Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 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 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 105 234
Rank change year-on-year -111 +129 +41
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 635 2,168 1,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.38% 2.55% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 2.70% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 533 1,799 1,183
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,300
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £74,900
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 41,579 80,366 84,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,536 60,207 53,679
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -11.67% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +12 214 £71,250 +9.62% 76
North of England -86 160 £50,000 +11.11% 70
North West -80 98 £47,500 +5.56% 42
South East -103 94 £46,500 -7.00% 55
Midlands -74 85 £45,000 - 38
West Midlands -24 66 £45,000 - 22
Yorkshire -7 52 £55,000 +25.00% 19
East of England -29 44 £55,320 +22.93% 18
South West -79 39 £60,822 +21.64% 44
East Midlands -65 19 £52,500 +16.67% 15
North East -11 10 £40,000 -9.65% 10
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 620 (97.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 345 (54.33%) Windows
3 323 (50.87%) Azure
4 300 (47.24%) Microsoft
5 240 (37.80%) Active Directory
6 230 (36.22%) Windows Server
7 225 (35.43%) VMware
8 220 (34.65%) Microsoft 365
9 200 (31.50%) Firewall
10 178 (28.03%) PowerShell
11 158 (24.88%) VMware Infrastructure
12 147 (23.15%) Social Skills
13 138 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
13 138 (21.73%) Linux
14 123 (19.37%) Microsoft Exchange
15 121 (19.06%) Cisco
16 117 (18.43%) Disaster Recovery
17 116 (18.27%) Finance
18 112 (17.64%) DNS
19 100 (15.75%) Microsoft Intune
20 97 (15.28%) AWS
21 93 (14.65%) DHCP
22 87 (13.70%) Data Centre
23 86 (13.54%) Entra ID
24 84 (13.23%) Degree
25 83 (13.07%) DevOps
26 82 (12.91%) Hyper-V
27 80 (12.60%) Terraform
28 79 (12.44%) High Availability
28 79 (12.44%) VPN

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:

Application Platforms
1 123 (19.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (8.50%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.52%) IIS
4 7 (1.10%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.79%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.63%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.47%) Apache
7 3 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Confluence
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (3.46%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 323 (50.87%) Azure
2 220 (34.65%) Microsoft 365
3 97 (15.28%) AWS
4 86 (13.54%) Entra ID
5 44 (6.93%) SaaS
6 40 (6.30%) IaaS
7 36 (5.67%) GCP
8 34 (5.35%) PaaS
9 26 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (3.78%) Microsoft Purview
11 22 (3.46%) OneDrive
12 20 (3.15%) Azure AKS
13 17 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (2.68%) Power Platform
14 13 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (2.05%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.42%) Mimecast
17 8 (1.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 200 (31.50%) Firewall
2 112 (17.64%) DNS
3 93 (14.65%) DHCP
4 79 (12.44%) VPN
4 79 (12.44%) WAN
5 71 (11.18%) LAN
6 63 (9.92%) Network Security
7 50 (7.87%) Wi-Fi
8 47 (7.40%) VLAN
9 45 (7.09%) SAN
10 38 (5.98%) SD-WAN
11 30 (4.72%) NAS
12 26 (4.09%) TCP/IP
13 24 (3.78%) Wireless
14 21 (3.31%) SMTP
15 18 (2.83%) Internet
16 16 (2.52%) BGP
17 12 (1.89%) VSAN
18 11 (1.73%) 5G
18 11 (1.73%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.46%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.42%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.94%) Power BI
4 5 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (0.79%) SAP BW
4 5 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
4 5 (0.79%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) Big Data
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) DB2
7 1 (0.16%) MySQL
7 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (1.42%) JIRA
4 5 (0.79%) GitLab
5 3 (0.47%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.47%) Git
6 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 147 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.27%) Finance
3 35 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.57%) Banking
5 29 (4.57%) Law
6 21 (3.31%) Legal
6 21 (3.31%) Retail
7 20 (3.15%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.05%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.89%) Electronics
9 12 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.73%) Games
11 9 (1.42%) Local Government
11 9 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.10%) General Ledger
13 5 (0.79%) Back Office
13 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Police
15 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.52%) ARM Templates
2 12 (1.89%) Web Services
3 7 (1.10%) Middleware
3 7 (1.10%) OLE
4 6 (0.94%) .NET
