Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 69 49
Rank change year-on-year -84 -20 +146
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,053 2,996 4,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.14% 3.34% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 3.97% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 612 2,507 1,589
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,228 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,886 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and 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 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in England

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 -38 438 £52,000 +13.04% 143
North West -2 378 £50,000 +3.35% 86
London -6 276 £72,500 +11.54% 169
South East -120 145 £45,000 -10.00% 80
Midlands -101 96 £45,574 +1.27% 61
West Midlands -47 68 £45,074 +0.16% 29
East of England -69 53 £55,320 +22.93% 36
Yorkshire -74 49 £60,000 +33.33% 35
South West -93 45 £55,000 +10.00% 59
East Midlands -83 28 £46,750 +3.89% 32
North East -23 11 £52,000 +16.50% 23
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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
1 166 (15.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (4.94%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.66%) IIS
4 10 (0.95%) Confluence
5 7 (0.66%) Apache
5 7 (0.66%) nginx
6 4 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.09%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.28%) Simulink
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.38%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.095%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.095%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 391 (37.13%) Azure
2 218 (20.70%) Microsoft 365
3 134 (12.73%) AWS
4 96 (9.12%) Entra ID
5 59 (5.60%) SaaS
6 41 (3.89%) IaaS
7 39 (3.70%) GCP
8 38 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (3.42%) Power Platform
10 28 (2.66%) PaaS
11 24 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 23 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.09%) OneDrive
14 19 (1.80%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.80%) Azure AKS
14 19 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.80%) GitHub
15 18 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (1.71%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 353 (33.52%) VPN
2 266 (25.26%) Cisco IOS
3 202 (19.18%) Firewall
4 127 (12.06%) DNS
5 105 (9.97%) DHCP
6 97 (9.21%) WAN
7 83 (7.88%) LAN
8 72 (6.84%) Network Security
9 61 (5.79%) SAN
10 51 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (4.27%) SD-WAN
12 42 (3.99%) VLAN
13 37 (3.51%) NAS
13 37 (3.51%) TCP/IP
14 22 (2.09%) Wireless
15 19 (1.80%) SMTP
16 14 (1.33%) BGP
16 14 (1.33%) OSPF
17 13 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.26%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.99%) Data Hub
2 21 (1.99%) SQL CLR
3 19 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (1.80%) Power BI
4 15 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 12 (1.14%) Metadata
7 9 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.19%) Big Data
11 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.19%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.095%) HBase
Development Applications
1 35 (3.32%) Jenkins
2 19 (1.80%) JIRA
3 18 (1.71%) Git
4 10 (0.95%) GitLab
5 8 (0.76%) Vagrant
6 5 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.28%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.095%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.095%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.095%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.095%) Selenium
10 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.095%) Subversion
General
1 319 (30.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 300 (28.49%) Analytical Skills
3 224 (21.27%) Social Skills
4 175 (16.62%) Finance
5 46 (4.37%) Legal
6 43 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 32 (3.04%) Banking
8 25 (2.37%) Back Office
9 24 (2.28%) Local Government
10 20 (1.90%) Law
11 16 (1.52%) Retail
12 15 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.23%) Games
15 12 (1.14%) Electronics
15 12 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 831 (78.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 124 (11.78%) Senior
3 117 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 101 (9.59%) Infrastructure Support
5 97 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 95 (9.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 94 (8.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 92 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
9 74 (7.03%) IT Engineer
10 72 (6.84%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 72 (6.84%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 71 (6.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 57 (5.41%) Lead
13 42 (3.99%) Civil Engineer
14 41 (3.89%) Network Engineer
15 36 (3.42%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
16 34 (3.23%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
17 33 (3.13%) Security Engineer
18 32 (3.04%) IT Support
19 28 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (25.17%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (2.37%) ARM Templates
3 13 (1.23%) .NET
4 12 (1.14%) SAML
5 10 (0.95%) .NET Core
5 10 (0.95%) .NET Framework
6 9 (0.85%) Dapper ORM
6 9 (0.85%) Entity Framework
6 9 (0.85%) Middleware
7 7 (0.66%) OLE
8 5 (0.47%) YAML
