Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 143 235
Rank change year-on-year +30 +92 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1,768 1,433 2,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.26% 2.37% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 2.47% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,175 1,067 1,816
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,846
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.48% +5.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £62,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,400 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

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 74,810 57,979 138,131
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.63% 95.77% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 39,846 41,905 78,856
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £44,615
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +6.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 October 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
England +25 1,670 £50,000 -4.76% 255
UK excluding London +29 1,364 £47,500 - 208
Work from Home +19 548 £52,500 +1.94% 180
South East +12 375 £48,500 +2.11% 65
London +6 373 £65,000 +4.00% 64
North of England +40 266 £45,000 - 39
South West +8 253 £47,500 - 31
Midlands -1 226 £48,500 -2.15% 48
East of England +39 167 £50,000 - 8
North West +37 159 £45,000 -5.26% 27
West Midlands -13 136 £50,000 +6.19% 32
East Midlands +1 90 £45,000 -18.18% 16
Yorkshire +15 78 £45,000 +9.76% 7
Scotland -2 54 £42,500 -18.27% 7
North East -19 28 £45,000 - 5
Wales +35 19 £45,000 +13.92% 1
Northern Ireland +12 4 £52,500 +10.53% 11

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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 featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1,742 (98.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 727 (41.12%) Windows
3 608 (34.39%) VMware
4 607 (34.33%) Azure
5 587 (33.20%) Microsoft
6 504 (28.51%) Active Directory
7 429 (24.26%) VMware Infrastructure
8 407 (23.02%) Linux
9 400 (22.62%) Microsoft 365
10 391 (22.12%) Windows Server
11 347 (19.63%) PowerShell
12 345 (19.51%) Firewall
13 282 (15.95%) AWS
14 281 (15.89%) Social Skills
15 250 (14.14%) Finance
16 246 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
17 243 (13.74%) DNS
18 234 (13.24%) Hyper-V
19 194 (10.97%) Security Cleared
20 181 (10.24%) Cisco
21 180 (10.18%) DevOps
22 166 (9.39%) Microsoft Exchange
23 165 (9.33%) WAN
24 164 (9.28%) Python
24 164 (9.28%) Data Centre
25 160 (9.05%) DHCP
26 156 (8.82%) Terraform
27 151 (8.54%) ITIL
28 149 (8.43%) Ansible
29 146 (8.26%) Entra ID

