Network Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 865 1028
Rank change year-on-year +157 +163 -246
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 129 75 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.081% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.089% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 111 59 91
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,660 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,625 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -14.55% +22.58%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +6.38% -8.29% +13.89%

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 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £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 £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in England

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in England

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in England

Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +58 53 £50,000 +5.26% 4
North of England +65 21 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North West +30 18 £42,500 -9.57%
London +117 16 £62,500 +4.17% 4
Midlands +8 15 £50,000 +13.93% 3
South West -20 14 £57,500 +66.31% 5
East of England - 10 £47,500 - 2
West Midlands +12 8 £45,000 +2.54% 2
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 - 1
Yorkshire +94 2 £37,236 -3.91%
North East -7 1 £29,000 -31.76% 1
Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

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

1 124 (96.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (48.84%) Firewall
3 59 (45.74%) Azure
4 58 (44.96%) Cisco
5 55 (42.64%) WAN
6 52 (40.31%) VMware
6 52 (40.31%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (37.98%) Windows
8 39 (30.23%) Microsoft
8 39 (30.23%) Active Directory
8 39 (30.23%) Data Centre
9 38 (29.46%) LAN
10 34 (26.36%) Linux
11 33 (25.58%) Cisco Certification
12 31 (24.03%) VPN
13 28 (21.71%) DNS
14 25 (19.38%) CCNA
14 25 (19.38%) Microsoft Exchange
14 25 (19.38%) Windows Server
15 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
16 23 (17.83%) SD-WAN
17 22 (17.05%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (16.28%) Wireless
18 21 (16.28%) Driving Licence
19 20 (15.50%) Aruba
19 20 (15.50%) AWS
19 20 (15.50%) VMware Infrastructure
20 19 (14.73%) F5
21 17 (13.18%) Microsoft Intune
22 16 (12.40%) Palo Alto

Network 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 25 (19.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.08%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.20%) IIS
3 8 (6.20%) WordPress
4 2 (1.55%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (45.74%) Azure
2 52 (40.31%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (15.50%) AWS
4 10 (7.75%) OneDrive
5 9 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.88%) GCP
8 4 (3.10%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (2.33%) IaaS
10 2 (1.55%) Kong
10 2 (1.55%) SaaS
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.78%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.78%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (48.84%) Firewall
2 55 (42.64%) WAN
3 38 (29.46%) LAN
4 31 (24.03%) VPN
5 28 (21.71%) DNS
6 23 (17.83%) SD-WAN
7 22 (17.05%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (16.28%) Wireless
9 16 (12.40%) BGP
9 16 (12.40%) DHCP
9 16 (12.40%) MPLS
9 16 (12.40%) TCP/IP
10 12 (9.30%) VLAN
11 10 (7.75%) BIG-IP
11 10 (7.75%) SAN
12 8 (6.20%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (6.20%) Fibre Channel
12 8 (6.20%) iSCSI
12 8 (6.20%) NAS
12 8 (6.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.55%) JIRA
1 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.53%) Finance
3 6 (4.65%) Retail
4 5 (3.88%) Advertising
5 4 (3.10%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Law
7 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.55%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.20%) LAMP
2 2 (1.55%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.78%) JSON
3 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.23%) Data Centre
2 21 (16.28%) Driving Licence
3 16 (12.40%) Replication
4 8 (6.20%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.33%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.55%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.55%) PropTech
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.78%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.78%) IoT
9 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (37.98%) Windows
2 34 (26.36%) Linux
3 25 (19.38%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.75%) Ubuntu
5 8 (6.20%) VMS
5 8 (6.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.33%) Android
7 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (96.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (11.63%) ITIL
2 15 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (9.30%) Load Balancing
4 10 (7.75%) DevOps
4 10 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (7.75%) Migration
5 9 (6.98%) Customer Service
6 8 (6.20%) CI/CD
6 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (6.20%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (6.20%) Web Filtering
7 6 (4.65%) Analytics
7 6 (4.65%) Business Continuity
7 6 (4.65%) Presales
8 5 (3.88%) Change Control
8 5 (3.88%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (3.88%) High Availability
8 5 (3.88%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (3.88%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.63%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.53%) Bash
3 8 (6.20%) Python
4 1 (0.78%) Bicep
4 1 (0.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (25.58%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (19.38%) CCNA
3 15 (11.63%) CCNP
4 8 (6.20%) Degree
5 6 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.88%) CCIE
6 5 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.55%) MCSE
8 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (30.23%) Active Directory
2 20 (15.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.40%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.98%) vSphere
5 7 (5.43%) Docker
5 7 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.55%) KVM
6 2 (1.55%) QEMU
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.55%) Xen
7 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (13.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.98%) Terraform
3 8 (6.20%) SCCM
4 7 (5.43%) Ansible
4 7 (5.43%) FortiGate
5 6 (4.65%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.88%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.10%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 58 (44.96%) Cisco
2 52 (40.31%) VMware
3 39 (30.23%) Microsoft
4 20 (15.50%) Aruba
5 19 (14.73%) F5
6 16 (12.40%) Palo Alto
7 13 (10.08%) HP
8 12 (9.30%) Veeam
9 10 (7.75%) CheckPoint
10 9 (6.98%) Meraki
11 8 (6.20%) ProCurve
11 8 (6.20%) Synology
11 8 (6.20%) Zerto
12 7 (5.43%) Citrix
13 5 (3.88%) Draytek
13 5 (3.88%) Fortinet
14 4 (3.10%) Juniper
15 3 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
15 3 (2.33%) Google
15 3 (2.33%) SolarWinds