Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £55,320 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 101 223
Rank change year-on-year -90 +122 +63
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 826 2,250 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.71% 2.54% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 2.69% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 451 1,853 1,114
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £41,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 28 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 28 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 -21 370 £52,000 +15.56% 165
North West +8 326 £51,000 +13.33% 105
London +5 189 £75,000 +20.00% 136
South East -114 107 £46,250 -7.50% 179
Midlands -95 82 £40,250 -10.56% 108
West Midlands -23 56 £40,000 -11.11% 54
East of England -56 47 £58,910 +30.91% 83
Yorkshire -41 34 £60,000 +33.33% 36
South West -93 30 £51,729 +3.46% 104
East Midlands -73 26 £46,000 +2.22% 49
North East -12 10 £52,000 +17.45% 26
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 814 (98.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 558 (67.55%) Windows
3 438 (53.03%) PowerShell
4 383 (46.37%) Linux
5 381 (46.13%) Problem-Solving
6 377 (45.64%) Cisco
7 354 (42.86%) Terraform
8 342 (41.40%) DevOps
9 332 (40.19%) VPN
10 329 (39.83%) Ansible
11 326 (39.47%) Hyper-V
12 323 (39.10%) Python
13 304 (36.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 300 (36.32%) vSphere
15 296 (35.84%) Docker
16 291 (35.23%) Analytical Skills
17 288 (34.87%) Bash
18 283 (34.26%) Task Automation
19 279 (33.78%) Azure
20 275 (33.29%) Platform Engineering
21 273 (33.05%) VMware NSX
21 273 (33.05%) Risk Management
22 272 (32.93%) Juniper
23 269 (32.57%) Microsoft
23 269 (32.57%) Line Management
24 268 (32.45%) Storage Management
25 267 (32.32%) Android
26 265 (32.08%) Elastic Stack
27 264 (31.96%) Splunk
28 263 (31.84%) 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
1 124 (15.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (5.57%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.06%) IIS
4 6 (0.73%) Apache
4 6 (0.73%) Confluence
5 4 (0.48%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (2.66%) AutoCAD
2 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 279 (33.78%) Azure
2 175 (21.19%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (10.41%) AWS
4 78 (9.44%) Entra ID
5 27 (3.27%) GCP
6 26 (3.15%) IaaS
7 25 (3.03%) SaaS
8 21 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (2.54%) Power Platform
9 20 (2.42%) OneDrive
9 20 (2.42%) PaaS
10 18 (2.18%) PowerApps
11 17 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (1.82%) Azure AKS
14 14 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (1.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 332 (40.19%) VPN
2 263 (31.84%) Cisco IOS
3 166 (20.10%) Firewall
4 102 (12.35%) DNS
5 83 (10.05%) DHCP
6 80 (9.69%) WAN
7 68 (8.23%) LAN
8 56 (6.78%) Network Security
9 48 (5.81%) SAN
10 45 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (4.84%) SD-WAN
12 33 (4.00%) NAS
13 31 (3.75%) VLAN
14 30 (3.63%) TCP/IP
15 19 (2.30%) SMTP
15 19 (2.30%) Wireless
16 13 (1.57%) BGP
16 13 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
17 11 (1.33%) LTE
17 11 (1.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.93%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.61%) Power BI
5 3 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Big Data
7 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) DB2
7 1 (0.12%) MySQL
7 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.12%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.12%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.45%) JIRA
3 9 (1.09%) Git
4 6 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.61%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.36%) GitLab
6 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 304 (36.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 291 (35.23%) Analytical Skills
3 143 (17.31%) Social Skills
4 109 (13.20%) Finance
5 37 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.54%) Local Government
7 20 (2.42%) Legal
8 16 (1.94%) Banking
9 13 (1.57%) Games
9 13 (1.57%) Law
9 13 (1.57%) Retail
10 12 (1.45%) Electronics
10 12 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.48%) Back Office
15 3 (0.36%) Advertising
15 3 (0.36%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (32.08%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (2.06%) ARM Templates
3 7 (0.85%) Middleware
3 7 (0.85%) OLE
4 6 (0.73%) .NET
4 6 (0.73%) SAML
5 5 (0.61%) Web Services
6 4 (0.48%) YAML
7 2 (0.24%) REST
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%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 262 (31.72%) Cyberattack
