IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 496 637
Rank change year-on-year -22 +141 +56
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 61 284 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.40% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 43 234 92
10th Percentile £31,300 £35,000 £37,575
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +1.69%
75th Percentile £47,250 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £52,650 £55,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -

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 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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 East +78 32 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Midlands -33 11 £38,750 -3.13% 12
North of England -28 10 £42,500 - 8
East Midlands -24 7 £35,000 -12.50% 9
North West -23 5 £42,500 -12.37% 3
South West +78 4 £47,500 +5.56% 6
West Midlands +26 4 £42,500 - 3
East of England +38 3 £54,000 +27.06% 2
Yorkshire +25 3 £39,625 -6.76% 3
North East +42 2 £47,500 +26.67% 2
Scotland +119 1 £37,500 -11.76% 2
IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (96.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (78.69%) Windows
3 41 (67.21%) Microsoft
3 41 (67.21%) VMware
4 40 (65.57%) Active Directory
5 28 (45.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (45.90%) PowerShell
6 27 (44.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 25 (40.98%) Windows Server
8 24 (39.34%) Security Cleared
9 23 (37.70%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (37.70%) SAN
10 20 (32.79%) High Availability
11 19 (31.15%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (31.15%) NAS
11 19 (31.15%) Azure
12 18 (29.51%) Firewall
13 17 (27.87%) Linux
14 16 (26.23%) Virtual Environments
15 15 (24.59%) Kalman Filter
16 14 (22.95%) Degree
17 13 (21.31%) HND
17 13 (21.31%) Server Building
17 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
18 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
18 12 (19.67%) Computer Science
18 12 (19.67%) DV Cleared
19 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
19 11 (18.03%) Hyper-V
19 11 (18.03%) Patch Management

IT 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 28 (45.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.28%) IIS
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.15%) Azure
1 19 (31.15%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (14.75%) Entra ID
3 6 (9.84%) Nutanix
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.92%) AWS
4 3 (4.92%) IaaS
4 3 (4.92%) Mimecast
4 3 (4.92%) Route 53
4 3 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (37.70%) SAN
2 19 (31.15%) NAS
3 18 (29.51%) Firewall
4 10 (16.39%) DNS
4 10 (16.39%) WAN
5 9 (14.75%) DHCP
6 8 (13.11%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (11.48%) LAN
7 7 (11.48%) VLAN
8 6 (9.84%) SD-WAN
9 5 (8.20%) IP Telephony
9 5 (8.20%) SNMP
9 5 (8.20%) VPN
10 4 (6.56%) TCP/IP
11 3 (4.92%) IPv4
11 3 (4.92%) Network Security
12 2 (3.28%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (3.28%) Unified Communications
13 1 (1.64%) PBX
13 1 (1.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.56%) Retail
4 3 (4.92%) Automotive
4 3 (4.92%) Finance
4 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.64%) Electronics
5 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.64%) Law
5 1 (1.64%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.64%) .NET
1 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Clustering
2 5 (8.20%) Blackberry
2 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.64%) CCTV
3 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.64%) PKI
3 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (78.69%) Windows
2 25 (40.98%) Windows Server
3 17 (27.87%) Linux
4 6 (9.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (8.20%) Unix
5 5 (8.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (4.92%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.28%) VMS
7 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.64%) Android
8 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (96.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (37.70%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (32.79%) High Availability
4 16 (26.23%) Virtual Environments
5 15 (24.59%) Kalman Filter
6 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (21.31%) Server Building
7 12 (19.67%) Computer Science
7 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (18.03%) Antivirus Management
8 11 (18.03%) IT Strategy
8 11 (18.03%) Patch Management
8 11 (18.03%) Web Filtering
9 8 (13.11%) Business Continuity
9 8 (13.11%) Change Control
9 8 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (11.48%) Mobile Device Management
11 6 (9.84%) Migration
11 6 (9.84%) Storage Management
12 5 (8.20%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 28 (45.90%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.56%) SQL
3 1 (1.64%) Bash
3 1 (1.64%) Java
3 1 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (39.34%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.95%) Degree
3 13 (21.31%) HND
4 12 (19.67%) DV Cleared
5 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
6 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.64%) HNC
8 1 (1.64%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) GRC
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (65.57%) Active Directory
2 27 (44.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (18.03%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.92%) vSphere
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) SCCM
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.56%) Terraform
4 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.28%) WSUS
6 1 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.64%) SCOM
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (67.21%) Microsoft
1 41 (67.21%) VMware
2 10 (16.39%) Cisco
3 8 (13.11%) Veeam
4 6 (9.84%) McAfee
5 3 (4.92%) Meraki
5 3 (4.92%) Nasuni
5 3 (4.92%) Rapid7
6 2 (3.28%) Apple
6 2 (3.28%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (3.28%) Sophos
7 1 (1.64%) Aruba
7 1 (1.64%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.64%) F5
7 1 (1.64%) NetApp
7 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.64%) Tripwire