Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 82 201
Rank change year-on-year -82 +119 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 757 2,323 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.89% 2.84% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 2.99% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 370 1,873 735
10th Percentile £33,063 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,188 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £64,688 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.56% -3.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,829 77,657 48,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 94.92% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 54,301 28,952
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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 -11 401 £52,500 +16.67% 177
North West +9 344 £52,000 +15.56% 95
South East -115 114 £43,000 -14.00% 207
Midlands -52 110 £45,074 +0.16% 90
West Midlands -24 80 £45,147 -9.71% 53
East of England -58 59 £60,000 +33.33% 87
Yorkshire -38 42 £63,750 +43.99% 53
South West -93 42 £51,729 +3.46% 83
East Midlands -73 30 £40,000 -11.11% 34
Scotland +46 20 £55,000 +22.22% 52
North East -10 15 £52,000 +17.45% 29
Wales +15 14 £55,699 +35.63% 19
Northern Ireland +34 3 £60,000 - 26
Channel Islands - 1 £65,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 749 (98.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 506 (66.84%) Windows
3 398 (52.58%) PowerShell
4 372 (49.14%) Linux
5 338 (44.65%) Problem-Solving
6 330 (43.59%) Terraform
7 325 (42.93%) Hyper-V
8 322 (42.54%) Python
9 319 (42.14%) Ansible
10 318 (42.01%) DevOps
11 313 (41.35%) Cisco
12 308 (40.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 303 (40.03%) VPN
14 292 (38.57%) vSphere
15 283 (37.38%) Bash
16 279 (36.86%) Docker
17 278 (36.72%) Juniper
18 276 (36.46%) Task Automation
19 274 (36.20%) Risk Management
20 273 (36.06%) Analytical Skills
21 271 (35.80%) Line Management
21 271 (35.80%) VMware NSX
22 269 (35.54%) Storage Management
23 265 (35.01%) Splunk
24 263 (34.74%) Elastic Stack
24 263 (34.74%) Android
25 262 (34.61%) Platform Engineering
26 261 (34.48%) Cisco IOS
27 260 (34.35%) Mathematics
27 260 (34.35%) Cyberattack

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 109 (14.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.98%) Confluence
3 15 (1.98%) IIS
4 5 (0.66%) Apache
5 4 (0.53%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.26%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (2.77%) AutoCAD
2 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 182 (24.04%) Azure
2 103 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (9.51%) AWS
4 52 (6.87%) Entra ID
5 24 (3.17%) GCP
6 23 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (2.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (2.11%) Amazon S3
8 16 (2.11%) AWS KMS
8 16 (2.11%) IaaS
9 15 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (1.85%) Amazon ELB
10 14 (1.85%) Amazon Glacier
11 13 (1.72%) Nutanix
11 13 (1.72%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.72%) SaaS
12 12 (1.59%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 303 (40.03%) VPN
2 261 (34.48%) Cisco IOS
3 124 (16.38%) Firewall
4 85 (11.23%) DNS
5 78 (10.30%) DHCP
6 61 (8.06%) WAN
7 48 (6.34%) LAN
7 48 (6.34%) SAN
8 35 (4.62%) SD-WAN
9 33 (4.36%) NAS
10 30 (3.96%) TCP/IP
11 28 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (3.17%) VLAN
13 21 (2.77%) Network Security
14 19 (2.51%) SMTP
15 11 (1.45%) 5G
15 11 (1.45%) Bluetooth
15 11 (1.45%) LTE
16 10 (1.32%) TETRA
17 8 (1.06%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.92%) MongoDB
4 6 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.26%) DB2
6 2 (0.26%) MySQL
6 2 (0.26%) Power BI
6 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) Big Data
7 1 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (2.77%) JIRA
2 19 (2.51%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.98%) Git
4 14 (1.85%) Vagrant
5 5 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 308 (40.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 273 (36.06%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (14.66%) Social Skills
4 61 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.40%) Finance
6 32 (4.23%) Local Government
7 24 (3.17%) Legal
8 13 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.59%) Electronics
9 12 (1.59%) Retail
10 11 (1.45%) Law
11 9 (1.19%) Banking
11 9 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.92%) Games
12 7 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.79%) Automotive
14 5 (0.66%) Advertising
15 4 (0.53%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (34.74%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (2.64%) OLE
3 8 (1.06%) ARM Templates
4 7 (0.92%) Middleware
5 4 (0.53%) YAML
6 3 (0.40%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.40%) SAML
6 3 (0.40%) Web Services
7 2 (0.26%) .NET
7 2 (0.26%) JSON
7 2 (0.26%) Node.js
