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 to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 235 270
Rank change year-on-year +131 +35 -95
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,164 1,477 1,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.55% 1.59% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 1.74% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,795 1,182 1,573
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £33,300
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,906 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £74,950 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 28 April 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 28 April 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
North of England +103 486 £45,000 - 41
South East +82 480 £50,000 +6.38% 68
South West +82 375 £50,000 +6.38% 54
London +60 343 £65,000 +8.33% 75
Midlands +63 321 £45,000 -5.26% 46
North West +84 256 £45,000 -5.26% 23
East Midlands +67 164 £45,000 -10.00% 20
West Midlands +42 157 £45,000 -5.26% 26
Yorkshire +97 152 £44,000 -2.22% 12
East of England +60 152 £45,000 -10.00% 25
North East +40 77 £44,274 +4.17% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,087 (96.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,067 (49.31%) Windows
3 917 (42.38%) Azure
4 812 (37.52%) VMware
5 800 (36.97%) Microsoft
6 731 (33.78%) Active Directory
7 689 (31.84%) Microsoft 365
8 607 (28.05%) Windows Server
9 536 (24.77%) VMware Infrastructure
10 491 (22.69%) Linux
11 448 (20.70%) Firewall
12 420 (19.41%) PowerShell
13 386 (17.84%) DNS
14 385 (17.79%) Social Skills
15 343 (15.85%) ITIL
16 342 (15.80%) AWS
17 332 (15.34%) Hyper-V
18 321 (14.83%) Security Cleared
19 300 (13.86%) Microsoft Exchange
20 296 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
21 275 (12.71%) DHCP
22 267 (12.34%) WAN
23 261 (12.06%) Cisco
24 260 (12.01%) Data Centre
25 241 (11.14%) Finance
26 237 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
27 229 (10.58%) LAN
28 221 (10.21%) DevOps
29 200 (9.24%) Entra ID
30 199 (9.20%) Cybersecurity

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
1 300 (13.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 190 (8.78%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.03%) IIS
4 11 (0.51%) Confluence
5 9 (0.42%) CMS
5 9 (0.42%) WordPress
6 7 (0.32%) Apache
7 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.18%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.092%) JBoss
10 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.092%) nginx
10 2 (0.092%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.046%) Moodle
11 1 (0.046%) Site Server
11 1 (0.046%) WebSphere
Applications
1 66 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.092%) CATIA
5 2 (0.092%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.092%) Trello
6 1 (0.046%) 1Password
6 1 (0.046%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 917 (42.38%) Azure
2 689 (31.84%) Microsoft 365
3 342 (15.80%) AWS
4 200 (9.24%) Entra ID
5 138 (6.38%) IaaS
6 124 (5.73%) SaaS
7 61 (2.82%) PaaS
8 55 (2.54%) OneDrive
9 44 (2.03%) GitHub
9 44 (2.03%) OpenShift
10 42 (1.94%) Nutanix
11 41 (1.89%) GCP
12 33 (1.52%) Power Platform
13 32 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (1.48%) Amazon S3
14 28 (1.29%) Serverless
15 27 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 448 (20.70%) Firewall
2 386 (17.84%) DNS
3 275 (12.71%) DHCP
4 267 (12.34%) WAN
5 229 (10.58%) LAN
6 192 (8.87%) SAN
7 161 (7.44%) VPN
8 128 (5.91%) TCP/IP
9 109 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
10 89 (4.11%) VLAN
11 88 (4.07%) Wireless
12 71 (3.28%) SD-WAN
13 61 (2.82%) NAS
14 56 (2.59%) HTTP
15 46 (2.13%) WLAN
16 44 (2.03%) Network Security
17 43 (1.99%) MPLS
18 40 (1.85%) VoIP
19 38 (1.76%) Internet
20 36 (1.66%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (5.82%) SQL Server
2 46 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (1.52%) MySQL
4 17 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.46%) Big Data
7 9 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.23%) Power BI
9 4 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.18%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.18%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.092%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.092%) DB2
10 2 (0.092%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.092%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.092%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.046%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.046%) MS Access
11 1 (0.046%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.046%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 58 (2.68%) GitLab
2 43 (1.99%) Git
3 29 (1.34%) JIRA
4 22 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.97%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.46%) Trac
7 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.32%) MSI
8 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.18%) Subversion
10 2 (0.092%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.092%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.046%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.046%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.046%) Vagrant
General
1 385 (17.79%) Social Skills
2 241 (11.14%) Finance
3 108 (4.99%) Public Sector
4 97 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (2.87%) Aerospace
6 56 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 55 (2.54%) Telecoms
8 49 (2.26%) Banking
8 49 (2.26%) Law
9 48 (2.22%) Retail
10 43 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.39%) Automotive
12 29 (1.34%) Advertising
12 29 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (1.11%) Legal
14 16 (0.74%) Investment Banking
15 14 (0.65%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.60%) Electronics
