Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Central London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 137 169
Rank change year-on-year +22 +32 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 44 48 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.85% 1.27% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.33% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 39 36 68
10th Percentile £55,600 £40,625 £42,313
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,250 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +3.81% -1.67%
75th Percentile £81,875 £73,750 £74,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,875 £110,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,186 3,603 4,826
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 95.44% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 2,766 3,999
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
City of London +39 32 £75,000 +19.52% 8
Camden - 5 - -
West End of London +3 1 £56,500 -19.29% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (93.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (72.73%) Azure
3 22 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
5 20 (45.45%) Windows
5 20 (45.45%) PowerShell
6 18 (40.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
7 17 (38.64%) Entra ID
8 15 (34.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (34.09%) Finance
9 14 (31.82%) Infrastructure Management
10 13 (29.55%) DevOps
10 13 (29.55%) VMware
10 13 (29.55%) Cisco
11 12 (27.27%) Windows Server
11 12 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
12 11 (25.00%) Linux
13 10 (22.73%) Python
13 10 (22.73%) Business Continuity
14 9 (20.45%) Firewall
14 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Exchange
14 9 (20.45%) DNS
14 9 (20.45%) Root Cause Analysis
14 9 (20.45%) VLAN
14 9 (20.45%) Terraform
14 9 (20.45%) CI/CD

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.55%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 32 (72.73%) Azure
2 22 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (38.64%) Entra ID
4 7 (15.91%) AWS
5 6 (13.64%) GCP
5 6 (13.64%) Google Workspace
6 5 (11.36%) Anthos
7 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.82%) Datadog
7 3 (6.82%) IaaS
7 3 (6.82%) OneDrive
7 3 (6.82%) SaaS
8 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.55%) PaaS
9 1 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) DNS
1 9 (20.45%) Firewall
1 9 (20.45%) VLAN
2 7 (15.91%) DHCP
2 7 (15.91%) Wireless
3 6 (13.64%) SSL
4 5 (11.36%) VPN
5 4 (9.09%) Network Security
6 3 (6.82%) LAN
6 3 (6.82%) NetScaler
6 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.82%) WAN
7 1 (2.27%) Internet
7 1 (2.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.82%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 15 (34.09%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Games
5 3 (6.82%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.55%) iGaming
6 2 (4.55%) Legal
6 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Publishing
7 1 (2.27%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) .NET
1 3 (6.82%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.55%) Mobile Games
4 2 (4.55%) Online Games
4 2 (4.55%) Sports Betting
5 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Windows
2 12 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 11 (25.00%) Linux
4 5 (11.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (93.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (34.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (31.82%) Infrastructure Management
4 13 (29.55%) DevOps
5 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (22.73%) Business Continuity
7 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
7 9 (20.45%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (18.18%) Data Protection
8 8 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.91%) ITIL
9 7 (15.91%) Network Design
9 7 (15.91%) Observability
9 7 (15.91%) Problem Management
9 7 (15.91%) Project Management
9 7 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 7 (15.91%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (13.64%) Cost Control
10 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 10 (22.73%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.82%) CCNA
2 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) CCIE
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) CCSP
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) MCSA
4 1 (2.27%) MCSE
4 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (18.18%) Docker
3 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 9 (20.45%) Terraform
5 7 (15.91%) Ansible
6 6 (13.64%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (13.64%) SCCM
7 5 (11.36%) SCOM
8 3 (6.82%) Argo
8 3 (6.82%) Consul
8 3 (6.82%) Grafana
8 3 (6.82%) Istio
8 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
8 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
8 3 (6.82%) Puppet
8 3 (6.82%) vCenter Server
9 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (2.27%) Nessus
10 1 (2.27%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (29.55%) Cisco
2 13 (29.55%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) Google
3 7 (15.91%) Meraki
4 4 (9.09%) Bloomberg
4 4 (9.09%) Citrix
4 4 (9.09%) NetApp
5 3 (6.82%) FactSet
5 3 (6.82%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.82%) Mitel
5 3 (6.82%) New Relic
5 3 (6.82%) Refinitiv
5 3 (6.82%) Veeam
6 2 (4.55%) Dell
6 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.55%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.27%) EMC
7 1 (2.27%) Reuters