Infrastructure Analyst Jobs

Infrastructure Analyst
UK

The median Infrastructure Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 632 679 749
Rank change year-on-year +47 +70 +143
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Analyst 58 227 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.24% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 48 191 196
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £35,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,375
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.29% +5.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +3.90% -6.10%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Infrastructure Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Analyst in the UK

Infrastructure Analyst
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -4 48 £45,000 +5.88% 14
UK excluding London +59 31 £45,000 +12.50% 9
London +70 25 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North of England +9 13 £45,000 +9.09% 2
Work from Home +76 11 £65,000 +71.05% 4
North West +9 9 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Scotland +133 8 £52,500 -6.25%
South East +58 4 £37,500 -1.32% 5
Yorkshire +26 3 £45,000 +28.57% 1
South West +94 2 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Midlands +46 2 £45,500 +13.75% 1
East Midlands +38 2 £45,500 +13.75% 1
North East +48 1 £37,500 -
Wales +34 1 £40,000 +23.08%
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Infrastructure Analyst 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 featuring Infrastructure Analyst in the job title.

1 39 (67.24%) Windows
2 34 (58.62%) Microsoft
3 33 (56.90%) Azure
4 28 (48.28%) Active Directory
5 25 (43.10%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (37.93%) ITIL
7 20 (34.48%) DNS
8 19 (32.76%) Agile
8 19 (32.76%) Degree
8 19 (32.76%) Windows Server
9 18 (31.03%) DHCP
9 18 (31.03%) Cisco
10 14 (24.14%) DevOps
10 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
11 13 (22.41%) Customer Service
11 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
11 13 (22.41%) Finance
11 13 (22.41%) VMware
12 12 (20.69%) Firewall
12 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (20.69%) AWS
13 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (18.97%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (18.97%) Retail
13 11 (18.97%) Computer Science
13 11 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (18.97%) Roadmaps
14 10 (17.24%) Azure Certification
14 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management

Infrastructure Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (8.62%) IIS
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (56.90%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (20.69%) AWS
4 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.90%) SaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (5.17%) IaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Serverless
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.45%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.72%) GCP
8 1 (1.72%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 20 (34.48%) DNS
2 18 (31.03%) DHCP
3 12 (20.69%) Firewall
4 7 (12.07%) VLAN
5 6 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (10.34%) TCP/IP
6 5 (8.62%) WAN
7 4 (6.90%) SAN
7 4 (6.90%) VPN
7 4 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (5.17%) FTP
8 3 (5.17%) LAN
9 2 (3.45%) NAS
9 2 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.45%) SNMP
9 2 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (3.45%) VSAN
10 1 (1.72%) Network Security
10 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.72%) Tableau
General
1 13 (22.41%) Finance
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Retail
4 6 (10.34%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Law
6 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
7 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) CCTV
1 6 (10.34%) Driving Licence
1 6 (10.34%) Replication
2 5 (8.62%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (5.17%) iSeries
3 3 (5.17%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (67.24%) Windows
2 19 (32.76%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (15.52%) Linux
5 7 (12.07%) Windows 10
6 6 (10.34%) Mac OS X
7 4 (6.90%) zOS
8 3 (5.17%) Unix
9 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) ITIL
2 19 (32.76%) Agile
3 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 14 (24.14%) DevOps
4 13 (22.41%) Customer Service
5 11 (18.97%) Computer Science
5 11 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (18.97%) Roadmaps
6 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (17.24%) Technology Roadmap
7 9 (15.52%) Business Strategy
7 9 (15.52%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (15.52%) Operational Stability
7 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.79%) Time Management
9 7 (12.07%) Inventory Management
9 7 (12.07%) Service Delivery
10 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (10.34%) High Availability
10 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
1 6 (10.34%) SQL
2 3 (5.17%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Degree
2 11 (18.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (17.24%) Azure Certification
4 8 (13.79%) Master's Degree
5 6 (10.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (6.90%) CCNA
7 4 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.17%) CISSP
8 3 (5.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.72%) MCSA
10 1 (1.72%) MCSE
10 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (13.79%) SLA
3 4 (6.90%) QA
4 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.62%) DFS Replication
4 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.72%) Docker
6 1 (1.72%) RACF
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) SCCM
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (12.07%) Terraform
3 5 (8.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.45%) Grafana
4 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.72%) Ansible
5 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.72%) Nessus
5 1 (1.72%) OpenVAS
5 1 (1.72%) QRadar
5 1 (1.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 18 (31.03%) Cisco
3 13 (22.41%) VMware
4 8 (13.79%) SolarWinds
5 6 (10.34%) MobileIron
5 6 (10.34%) Riverbed
5 6 (10.34%) SAP
5 6 (10.34%) Trend Micro
6 4 (6.90%) Meraki
6 4 (6.90%) Qualys
7 3 (5.17%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.17%) LogRhythm
7 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
7 3 (5.17%) Tenable
8 2 (3.45%) Aderant
8 2 (3.45%) F5
8 2 (3.45%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.72%) Splunk
9 1 (1.72%) Veeam