8 1 (0.13%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.13%) OpenCL
8 1 (0.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 260 (34.35%) Cyberattack
2 38 (5.02%) Data Centre
3 28 (3.70%) Clustering
4 26 (3.43%) NHS
5 16 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (1.98%) Replication
7 14 (1.85%) PKI
8 13 (1.72%) Driving Licence
9 11 (1.45%) IoT
9 11 (1.45%) NB-IoT
10 10 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 7 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (0.79%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.66%) Blackberry
13 5 (0.66%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.53%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 506 (66.84%) Windows
2 372 (49.14%) Linux
3 263 (34.74%) Android
4 165 (21.80%) Windows Server
5 27 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 27 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (2.77%) VMS
7 17 (2.25%) Unix
8 15 (1.98%) Windows 10
9 11 (1.45%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (1.19%) CentOS
11 9 (1.19%) Mac OS
11 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.79%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.66%) Debian
14 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.40%) AIX
15 3 (0.40%) Rocky
16 2 (0.26%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (98.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 338 (44.65%) Problem-Solving
3 318 (42.01%) DevOps
4 276 (36.46%) Task Automation
5 274 (36.20%) Risk Management
6 271 (35.80%) Line Management
7 269 (35.54%) Storage Management
8 262 (34.61%) Platform Engineering
9 260 (34.35%) Mathematics
10 71 (9.38%) Mentoring
11 62 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
12 57 (7.53%) ITIL
13 54 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (5.68%) Cloud Security
15 41 (5.42%) High Availability
16 39 (5.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (4.89%) Project Delivery
18 36 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
19 32 (4.23%) Project Management
20 31 (4.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 398 (52.58%) PowerShell
2 322 (42.54%) Python
3 283 (37.38%) Bash
4 33 (4.36%) SQL
5 13 (1.72%) Groovy
6 5 (0.66%) Java
7 3 (0.40%) Perl
8 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.13%) Bicep
9 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.13%) JCL
9 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 86 (11.36%) Degree
3 57 (7.53%) DV Cleared
4 55 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 46 (6.08%) SC Cleared
6 37 (4.89%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.17%) Network+ Certification
8 23 (3.04%) MCSA
9 19 (2.51%) A+ Certification
9 19 (2.51%) MCP
10 17 (2.25%) MCSE
11 15 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 13 (1.72%) HND
13 13 (1.72%) Postgraduate
14 11 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (1.32%) CCNA
16 6 (0.79%) RIBA
17 5 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.77%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (1.59%) GDPR
4 12 (1.59%) QA
5 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.79%) NIST
7 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.40%) SLA
8 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.13%) GRC
8 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 325 (42.93%) Hyper-V
2 292 (38.57%) vSphere
3 279 (36.86%) Docker
4 271 (35.80%) VMware NSX
5 190 (25.10%) Active Directory
6 113 (14.93%) VMware Infrastructure
7 24 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (1.72%) DFS Replication
9 13 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (1.19%) BitLocker
11 8 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (1.06%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.40%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.40%) Postfix
14 2 (0.26%) XenApp
15 1 (0.13%) KVM
15 1 (0.13%) RACF
15 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 330 (43.59%) Terraform
2 319 (42.14%) Ansible
3 38 (5.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (4.62%) Kubernetes
5 23 (3.04%) SCCM
6 22 (2.91%) Puppet
7 17 (2.25%) vCenter Server
8 16 (2.11%) Grafana
9 15 (1.98%) Prometheus
10 11 (1.45%) SCOM
11 10 (1.32%) FortiGate
12 9 (1.19%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.19%) WSUS
13 8 (1.06%) vMotion
14 7 (0.92%) Backup Exec
15 6 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.79%) Nagios
16 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 4 (0.53%) Nessus
16 4 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 313 (41.35%) Cisco
2 278 (36.72%) Juniper
3 265 (35.01%) Splunk
4 260 (34.35%) 3PAR
5 232 (30.65%) Microsoft
6 154 (20.34%) VMware
7 29 (3.83%) Citrix
8 26 (3.43%) Veeam
9 20 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.98%) Dell
10 15 (1.98%) Google
10 15 (1.98%) HP
11 12 (1.59%) Autodesk
11 12 (1.59%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.45%) Meraki
12 11 (1.45%) Oracle
13 9 (1.19%) Fortinet
14 7 (0.92%) Apple
14 7 (0.92%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.79%) Aruba