Network Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 778 921 1079
Rank change year-on-year +143 +158 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 133 78 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.075% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.082% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 113 61 109
10th Percentile £36,380 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £46,387 £49,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% -5.33% +9.20%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +142 127 £50,000 +6.38% 18
UK excluding London +54 112 £49,500 +6.71% 17
South East +56 53 £50,000 +5.26% 4
Work from Home +85 36 £48,919 +8.71% 3
North of England +45 21 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North West +23 18 £42,500 -9.57%
London +110 15 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Midlands +10 15 £50,000 +13.93% 3
South West -8 14 £57,500 +66.31% 5
East of England - 9 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands +2 8 £45,000 +2.54% 2
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 - 1
Yorkshire +88 2 £37,236 -3.91%
North East -3 1 £29,000 -31.76% 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 129 (96.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 66 (49.62%) Firewall
3 62 (46.62%) Azure
4 61 (45.86%) Cisco
5 55 (41.35%) WAN
6 52 (39.10%) Windows
7 51 (38.35%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (37.59%) VMware
9 41 (30.83%) Microsoft
10 39 (29.32%) Data Centre
11 38 (28.57%) Active Directory
11 38 (28.57%) Linux
11 38 (28.57%) LAN
12 34 (25.56%) VPN
13 32 (24.06%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (21.05%) Windows Server
15 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
15 27 (20.30%) DNS
16 24 (18.05%) CCNA
16 24 (18.05%) Microsoft Exchange
17 23 (17.29%) SD-WAN
18 22 (16.54%) Wi-Fi
19 21 (15.79%) Wireless
19 21 (15.79%) Driving Licence
20 20 (15.04%) Aruba
20 20 (15.04%) AWS
21 19 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
21 19 (14.29%) SQL Server
21 19 (14.29%) F5
22 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving

Network 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 24 (18.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (9.02%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.02%) IIS
3 8 (6.02%) WordPress
4 2 (1.50%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 62 (46.62%) Azure
2 51 (38.35%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (15.04%) AWS
4 10 (7.52%) OneDrive
5 9 (6.77%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.26%) IaaS
7 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.76%) GCP
9 4 (3.01%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (1.50%) Kong
10 2 (1.50%) SaaS
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.75%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (49.62%) Firewall
2 55 (41.35%) WAN
3 38 (28.57%) LAN
4 34 (25.56%) VPN
5 27 (20.30%) DNS
6 23 (17.29%) SD-WAN
7 22 (16.54%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (15.79%) Wireless
9 16 (12.03%) BGP
9 16 (12.03%) MPLS
9 16 (12.03%) TCP/IP
9 16 (12.03%) VLAN
10 15 (11.28%) DHCP
11 10 (7.52%) BIG-IP
11 10 (7.52%) SAN
12 8 (6.02%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (6.02%) Fibre Channel
12 8 (6.02%) iSCSI
12 8 (6.02%) NAS
12 8 (6.02%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.50%) JIRA
1 2 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.27%) Finance
3 5 (3.76%) Advertising
3 5 (3.76%) Retail
3 5 (3.76%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Law
6 2 (1.50%) Military
6 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) LAMP
2 2 (1.50%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.75%) JSON
3 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.32%) Data Centre
2 21 (15.79%) Driving Licence
3 15 (11.28%) Replication
4 8 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.26%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.26%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.50%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.50%) PropTech
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.75%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.75%) IoT
8 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 52 (39.10%) Windows
2 38 (28.57%) Linux
3 28 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.52%) Ubuntu
5 8 (6.02%) VMS
5 8 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.26%) Android
7 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (96.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (10.53%) ITIL
4 12 (9.02%) Load Balancing
5 11 (8.27%) Customer Service
6 10 (7.52%) DevOps
6 10 (7.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (7.52%) Migration
7 8 (6.02%) CI/CD
7 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (6.02%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (6.02%) Web Filtering
8 6 (4.51%) Analytics
8 6 (4.51%) Business Continuity
8 6 (4.51%) Presales
9 5 (3.76%) Change Control
9 5 (3.76%) Client Onboarding
9 5 (3.76%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (3.76%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (3.76%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.28%) PowerShell
2 11 (8.27%) Bash
3 8 (6.02%) Python
4 1 (0.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (24.06%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (18.05%) CCNA
3 15 (11.28%) CCNP
4 8 (6.02%) Degree
5 6 (4.51%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.76%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.76%) CCIE
6 5 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.50%) MCSE
8 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (11.28%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.77%) vSphere
5 7 (5.26%) Docker
5 7 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.50%) KVM
6 2 (1.50%) QEMU
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.50%) Xen
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (12.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.77%) Terraform
3 8 (6.02%) SCCM
4 7 (5.26%) Ansible
4 7 (5.26%) FortiGate
5 6 (4.51%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.76%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.01%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 61 (45.86%) Cisco
2 50 (37.59%) VMware
3 41 (30.83%) Microsoft
4 20 (15.04%) Aruba
5 19 (14.29%) F5
6 16 (12.03%) Palo Alto
7 13 (9.77%) HP
8 11 (8.27%) Veeam
9 10 (7.52%) CheckPoint
10 8 (6.02%) Meraki
10 8 (6.02%) ProCurve
10 8 (6.02%) Synology
10 8 (6.02%) Zerto
11 7 (5.26%) Citrix
12 5 (3.76%) Draytek
12 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
13 4 (3.01%) Juniper
14 3 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (2.26%) Google
14 3 (2.26%) SolarWinds