Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Cardiff is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 67 55
Rank change year-on-year +29 -12 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 26 1 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.96% 0.17% 4.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.24% 0.19% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24 0 34
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £37,101 - £37,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.57%
75th Percentile £47,900 - £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 - £53,750
South Wales median annual salary £41,067 £40,000 £42,750
% change year-on-year +2.67% -6.43% +22.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 613 526 822
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 90.69% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 532 396 619
10th Percentile £27,157 £31,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,101 £40,000 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £47,029 £45,476 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.42% -7.19% +8.89%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 across the Cardiff region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (53.85%) Linux
3 12 (46.15%) SAN
3 12 (46.15%) AWS
4 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
4 11 (42.31%) Ansible
5 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
6 8 (30.77%) Migration
6 8 (30.77%) Proactive Monitoring
6 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (26.92%) Slack
7 7 (26.92%) Terraform
7 7 (26.92%) Change Management
7 7 (26.92%) Line Management
7 7 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (26.92%) CMDB
7 7 (26.92%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
7 7 (26.92%) Azure
8 6 (23.08%) VMware
8 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
9 5 (19.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (19.23%) Law
9 5 (19.23%) Veeam
9 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
9 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
10 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
10 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (15.38%) Network Architecture
10 4 (15.38%) iPad

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (26.92%) Slack
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) SAN
2 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) DHCP
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Law
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) CMDB
2 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
3 4 (15.38%) iPad
4 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.85%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (30.77%) Migration
2 8 (30.77%) Proactive Monitoring
2 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Change Management
3 7 (26.92%) Line Management
3 7 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
4 4 (15.38%) Network Architecture
4 4 (15.38%) Project Management
4 4 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
6 2 (7.69%) Agile
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.85%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (3.85%) Customer-Centricity
7 1 (3.85%) ITIL
7 1 (3.85%) Load Balancing
7 1 (3.85%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Bash
2 1 (3.85%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) MCP
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Firmware
2 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Ansible
2 7 (26.92%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) VMware
3 5 (19.23%) Veeam
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco
5 2 (7.69%) Meraki
6 1 (3.85%) Dell
6 1 (3.85%) HP
6 1 (3.85%) IBM