2 62 (7.51%) Data Centre
3 31 (3.75%) Clustering
4 27 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.82%) PKI
7 14 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.57%) NHS
9 11 (1.33%) Driving Licence
9 11 (1.33%) IoT
9 11 (1.33%) NB-IoT
10 10 (1.21%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.85%) Replication
13 7 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (0.61%) Hedge funds
15 5 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 558 (67.55%) Windows
2 383 (46.37%) Linux
3 267 (32.32%) Android
4 191 (23.12%) Windows Server
5 38 (4.60%) Windows 10
6 32 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.57%) VMS
9 11 (1.33%) Unix
9 11 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (1.09%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.97%) AIX
13 7 (0.85%) CentOS
14 6 (0.73%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.73%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.61%) Debian
16 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.24%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (98.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 381 (46.13%) Problem-Solving
3 342 (41.40%) DevOps
4 283 (34.26%) Task Automation
5 275 (33.29%) Platform Engineering
6 273 (33.05%) Risk Management
7 269 (32.57%) Line Management
8 268 (32.45%) Storage Management
9 263 (31.84%) Mathematics
10 95 (11.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 75 (9.08%) ITIL
12 63 (7.63%) High Availability
12 63 (7.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 62 (7.51%) Mentoring
14 51 (6.17%) Cloud Security
15 49 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (5.45%) CI/CD
17 44 (5.33%) Migration
18 43 (5.21%) Business Continuity
19 41 (4.96%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 438 (53.03%) PowerShell
2 323 (39.10%) Python
3 288 (34.87%) Bash
4 40 (4.84%) SQL
5 5 (0.61%) Java
6 4 (0.48%) Bicep
6 4 (0.48%) Groovy
6 4 (0.48%) Perl
7 3 (0.36%) Ruby
8 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.12%) C
9 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (10.17%) Degree
2 68 (8.23%) Security Cleared
3 58 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (5.45%) Azure Certification
5 44 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.63%) SC Cleared
7 27 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (3.15%) CCNA
9 20 (2.42%) MCSA
10 19 (2.30%) CCNP
11 16 (1.94%) A+ Certification
12 15 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (1.82%) MCP
13 13 (1.57%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.57%) MCSE
13 13 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
14 12 (1.45%) HND
15 10 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 7 (0.85%) Postgraduate
16 7 (0.85%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 15 (1.82%) GDPR
3 9 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (1.09%) SLA
4 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (0.73%) NIST
5 5 (0.61%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.48%) QA
7 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 326 (39.47%) Hyper-V
2 300 (36.32%) vSphere
3 296 (35.84%) Docker
4 273 (33.05%) VMware NSX
5 220 (26.63%) Active Directory
6 135 (16.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 39 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (1.09%) Firmware
11 8 (0.97%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.97%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (0.97%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.48%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.48%) NFS
14 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.24%) Postfix
14 2 (0.24%) XenApp
15 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 354 (42.86%) Terraform
2 329 (39.83%) Ansible
3 81 (9.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 66 (7.99%) Kubernetes
5 49 (5.93%) SCCM
6 24 (2.91%) Puppet
7 21 (2.54%) vCenter Server
8 20 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.45%) SCOM
11 9 (1.09%) Grafana
11 9 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (1.09%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.97%) vMotion
12 8 (0.97%) WSUS
13 7 (0.85%) Nessus
14 6 (0.73%) Nagios
15 5 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
16 4 (0.48%) Istio
Vendors
1 377 (45.64%) Cisco
2 272 (32.93%) Juniper
3 269 (32.57%) Microsoft
4 264 (31.96%) Splunk
5 262 (31.72%) 3PAR
6 193 (23.37%) VMware
7 49 (5.93%) Meraki
8 48 (5.81%) Citrix
9 27 (3.27%) Veeam
10 25 (3.03%) Google
11 23 (2.78%) Palo Alto
12 22 (2.66%) Fortinet
13 19 (2.30%) Dell
14 18 (2.18%) Red Hat
15 17 (2.06%) ServiceNow
15 17 (2.06%) SolarWinds
16 15 (1.82%) CheckPoint
17 14 (1.69%) HP
18 8 (0.97%) NetApp
18 8 (0.97%) Oracle