Infrastructure Engineer 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
1 166 (9.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.36%) IIS
4 18 (1.02%) Confluence
5 15 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.74%) CloudStack
7 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.17%) JBoss
8 3 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.057%) Apache
10 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.057%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.057%) Solana
10 1 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.79%) AutoCAD
3 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.85%) Ripple
2 9 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.057%) Academy Housing
3 1 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 607 (34.33%) Azure
2 400 (22.62%) Microsoft 365
3 282 (15.95%) AWS
4 146 (8.26%) Entra ID
5 104 (5.88%) SaaS
6 81 (4.58%) IaaS
7 74 (4.19%) GCP
8 60 (3.39%) PaaS
9 37 (2.09%) Nutanix
9 37 (2.09%) Power Platform
10 27 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (1.36%) Mimecast
13 23 (1.30%) OneDrive
14 22 (1.24%) PowerApps
15 21 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (0.90%) OpenShift
18 13 (0.74%) Serverless
19 12 (0.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 345 (19.51%) Firewall
2 243 (13.74%) DNS
3 165 (9.33%) WAN
4 160 (9.05%) DHCP
5 135 (7.64%) LAN
6 124 (7.01%) VPN
7 114 (6.45%) SAN
8 113 (6.39%) TCP/IP
9 84 (4.75%) VLAN
10 81 (4.58%) Network Security
11 53 (3.00%) Wireless
12 50 (2.83%) NAS
13 43 (2.43%) Remote Desktop
14 42 (2.38%) SD-WAN
15 40 (2.26%) VoIP
16 39 (2.21%) HTTP
16 39 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
17 38 (2.15%) Internet
18 31 (1.75%) 5G
19 30 (1.70%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 62 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (1.02%) Oracle Database
5 15 (0.85%) Power BI
6 10 (0.57%) MySQL
7 6 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.28%) Big Data
8 5 (0.28%) DB2
9 4 (0.23%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.23%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.11%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.11%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.057%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.057%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.057%) Informix
Development Applications
1 61 (3.45%) GitLab
2 34 (1.92%) JIRA
3 33 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.41%) Git
5 15 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.17%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.057%) Maven
9 1 (0.057%) Postman
9 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.057%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (15.89%) Social Skills
2 250 (14.14%) Finance
3 82 (4.64%) Banking
4 66 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (2.77%) Public Sector
6 49 (2.77%) Telecoms
7 47 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 44 (2.49%) Retail
9 40 (2.26%) Law
10 32 (1.81%) Games
10 32 (1.81%) Legal
11 31 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
12 26 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.85%) Back Office
14 15 (0.85%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.62%) Advertising
16 9 (0.51%) Automotive
16 9 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (0.96%) Web Services
2 15 (0.85%) Middleware
3 14 (0.79%) REST
4 13 (0.74%) .NET
4 13 (0.74%) LDAP
5 10 (0.57%) YAML
6 6 (0.34%) .NET Framework
6 6 (0.34%) Kafka
6 6 (0.34%) RESTful
7 5 (0.28%) ASP.NET
7 5 (0.28%) JSON
8 4 (0.23%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.17%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.17%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (0.17%) Django
9 3 (0.17%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.17%) SAML
9 3 (0.17%) XMPP
10 2 (0.11%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.11%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.28%) Data Centre
2 73 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (3.28%) Clustering
4 38 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 36 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 36 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 29 (1.64%) Driving Licence
7 29 (1.64%) IoT
8 27 (1.53%) Replication
9 23 (1.30%) PKI
10 18 (1.02%) CCTV
11 17 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (0.90%) Blockchain
13 15 (0.85%) Product Ownership
14 14 (0.79%) Cyberattack
15 12 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (0.62%) Private Cloud
17 10 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
17 10 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 727 (41.12%) Windows
2 407 (23.02%) Linux
3 391 (22.12%) Windows Server
4 84 (4.75%) Windows 10
5 71 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 66 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 59 (3.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 55 (3.11%) Ubuntu
9 46 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 42 (2.38%) CentOS
11 18 (1.02%) Debian
11 18 (1.02%) VMS
12 16 (0.90%) Windows 7
13 12 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
14 11 (0.62%) Android
14 11 (0.62%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.45%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.45%) Unix
16 5 (0.28%) Rocky
17 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,742 (98.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 246 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
3 180 (10.18%) DevOps
4 151 (8.54%) ITIL
5 131 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
6 116 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 114 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 102 (5.77%) CI/CD
9 98 (5.54%) Agile
10 97 (5.49%) Mentoring
11 96 (5.43%) Migration
12 91 (5.15%) High Availability
13 89 (5.03%) Information Security
14 85 (4.81%) Change Management
15 77 (4.36%) Project Delivery
16 67 (3.79%) Task Automation
17 63 (3.56%) Incident Management
17 63 (3.56%) Project Management
17 63 (3.56%) Service Delivery
18 59 (3.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 347 (19.63%) PowerShell
2 164 (9.28%) Python
3 101 (5.71%) SQL
4 95 (5.37%) Bash
5 32 (1.81%) Ruby
6 23 (1.30%) Java
7 22 (1.24%) Perl
8 20 (1.13%) Go
9 17 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 16 (0.90%) C++
10 16 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.74%) Korn
12 9 (0.51%) Bicep
13 8 (0.45%) ActionScript
13 8 (0.45%) C#
13 8 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.45%) VB
14 5 (0.28%) VBScript
15 3 (0.17%) C
16 2 (0.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 194 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 109 (6.17%) DV Cleared
3 105 (5.94%) Degree
4 100 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
4 100 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 93 (5.26%) CCNA
6 84 (4.75%) SC Cleared
7 65 (3.68%) Azure Certification
8 44 (2.49%) CCNP
9 31 (1.75%) MCSE
10 25 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.30%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 20 (1.13%) CISSP
14 17 (0.96%) MCSA
15 16 (0.90%) CEH
15 16 (0.90%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.85%) CISA
16 15 (0.85%) CRISC
17 12 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (2.94%) SLA
3 38 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (1.24%) NIST
5 17 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 15 (0.85%) GDPR
7 9 (0.51%) QA
8 8 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (0.34%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.11%) NCSC
13 1 (0.057%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.057%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.057%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 504 (28.51%) Active Directory
2 429 (24.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 234 (13.24%) Hyper-V
4 102 (5.77%) Docker
5 92 (5.20%) VMware ESXi
6 91 (5.15%) vSphere
7 51 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
8 41 (2.32%) XenApp
9 38 (2.15%) XenDesktop
10 34 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
11 29 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
12 27 (1.53%) VMware NSX
13 21 (1.19%) