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 to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 208 203
Rank change year-on-year +108 -5 -72
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1,934 1,048 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.75% 1.71% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.90% 1.91% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 804 1,125
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,988 £31,260
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +3.33% +1.86%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,350 £62,650
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%

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 66,718 54,726 68,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,226 31,089 43,036
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 5 May 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 5 May 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
North of England +105 484 £45,000 - 40
South East +87 475 £50,000 +11.11% 61
South West +80 384 £50,000 +5.82% 63
Midlands +75 321 £45,000 -5.26% 45
North West +85 254 £45,000 -4.76% 20
East Midlands +70 164 £45,000 -10.00% 19
East of England +62 157 £45,000 -5.26% 30
West Midlands +41 157 £45,000 -5.26% 26
Yorkshire +97 151 £44,000 -2.22% 15
North East +39 77 £44,274 +4.17% 7
Scotland -45 67 £47,500 +5.56% 17
Wales +45 41 £41,067 +2.67% 5
Northern Ireland +14 8 £60,000 +33.33% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 1,870 (96.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 914 (47.26%) Windows
3 784 (40.54%) Azure
4 729 (37.69%) VMware
5 686 (35.47%) Microsoft
6 608 (31.44%) Active Directory
7 574 (29.68%) Microsoft 365
8 521 (26.94%) Windows Server
9 476 (24.61%) VMware Infrastructure
10 428 (22.13%) Linux
11 380 (19.65%) Firewall
12 354 (18.30%) Social Skills
13 335 (17.32%) DNS
13 335 (17.32%) PowerShell
14 334 (17.27%) Hyper-V
15 323 (16.70%) ITIL
16 303 (15.67%) Security Cleared
17 294 (15.20%) AWS
18 264 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
19 242 (12.51%) DHCP
20 240 (12.41%) Microsoft Exchange
21 236 (12.20%) Cisco
21 236 (12.20%) Data Centre
22 233 (12.05%) WAN
23 195 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
24 188 (9.72%) LAN
25 180 (9.31%) SAN
25 180 (9.31%) DevOps
26 174 (9.00%) Finance
27 167 (8.63%) Ansible

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
1 240 (12.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 163 (8.43%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.96%) IIS
4 9 (0.47%) CMS
5 7 (0.36%) Apache
6 5 (0.26%) Confluence
6 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.21%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.21%) WordPress
8 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.10%) JBoss
9 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.052%) Moodle
10 1 (0.052%) nginx
10 1 (0.052%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.36%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.10%) CATIA
5 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.10%) Trello
6 1 (0.052%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 784 (40.54%) Azure
2 574 (29.68%) Microsoft 365
3 294 (15.20%) AWS
4 167 (8.63%) Entra ID
5 107 (5.53%) IaaS
6 105 (5.43%) SaaS
7 51 (2.64%) PaaS
8 47 (2.43%) OneDrive
9 45 (2.33%) OpenShift
10 43 (2.22%) GCP
11 37 (1.91%) Nutanix
12 33 (1.71%) Power Platform
13 26 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 25 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (1.09%) GitHub
18 20 (1.03%) Serverless
19 18 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
20 15 (0.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 380 (19.65%) Firewall
2 335 (17.32%) DNS
3 242 (12.51%) DHCP
4 233 (12.05%) WAN
5 188 (9.72%) LAN
6 180 (9.31%) SAN
7 131 (6.77%) VPN
8 116 (6.00%) TCP/IP
9 89 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
10 77 (3.98%) VLAN
11 71 (3.67%) SD-WAN
12 69 (3.57%) Wireless
13 58 (3.00%) HTTP
14 51 (2.64%) NAS
15 49 (2.53%) VoIP
16 39 (2.02%) WLAN
17 34 (1.76%) MPLS
18 33 (1.71%) Network Security
19 28 (1.45%) BGP
20 27 (1.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (5.58%) SQL Server
2 34 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (1.60%) MySQL
4 17 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (0.57%) Big Data
6 9 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.26%) Power BI
8 4 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.21%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.21%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.16%) DB2
9 3 (0.16%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.052%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.052%) MS Access
10 1 (0.052%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.052%) Redis
10 1 (0.052%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (2.02%) GitLab
2 30 (1.55%) Git
3 28 (1.45%) JIRA
4 21 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 19 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.52%) Trac
7 7 (0.36%) MSI
8 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.052%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.052%) TeamCity
General
1 354 (18.30%) Social Skills
2 174 (9.00%) Finance
3 111 (5.74%) Public Sector
4 64 (3.31%) Aerospace
5 63 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 53 (2.74%) Law
8 39 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 38 (1.96%) Retail
10 37 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.55%) Automotive
12 28 (1.45%) Legal
13 27 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.19%) Advertising
15 16 (0.83%) Banking
16 14 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.57%) Games
18 10 (0.52%) Military
19 6 (0.31%) Electronics
19 6 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.09%) CSS
2 13 (0.67%) XML
