Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 210 201
Rank change year-on-year +108 -9 -73
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1,943 1,011 1,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.71% 1.71% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 1.92% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,607 773 1,100
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,875 £40,000 £36,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,050
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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 +108 487 £45,000 - 37
South East +86 478 £50,000 +11.11% 71
South West +77 389 £50,000 +5.26% 55
Midlands +68 316 £45,000 -5.26% 50
North West +87 257 £45,000 -4.26% 17
East Midlands +70 163 £45,000 -10.00% 22
East of England +64 161 £45,000 -10.00% 29
West Midlands +38 153 £45,000 -5.26% 28
Yorkshire +93 152 £44,274 -1.61% 18
North East +41 76 £44,274 +2.37% 3
Scotland -43 65 £47,500 +5.56% 24
Wales +38 40 £41,067 +2.67% 4
Northern Ireland +14 9 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1,880 (96.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 887 (45.65%) Windows
3 766 (39.42%) Azure
4 708 (36.44%) VMware
5 677 (34.84%) Microsoft
6 583 (30.01%) Active Directory
7 558 (28.72%) Microsoft 365
8 497 (25.58%) Windows Server
9 457 (23.52%) VMware Infrastructure
10 428 (22.03%) Linux
11 378 (19.45%) Firewall
12 344 (17.70%) Social Skills
13 323 (16.62%) Hyper-V
14 322 (16.57%) DNS
15 320 (16.47%) PowerShell
16 312 (16.06%) ITIL
17 299 (15.39%) Security Cleared
18 288 (14.82%) AWS
19 258 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
20 235 (12.09%) Cisco
21 234 (12.04%) Data Centre
22 231 (11.89%) WAN
23 229 (11.79%) DHCP
24 226 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
25 194 (9.98%) Cybersecurity
26 181 (9.32%) LAN
27 178 (9.16%) DevOps
28 177 (9.11%) SAN
29 174 (8.96%) Finance
30 168 (8.65%) Ansible

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 226 (11.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (8.23%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.01%) IIS
4 9 (0.46%) CMS
5 7 (0.36%) Apache
6 5 (0.26%) Confluence
6 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.21%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.21%) WordPress
8 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.051%) JBoss
9 1 (0.051%) Moodle
9 1 (0.051%) nginx
9 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.051%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.051%) WebSphere
Applications
1 58 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.36%) AutoCAD
2 7 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.10%) CATIA
4 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
4 2 (0.10%) Trello
5 1 (0.051%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 766 (39.42%) Azure
2 558 (28.72%) Microsoft 365
3 288 (14.82%) AWS
4 164 (8.44%) Entra ID
5 109 (5.61%) SaaS
6 107 (5.51%) IaaS
7 51 (2.62%) PaaS
8 47 (2.42%) OneDrive
9 44 (2.26%) OpenShift
10 41 (2.11%) GCP
11 36 (1.85%) Nutanix
11 36 (1.85%) Power Platform
12 26 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 25 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (1.08%) GitHub
16 20 (1.03%) Serverless
17 18 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (0.77%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 378 (19.45%) Firewall
2 322 (16.57%) DNS
3 231 (11.89%) WAN
4 229 (11.79%) DHCP
5 181 (9.32%) LAN
6 177 (9.11%) SAN
7 128 (6.59%) VPN
8 113 (5.82%) TCP/IP
9 89 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
10 77 (3.96%) VLAN
11 72 (3.71%) SD-WAN
12 65 (3.35%) Wireless
13 56 (2.88%) HTTP
14 49 (2.52%) NAS
14 49 (2.52%) VoIP
15 38 (1.96%) WLAN
16 37 (1.90%) MPLS
17 28 (1.44%) BGP
17 28 (1.44%) Network Security
18 26 (1.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 33 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (1.60%) MySQL
4 17 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.67%) Big Data
6 9 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.26%) Power BI
8 4 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.21%) DB2
8 4 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.21%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.21%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.10%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.051%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.051%) MS Access
10 1 (0.051%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.051%) Redis
10 1 (0.051%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (2.01%) GitLab
2 31 (1.60%) Git
3 28 (1.44%) JIRA
4 21 (1.08%) Artifactory
5 19 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.51%) Trac
7 7 (0.36%) MSI
8 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.051%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.051%) TeamCity
General
1 344 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 174 (8.96%) Finance
3 109 (5.61%) Public Sector
4 70 (3.60%) Aerospace
5 61 (3.14%) Manufacturing
6 57 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (2.73%) Law
8 40 (2.06%) Telecoms
9 38 (1.96%) Retail
10 35 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.60%) Automotive
12 28 (1.44%) Legal
13 26 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.18%) Advertising
15 18 (0.93%) Banking
16 16 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.57%) Games
18 8 (0.41%) Military
19 6 (0.31%) Electronics
19 6 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.08%) CSS
2 13 (0.67%) XML
3 12 (0.62%) .NET
3 12 (0.62%) Web Services
4 10 (0.51%) JSON
