Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 243 280
Rank change year-on-year +128 +37 -104
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,332 1,584 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.38% 1.51% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 1.65% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,935 1,269 1,785
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,009
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% +3.33% +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +132 2,165 £50,000 - 291
UK excluding London +104 1,926 £47,500 +2.15% 238
Work from Home +106 806 £50,000 - 141
North of England +111 486 £45,000 - 41
South East +91 481 £50,000 +11.11% 61
South West +92 375 £50,000 +8.70% 54
London +58 343 £65,000 +8.33% 72
Midlands +70 321 £45,000 -5.26% 42
North West +84 256 £45,000 -5.26% 24
East Midlands +64 164 £45,000 -10.00% 16
West Midlands +40 157 £45,000 -5.26% 26
Yorkshire +93 152 £44,000 -2.22% 11
East of England +57 152 £45,000 -10.00% 26
North East +41 77 £44,274 +4.17% 8
Scotland -44 66 £47,500 - 15
Wales +44 41 £41,067 +2.67% 3
Northern Ireland +20 8 £60,000 +33.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,245 (96.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,124 (48.20%) Windows
3 991 (42.50%) Azure
4 870 (37.31%) VMware
5 868 (37.22%) Microsoft
6 760 (32.59%) Active Directory
7 731 (31.35%) Microsoft 365
8 652 (27.96%) Windows Server
9 574 (24.61%) VMware Infrastructure
10 530 (22.73%) Linux
11 471 (20.20%) Firewall
12 438 (18.78%) PowerShell
13 424 (18.18%) Social Skills
14 391 (16.77%) DNS
15 386 (16.55%) AWS
16 360 (15.44%) Hyper-V
17 354 (15.18%) ITIL
18 342 (14.67%) Security Cleared
19 320 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
20 312 (13.38%) Microsoft Exchange
21 285 (12.22%) Cisco
22 283 (12.14%) Data Centre
23 282 (12.09%) WAN
24 280 (12.01%) DHCP
25 263 (11.28%) Finance
26 238 (10.21%) LAN
27 237 (10.16%) Microsoft Intune
28 235 (10.08%) DevOps
29 229 (9.82%) SAN
30 219 (9.39%) Entra ID

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 312 (13.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 195 (8.36%) SharePoint
3 46 (1.97%) IIS
4 11 (0.47%) Confluence
5 9 (0.39%) Apache
5 9 (0.39%) CMS
5 9 (0.39%) WordPress
6 5 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.17%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.17%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.086%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.086%) JBoss
9 2 (0.086%) nginx
9 2 (0.086%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.086%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.043%) Moodle
10 1 (0.043%) Site Server
Applications
1 66 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.30%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.086%) CATIA
5 2 (0.086%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.086%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) 1Password
6 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 991 (42.50%) Azure
2 731 (31.35%) Microsoft 365
3 386 (16.55%) AWS
4 219 (9.39%) Entra ID
5 150 (6.43%) IaaS
6 127 (5.45%) SaaS
7 70 (3.00%) PaaS
8 56 (2.40%) OneDrive
9 55 (2.36%) GCP
10 46 (1.97%) GitHub
11 44 (1.89%) OpenShift
12 42 (1.80%) Nutanix
13 35 (1.50%) Power Platform
14 34 (1.46%) Amazon S3
15 32 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (1.29%) Serverless
17 27 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (0.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 471 (20.20%) Firewall
2 391 (16.77%) DNS
3 282 (12.09%) WAN
4 280 (12.01%) DHCP
5 238 (10.21%) LAN
6 229 (9.82%) SAN
7 174 (7.46%) VPN
8 132 (5.66%) TCP/IP
9 109 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
10 96 (4.12%) VLAN
11 88 (3.77%) Wireless
12 81 (3.47%) SD-WAN
13 64 (2.74%) NAS
14 59 (2.53%) HTTP
15 51 (2.19%) VoIP
16 49 (2.10%) Network Security
17 46 (1.97%) WLAN
18 43 (1.84%) MPLS
19 41 (1.76%) Internet
20 36 (1.54%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 46 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (1.42%) MySQL
4 17 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.51%) Big Data
7 9 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.21%) Power BI
9 4 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.17%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.17%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.17%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.086%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.086%) Apache Pinot
10 2 (0.086%) DB2
10 2 (0.086%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.086%) Flink
10 2 (0.086%) Presto
Development Applications
1 58 (2.49%) GitLab
2 43 (1.84%) Git
3 34 (1.46%) JIRA
4 25 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.43%) Trac
7 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.30%) MSI
8 6 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.17%) Subversion
10 2 (0.086%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.086%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.043%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.043%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.043%) Vagrant
General
1 424 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 263 (11.28%) Finance
3 116 (4.97%) Public Sector
4 100 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (2.92%) Aerospace
6 66 (2.83%) Law
7 62 (2.66%) Telecoms
8 61 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 57 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (2.40%) Banking
11 52 (2.23%) Retail
12 36 (1.54%) Legal
13 35 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 30 (1.29%) Automotive
15 29 (1.24%) Advertising
16 16 (0.69%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.60%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.60%) Games
17 14 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.56%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.29%) CSS
