Network Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £49,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 643 703 753
Rank change year-on-year +60 +50 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 112 48 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.078% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.087% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 94 29 65
10th Percentile £35,225 £37,641 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £47,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -4.08% +9.20%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £59,625 £67,500 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,472 55,237 67,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.31% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,163 31,304 42,933
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +71 53 £50,000 -9.09% 5
North of England +55 21 £42,500 -7.61% 1
North West +19 18 £42,500 -9.57%
Midlands -2 15 £50,000 +13.93% 2
South West -10 14 £57,500 +27.78% 6
East of England +32 9 £50,000 -20.00% 1
West Midlands +11 8 £45,000 +2.54% 1
East Midlands - 7 £52,500 - 1
Yorkshire +95 2 £37,236 -17.25%
North East 0 1 £29,000 -31.76% 1
Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 110 (98.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (47.32%) WAN
3 52 (46.43%) Firewall
4 49 (43.75%) Cisco
5 48 (42.86%) Azure
6 47 (41.96%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (41.07%) VMware
8 44 (39.29%) Windows
9 38 (33.93%) LAN
10 34 (30.36%) Active Directory
11 32 (28.57%) Microsoft
12 31 (27.68%) Data Centre
13 28 (25.00%) Linux
14 24 (21.43%) VPN
14 24 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (21.43%) CCNA
15 22 (19.64%) Wi-Fi
16 21 (18.75%) Driving Licence
16 21 (18.75%) SD-WAN
17 20 (17.86%) Social Skills
17 20 (17.86%) Windows Server
17 20 (17.86%) DNS
17 20 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
18 19 (16.96%) VMware Infrastructure
19 17 (15.18%) AWS
20 16 (14.29%) Aruba
21 15 (13.39%) Hyper-V
21 15 (13.39%) DHCP
21 15 (13.39%) Wireless
22 14 (12.50%) MPLS

Network 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 20 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.57%) IIS
3 4 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 48 (42.86%) Azure
2 47 (41.96%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (15.18%) AWS
4 9 (8.04%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.36%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.57%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (2.68%) GCP
8 2 (1.79%) SaaS
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.89%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.89%) IaaS
9 1 (0.89%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (47.32%) WAN
2 52 (46.43%) Firewall
3 38 (33.93%) LAN
4 24 (21.43%) VPN
5 22 (19.64%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (18.75%) SD-WAN
7 20 (17.86%) DNS
8 15 (13.39%) DHCP
8 15 (13.39%) Wireless
9 14 (12.50%) MPLS
9 14 (12.50%) TCP/IP
10 12 (10.71%) VLAN
11 10 (8.93%) BGP
12 7 (6.25%) SSL
13 6 (5.36%) SAN
14 5 (4.46%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (4.46%) VXLAN
15 4 (3.57%) BIG-IP
15 4 (3.57%) Broadband
15 4 (3.57%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.79%) JIRA
1 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.46%) Advertising
2 5 (4.46%) Retail
3 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (1.79%) Finance
3 2 (1.79%) Law
3 2 (1.79%) Military
3 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.89%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.57%) LAMP
2 1 (0.89%) JSON
2 1 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.68%) Data Centre
2 21 (18.75%) Driving Licence
3 11 (9.82%) Replication
4 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.68%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.68%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.89%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.89%) IoT
7 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (39.29%) Windows
2 28 (25.00%) Linux
3 20 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.36%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.57%) VMS
6 4 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.68%) Android
7 3 (2.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (98.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (12.50%) ITIL
3 12 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (8.93%) DevOps
4 10 (8.93%) Migration
5 9 (8.04%) Customer Service
5 9 (8.04%) Load Balancing
6 8 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 8 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (7.14%) Web Filtering
7 6 (5.36%) Analytics
7 6 (5.36%) Business Continuity
7 6 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (5.36%) Presales
8 5 (4.46%) Containerisation
8 5 (4.46%) Customer Experience
8 5 (4.46%) Network Monitoring
8 5 (4.46%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (4.46%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.46%) Bash
3 1 (0.89%) Bicep
3 1 (0.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (21.43%) CCNA
1 24 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (7.14%) Degree
3 7 (6.25%) CCNP
4 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.79%) MCSE
7 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (30.36%) Active Directory
2 19 (16.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (13.39%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.25%) Docker
4 7 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.46%) vSphere
6 2 (1.79%) KVM
6 2 (1.79%) QEMU
6 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.79%) Xen
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.25%) Ansible
2 7 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 6 (5.36%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.46%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (3.57%) BMC PATROL
5 4 (3.57%) SCCM
5 4 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (43.75%) Cisco
2 46 (41.07%) VMware
3 32 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 16 (14.29%) Aruba
5 13 (11.61%) HP
6 11 (9.82%) F5
7 8 (7.14%) Meraki
8 7 (6.25%) Citrix
8 7 (6.25%) Veeam
9 6 (5.36%) Palo Alto
10 5 (4.46%) CheckPoint
10 5 (4.46%) Draytek
10 5 (4.46%) Fortinet
11 4 (3.57%) Juniper
11 4 (3.57%) ProCurve
11 4 (3.57%) Synology
11 4 (3.57%) Zerto
12 3 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
13 2 (1.79%) Darktrace
13 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow