Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends 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 20 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 197 103
Rank change year-on-year +55 -94 +132
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1,114 635 2,129
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.44% 1.70% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 1.90% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 863 545 1,807
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £69,390 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 71,777 33,354 77,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 89.28% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47,086 21,349 59,699
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

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 20 April 2026. 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 +8 267 £52,000 +4.00% 60
South East +58 232 £55,000 +15.79% 55
London -6 199 £62,500 -10.71% 39
Midlands +20 160 £50,000 +11.11% 34
South West +33 139 £56,250 -6.25% 27
North West 0 128 £50,000 +5.26% 29
Yorkshire -9 110 £60,000 +9.09% 19
West Midlands +5 106 £50,000 +11.11% 27
East of England +8 96 £60,000 +8.46% 19
East Midlands -19 54 £45,000 -14.29% 6
North East -18 29 £65,000 +62.50% 12
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 April 2026, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1,069 (95.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 410 (36.80%) Azure
3 315 (28.28%) Microsoft
4 262 (23.52%) Windows
5 215 (19.30%) Firewall
6 211 (18.94%) VMware
7 209 (18.76%) Active Directory
8 197 (17.68%) Microsoft 365
9 193 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
10 174 (15.62%) Windows Server
11 148 (13.29%) AWS
12 140 (12.57%) PowerShell
13 134 (12.03%) DNS
14 132 (11.85%) Security Cleared
15 130 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
16 129 (11.58%) Entra ID
17 126 (11.31%) Microsoft Intune
18 121 (10.86%) Terraform
19 117 (10.50%) VPN
20 114 (10.23%) Linux
21 109 (9.78%) DHCP
22 107 (9.61%) Cisco
22 107 (9.61%) Infrastructure as Code
23 104 (9.34%) Disaster Recovery
24 98 (8.80%) ITIL
25 97 (8.71%) WAN
26 92 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
27 88 (7.90%) Mentoring
28 85 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
29 82 (7.36%) LAN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 92 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (5.57%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.26%) IIS
4 6 (0.54%) Apache
5 4 (0.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.35%) AutoCAD
2 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.81%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.18%) Civil 3D
4 2 (0.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.090%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.090%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 410 (36.80%) Azure
2 197 (17.68%) Microsoft 365
3 148 (13.29%) AWS
4 129 (11.58%) Entra ID
5 71 (6.37%) SaaS
6 47 (4.22%) IaaS
7 40 (3.59%) PaaS
8 32 (2.87%) GCP
9 22 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (1.80%) Datadog
10 20 (1.80%) Mimecast
10 20 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (1.44%) OneDrive
12 16 (1.44%) Serverless
13 15 (1.35%) AWS Direct Connect
14 14 (1.26%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (1.17%) OCI
16 12 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 215 (19.30%) Firewall
2 134 (12.03%) DNS
3 117 (10.50%) VPN
4 109 (9.78%) DHCP
5 97 (8.71%) WAN
6 82 (7.36%) LAN
7 59 (5.30%) VLAN
8 52 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
9 51 (4.58%) SAN
10 50 (4.49%) TCP/IP
11 35 (3.14%) Network Security
12 32 (2.87%) SD-WAN
13 23 (2.06%) BGP
14 18 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (1.53%) Cisco Firepower
16 15 (1.35%) MPLS
17 14 (1.26%) Cisco ISE
17 14 (1.26%) NAS
17 14 (1.26%) OSPF
17 14 (1.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.45%) InfluxDB
6 4 (0.36%) MySQL
7 3 (0.27%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.27%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.090%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.090%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.090%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.090%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.090%) Big Data
8 1 (0.090%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.090%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.090%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.090%) Parquet
8 1 (0.090%) Power BI
8 1 (0.090%) Presto
Development Applications
1 37 (3.32%) GitLab
2 32 (2.87%) Git
3 18 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.62%) JIRA
4 10 (0.90%) Chocolatey
5 6 (0.54%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.36%) Selenium
7 4 (0.36%) TestRail
8 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 152 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 90 (8.08%) Finance
3 46 (4.13%) Retail
4 42 (3.77%) Banking
5 39 (3.50%) Public Sector
6 35 (3.14%) Law
7 32 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (2.69%) Telecoms
9 23 (2.06%) Legal
10 19 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.17%) Back Office
