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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 108 234
Rank change year-on-year -77 +126 +41
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 854 2,145 1,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.75% 2.50% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 2.65% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 489 1,773 1,146
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £40,250 £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 £77,500
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 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

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 14 May 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 14 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
North of England -12 389 £50,000 +11.11% 111
North West +7 335 £50,000 +11.11% 63
London +16 201 £72,500 +15.08% 140
South East -104 98 £46,000 -8.00% 107
Midlands -79 86 £43,750 -2.78% 61
West Midlands -25 60 £41,500 -7.78% 32
Yorkshire -16 44 £57,500 +29.87% 29
East of England -52 42 £55,320 +22.93% 32
South West -88 38 £60,000 +20.00% 59
East Midlands -66 26 £52,500 +16.67% 23
North East -18 10 £40,000 -9.65% 22
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 840 (98.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 586 (68.62%) Windows
3 442 (51.76%) PowerShell
4 395 (46.25%) Linux
5 393 (46.02%) Problem-Solving
6 385 (45.08%) Cisco
7 346 (40.52%) Terraform
8 344 (40.28%) DevOps
9 340 (39.81%) VPN
10 339 (39.70%) Hyper-V
11 326 (38.17%) Python
12 324 (37.94%) Ansible
13 305 (35.71%) vSphere
14 300 (35.13%) Azure
15 299 (35.01%) Docker
16 298 (34.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 295 (34.54%) Analytical Skills
18 291 (34.07%) Bash
19 284 (33.26%) Microsoft
20 279 (32.67%) Platform Engineering
21 278 (32.55%) Task Automation
21 278 (32.55%) VMware NSX
22 271 (31.73%) Line Management
23 270 (31.62%) Juniper
24 268 (31.38%) Risk Management
25 267 (31.26%) Android
25 267 (31.26%) Storage Management
26 265 (31.03%) Elastic Stack
27 264 (30.91%) Splunk
28 263 (30.80%) Cisco IOS

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
1 120 (14.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.87%) IIS
4 4 (0.47%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.47%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.35%) Apache
5 3 (0.35%) Confluence
5 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.35%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.87%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 300 (35.13%) Azure
2 196 (22.95%) Microsoft 365
3 94 (11.01%) AWS
4 81 (9.48%) Entra ID
5 35 (4.10%) GCP
6 34 (3.98%) SaaS
7 31 (3.63%) IaaS
8 25 (2.93%) PaaS
9 23 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (2.34%) Power Platform
11 19 (2.22%) Azure AKS
11 19 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (2.22%) OneDrive
12 17 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (1.87%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.05%) Google Workspace
16 9 (1.05%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 340 (39.81%) VPN
2 263 (30.80%) Cisco IOS
3 189 (22.13%) Firewall
4 107 (12.53%) DNS
5 90 (10.54%) DHCP
6 80 (9.37%) WAN
7 72 (8.43%) LAN
8 64 (7.49%) Network Security
9 50 (5.85%) SAN
10 47 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
11 41 (4.80%) VLAN
12 39 (4.57%) SD-WAN
13 33 (3.86%) NAS
14 24 (2.81%) TCP/IP
14 24 (2.81%) Wireless
15 19 (2.22%) SMTP
16 15 (1.76%) BGP
17 13 (1.52%) Internet
18 11 (1.29%) Bluetooth
18 11 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.05%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.70%) Power BI
4 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.35%) SAP BW
4 3 (0.35%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.12%) Big Data
6 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.12%) DB2
6 1 (0.12%) MySQL
6 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 11 (1.29%) JIRA
3 8 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (0.59%) Git
5 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.35%) GitLab
5 3 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.23%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 298 (34.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 295 (34.54%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (16.63%) Social Skills
4 107 (12.53%) Finance
5 26 (3.04%) Banking
6 24 (2.81%) Public Sector
7 20 (2.34%) Law
8 19 (2.22%) Retail
9 17 (1.99%) Legal
10 13 (1.52%) Games
10 13 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.41%) Electronics
11 12 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.29%) Local Government
13 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Back Office
14 5 (0.59%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (31.03%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (1.99%) ARM Templates
3 10 (1.17%) Web Services
4 7 (0.82%) Middleware
4 7 (0.82%) OLE
5 6 (0.70%) .NET
6 5 (0.59%) SAML