17 12 (0.55%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.02%) CSS
2 15 (0.69%) JSON
2 15 (0.69%) LDAP
3 13 (0.60%) XML
4 12 (0.55%) Web Services
5 11 (0.51%) LAMP
6 10 (0.46%) .NET
7 6 (0.28%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.28%) JSON Schema
7 6 (0.28%) KML
7 6 (0.28%) Middleware
7 6 (0.28%) Regular Expression
7 6 (0.28%) Software Packaging
7 6 (0.28%) XML Schema
8 5 (0.23%) SAML
8 5 (0.23%) YAML
9 4 (0.18%) EJB
10 3 (0.14%) EDI
10 3 (0.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 260 (12.01%) Data Centre
2 88 (4.07%) Public Cloud
3 81 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 56 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 56 (2.59%) PKI
6 53 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 35 (1.62%) Replication
8 34 (1.57%) Private Cloud
9 28 (1.29%) Clustering
10 25 (1.16%) IoT
11 21 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (0.92%) CCTV
13 18 (0.83%) EMC VNX
14 17 (0.79%) Client/Server
14 17 (0.79%) Cloud Native
14 17 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
15 13 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
15 13 (0.60%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1,067 (49.31%) Windows
2 607 (28.05%) Windows Server
3 491 (22.69%) Linux
4 154 (7.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 124 (5.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 124 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 111 (5.13%) Windows 10
7 99 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 52 (2.40%) Ubuntu
9 43 (1.99%) Unix
10 39 (1.80%) VMS
11 31 (1.43%) Apple iOS
12 29 (1.34%) Android
13 26 (1.20%) Windows 7
14 25 (1.16%) CentOS
15 24 (1.11%) Mac OS
16 18 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
17 17 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.79%) Windows XP
18 9 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,087 (96.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 343 (15.85%) ITIL
3 296 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
4 221 (10.21%) DevOps
5 199 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
6 184 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 163 (7.53%) Mentoring
8 133 (6.15%) Migration
9 119 (5.50%) Agile
10 112 (5.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 108 (4.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 106 (4.90%) Coaching
13 95 (4.39%) Change Management
14 94 (4.34%) Service Management
15 92 (4.25%) Roadmaps
16 91 (4.21%) Customer Service
17 81 (3.74%) Server Management
17 81 (3.74%) Service Delivery
18 75 (3.47%) Project Management
19 73 (3.37%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 420 (19.41%) PowerShell
2 160 (7.39%) Python
3 132 (6.10%) Bash
4 119 (5.50%) SQL
5 43 (1.99%) Java
6 29 (1.34%) Perl
7 16 (0.74%) Ruby
8 13 (0.60%) Korn
9 10 (0.46%) Swift
10 9 (0.42%) ActionScript
10 9 (0.42%) VB
11 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.23%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Bicep
14 3 (0.14%) C
14 3 (0.14%) Rust
14 3 (0.14%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.092%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.046%) C#
Qualifications
1 321 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 190 (8.78%) Degree
3 183 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 161 (7.44%) SC Cleared
5 92 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
6 78 (3.60%) CCNA
7 53 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.43%) HNC
11 28 (1.29%) CCNP
11 28 (1.29%) MCSE
12 25 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 21 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 16 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.65%) A+ Certification
16 14 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
17 13 (0.60%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (3.65%) SLA
2 27 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.79%) GDPR
5 15 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.65%) NIST
7 11 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.37%) QA
10 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.092%) PMO
System Software
1 731 (33.78%) Active Directory
2 536 (24.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 332 (15.34%) Hyper-V
4 121 (5.59%) Docker
5 120 (5.55%) VMware ESXi
6 103 (4.76%) vSphere
7 86 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
8 25 (1.16%) XenApp
9 22 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (0.74%) Firmware
11 13 (0.60%) pfSense
12 12 (0.55%) NFS
13 10 (0.46%) VMware Server
13 10 (0.46%) XenDesktop
14 9 (0.42%) OpenSSH
15 8 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (0.32%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.28%) DFS Replication
17 6 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 237 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 180 (8.32%) Ansible
3 176 (8.13%) SCCM
4 136 (6.28%) Terraform
5 115 (5.31%) Kubernetes
6 96 (4.44%) vCenter Server
7 69 (3.19%) Puppet
8 65 (3.00%) WSUS
9 43 (1.99%) SCOM
10 37 (1.71%) EMC NetWorker
11 31 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 30 (1.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 25 (1.16%) Nagios
14 24 (1.11%) FortiGate
15 22 (1.02%) NetBackup
16 18 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
16 18 (0.83%) ZABBIX
17 16 (0.74%) SCDPM
18 15 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
18 15 (0.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 812 (37.52%) VMware
2 800 (36.97%) Microsoft
3 261 (12.06%) Cisco
4 182 (8.41%) Veeam
5 149 (6.89%) Citrix
6 115 (5.31%) Red Hat
7 107 (4.94%) HP
8 70 (3.23%) Dell
9 66 (3.05%) Aruba
10 63 (2.91%) Meraki
11 60 (2.77%) Oracle
12 48 (2.22%) SolarWinds
13 47 (2.17%) Palo Alto
14 44 (2.03%) EMC
14 44 (2.03%) NetApp
15 43 (1.99%) Fortinet
16 35 (1.62%) IBM
16 35 (1.62%) Juniper
17 31 (1.43%) Google
18 28 (1.29%) Commvault