3 12 (0.62%) .NET
3 12 (0.62%) Web Services
4 11 (0.57%) JSON
5 7 (0.36%) LDAP
6 6 (0.31%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.31%) JSON Schema
6 6 (0.31%) KML
6 6 (0.31%) LAMP
6 6 (0.31%) Regular Expression
6 6 (0.31%) Software Packaging
6 6 (0.31%) XML Schema
7 5 (0.26%) Middleware
7 5 (0.26%) YAML
8 4 (0.21%) EJB
9 3 (0.16%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.16%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.10%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 236 (12.20%) Data Centre
2 95 (4.91%) Public Cloud
3 78 (4.03%) Driving Licence
4 66 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 53 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 43 (2.22%) PKI
7 38 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 33 (1.71%) Replication
9 31 (1.60%) Private Cloud
10 27 (1.40%) Clustering
11 25 (1.29%) IoT
12 18 (0.93%) EMC VNX
13 16 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
14 14 (0.72%) CMDB
15 13 (0.67%) CCTV
16 12 (0.62%) Fat Client
16 12 (0.62%) Operational Technology
16 12 (0.62%) Thin Client
17 11 (0.57%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 914 (47.26%) Windows
2 521 (26.94%) Windows Server
3 428 (22.13%) Linux
4 139 (7.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 109 (5.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 106 (5.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 85 (4.40%) Windows 10
8 81 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (1.96%) Unix
10 36 (1.86%) Ubuntu
11 28 (1.45%) Android
11 28 (1.45%) Apple iOS
12 25 (1.29%) Windows 7
13 24 (1.24%) CentOS
14 21 (1.09%) VMS
15 18 (0.93%) Mac OS
16 17 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
17 16 (0.83%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
19 9 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,870 (96.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 323 (16.70%) ITIL
3 264 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
4 195 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
5 180 (9.31%) DevOps
6 167 (8.63%) Mentoring
7 160 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 113 (5.84%) Migration
9 112 (5.79%) Coaching
10 99 (5.12%) Change Management
11 98 (5.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 96 (4.96%) Agile
13 91 (4.71%) Customer Service
14 90 (4.65%) Roadmaps
15 88 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 88 (4.55%) Service Management
16 75 (3.88%) Service Delivery
17 73 (3.77%) Project Management
18 71 (3.67%) Server Management
19 70 (3.62%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 335 (17.32%) PowerShell
2 124 (6.41%) Python
3 112 (5.79%) Bash
4 84 (4.34%) SQL
5 43 (2.22%) Java
6 15 (0.78%) Perl
7 10 (0.52%) Swift
8 9 (0.47%) ActionScript
8 9 (0.47%) VB
9 8 (0.41%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.36%) Bicep
11 4 (0.21%) C
12 3 (0.16%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.16%) Ruby
12 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.10%) AWK
13 2 (0.10%) C#
13 2 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.052%) C++
14 1 (0.052%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 303 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 163 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 162 (8.38%) Degree
4 159 (8.22%) DV Cleared
5 90 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 85 (4.40%) CCNA
7 51 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 36 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (1.71%) MCSE
11 26 (1.34%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.34%) HNC
12 23 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 20 (1.03%) CCNP
14 17 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.67%) A+ Certification
17 12 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 9 (0.47%) MCP
18 9 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.52%) SLA
2 27 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.72%) GDPR
5 14 (0.72%) NIST
6 10 (0.52%) QA
7 7 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.26%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.10%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.052%) NCSC
System Software
1 608 (31.44%) Active Directory
2 476 (24.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 334 (17.27%) Hyper-V
4 116 (6.00%) Docker
5 108 (5.58%) VMware ESXi
6 85 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
7 78 (4.03%) vSphere
8 21 (1.09%) XenApp
9 19 (0.98%) Firmware
10 18 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
12 13 (0.67%) NFS
13 12 (0.62%) pfSense
14 11 (0.57%) XenDesktop
15 10 (0.52%) VMware NSX
15 10 (0.52%) VMware Server
16 9 (0.47%) OpenSSH
17 8 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
18 6 (0.31%) KVM
19 5 (0.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 167 (8.63%) Ansible
2 162 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 139 (7.19%) SCCM
4 112 (5.79%) Kubernetes
5 102 (5.27%) Terraform
6 87 (4.50%) vCenter Server
7 60 (3.10%) WSUS
8 46 (2.38%) Puppet
9 40 (2.07%) SCOM
10 37 (1.91%) EMC NetWorker
11 29 (1.50%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 27 (1.40%) FortiGate
13 26 (1.34%) Nagios
14 18 (0.93%) ZABBIX
15 17 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 16 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
16 16 (0.83%) NetBackup
16 16 (0.83%) SCDPM
17 15 (0.78%) Grafana
18 14 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 729 (37.69%) VMware
2 686 (35.47%) Microsoft
3 236 (12.20%) Cisco
4 165 (8.53%) Veeam
5 128 (6.62%) Citrix
6 98 (5.07%) HP
7 95 (4.91%) Red Hat
8 64 (3.31%) Dell
9 63 (3.26%) Aruba
10 62 (3.21%) Meraki
11 55 (2.84%) Oracle
12 50 (2.59%) EMC
13 44 (2.28%) NetApp
14 41 (2.12%) Fortinet
15 39 (2.02%) SolarWinds
16 37 (1.91%) IBM
17 33 (1.71%) Google
18 32 (1.65%) Juniper
19 30 (1.55%) Palo Alto
20 29 (1.50%) Sophos