Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 233 273
Rank change year-on-year +129 +40 -98
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,173 1,500 1,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.57% 1.59% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 1.74% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,806 1,195 1,567
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,217 £41,875 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

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 79,927 86,214 125,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59,989 54,425 75,776
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +101 489 £45,000 - 50
South East +86 489 £50,000 +11.11% 56
South West +81 371 £50,000 +8.70% 55
London +63 340 £65,000 +8.33% 75
Midlands +80 325 £45,000 -5.26% 44
North West +77 256 £45,000 -5.26% 26
East Midlands +72 163 £45,000 -10.00% 15
West Midlands +41 162 £45,000 -5.26% 29
Yorkshire +91 155 £43,250 -3.89% 17
East of England +72 152 £45,000 -10.00% 24
North East +46 77 £44,274 +2.37% 9
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,097 (96.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,077 (49.56%) Windows
3 930 (42.80%) Azure
4 821 (37.78%) VMware
5 812 (37.37%) Microsoft
6 741 (34.10%) Active Directory
7 695 (31.98%) Microsoft 365
8 614 (28.26%) Windows Server
9 541 (24.90%) VMware Infrastructure
10 493 (22.69%) Linux
11 450 (20.71%) Firewall
12 418 (19.24%) PowerShell
13 391 (17.99%) DNS
14 389 (17.90%) Social Skills
15 349 (16.06%) ITIL
16 347 (15.97%) AWS
17 336 (15.46%) Hyper-V
18 318 (14.63%) Security Cleared
19 305 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
20 300 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
21 279 (12.84%) DHCP
22 270 (12.43%) WAN
23 265 (12.20%) Cisco
24 259 (11.92%) Data Centre
25 246 (11.32%) Finance
26 239 (11.00%) Microsoft Intune
27 231 (10.63%) LAN
28 226 (10.40%) DevOps
29 200 (9.20%) Entra ID
29 200 (9.20%) Cybersecurity

Infrastructure Engineer 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
1 305 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 191 (8.79%) SharePoint
3 46 (2.12%) IIS
4 11 (0.51%) Confluence
5 10 (0.46%) WordPress
6 9 (0.41%) CMS
7 7 (0.32%) Apache
8 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.18%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.092%) JBoss
11 2 (0.092%) nginx
11 2 (0.092%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.046%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.046%) Moodle
12 1 (0.046%) Site Server
12 1 (0.046%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.092%) CATIA
5 2 (0.092%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.092%) Trello
6 1 (0.046%) 1Password
6 1 (0.046%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 930 (42.80%) Azure
2 695 (31.98%) Microsoft 365
3 347 (15.97%) AWS
4 200 (9.20%) Entra ID
5 139 (6.40%) IaaS
6 124 (5.71%) SaaS
7 63 (2.90%) PaaS
8 54 (2.49%) OneDrive
9 45 (2.07%) GitHub
10 44 (2.02%) OpenShift
11 43 (1.98%) Nutanix
12 40 (1.84%) GCP
13 32 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (1.43%) Amazon S3
14 31 (1.43%) Power Platform
15 29 (1.33%) Serverless
16 27 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
18 19 (0.87%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 450 (20.71%) Firewall
2 391 (17.99%) DNS
3 279 (12.84%) DHCP
4 270 (12.43%) WAN
5 231 (10.63%) LAN
6 193 (8.88%) SAN
7 162 (7.46%) VPN
8 127 (5.84%) TCP/IP
9 111 (5.11%) Wi-Fi
10 91 (4.19%) Wireless
11 88 (4.05%) VLAN
12 72 (3.31%) SD-WAN
13 62 (2.85%) NAS
14 56 (2.58%) HTTP
15 47 (2.16%) Network Security
16 45 (2.07%) WLAN
17 42 (1.93%) MPLS
18 40 (1.84%) VoIP
19 36 (1.66%) Internet
20 35 (1.61%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (6.07%) SQL Server
2 48 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (1.52%) MySQL
4 18 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (0.46%) Big Data
8 4 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.18%) Power BI
8 4 (0.18%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.18%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.092%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.092%) DB2
9 2 (0.092%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.092%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.092%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.046%) MS Access
10 1 (0.046%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.046%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.046%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (2.72%) GitLab
2 44 (2.02%) Git
3 29 (1.33%) JIRA
4 22 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.97%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.46%) Trac
7 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.32%) MSI
8 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.18%) Subversion
10 2 (0.092%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.092%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.046%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.046%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.046%) Vagrant
General
1 389 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 246 (11.32%) Finance
3 108 (4.97%) Public Sector
4 101 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (2.85%) Aerospace
6 57 (2.62%) Manufacturing
7 55 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 52 (2.39%) Law
9 49 (2.25%) Banking
10 48 (2.21%) Retail
11 43 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (1.38%) Automotive
12 30 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.33%) Advertising
14 26 (1.20%) Legal
15 17 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 14 (0.64%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.60%) Electronics
18 12 (0.55%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.01%) CSS
2 15 (0.69%) JSON
2 15 (0.69%) LDAP
3 13 (0.60%) XML
4 12 (0.55%) LAMP
