Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 185 265
Rank change year-on-year +92 +80 -59
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,072 1,382 2,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.64% 1.94% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 2.12% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,609 1,074 1,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £33,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,875 £40,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,200 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.64%

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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
South East +41 419 £50,000 +10.25% 35
South West +68 401 £50,000 +5.26% 28
London +33 366 £62,500 +4.17% 39
North of England +68 359 £45,000 - 38
Midlands +73 332 £45,000 -5.26% 14
North West +70 211 £46,000 -2.65% 15
East of England +55 187 £45,000 -10.00% 13
West Midlands +45 170 £50,000 +5.26% 11
East Midlands +69 162 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Yorkshire +29 94 £45,000 +12.50% 19
North East +24 52 £45,000 -7.22% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,011 (97.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 871 (42.04%) Windows
3 728 (35.14%) Azure
4 696 (33.59%) Microsoft
5 674 (32.53%) VMware
6 600 (28.96%) Active Directory
7 501 (24.18%) Microsoft 365
8 498 (24.03%) Windows Server
9 449 (21.67%) Linux
10 442 (21.33%) VMware Infrastructure
11 379 (18.29%) Firewall
12 376 (18.15%) PowerShell
13 314 (15.15%) DNS
14 301 (14.53%) Social Skills
15 296 (14.29%) AWS
16 282 (13.61%) Security Cleared
17 270 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
18 260 (12.55%) Hyper-V
19 254 (12.26%) Finance
20 223 (10.76%) Data Centre
21 220 (10.62%) Cisco
22 214 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
23 208 (10.04%) WAN
23 208 (10.04%) DHCP
24 204 (9.85%) DevOps
25 201 (9.70%) ITIL
26 193 (9.31%) Entra ID
27 182 (8.78%) Microsoft Intune
28 179 (8.64%) Ansible
29 163 (7.87%) DV Cleared

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
1 214 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 151 (7.29%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.79%) IIS
4 11 (0.53%) Confluence
5 9 (0.43%) CMS
6 6 (0.29%) WordPress
7 4 (0.19%) Apache
7 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.19%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.14%) nginx
8 3 (0.14%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.097%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.048%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.048%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 70 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.29%) AutoCAD
2 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.097%) Trello
5 1 (0.048%) CATIA
5 1 (0.048%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.048%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 15 (0.72%) Ripple
2 1 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.048%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 728 (35.14%) Azure
2 501 (24.18%) Microsoft 365
3 296 (14.29%) AWS
4 193 (9.31%) Entra ID
5 135 (6.52%) SaaS
6 89 (4.30%) IaaS
7 54 (2.61%) Nutanix
8 47 (2.27%) GCP
9 42 (2.03%) OneDrive
10 41 (1.98%) PaaS
11 35 (1.69%) Power Platform
12 29 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (1.40%) OpenShift
13 23 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
13 23 (1.11%) Mimecast
14 21 (1.01%) GitHub
15 20 (0.97%) Amazon S3
15 20 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 379 (18.29%) Firewall
2 314 (15.15%) DNS
3 208 (10.04%) DHCP
3 208 (10.04%) WAN
4 161 (7.77%) LAN
5 151 (7.29%) SAN
6 137 (6.61%) VPN
7 117 (5.65%) TCP/IP
8 87 (4.20%) VLAN
9 70 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
10 60 (2.90%) NAS
11 58 (2.80%) SD-WAN
12 52 (2.51%) Internet
13 50 (2.41%) HTTP
14 46 (2.22%) Network Security
14 46 (2.22%) Wireless
15 40 (1.93%) MPLS
16 38 (1.83%) 5G
17 37 (1.79%) iSCSI
18 33 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 63 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (1.35%) MySQL
4 20 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 13 (0.63%) Big Data
7 12 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.39%) Power BI
9 4 (0.19%) DB2
9 4 (0.19%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.19%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.19%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.097%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.097%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.048%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (2.32%) GitLab
2 45 (2.17%) Git
3 31 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.30%) Artifactory
5 26 (1.25%) JIRA
6 13 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.43%) Trac
8 3 (0.14%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.097%) MSI
9 2 (0.097%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.048%) Postman
10 1 (0.048%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.048%) Vagrant
General
1 301 (14.53%) Social Skills
2 254 (12.26%) Finance
3 96 (4.63%) Public Sector
4 78 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 67 (3.23%) Banking
7 66 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 64 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 61 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 58 (2.80%) Law
11 43 (2.08%) Games
11 43 (2.08%) Retail
12 35 (1.69%) Legal
13 31 (1.50%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (0.97%) Advertising
15 20 (0.97%) Automotive
16 16 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (0.68%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.58%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (0.77%) .NET
2 15 (0.72%) LDAP
3 13 (0.63%) REST
3 13 (0.63%) Web Services
4 11 (0.53%) JSON
5 9 (0.43%) XML
