Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £63,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 829 929
Rank change year-on-year +162 +100 +190
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer 4 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.002% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £61,400 - £35,900
25th Percentile £62,000 - £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £18,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +252.78% -57.14% -44.00%
75th Percentile £64,500 - £46,125
90th Percentile £64,800 - £47,700
UK median annual salary £63,500 £18,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +252.78% -70.61% -18.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 43,417 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in England

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London - 3 £62,000 - 3
North West - 1 £65,000 -
North of England - 1 £65,000 -
Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Data Centre 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 England region featuring Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) CCSE
2 2 (50.00%) CCSA
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WLAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN

Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Debian
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Server Building
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSA
1 2 (50.00%) CCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware