Infrastructure Operations Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 728 720
Rank change year-on-year +159 -8 +110
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 6 35 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.049% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.052% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 5 26 10
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile - £33,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -21.05% +6.45%
75th Percentile £50,000 £49,188 £52,813
90th Percentile £50,960 £57,500 £73,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.79% +6.45%

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 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Operations 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 Operations Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South West +107 3 £50,000 -
Midlands +58 2 £35,000 -12.50%
West Midlands +57 2 £35,000 -17.65%
North of England +48 1 - -
North West +3 1 - -
Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Infrastructure Operations 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 Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (16.67%) VPN

Infrastructure Operations 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware