Infrastructure Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £54,793 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 538 554 716
Rank change year-on-year +16 +162 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 37 206 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.29% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.30% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 26 136 19
10th Percentile £41,784 £30,385 £34,700
25th Percentile £53,938 £44,063 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £46,800
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +6.84% +4.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,250 £62,875
90th Percentile £60,625 £65,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £54,793 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% - +18.28%

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 36,103 67,726 52,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.86% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,704 47,866 30,035
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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London 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
North West -2 25 £54,793 +9.59%
North of England -46 25 £54,793 -0.38% 7
East of England +49 5 £57,500 +15.00% 3
South East +57 4 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Scotland +116 2 £51,914 -20.13%
Midlands +47 1 £52,500 +26.51% 4
East Midlands +20 1 £52,500 -19.23% 2
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 19 (51.35%) Manufacturing
2 17 (45.95%) Degree
3 16 (43.24%) Project Management
4 15 (40.54%) Finance
4 15 (40.54%) HNC
4 15 (40.54%) Azure
4 15 (40.54%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (40.54%) NEBOSH
4 15 (40.54%) Customer Requirements
4 15 (40.54%) Business Case
5 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
6 10 (27.03%) Cisco
6 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
6 10 (27.03%) Coaching
7 8 (21.62%) Entra ID
7 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
8 7 (18.92%) ITIL
8 7 (18.92%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (18.92%) Law
8 7 (18.92%) Legal
8 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
8 7 (18.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
8 7 (18.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (16.22%) Windows Server
9 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
9 6 (16.22%) Windows
9 6 (16.22%) DNS
10 5 (13.51%) DHCP

Infrastructure Specialist 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 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (8.11%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (21.62%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) DNS
2 5 (13.51%) DHCP
3 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 3 (8.11%) VoIP
3 3 (8.11%) WAN
4 1 (2.70%) LAN
4 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
General
1 19 (51.35%) Manufacturing
2 15 (40.54%) Finance
3 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
4 7 (18.92%) Law
4 7 (18.92%) Legal
5 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.11%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Windows
1 6 (16.22%) Windows Server
2 5 (13.51%) Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Project Management
2 15 (40.54%) Business Case
2 15 (40.54%) Customer Requirements
3 10 (27.03%) Coaching
4 7 (18.92%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (18.92%) ITIL
4 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
4 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.81%) CRM
6 4 (10.81%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (8.11%) Incident Management
7 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (8.11%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.11%) Server Management
8 2 (5.41%) Containerisation
8 2 (5.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (5.41%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.41%) Bash
2 2 (5.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Degree
2 15 (40.54%) HNC
3 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.11%) CCNA
4 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.11%) MCSE
4 3 (8.11%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (40.54%) NEBOSH
2 7 (18.92%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.03%) Cisco
3 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.11%) Acronis
4 3 (8.11%) Fortinet
4 3 (8.11%) Kaseya
4 3 (8.11%) Meraki
4 3 (8.11%) Sage
4 3 (8.11%) SonicWALL
4 3 (8.11%) WatchGuard
5 2 (5.41%) NetApp
5 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.41%) VMware
6 1 (2.70%) Dell
6 1 (2.70%) Sitecore