5 6 (0.31%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.31%) JSON Schema
5 6 (0.31%) KML
5 6 (0.31%) LAMP
5 6 (0.31%) LDAP
5 6 (0.31%) Regular Expression
5 6 (0.31%) Software Packaging
5 6 (0.31%) XML Schema
6 5 (0.26%) YAML
7 4 (0.21%) EJB
7 4 (0.21%) Middleware
8 3 (0.15%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.10%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 234 (12.04%) Data Centre
2 94 (4.84%) Public Cloud
3 81 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 65 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
5 53 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 42 (2.16%) PKI
7 37 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 33 (1.70%) Replication
9 31 (1.60%) Private Cloud
10 25 (1.29%) Clustering
10 25 (1.29%) IoT
11 17 (0.87%) EMC VNX
12 16 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
13 14 (0.72%) CMDB
14 13 (0.67%) CCTV
14 13 (0.67%) Cloud Native
14 13 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
15 12 (0.62%) Operational Technology
16 10 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 887 (45.65%) Windows
2 497 (25.58%) Windows Server
3 428 (22.03%) Linux
4 132 (6.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 102 (5.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 99 (5.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 84 (4.32%) Windows 10
8 75 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (1.96%) Unix
10 37 (1.90%) Ubuntu
11 28 (1.44%) Android
11 28 (1.44%) Apple iOS
12 25 (1.29%) Windows 7
13 24 (1.24%) CentOS
14 21 (1.08%) VMS
15 18 (0.93%) Mac OS
16 16 (0.82%) Windows XP
17 14 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
17 14 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
18 9 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,880 (96.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 312 (16.06%) ITIL
3 258 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
4 194 (9.98%) Cybersecurity
5 178 (9.16%) DevOps
6 165 (8.49%) Mentoring
7 152 (7.82%) Disaster Recovery
8 112 (5.76%) Migration
9 111 (5.71%) Coaching
10 103 (5.30%) Agile
11 100 (5.15%) Change Management
12 98 (5.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 90 (4.63%) Customer Service
14 89 (4.58%) Roadmaps
15 88 (4.53%) Service Management
16 83 (4.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 77 (3.96%) Service Delivery
18 75 (3.86%) Project Management
19 69 (3.55%) Server Management
20 68 (3.50%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 320 (16.47%) PowerShell
2 117 (6.02%) Python
3 106 (5.46%) Bash
4 79 (4.07%) SQL
5 41 (2.11%) Java
6 13 (0.67%) Perl
7 10 (0.51%) ActionScript
7 10 (0.51%) Swift
7 10 (0.51%) VB
8 8 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.36%) Bicep
10 4 (0.21%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.21%) Ruby
11 3 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.10%) AWK
12 2 (0.10%) C
12 2 (0.10%) C#
12 2 (0.10%) C++
12 2 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.051%) Go
Qualifications
1 299 (15.39%) Security Cleared
2 164 (8.44%) SC Cleared
3 160 (8.23%) Degree
4 158 (8.13%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
6 83 (4.27%) CCNA
7 49 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 36 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (1.70%) MCSE
11 26 (1.34%) HNC
12 25 (1.29%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 21 (1.08%) CCNP
15 17 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.67%) A+ Certification
16 13 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 9 (0.46%) MCP
18 9 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.50%) SLA
2 29 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (0.72%) GDPR
4 14 (0.72%) NIST
5 13 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.57%) QA
7 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.26%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.10%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.051%) NCSC
System Software
1 583 (30.01%) Active Directory
2 457 (23.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 323 (16.62%) Hyper-V
4 119 (6.12%) Docker
5 109 (5.61%) VMware ESXi
6 81 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 79 (4.07%) vSphere
8 22 (1.13%) XenApp
9 18 (0.93%) Firmware
10 17 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
12 14 (0.72%) NFS
13 12 (0.62%) pfSense
14 11 (0.57%) XenDesktop
15 10 (0.51%) OpenSSH
15 10 (0.51%) VMware Server
16 8 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.41%) VMware NSX
17 6 (0.31%) KVM
18 5 (0.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 168 (8.65%) Ansible
2 160 (8.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 136 (7.00%) SCCM
4 113 (5.82%) Kubernetes
5 103 (5.30%) Terraform
6 86 (4.43%) vCenter Server
7 58 (2.99%) WSUS
8 45 (2.32%) Puppet
9 38 (1.96%) SCOM
10 36 (1.85%) EMC NetWorker
11 27 (1.39%) FortiGate
12 26 (1.34%) Nagios
13 25 (1.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 18 (0.93%) ZABBIX
15 17 (0.87%) NetBackup
16 16 (0.82%) Grafana
16 16 (0.82%) SCDPM
17 14 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 14 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
18 13 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 708 (36.44%) VMware
2 677 (34.84%) Microsoft
3 235 (12.09%) Cisco
4 164 (8.44%) Veeam
5 125 (6.43%) Citrix
6 98 (5.04%) HP
7 89 (4.58%) Red Hat
8 65 (3.35%) Dell
9 62 (3.19%) Meraki
10 60 (3.09%) Aruba
11 55 (2.83%) Oracle
12 49 (2.52%) EMC
13 45 (2.32%) NetApp
14 40 (2.06%) Fortinet
15 38 (1.96%) IBM
16 36 (1.85%) SolarWinds
17 32 (1.65%) Google
17 32 (1.65%) Juniper
18 30 (1.54%) Palo Alto
19 28 (1.44%) Sophos