Infrastructure Operations Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 742 823
Rank change year-on-year +24 +81 -145
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 38 13 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.021% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.024% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 29 10 13
10th Percentile £30,000 - -
25th Percentile £33,000 £46,250 £36,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £44,623
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +6.45% -37.37%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,813 £47,307
90th Percentile £57,500 £73,625 -
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £44,623
% change year-on-year -10.53% +6.45% -28.60%

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 66,712 54,809 67,929
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,259 31,113 42,994
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations 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 Operations Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +13 11 £40,000 -15.79% 1
Scotland - 11 £33,000 -
East Midlands - 6 £40,000 - 1
West Midlands +24 5 £42,500 -10.53%
South West -26 5 - -
North of England +47 4 - -
South East +25 4 £55,000 -67.65%
North West - 4 - -
East of England - 3 £46,000 -
Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Infrastructure Operations 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 Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (73.68%) Active Directory
3 24 (63.16%) Microsoft
4 23 (60.53%) Azure
5 19 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (47.37%) DNS
6 18 (47.37%) DHCP
7 16 (42.11%) VMware
8 15 (39.47%) Entra ID
8 15 (39.47%) ITIL
9 13 (34.21%) Windows
9 13 (34.21%) WAN
9 13 (34.21%) Veeam
10 12 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
10 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
11 11 (28.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (26.32%) Meraki
12 10 (26.32%) Cisco
13 9 (23.68%) A+ Certification
13 9 (23.68%) LAN
13 9 (23.68%) Network+ Certification
13 9 (23.68%) Physics
13 9 (23.68%) Ergonomics
13 9 (23.68%) Human Factors
13 9 (23.68%) ITSM
13 9 (23.68%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (23.68%) IaaS
13 9 (23.68%) Driving Licence
13 9 (23.68%) PaaS

Infrastructure Operations 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 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) Azure
2 19 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (39.47%) Entra ID
4 9 (23.68%) IaaS
4 9 (23.68%) PaaS
4 9 (23.68%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.53%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (47.37%) DHCP
1 18 (47.37%) DNS
2 13 (34.21%) WAN
3 9 (23.68%) LAN
3 9 (23.68%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (10.53%) Firewall
4 4 (10.53%) SD-WAN
4 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (10.53%) VLAN
4 4 (10.53%) VoIP
4 4 (10.53%) VPN
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.89%) Advertising
3 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Windows
2 9 (23.68%) Windows Server
3 8 (21.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (10.53%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (39.47%) ITIL
3 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.68%) Digital Strategy
4 9 (23.68%) Ergonomics
4 9 (23.68%) Human Factors
4 9 (23.68%) ITSM
4 9 (23.68%) Physics
5 5 (13.16%) Edge Virtualization
5 5 (13.16%) High Availability
5 5 (13.16%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (13.16%) Service Management
6 4 (10.53%) Coaching
6 4 (10.53%) Customer Service
6 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.53%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) A+ Certification
1 9 (23.68%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
System Software
1 28 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (21.05%) Hyper-V
4 4 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (7.89%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
2 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
2 3 (7.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (42.11%) VMware
3 13 (34.21%) Veeam
4 10 (26.32%) Cisco
4 10 (26.32%) Meraki
5 4 (10.53%) Barracuda Networks
5 4 (10.53%) Citrix
5 4 (10.53%) CyberArk
5 4 (10.53%) Cylance
5 4 (10.53%) McAfee