Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 116 125
Rank change year-on-year -54 +9 +23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 251 432 430
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.83% 2.73% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.90% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 205 305 394
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in London

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Central London +27 56 £75,000 +15.38% 17
North London +14 17 £75,000 +36.36%
East London -7 9 £85,000 +9.68% 4
West London +2 2 £58,750 +52.60% 4
South London +16 1 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 53 (21.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.17%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.79%) Tomcat
3 7 (2.79%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.39%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (1.59%) IIS
6 3 (1.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.80%) Confluence
7 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.40%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 151 (60.16%) Azure
2 71 (28.29%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (21.91%) AWS
4 49 (19.52%) Entra ID
5 29 (11.55%) SaaS
6 24 (9.56%) GCP
7 21 (8.37%) GitHub
8 20 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (7.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (6.77%) Azure Logic Apps
10 17 (6.77%) Nutanix
11 15 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (5.58%) Amazon S3
12 14 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (4.78%) Serverless
14 11 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.38%) PaaS
15 10 (3.98%) IaaS
16 9 (3.59%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 74 (29.48%) Firewall
2 47 (18.73%) DNS
3 42 (16.73%) DHCP
4 40 (15.94%) VPN
5 38 (15.14%) WAN
6 30 (11.95%) LAN
7 28 (11.16%) TCP/IP
8 21 (8.37%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (7.17%) SD-WAN
10 15 (5.98%) VLAN
11 13 (5.18%) SAN
12 11 (4.38%) Network Security
13 9 (3.59%) BGP
14 8 (3.19%) Internet
14 8 (3.19%) WLAN
15 7 (2.79%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (2.79%) MPLS
15 7 (2.79%) NetScaler
15 7 (2.79%) NX-OS
16 6 (2.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.56%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.39%) DB2
5 5 (1.99%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.99%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.80%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (6.37%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.18%) Git
3 8 (3.19%) GitLab
4 6 (2.39%) Chocolatey
5 5 (1.99%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.59%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.20%) JIRA
8 2 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.40%) JMeter
9 1 (0.40%) Locust
9 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 82 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 77 (30.68%) Finance
3 29 (11.55%) Law
4 28 (11.16%) Banking
5 18 (7.17%) Legal
6 16 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.38%) Back Office
7 11 (4.38%) Retail
8 10 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.59%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.79%) Marketing
11 6 (2.39%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.39%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.99%) Electronics
12 5 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.59%) Advertising
13 4 (1.59%) Front Office
13 4 (1.59%) Games
14 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (59.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 46 (18.33%) Senior
3 45 (17.93%) Azure Engineer
4 42 (16.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 40 (15.94%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (13.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (9.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (8.76%) Support Engineer
9 18 (7.17%) Windows Engineer
10 17 (6.77%) Network Engineer
11 16 (6.37%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (5.98%) Security Engineer
13 14 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (5.58%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (5.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 13 (5.18%) Infrastructure Support
14 13 (5.18%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 12 (4.78%) IT Engineer
15 12 (4.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.59%) .NET
2 6 (2.39%) LAPP Stack
2 6 (2.39%) LDAP
2 6 (2.39%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.20%) RESTful
3 3 (1.20%) YAML
4 2 (0.80%) DPDK
5 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.40%) CSS
5 1 (0.40%) EDI
5 1 (0.40%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.40%) HTML
5 1 (0.40%) HTML5
5 1 (0.40%) jQuery
5 1 (0.40%) Kafka
5 1 (0.40%) Next.js
5 1 (0.40%) Node.js
5 1 (0.40%) React
5 1 (0.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.75%) Cloud Native
1 32 (12.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (7.97%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.37%) Hedge funds
4 14 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.59%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.19%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.39%) Blog
8 6 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.20%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 108 (43.03%) Windows
2 75 (29.88%) Windows Server
3 39 (15.54%) Linux
4 12 (4.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.98%) Windows 10
6 10 (3.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.79%) Unix
8 6 (2.39%) VMS
9 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.20%) SUSE
9 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (22.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 52 (20.72%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (18.33%) DevOps
4 41 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (15.54%) CI/CD
6 30 (11.95%) Cloud Security
7 28 (11.16%) Migration
7 28 (11.16%) Roadmaps
8 27 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (9.56%) Containerisation
10 23 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (8.76%) ITIL
11 22 (8.76%) Runbook
12 21 (8.37%) Observability
13 20 (7.97%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (7.97%) Task Automation
14 19 (7.57%) Technology Roadmap
14 19 (7.57%) Vulnerability Management
15 18 (7.17%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 75 (29.88%) PowerShell
2 58 (23.11%) Python
3 23 (9.16%) Bash
4 17 (6.77%) SQL
5 13 (5.18%) Go
6 8 (3.19%) Bicep
6 8 (3.19%) Java
7 6 (2.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.20%) C#
9 2 (0.80%) C
9 2 (0.80%) C++
9 2 (0.80%) Rust
10 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (9.56%) Degree
2 16 (6.37%) Azure Certification
3 12 (4.78%) AWS Certification
3 12 (4.78%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.38%) CEH
5 9 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.39%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.39%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.99%) CISSP
9 4 (1.59%) CCNP
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.80%) CCNA
11 2 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.40%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (5.58%) NIST
2 14 (5.58%) SLA
3 11 (4.38%) ISO 22301
4 10 (3.98%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.98%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.59%) GDPR
5 4 (1.59%) GRC
6 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.80%) QA
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (35.46%) Active Directory
2 31 (12.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (8.76%) Docker
4 12 (4.78%) Firmware
5 11 (4.38%) vSphere
6 6 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.80%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.40%) Postfix
10 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (28.69%) Terraform
2 45 (17.93%) Kubernetes
3 41 (16.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (9.56%) Ansible
5 18 (7.17%) SCCM
6 16 (6.37%) Prometheus
7 15 (5.98%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (4.78%) Grafana
9 11 (4.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (2.79%) Argo
10 7 (2.79%) Rancher
11 6 (2.39%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.99%) Cilium
12 5 (1.99%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.99%) vRealize
13 4 (1.59%) Istio
13 4 (1.59%) linkerd
14 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (1.20%) Mesos
15 2 (0.80%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (36.65%) Microsoft
2 76 (30.28%) VMware
3 38 (15.14%) Cisco
4 20 (7.97%) Palo Alto
5 16 (6.37%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.98%) Commvault
6 15 (5.98%) Dynatrace
6 15 (5.98%) Juniper
7 13 (5.18%) Red Hat
7 13 (5.18%) SolarWinds
8 11 (4.38%) Bloomberg
8 11 (4.38%) Fortinet
8 11 (4.38%) Reuters
9 10 (3.98%) CheckPoint
9 10 (3.98%) Meraki
10 9 (3.59%) AppDynamics
11 8 (3.19%) Veeam
12 7 (2.79%) Citrix
12 7 (2.79%) Google
12 7 (2.79%) IBM