17 21 (10.34%) Driving Licence
17 21 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
17 21 (10.34%) Law
17 21 (10.34%) CSS
17 21 (10.34%) SCCM
18 20 (9.85%) Wireless

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 71 (34.98%) Azure
2 48 (23.65%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (19.21%) Entra ID
4 25 (12.32%) OneDrive
5 12 (5.91%) AWS
6 6 (2.96%) SaaS
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.49%) IaaS
7 1 (0.49%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.49%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.49%) OCI
7 1 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (14.78%) SAN
2 22 (10.84%) Firewall
3 20 (9.85%) Wireless
4 15 (7.39%) NAS
5 13 (6.40%) LAN
6 12 (5.91%) DNS
7 11 (5.42%) WAN
8 9 (4.43%) DHCP
9 6 (2.96%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (1.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.48%) Network Security
10 3 (1.48%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.48%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.99%) BGP
11 2 (0.99%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.99%) OSPF
11 2 (0.99%) VLAN
11 2 (0.99%) VPN
11 2 (0.99%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.97%) SQL Server
General
1 26 (12.81%) Finance
2 21 (10.34%) Law
3 10 (4.93%) Social Skills
4 4 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.48%) Retail
6 1 (0.49%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.34%) CSS
2 2 (0.99%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.34%) Driving Licence
1 21 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 6 (2.96%) Clustering
4 5 (2.46%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.48%) Smart Energy
6 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.99%) NHS
6 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.49%) PKI
7 1 (0.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (37.44%) Windows
2 63 (31.03%) Windows Server
3 26 (12.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 22 (10.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (6.90%) Windows 10
6 13 (6.40%) Linux
7 11 (5.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (4.93%) Windows NT
9 9 (4.43%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.48%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (27.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (14.78%) Migration
3 27 (13.30%) Roadmaps
4 26 (12.81%) ITIL
5 21 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 17 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (7.39%) Preventative Maintenance
8 13 (6.40%) Cost Management
8 13 (6.40%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (5.91%) Energy Management
9 12 (5.91%) Operations Management
10 11 (5.42%) Customer Service
10 11 (5.42%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (4.93%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (4.93%) Service Management
12 8 (3.94%) Root Cause Analysis
13 7 (3.45%) Decision-Making
13 7 (3.45%) Network Virtualisation
14 6 (2.96%) Network Design
14 6 (2.96%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.43%) VBScript
3 1 (0.49%) ActionScript
3 1 (0.49%) SQL
3 1 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (18.72%) Security Cleared
2 33 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (6.90%) Degree
5 13 (6.40%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.99%) CCIE
6 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.99%) MCSA
6 2 (0.99%) MCSE
7 1 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.93%) GDPR
1 10 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.96%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.46%) SOC 1
4 3 (1.48%) NIST
5 2 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (33.50%) Active Directory
2 23 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.87%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (7.39%) Hyper-V
5 10 (4.93%) Firmware
6 3 (1.48%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.49%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.49%) vSphere
8 1 (0.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (10.34%) SCCM
2 20 (9.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (7.88%) vCenter Server
4 10 (4.93%) Sysprep
4 10 (4.93%) WSUS
5 3 (1.48%) SCVMM
5 3 (1.48%) SELinux
6 2 (0.99%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.49%) IBM BigFix
7 1 (0.49%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.49%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 57 (28.08%) Microsoft
1 57 (28.08%) VMware
2 23 (11.33%) Cisco
3 22 (10.84%) Oracle
4 15 (7.39%) IBM
5 7 (3.45%) Citrix
6 2 (0.99%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (0.99%) Fortinet
6 2 (0.99%) NetApp
6 2 (0.99%) Veeam
6 2 (0.99%) Veritas
7 1 (0.49%) Dell
7 1 (0.49%) Meraki