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.23%) REST
7 2 (0.23%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.12%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.12%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.12%) Django
8 1 (0.12%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.12%) Flask
8 1 (0.12%) JSON
8 1 (0.12%) LDAP
8 1 (0.12%) OpenCL
8 1 (0.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 262 (30.68%) Cyberattack
2 73 (8.55%) Data Centre
3 29 (3.40%) Clustering
4 26 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.99%) Public Cloud
6 17 (1.99%) Security Posture
7 12 (1.41%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.41%) Driving Licence
7 12 (1.41%) PKI
7 12 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.29%) IoT
8 11 (1.29%) NB-IoT
9 9 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.82%) Cyber Security Posture
12 6 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 586 (68.62%) Windows
2 395 (46.25%) Linux
3 267 (31.26%) Android
4 217 (25.41%) Windows Server
5 41 (4.80%) Windows 10
6 33 (3.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (1.29%) Ubuntu
9 11 (1.29%) Unix
10 10 (1.17%) AIX
10 10 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (1.17%) VMS
11 9 (1.05%) CentOS
12 6 (0.70%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.59%) Debian
13 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.23%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (98.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 393 (46.02%) Problem-Solving
3 344 (40.28%) DevOps
4 279 (32.67%) Platform Engineering
5 278 (32.55%) Task Automation
6 271 (31.73%) Line Management
7 268 (31.38%) Risk Management
8 267 (31.26%) Storage Management
9 263 (30.80%) Mathematics
10 107 (12.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 76 (8.90%) ITIL
12 71 (8.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 70 (8.20%) High Availability
14 56 (6.56%) CI/CD
15 55 (6.44%) Infrastructure Management
16 53 (6.21%) Mentoring
17 52 (6.09%) Business Continuity
18 48 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
19 47 (5.50%) Cloud Security
19 47 (5.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 442 (51.76%) PowerShell
2 326 (38.17%) Python
3 291 (34.07%) Bash
4 45 (5.27%) SQL
5 7 (0.82%) Java
6 6 (0.70%) Bicep
7 4 (0.47%) Perl
8 3 (0.35%) C
8 3 (0.35%) Ruby
9 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.12%) Groovy
10 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (9.37%) Degree
2 69 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 58 (6.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 48 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 35 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (3.51%) CCNA
8 29 (3.40%) SC Cleared
9 23 (2.69%) CCNP
10 21 (2.46%) MCSA
11 15 (1.76%) A+ Certification
11 15 (1.76%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.76%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (1.76%) MCP
12 13 (1.52%) MCSE
12 13 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
12 13 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (1.17%) HND
14 7 (0.82%) RIBA
15 4 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (2.46%) GDPR
3 13 (1.52%) NIST
4 10 (1.17%) SLA
5 7 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (0.47%) QA
8 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 339 (39.70%) Hyper-V
2 305 (35.71%) vSphere
3 299 (35.01%) Docker
4 278 (32.55%) VMware NSX
5 226 (26.46%) Active Directory
6 152 (17.80%) VMware Infrastructure
7 45 (5.27%) VMware ESXi
8 30 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.94%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.94%) Firmware
10 8 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (0.94%) Terminal Services
11 6 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.23%) Postfix
13 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.12%) XenApp
13 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 346 (40.52%) Terraform
2 324 (37.94%) Ansible
3 91 (10.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 67 (7.85%) Kubernetes
5 49 (5.74%) SCCM
6 29 (3.40%) vCenter Server
7 26 (3.04%) Puppet
8 19 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.64%) SCOM
10 13 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (1.17%) WSUS
12 9 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.94%) Nessus
13 8 (0.94%) vMotion
14 6 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.70%) Grafana
14 6 (0.70%) Nagios
14 6 (0.70%) Prometheus
15 5 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 385 (45.08%) Cisco
2 284 (33.26%) Microsoft
3 270 (31.62%) Juniper
4 264 (30.91%) Splunk
5 262 (30.68%) 3PAR
6 219 (25.64%) VMware
7 55 (6.44%) Citrix
8 47 (5.50%) Meraki
9 32 (3.75%) Veeam
10 28 (3.28%) Palo Alto
11 26 (3.04%) Google
12 22 (2.58%) Dell
12 22 (2.58%) Fortinet
13 19 (2.22%) SolarWinds
14 17 (1.99%) Red Hat
14 17 (1.99%) ServiceNow
15 14 (1.64%) CheckPoint
15 14 (1.64%) HP
16 11 (1.29%) EMC
16 11 (1.29%) NetApp