Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 113 66
Rank change year-on-year +28 -47 -21
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,618 1,117 3,177
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.96% 2.83% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 3.05% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,248 642 2,646
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £41,051
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,391 £73,886 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,371 36,609 77,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.71% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,401 19,964 56,209
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,286
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,350 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 14 June 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 -18 383 £50,000 -9.09% 78
South East +75 340 £57,500 +27.78% 64
London +5 320 £70,000 -3.45% 101
South West +59 252 £55,000 - 65
North West -26 212 £47,500 -8.65% 49
Midlands +35 200 £50,000 +8.70% 53
Yorkshire +19 139 £50,000 -18.37% 16
West Midlands +6 119 £52,500 +14.13% 32
East of England +20 109 £57,500 +3.94% 20
East Midlands +22 81 £45,000 +4.65% 21
North East -27 32 £45,000 -13.46% 14
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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
1 130 (8.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.30%) Confluence
4 19 (1.17%) IIS
5 6 (0.37%) Apache
6 4 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.25%) PowerFactory
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) Site Server
7 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.062%) Drupal
8 1 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.93%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.37%) Civil 3D
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.25%) Revit
5 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.062%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.062%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.062%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 588 (36.34%) Azure
2 311 (19.22%) Microsoft 365
3 259 (16.01%) AWS
4 177 (10.94%) Entra ID
5 77 (4.76%) SaaS
6 63 (3.89%) GCP
7 61 (3.77%) IaaS
8 56 (3.46%) PaaS
9 34 (2.10%) GitHub
10 29 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (1.79%) Mimecast
11 28 (1.73%) OneDrive
12 27 (1.67%) Nutanix
12 27 (1.67%) Serverless
13 26 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
13 26 (1.61%) Datadog
13 26 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
15 24 (1.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 280 (17.31%) Firewall
2 190 (11.74%) DNS
3 160 (9.89%) VPN
4 155 (9.58%) DHCP
5 100 (6.18%) WAN
6 86 (5.32%) LAN
7 80 (4.94%) VLAN
8 72 (4.45%) TCP/IP
9 69 (4.26%) SAN
10 65 (4.02%) Network Security
11 59 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
12 34 (2.10%) BGP
13 31 (1.92%) SD-WAN
14 28 (1.73%) Wireless
15 23 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
16 22 (1.36%) OSPF
17 21 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
18 19 (1.17%) VoIP
19 18 (1.11%) NAS
20 15 (0.93%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (4.64%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (0.68%) BigQuery
4 10 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.49%) MongoDB
5 8 (0.49%) MySQL
6 7 (0.43%) InfluxDB
6 7 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.43%) Tableau
7 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.19%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.12%) Big Data
9 2 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.062%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.062%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.062%) KNIME
10 1 (0.062%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.062%) Redis
10 1 (0.062%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (3.09%) GitLab
2 38 (2.35%) JIRA
3 37 (2.29%) Git
4 36 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 13 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.68%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.37%) JMeter
7 6 (0.37%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.37%) TestRail
8 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.31%) Selenium
8 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.25%) Locust
9 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.12%) Subversion
11 1 (0.062%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.062%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.062%) MLflow
General
1 221 (13.66%) Social Skills
2 146 (9.02%) Finance
3 73 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (3.71%) Retail
6 51 (3.15%) Legal
7 47 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 45 (2.78%) Banking
9 35 (2.16%) Law
10 30 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.79%) Aerospace
12 27 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.17%) Marketing
15 16 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.74%) Advertising
17 11 (0.68%) Back Office
17 11 (0.68%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,191 (73.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 367 (22.68%) Senior
3 298 (18.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 189 (11.68%) IT Engineer
5 156 (9.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 151 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 133 (8.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 104 (6.43%) Support Engineer
9 102 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
10 96 (5.93%) Infrastructure Support
11 86 (5.32%) Security Engineer
12 82 (5.07%) Lead
13 75 (4.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 75 (4.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 75 (4.64%) Network Engineer
