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 £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 171 191
Rank change year-on-year +87 +20 -37
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1,807 1,008 1,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.77% 2.09% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.92% 2.34% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 715 1,230
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.64%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
South East +41 419 £50,000 +10.25% 35
South West +68 401 £50,000 +5.26% 28
North of England +68 359 £45,000 - 38
Midlands +73 332 £45,000 -5.26% 14
North West +70 211 £46,000 -2.65% 15
East of England +55 187 £45,000 -10.00% 13
West Midlands +45 170 £50,000 +5.26% 11
East Midlands +69 162 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Yorkshire +29 94 £45,000 +12.50% 19
Scotland -13 68 £45,000 -10.00% 16
North East +24 52 £45,000 -7.22% 6
Wales +50 35 £41,067 +2.67% 2
Northern Ireland +9 7 £60,000 +20.00% 9
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 1,756 (97.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 728 (40.29%) Windows
3 621 (34.37%) Azure
4 602 (33.31%) Microsoft
5 592 (32.76%) VMware
6 501 (27.73%) Active Directory
7 437 (24.18%) Microsoft 365
8 431 (23.85%) Windows Server
9 385 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
10 365 (20.20%) Linux
11 304 (16.82%) Firewall
12 281 (15.55%) PowerShell
13 267 (14.78%) DNS
14 252 (13.95%) Hyper-V
15 247 (13.67%) Security Cleared
16 246 (13.61%) Social Skills
17 235 (13.00%) AWS
18 216 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
19 202 (11.18%) Cisco
20 192 (10.63%) Data Centre
21 188 (10.40%) ITIL
22 182 (10.07%) Microsoft Exchange
23 174 (9.63%) DHCP
24 170 (9.41%) WAN
25 159 (8.80%) Finance
26 158 (8.74%) SAN
26 158 (8.74%) Entra ID
27 155 (8.58%) SC Cleared
28 146 (8.08%) Ansible
29 144 (7.97%) Cybersecurity

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
1 182 (10.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (7.64%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.94%) IIS
4 9 (0.50%) CMS
5 6 (0.33%) Confluence
6 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.22%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.22%) WordPress
7 3 (0.17%) Apache
7 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.055%) nginx
8 1 (0.055%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 53 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.50%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) Trello
6 1 (0.055%) CATIA
6 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.055%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.055%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 621 (34.37%) Azure
2 437 (24.18%) Microsoft 365
3 235 (13.00%) AWS
4 158 (8.74%) Entra ID
5 114 (6.31%) SaaS
6 73 (4.04%) IaaS
7 44 (2.43%) Nutanix
8 38 (2.10%) OneDrive
9 37 (2.05%) PaaS
9 37 (2.05%) Power Platform
10 29 (1.60%) OpenShift
11 27 (1.49%) GCP
12 23 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (1.05%) PowerApps
14 18 (1.00%) Mimecast
15 17 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (0.94%) GitHub
16 15 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (0.77%) Amazon S3
18 12 (0.66%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 304 (16.82%) Firewall
2 267 (14.78%) DNS
3 174 (9.63%) DHCP
4 170 (9.41%) WAN
5 158 (8.74%) SAN
6 119 (6.59%) LAN
7 101 (5.59%) TCP/IP
8 99 (5.48%) VPN
9 71 (3.93%) VLAN
10 59 (3.27%) NAS
11 57 (3.15%) SD-WAN
12 56 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
13 44 (2.43%) HTTP
14 40 (2.21%) VoIP
15 38 (2.10%) 5G
16 36 (1.99%) Wireless
17 33 (1.83%) iSCSI
18 31 (1.72%) MPLS
19 30 (1.66%) Internet
20 26 (1.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (5.87%) SQL Server
2 44 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (1.49%) MySQL
4 14 (0.77%) Oracle Database
5 13 (0.72%) Big Data
6 9 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.44%) Power BI
8 6 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.22%) DB2
9 4 (0.22%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.22%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.11%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.055%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.055%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.055%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.055%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (1.49%) Git
2 21 (1.16%) GitLab
2 21 (1.16%) JIRA
3 13 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
4 12 (0.66%) Artifactory
5 9 (0.50%) Trac
6 3 (0.17%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.11%) MSI
7 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.055%) Postman
8 1 (0.055%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.055%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 246 (13.61%) Social Skills
2 159 (8.80%) Finance
3 93 (5.15%) Public Sector
4 69 (3.82%) Aerospace
5 66 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 52 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 48 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
8 43 (2.38%) Law
9 40 (2.21%) Games
10 31 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.72%) Legal
11 27 (1.49%) Banking
11 27 (1.49%) Retail
12 23 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.11%) Automotive
14 16 (0.89%) Advertising
15 14 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.44%) Local Government
17 6 (0.33%) Electronics
18 5 (0.28%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.72%) Web Services
2 11 (0.61%) REST
3 10 (0.55%) JSON
4 9 (0.50%) .NET
4 9 (0.50%) XML