2 15 (0.64%) JSON
2 15 (0.64%) LDAP
3 13 (0.56%) XML
4 12 (0.51%) Web Services
5 11 (0.47%) LAMP
6 10 (0.43%) .NET
7 6 (0.26%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.26%) JSON Schema
7 6 (0.26%) KML
7 6 (0.26%) Middleware
7 6 (0.26%) Regular Expression
7 6 (0.26%) Software Packaging
7 6 (0.26%) XML Schema
8 5 (0.21%) Node.js
8 5 (0.21%) SAML
8 5 (0.21%) YAML
9 4 (0.17%) EJB
9 4 (0.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 283 (12.14%) Data Centre
2 98 (4.20%) Public Cloud
3 94 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (3.43%) Driving Licence
5 56 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 56 (2.40%) PKI
6 55 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 41 (1.76%) Replication
8 36 (1.54%) Private Cloud
9 29 (1.24%) Clustering
10 26 (1.11%) IoT
11 24 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (0.90%) Cloud Native
13 20 (0.86%) CCTV
14 18 (0.77%) EMC VNX
14 18 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
15 17 (0.73%) Client/Server
16 16 (0.69%) Fat Client
16 16 (0.69%) Thin Client
17 14 (0.60%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,124 (48.20%) Windows
2 652 (27.96%) Windows Server
3 530 (22.73%) Linux
4 155 (6.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 127 (5.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 125 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 111 (4.76%) Windows 10
8 99 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 53 (2.27%) Ubuntu
10 47 (2.02%) Unix
11 39 (1.67%) VMS
12 31 (1.33%) Apple iOS
13 29 (1.24%) Android
13 29 (1.24%) Mac OS
14 26 (1.11%) Windows 7
15 25 (1.07%) CentOS
16 18 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
17 17 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.73%) Windows XP
18 10 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,245 (96.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 354 (15.18%) ITIL
3 320 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
4 235 (10.08%) DevOps
5 210 (9.01%) Cybersecurity
6 191 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
7 175 (7.50%) Mentoring
8 144 (6.17%) Migration
9 126 (5.40%) Agile
10 124 (5.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 116 (4.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 114 (4.89%) Coaching
13 106 (4.55%) Change Management
14 100 (4.29%) Roadmaps
15 97 (4.16%) Customer Service
16 96 (4.12%) Service Management
17 84 (3.60%) Proactive Monitoring
18 83 (3.56%) Server Management
19 82 (3.52%) Service Delivery
20 80 (3.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 438 (18.78%) PowerShell
2 166 (7.12%) Python
3 133 (5.70%) Bash
4 124 (5.32%) SQL
5 47 (2.02%) Java
6 29 (1.24%) Perl
7 16 (0.69%) Ruby
8 13 (0.56%) Korn
9 10 (0.43%) Swift
10 9 (0.39%) ActionScript
10 9 (0.39%) VB
11 8 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.30%) Bicep
13 6 (0.26%) Go
14 5 (0.21%) JavaScript
15 3 (0.13%) C
15 3 (0.13%) Rust
15 3 (0.13%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.086%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.043%) C#
Qualifications
1 342 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 199 (8.53%) Degree
3 189 (8.10%) DV Cleared
4 175 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 102 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
6 88 (3.77%) CCNA
7 64 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 54 (2.32%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (1.63%) MCSE
11 31 (1.33%) HNC
12 29 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 28 (1.20%) CCNP
14 24 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 20 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (0.77%) A+ Certification
17 16 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (0.60%) MCP
18 14 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
19 13 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (3.73%) SLA
2 35 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 28 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.73%) GDPR
5 15 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.60%) NIST
7 11 (0.47%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.34%) QA
10 5 (0.21%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 760 (32.59%) Active Directory
2 574 (24.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 360 (15.44%) Hyper-V
4 130 (5.57%) Docker
5 126 (5.40%) VMware ESXi
6 103 (4.42%) vSphere
7 93 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
8 25 (1.07%) XenApp
9 23 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
10 20 (0.86%) Firmware
11 13 (0.56%) pfSense
11 13 (0.56%) XenDesktop
12 12 (0.51%) NFS
12 12 (0.51%) VMware NSX
13 10 (0.43%) VMware Server
14 9 (0.39%) DFS Replication
14 9 (0.39%) OpenSSH
15 8 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (0.30%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 237 (10.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 207 (8.88%) Ansible
3 177 (7.59%) SCCM
4 158 (6.78%) Terraform
5 124 (5.32%) Kubernetes
6 100 (4.29%) vCenter Server
7 70 (3.00%) Puppet
8 65 (2.79%) WSUS
9 44 (1.89%) SCOM
10 37 (1.59%) EMC NetWorker
11 33 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 30 (1.29%) FortiGate
12 30 (1.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 25 (1.07%) Nagios
14 22 (0.94%) NetBackup
15 18 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
15 18 (0.77%) ZABBIX
16 17 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
17 16 (0.69%) SCDPM
18 15 (0.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 870 (37.31%) VMware
2 868 (37.22%) Microsoft
3 285 (12.22%) Cisco
4 195 (8.36%) Veeam
5 157 (6.73%) Citrix
6 116 (4.97%) Red Hat
7 108 (4.63%) HP
8 73 (3.13%) Oracle
9 71 (3.04%) Dell
9 71 (3.04%) Meraki
10 70 (3.00%) Aruba
11 50 (2.14%) EMC
11 50 (2.14%) NetApp
12 48 (2.06%) SolarWinds
13 47 (2.02%) Palo Alto
14 46 (1.97%) Fortinet
15 42 (1.80%) Google
16 40 (1.72%) IBM
17 35 (1.50%) Juniper
18 31 (1.33%) ServiceNow