14 65 (4.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 64 (3.96%) IT Support
15 64 (3.96%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
16 60 (3.71%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
17 55 (3.40%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (0.74%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.56%) HTML
3 9 (0.56%) YAML
4 8 (0.49%) CSS
5 7 (0.43%) .NET
5 7 (0.43%) XMPP
6 6 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (0.37%) Keycloak
6 6 (0.37%) SAML
7 5 (0.31%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.31%) ADO
7 5 (0.31%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.31%) Kafka
7 5 (0.31%) OAuth
7 5 (0.31%) OpenID
7 5 (0.31%) Playwright
7 5 (0.31%) pytest
7 5 (0.31%) RESTful
8 4 (0.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.42%) Data Centre
2 80 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 70 (4.33%) Driving Licence
4 60 (3.71%) Cloud Native
5 43 (2.66%) Replication
6 33 (2.04%) iSeries
6 33 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
7 27 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 25 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (1.48%) CCTV
9 24 (1.48%) PKI
10 19 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (0.93%) Security Posture
11 15 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.74%) Clustering
15 10 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 385 (23.79%) Windows
2 262 (16.19%) Windows Server
3 210 (12.98%) Linux
4 29 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 25 (1.55%) VMS
6 23 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 22 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.99%) CentOS
10 15 (0.93%) Android
11 13 (0.80%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.37%) Debian
15 5 (0.31%) Unix
16 3 (0.19%) Windows 7
17 1 (0.062%) Rocky
17 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
2 210 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 176 (10.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 155 (9.58%) CI/CD
5 154 (9.52%) DevOps
6 151 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
7 139 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 124 (7.66%) ITIL
9 111 (6.86%) Mentoring
10 96 (5.93%) Agile
11 93 (5.75%) Migration
12 89 (5.50%) Platform Engineering
13 85 (5.25%) High Availability
14 82 (5.07%) Project Delivery
15 80 (4.94%) Technical Leadership
16 76 (4.70%) Incident Management
17 75 (4.64%) Containerisation
18 65 (4.02%) AI
18 65 (4.02%) Cloud Security
19 59 (3.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 219 (13.54%) PowerShell
2 136 (8.41%) Python
3 92 (5.69%) Bash
4 73 (4.51%) SQL
5 39 (2.41%) Java
6 32 (1.98%) Bicep
7 19 (1.17%) Go
8 17 (1.05%) R
9 14 (0.87%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.62%) C#
11 6 (0.37%) VBScript
12 3 (0.19%) Rust
12 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.19%) VBA
13 2 (0.12%) C++
13 2 (0.12%) Groovy
13 2 (0.12%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.12%) PHP
13 2 (0.12%) Scala
13 2 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 213 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 112 (6.92%) SC Cleared
3 92 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 73 (4.51%) Degree
5 64 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 62 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 54 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (2.47%) CCNA
9 30 (1.85%) AWS Certification
10 28 (1.73%) CCNP
11 21 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 11 (0.68%) MCSE
13 11 (0.68%) OSCP
14 10 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.56%) CEH
15 9 (0.56%) RHCE
15 9 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 34 (2.10%) GDPR
4 27 (1.67%) NIST
5 24 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.36%) SOC 2
7 21 (1.30%) SLA
8 13 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (0.80%) QA
9 12 (0.74%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.49%) GRC
10 8 (0.49%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.43%) PERC
12 4 (0.25%) WCAG
13 3 (0.19%) COBIT
13 3 (0.19%) NCSC
14 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.12%) RMADS
15 1 (0.062%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.062%) JSP 440
System Software
1 314 (19.41%) Active Directory
2 219 (13.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (8.16%) Hyper-V
4 91 (5.62%) Docker
5 60 (3.71%) vSphere
6 26 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (1.30%) Firmware
9 17 (1.05%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 9 (0.56%) KVM
13 8 (0.49%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.49%) Squid
13 8 (0.49%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.19%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
17 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 186 (11.50%) Terraform
2 143 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 140 (8.65%) Kubernetes
4 103 (6.37%) Ansible
5 37 (2.29%) Grafana
6 33 (2.04%) vCenter Server
7 32 (1.98%) SCCM
8 26 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (1.48%) Prometheus
10 17 (1.05%) VxRail
10 17 (1.05%) ZABBIX
11 14 (0.87%) Argo
12 10 (0.62%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.62%) Packer
12 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
12 10 (0.62%) Puppet
13 9 (0.56%) Nessus
14 8 (0.49%) Graylog
14 8 (0.49%) WSUS
15 7 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 493 (30.47%) Microsoft
2 318 (19.65%) VMware
3 119 (7.35%) Cisco
4 66 (4.08%) Veeam
5 41 (2.53%) Fortinet
5 41 (2.53%) Meraki
6 38 (2.35%) Splunk
7 37 (2.29%) IBM
8 35 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 34 (2.10%) Palo Alto
10 33 (2.04%) Commvault
11 32 (1.98%) HP
12 31 (1.92%) Tenable
13 30 (1.85%) Citrix
14 27 (1.67%) Dell
15 26 (1.61%) SolarWinds
16 24 (1.48%) Oracle
17 23 (1.42%) Dynatrace
18 21 (1.30%) ServiceNow
19 20 (1.24%) NetApp