5 6 (0.33%) JSON Schema
5 6 (0.33%) KML
5 6 (0.33%) Regular Expression
5 6 (0.33%) XML Schema
6 5 (0.28%) YAML
7 4 (0.22%) EJB
7 4 (0.22%) LAMP
8 3 (0.17%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.17%) LDAP
8 3 (0.17%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.11%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.11%) Loki
10 1 (0.055%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.055%) Middleware
10 1 (0.055%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 192 (10.63%) Data Centre
2 66 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 47 (2.60%) PKI
5 46 (2.55%) Clustering
5 46 (2.55%) Driving Licence
6 33 (1.83%) Replication
7 32 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.16%) IoT
10 18 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
11 15 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (0.72%) Cloud Native
12 13 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (0.72%) EMC VNX
13 12 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.50%) IBM Mainframe
14 9 (0.50%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.44%) Cyberattack
15 8 (0.44%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 728 (40.29%) Windows
2 431 (23.85%) Windows Server
3 365 (20.20%) Linux
4 108 (5.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 76 (4.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 76 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 60 (3.32%) Windows 10
7 55 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 37 (2.05%) Ubuntu
9 23 (1.27%) CentOS
10 22 (1.22%) VMS
11 21 (1.16%) Android
11 21 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
12 18 (1.00%) Unix
13 17 (0.94%) Apple iOS
14 13 (0.72%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.50%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.50%) zOS
16 8 (0.44%) Debian
16 8 (0.44%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,756 (97.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 216 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
3 188 (10.40%) ITIL
4 144 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
5 137 (7.58%) DevOps
6 127 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
7 117 (6.47%) Mentoring
8 100 (5.53%) Agile
9 88 (4.87%) Service Delivery
10 81 (4.48%) Migration
11 76 (4.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 75 (4.15%) Change Management
13 69 (3.82%) Collaborative Working
14 65 (3.60%) Customer Service
15 64 (3.54%) Coaching
16 63 (3.49%) Service Management
17 61 (3.38%) Project Delivery
18 60 (3.32%) CI/CD
19 59 (3.27%) Information Security
20 57 (3.15%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 281 (15.55%) PowerShell
2 91 (5.04%) SQL
3 88 (4.87%) Python
4 77 (4.26%) Bash
5 28 (1.55%) Java
6 15 (0.83%) ActionScript
6 15 (0.83%) VB
7 12 (0.66%) Perl
8 10 (0.55%) Bicep
8 10 (0.55%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.55%) Ruby
9 9 (0.50%) Swift
10 8 (0.44%) C++
11 7 (0.39%) Go
12 6 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.11%) C#
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.055%) AWK
14 1 (0.055%) C
14 1 (0.055%) PHP
Qualifications
1 247 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 155 (8.58%) SC Cleared
3 142 (7.86%) Degree
4 125 (6.92%) DV Cleared
5 74 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
6 69 (3.82%) CCNA
7 57 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.60%) MCSE
10 25 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 18 (1.00%) HNC
12 13 (0.72%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.72%) CCNP
13 12 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.50%) MCP
16 8 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.39%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.76%) SLA
2 35 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 33 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.94%) QA
5 13 (0.72%) GDPR
6 11 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.11%) NIST
12 1 (0.055%) Accessibility
System Software
1 501 (27.73%) Active Directory
2 385 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 252 (13.95%) Hyper-V
4 109 (6.03%) vSphere
5 92 (5.09%) VMware ESXi
6 87 (4.81%) Docker
7 69 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (1.16%) XenApp
9 17 (0.94%) NFS
10 16 (0.89%) Firmware
10 16 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (0.83%) OpenSSH
12 14 (0.77%) pfSense
12 14 (0.77%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
13 7 (0.39%) XenDesktop
14 6 (0.33%) KVM
14 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 146 (8.08%) Ansible
2 136 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 110 (6.09%) SCCM
4 98 (5.42%) Kubernetes
5 79 (4.37%) Terraform
6 77 (4.26%) vCenter Server
7 42 (2.32%) Puppet
8 41 (2.27%) WSUS
9 27 (1.49%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 26 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
11 25 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 23 (1.27%) SCOM
13 22 (1.22%) FortiGate
13 22 (1.22%) Nagios
14 20 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
15 16 (0.89%) Grafana
15 16 (0.89%) PowerCLI
15 16 (0.89%) ZABBIX
16 15 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
16 15 (0.83%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 602 (33.31%) Microsoft
2 592 (32.76%) VMware
3 202 (11.18%) Cisco
4 141 (7.80%) Veeam
5 103 (5.70%) Citrix
6 75 (4.15%) Red Hat
7 72 (3.98%) HP
8 60 (3.32%) Meraki
9 57 (3.15%) Dell
10 41 (2.27%) Oracle
11 40 (2.21%) IBM
12 38 (2.10%) Aruba
13 37 (2.05%) NetApp
14 35 (1.94%) EMC
15 32 (1.77%) Fortinet
16 29 (1.60%) SolarWinds
17 24 (1.33%) Juniper
17 24 (1.33%) ServiceNow
18 23 (1.27%) Sophos
19 19 (1.05%) McAfee