5 5 (0.79%) SAML
6 3 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.47%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.31%) REST
8 1 (0.16%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.16%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.16%) Django
8 1 (0.16%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.16%) Flask
8 1 (0.16%) JSON
8 1 (0.16%) LDAP
8 1 (0.16%) ODBC
8 1 (0.16%) OpenCL
8 1 (0.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (13.70%) Data Centre
2 26 (4.09%) Clustering
3 25 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (3.15%) Security Posture
6 19 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.05%) Driving Licence
8 13 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.73%) IoT
9 11 (1.73%) NB-IoT
9 11 (1.73%) PKI
10 9 (1.42%) Cyber Security Posture
11 8 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.10%) Replication
13 6 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 345 (54.33%) Windows
2 230 (36.22%) Windows Server
3 138 (21.73%) Linux
4 44 (6.93%) Windows 10
5 35 (5.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (2.68%) Ubuntu
8 13 (2.05%) CentOS
8 13 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (2.05%) Unix
9 12 (1.89%) AIX
9 12 (1.89%) Mac OS
9 12 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (1.73%) Debian
11 10 (1.57%) VMS
12 6 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.79%) Android
13 5 (0.79%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.31%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (97.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 138 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
3 117 (18.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 83 (13.07%) DevOps
5 79 (12.44%) High Availability
6 76 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 75 (11.81%) ITIL
8 63 (9.92%) CI/CD
9 59 (9.29%) Infrastructure Management
10 56 (8.82%) Mentoring
11 52 (8.19%) Business Continuity
11 52 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
13 47 (7.40%) Migration
14 45 (7.09%) Customer Service
15 44 (6.93%) Cloud Security
16 37 (5.83%) Project Management
17 36 (5.67%) Patch Management
18 34 (5.35%) Incident Management
19 33 (5.20%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 178 (28.03%) PowerShell
2 65 (10.24%) Python
3 47 (7.40%) SQL
4 31 (4.88%) Bash
5 9 (1.42%) Java
6 6 (0.94%) Bicep
7 5 (0.79%) C
8 4 (0.63%) Perl
9 3 (0.47%) Ruby
10 2 (0.31%) FoxPro (VFP)
10 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (13.23%) Degree
2 66 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 54 (8.50%) Azure Certification
3 54 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 46 (7.24%) DV Cleared
5 39 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (5.04%) CCNA
7 28 (4.41%) SC Cleared
8 25 (3.94%) CCNP
9 20 (3.15%) MCSA
10 15 (2.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (2.20%) AWS Certification
11 14 (2.20%) MCP
11 14 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
12 13 (2.05%) A+ Certification
12 13 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 11 (1.73%) MCSE
14 9 (1.42%) RIBA
15 7 (1.10%) HND
16 5 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (3.62%) GDPR
3 15 (2.36%) NIST
4 11 (1.73%) SLA
5 7 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.94%) QA
7 5 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 240 (37.80%) Active Directory
2 158 (24.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (12.91%) Hyper-V
4 42 (6.61%) VMware ESXi
4 42 (6.61%) vSphere
5 35 (5.51%) Docker
6 31 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (4.09%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (2.52%) VMware NSX
9 9 (1.42%) Firmware
10 8 (1.26%) BitLocker
11 7 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (1.10%) Terminal Services
12 6 (0.94%) pfSense
12 6 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.63%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.31%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.31%) Postfix
14 2 (0.31%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 100 (15.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (12.60%) Terraform
3 63 (9.92%) Kubernetes
4 56 (8.82%) Ansible
5 51 (8.03%) SCCM
6 27 (4.25%) vCenter Server
7 25 (3.94%) Puppet
8 16 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (2.36%) SCOM
10 14 (2.20%) Progress Chef
11 13 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (1.89%) WSUS
13 7 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (1.10%) Nessus
13 7 (1.10%) vMotion
13 7 (1.10%) VxRail
14 6 (0.94%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.79%) Nagios
15 5 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 300 (47.24%) Microsoft
2 225 (35.43%) VMware
3 121 (19.06%) Cisco
4 60 (9.45%) Citrix
5 43 (6.77%) Meraki
6 29 (4.57%) Veeam
7 26 (4.09%) Palo Alto
8 24 (3.78%) Dell
9 23 (3.62%) Google
10 20 (3.15%) SolarWinds
11 19 (2.99%) Fortinet
12 16 (2.52%) Red Hat
13 15 (2.36%) ServiceNow
14 14 (2.20%) CheckPoint
14 14 (2.20%) HP
15 13 (2.05%) Oracle
16 11 (1.73%) EMC
16 11 (1.73%) NetApp
16 11 (1.73%) Veritas
17 10 (1.57%) Acronis