6 6 (0.29%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.29%) JSON Schema
6 6 (0.29%) KML
6 6 (0.29%) Regular Expression
6 6 (0.29%) RESTful
6 6 (0.29%) XML Schema
6 6 (0.29%) YAML
7 5 (0.24%) ASP.NET
7 5 (0.24%) Kafka
7 5 (0.24%) LAMP
8 4 (0.19%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (0.19%) CSS
8 4 (0.19%) EJB
8 4 (0.19%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 223 (10.76%) Data Centre
2 76 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 62 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 54 (2.61%) PKI
5 51 (2.46%) Clustering
6 46 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 46 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 35 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (1.45%) Replication
9 27 (1.30%) Cloud Native
10 22 (1.06%) IoT
11 18 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
13 15 (0.72%) Blockchain
13 15 (0.72%) Client/Server
13 15 (0.72%) Cyberattack
13 15 (0.72%) Product Ownership
14 14 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
15 13 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
15 13 (0.63%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 871 (42.04%) Windows
2 498 (24.03%) Windows Server
3 449 (21.67%) Linux
4 123 (5.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 92 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 89 (4.30%) Windows 10
7 87 (4.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 80 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 59 (2.85%) Ubuntu
10 42 (2.03%) VMS
11 29 (1.40%) CentOS
12 21 (1.01%) Android
12 21 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
13 19 (0.92%) Apple iOS
14 17 (0.82%) Debian
14 17 (0.82%) Unix
14 17 (0.82%) Windows 7
15 12 (0.58%) Mac OS
16 9 (0.43%) zOS
17 8 (0.39%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,011 (97.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 270 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
3 204 (9.85%) DevOps
4 201 (9.70%) ITIL
5 151 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
6 143 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 129 (6.23%) Agile
8 115 (5.55%) Mentoring
9 100 (4.83%) Change Management
10 96 (4.63%) Migration
11 95 (4.58%) Service Delivery
12 90 (4.34%) Infrastructure as Code
13 82 (3.96%) CI/CD
13 82 (3.96%) Information Security
14 75 (3.62%) Collaborative Working
14 75 (3.62%) Service Management
15 69 (3.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (3.33%) Project Delivery
16 68 (3.28%) Coaching
17 62 (2.99%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 376 (18.15%) PowerShell
2 162 (7.82%) Python
3 119 (5.74%) SQL
4 108 (5.21%) Bash
5 37 (1.79%) Java
6 32 (1.54%) Ruby
7 25 (1.21%) Perl
8 20 (0.97%) Go
9 19 (0.92%) JavaScript
10 16 (0.77%) C++
11 15 (0.72%) ActionScript
11 15 (0.72%) VB
12 12 (0.58%) Korn
13 10 (0.48%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.43%) C#
14 9 (0.43%) Swift
15 6 (0.29%) Bicep
16 4 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.19%) VBScript
17 3 (0.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 282 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 163 (7.87%) DV Cleared
3 154 (7.43%) SC Cleared
4 153 (7.38%) Degree
5 87 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
6 74 (3.57%) CCNA
7 59 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (1.98%) Azure Certification
9 36 (1.74%) CCNP
10 27 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.30%) MCSE
11 24 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 22 (1.06%) HNC
13 19 (0.92%) CISSP
14 18 (0.87%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.72%) CEH
16 15 (0.72%) CISA
16 15 (0.72%) CRISC
17 13 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.72%) SLA
2 45 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (0.82%) QA
5 14 (0.68%) GDPR
6 11 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.39%) NIST
8 8 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.29%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.097%) NCSC
13 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.048%) PMO
System Software
1 600 (28.96%) Active Directory
2 442 (21.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 260 (12.55%) Hyper-V
4 125 (6.03%) vSphere
5 120 (5.79%) Docker
6 115 (5.55%) VMware ESXi
7 75 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
8 47 (2.27%) XenApp
9 31 (1.50%) XenDesktop
10 27 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 21 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
12 19 (0.92%) NFS
13 15 (0.72%) OpenSSH
13 15 (0.72%) pfSense
14 14 (0.68%) Firmware
15 10 (0.48%) VMware NSX
16 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 7 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
18 6 (0.29%) KVM
19 4 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 182 (8.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 179 (8.64%) Ansible
3 134 (6.47%) Terraform
4 133 (6.42%) SCCM
5 107 (5.16%) Kubernetes
6 90 (4.34%) vCenter Server
7 57 (2.75%) Puppet
8 47 (2.27%) WSUS
9 35 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 27 (1.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 26 (1.25%) EMC NetWorker
11 26 (1.25%) SCOM
12 22 (1.06%) Nagios
13 21 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
14 18 (0.87%) FortiGate
14 18 (0.87%) PowerCLI
15 17 (0.82%) Grafana
15 17 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (0.77%) ZABBIX
17 15 (0.72%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 696 (33.59%) Microsoft
2 674 (32.53%) VMware
3 220 (10.62%) Cisco
4 143 (6.90%) Veeam
5 139 (6.71%) Citrix
6 105 (5.07%) Red Hat
7 76 (3.67%) HP
8 68 (3.28%) Dell
9 60 (2.90%) Meraki
10 46 (2.22%) Oracle
11 38 (1.83%) Fortinet
12 37 (1.79%) Aruba
12 37 (1.79%) IBM
12 37 (1.79%) NetApp
13 36 (1.74%) SolarWinds
14 33 (1.59%) EMC
15 32 (1.54%) Palo Alto
16 27 (1.30%) Juniper
17 25 (1.21%) ServiceNow
18 22 (1.06%) McAfee