4 12 (0.55%) Web Services
5 10 (0.46%) .NET
6 6 (0.28%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.28%) JSON Schema
6 6 (0.28%) KML
6 6 (0.28%) Middleware
6 6 (0.28%) Regular Expression
6 6 (0.28%) Software Packaging
6 6 (0.28%) XML Schema
7 5 (0.23%) SAML
7 5 (0.23%) YAML
8 4 (0.18%) EJB
9 3 (0.14%) EDI
9 3 (0.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 259 (11.92%) Data Centre
2 88 (4.05%) Public Cloud
3 81 (3.73%) Driving Licence
3 81 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
4 56 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 56 (2.58%) Management Information System
4 56 (2.58%) PKI
5 38 (1.75%) Replication
6 34 (1.56%) Private Cloud
7 33 (1.52%) Clustering
8 25 (1.15%) IoT
9 21 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (0.92%) CCTV
11 18 (0.83%) EMC VNX
12 17 (0.78%) Client/Server
12 17 (0.78%) Cloud Native
12 17 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
13 14 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (0.60%) Security Posture
15 12 (0.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1,077 (49.56%) Windows
2 614 (28.26%) Windows Server
3 493 (22.69%) Linux
4 159 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 130 (5.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 128 (5.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 113 (5.20%) Windows 10
8 100 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 51 (2.35%) Ubuntu
10 44 (2.02%) Unix
11 39 (1.79%) VMS
12 31 (1.43%) Apple iOS
13 29 (1.33%) Android
14 26 (1.20%) Windows 7
15 25 (1.15%) CentOS
16 24 (1.10%) Mac OS
17 19 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
18 17 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
18 17 (0.78%) Windows XP
19 9 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,097 (96.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 349 (16.06%) ITIL
3 300 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
4 226 (10.40%) DevOps
5 200 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
6 188 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery
7 165 (7.59%) Mentoring
8 133 (6.12%) Migration
9 118 (5.43%) Agile
10 112 (5.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (5.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 107 (4.92%) Coaching
13 95 (4.37%) Change Management
13 95 (4.37%) Service Management
14 92 (4.23%) Roadmaps
15 91 (4.19%) Customer Service
16 83 (3.82%) Service Delivery
17 81 (3.73%) Server Management
18 75 (3.45%) CI/CD
18 75 (3.45%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 418 (19.24%) PowerShell
2 161 (7.41%) Python
3 134 (6.17%) Bash
4 123 (5.66%) SQL
5 43 (1.98%) Java
6 31 (1.43%) Perl
7 16 (0.74%) Ruby
8 14 (0.64%) Korn
9 10 (0.46%) Swift
10 9 (0.41%) ActionScript
10 9 (0.41%) VB
11 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.23%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.18%) Bicep
14 3 (0.14%) C
14 3 (0.14%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.092%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.092%) Rust
16 1 (0.046%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 318 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 193 (8.88%) Degree
3 180 (8.28%) DV Cleared
4 161 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 91 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
6 78 (3.59%) CCNA
7 54 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 49 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.43%) HNC
11 28 (1.29%) MCSE
12 27 (1.24%) CCNP
13 25 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 21 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 16 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.69%) MCP
17 14 (0.64%) A+ Certification
17 14 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
18 13 (0.60%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.68%) SLA
2 29 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.78%) GDPR
5 16 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.69%) NIST
7 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.37%) QA
10 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.14%) PMO
13 1 (0.046%) NCSC
System Software
1 741 (34.10%) Active Directory
2 541 (24.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 336 (15.46%) Hyper-V
4 121 (5.57%) Docker
5 118 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
6 104 (4.79%) vSphere
7 86 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
8 26 (1.20%) XenApp
9 24 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 17 (0.78%) Firmware
11 13 (0.60%) pfSense
12 11 (0.51%) NFS
13 10 (0.46%) VMware Server
13 10 (0.46%) XenDesktop
14 9 (0.41%) OpenSSH
15 8 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (0.32%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.28%) DFS Replication
17 6 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 239 (11.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 181 (8.33%) SCCM
3 180 (8.28%) Ansible
4 135 (6.21%) Terraform
5 115 (5.29%) Kubernetes
6 94 (4.33%) vCenter Server
7 70 (3.22%) Puppet
8 65 (2.99%) WSUS
9 44 (2.02%) SCOM
10 37 (1.70%) EMC NetWorker
11 31 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (1.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 25 (1.15%) FortiGate
13 24 (1.10%) Nagios
14 22 (1.01%) NetBackup
15 21 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
16 18 (0.83%) ZABBIX
17 17 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
18 16 (0.74%) SCDPM
19 14 (0.64%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 821 (37.78%) VMware
2 812 (37.37%) Microsoft
3 265 (12.20%) Cisco
4 183 (8.42%) Veeam
5 150 (6.90%) Citrix
6 116 (5.34%) Red Hat
7 106 (4.88%) HP
8 68 (3.13%) Aruba
8 68 (3.13%) Dell
9 64 (2.95%) Meraki
10 59 (2.72%) Oracle
11 48 (2.21%) Palo Alto
12 47 (2.16%) SolarWinds
13 44 (2.02%) EMC
13 44 (2.02%) Fortinet
14 43 (1.98%) NetApp
15 35 (1.61%) IBM
16 34 (1.56%) Juniper
17 31 (1.43%) Google
18 29 (1.33%) Commvault