9 4 (0.38%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.38%) Web Services
10 3 (0.28%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.28%) JSON
10 3 (0.28%) OAuth
10 3 (0.28%) REST
11 2 (0.19%) XML
12 1 (0.095%) ADO
12 1 (0.095%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 262 (24.88%) Cyberattack
2 76 (7.22%) Data Centre
3 35 (3.32%) Clustering
4 34 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.56%) Private Cloud
7 25 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 24 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.99%) PKI
10 18 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.23%) NHS
13 12 (1.14%) Driving Licence
13 12 (1.14%) Hedge funds
13 12 (1.14%) IoT
14 11 (1.04%) NB-IoT
15 10 (0.95%) Replication
16 9 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 636 (60.40%) Windows
2 417 (39.60%) Linux
3 269 (25.55%) Android
4 241 (22.89%) Windows Server
5 42 (3.99%) Windows 10
6 38 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (1.52%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (1.33%) Unix
10 14 (1.33%) VMS
11 9 (0.85%) Debian
12 8 (0.76%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.76%) CentOS
12 8 (0.76%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.66%) AIX
14 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (40.55%) Problem-Solving
2 410 (38.94%) DevOps
3 290 (27.54%) Task Automation
4 287 (27.26%) Platform Engineering
5 286 (27.16%) Risk Management
6 273 (25.93%) Line Management
7 269 (25.55%) Storage Management
8 267 (25.36%) Mathematics
9 115 (10.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 99 (9.40%) High Availability
11 95 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 87 (8.26%) ITIL
13 82 (7.79%) Mentoring
14 77 (7.31%) CI/CD
15 71 (6.74%) Agile
15 71 (6.74%) Cloud Security
15 71 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (6.74%) Migration
16 57 (5.41%) Project Management
17 53 (5.03%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 475 (45.11%) PowerShell
2 349 (33.14%) Python
3 293 (27.83%) Bash
4 84 (7.98%) SQL
5 16 (1.52%) T-SQL
6 13 (1.23%) C#
7 9 (0.85%) Java
8 8 (0.76%) Groovy
9 5 (0.47%) Perl
9 5 (0.47%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.38%) Go
11 3 (0.28%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.28%) Ruby
12 2 (0.19%) Bicep
12 2 (0.19%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.095%) C++
13 1 (0.095%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.095%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.095%) VBA
Qualifications
1 126 (11.97%) Degree
2 103 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 69 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 62 (5.89%) Azure Certification
5 56 (5.32%) DV Cleared
5 56 (5.32%) SC Cleared
6 44 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (3.32%) CCNA
8 31 (2.94%) CCNP
9 27 (2.56%) MCSA
10 19 (1.80%) MCSE
11 18 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.61%) A+ Certification
12 17 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 16 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.52%) MCP
14 15 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (1.23%) HND
17 11 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (2.18%) GDPR
3 18 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.52%) NIST
4 16 (1.52%) SLA
5 15 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (1.14%) QA
7 8 (0.76%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.38%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.38%) NIST 800
9 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.095%) COBIT
10 1 (0.095%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.095%) GRC
System Software
1 349 (33.14%) Hyper-V
2 312 (29.63%) Docker
3 307 (29.15%) vSphere
4 274 (26.02%) Active Directory
4 274 (26.02%) VMware NSX
5 173 (16.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 51 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
7 45 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (1.14%) Firmware
10 8 (0.76%) BitLocker
10 8 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (0.76%) Terminal Services
11 7 (0.66%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.38%) NFS
12 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.38%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.19%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.19%) Postfix
13 2 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 402 (38.18%) Terraform
2 359 (34.09%) Ansible
3 98 (9.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 88 (8.36%) Kubernetes
5 57 (5.41%) SCCM
6 28 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (2.47%) Puppet
8 24 (2.28%) vCenter Server
9 19 (1.80%) Failover Clustering
10 17 (1.61%) Progress Chef
11 16 (1.52%) Grafana
11 16 (1.52%) Prometheus
12 15 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (1.33%) SCOM
14 10 (0.95%) Nessus
14 10 (0.95%) WSUS
15 9 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.76%) vMotion
17 7 (0.66%) Istio
18 6 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 394 (37.42%) Cisco
2 347 (32.95%) Microsoft
3 278 (26.40%) Juniper
4 267 (25.36%) Splunk
5 262 (24.88%) 3PAR
6 248 (23.55%) VMware
7 65 (6.17%) Citrix
8 55 (5.22%) Meraki
9 40 (3.80%) Veeam
10 36 (3.42%) Google
11 30 (2.85%) Palo Alto
12 23 (2.18%) Fortinet
12 23 (2.18%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.99%) Dell
13 21 (1.99%) Red Hat
14 20 (1.90%) SolarWinds
15 15 (1.42%) CheckPoint
15 15 (1.42%) HP
16 13 (1.23%) NetApp
17 10 (0.95%) Oracle