12 12 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.81%) Marketing
15 8 (0.72%) Advertising
15 8 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.63%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (0.81%) OLE
3 8 (0.72%) Kafka
4 7 (0.63%) .NET
4 7 (0.63%) Middleware
5 6 (0.54%) ARM Templates
5 6 (0.54%) RESTful
5 6 (0.54%) XMPP
6 5 (0.45%) FreeSWITCH
7 4 (0.36%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.36%) Playwright
7 4 (0.36%) pytest
8 3 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.27%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.27%) OAuth
8 3 (0.27%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.27%) OpenID
8 3 (0.27%) SAML
9 2 (0.18%) SOAP
9 2 (0.18%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 63 (5.66%) Data Centre
2 50 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 30 (2.69%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.06%) Driving Licence
5 22 (1.97%) Replication
6 20 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.08%) Blog
11 10 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.81%) CCTV
12 9 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
14 6 (0.54%) iSeries
14 6 (0.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 262 (23.52%) Windows
2 174 (15.62%) Windows Server
3 114 (10.23%) Linux
4 30 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (2.06%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 18 (1.62%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.08%) Android
8 12 (1.08%) VMS
8 12 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (0.90%) CentOS
10 7 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.45%) Debian
12 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.27%) SUSE
14 2 (0.18%) Unix
15 1 (0.090%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (95.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 193 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (9.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (9.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 98 (8.80%) ITIL
6 88 (7.90%) Mentoring
7 85 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (6.64%) CI/CD
9 73 (6.55%) Agile
10 72 (6.46%) DevOps
11 69 (6.19%) Migration
12 67 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
13 56 (5.03%) High Availability
14 53 (4.76%) Incident Management
15 52 (4.67%) Technical Leadership
16 45 (4.04%) Service Delivery
17 42 (3.77%) Project Delivery
18 41 (3.68%) Cloud Security
18 41 (3.68%) Containerisation
19 39 (3.50%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 140 (12.57%) PowerShell
2 62 (5.57%) Python
3 57 (5.12%) SQL
4 47 (4.22%) Bash
5 19 (1.71%) Bicep
6 18 (1.62%) Java
7 11 (0.99%) Go
7 11 (0.99%) R
8 6 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.36%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.27%) C#
11 1 (0.090%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.090%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 132 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 68 (6.10%) DV Cleared
3 58 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 45 (4.04%) Azure Certification
4 45 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (3.77%) Degree
6 21 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (0.99%) CCNA
10 10 (0.90%) HNC
11 9 (0.81%) RIBA
12 8 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.63%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.63%) CCNP
14 5 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.36%) MCSA
15 4 (0.36%) MCSE
15 4 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (2.06%) PCI DSS
4 21 (1.89%) GDPR
4 21 (1.89%) SOC 2
5 14 (1.26%) SLA
6 13 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (0.99%) NIST
8 3 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.090%) NCSC
10 1 (0.090%) QA
10 1 (0.090%) RMADS
System Software
1 209 (18.76%) Active Directory
2 130 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (7.09%) Hyper-V
4 40 (3.59%) Docker
5 36 (3.23%) vSphere
6 24 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.26%) Firmware
10 11 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.27%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.27%) XenApp
14 2 (0.18%) Ceph
14 2 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.18%) Lustre
14 2 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 126 (11.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 121 (10.86%) Terraform
3 76 (6.82%) Kubernetes
4 68 (6.10%) Ansible
5 28 (2.51%) vCenter Server
6 26 (2.33%) Grafana
6 26 (2.33%) SCCM
7 16 (1.44%) FortiGate
8 15 (1.35%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.81%) Argo
10 9 (0.81%) VxRail
11 7 (0.63%) WSUS
12 6 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.54%) Istio
12 6 (0.54%) linkerd
12 6 (0.54%) Mesos
13 5 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 315 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 211 (18.94%) VMware
3 107 (9.61%) Cisco
4 45 (4.04%) Fortinet
5 44 (3.95%) Veeam
6 36 (3.23%) Palo Alto
7 32 (2.87%) Meraki
8 30 (2.69%) SolarWinds
9 26 (2.33%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 24 (2.15%) Dell
11 21 (1.89%) Splunk
11 21 (1.89%) Tenable
12 18 (1.62%) Citrix
13 17 (1.53%) Apple
13 17 (1.53%) Red Hat
14 15 (1.35%) NetApp
15 14 (1.26%) AppDynamics
15 14 (1.26%) HP
16 13 (1.17%) Juniper