Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Sheffield

Infrastructure Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Sheffield is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 60 63
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 3 24 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.08% 2.08% 4.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 2.16% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3 21 26
10th Percentile £34,400 £26,500 £29,325
25th Percentile £44,000 £31,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £36,128 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year +66.08% +12.20% +21.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £38,750 £37,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £67,968 -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £52,750 £37,500 £33,850
% change year-on-year +40.67% +10.78% +13.21%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 267 1,109 777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.39% 96.02% 88.50%
Number of salaries quoted 183 887 403
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,250 £78,750 £70,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -10.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Sheffield

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Sheffield.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Sheffield

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Sheffield over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Sheffield region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
3 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OLE
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
1 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Commvault
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft