Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in South Yorkshire is £43,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 62 100
Rank change year-on-year +17 +38 -29
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 8 33 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.02% 2.39% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 2.58% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8 29 25
10th Percentile £34,801 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,716 £31,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £37,500 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +16.46% -8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £40,000 £37,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,968 £39,700
Yorkshire median annual salary £56,250 £44,274 £45,000
% change year-on-year +27.05% -1.61% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 383 1,280 1,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.47% 92.62% 86.68%
Number of salaries quoted 252 1,028 520
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,625 £36,938 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,772 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £48,750 £54,590
% change year-on-year -2.19% -10.70% +9.18%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Sheffield +23 7 £42,000 +16.25% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) GDPR
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) NIST
4 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
4 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) Legal
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Coaching
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Coaching
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) ITSM
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) XenApp
2 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Brocade
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Commvault
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) HP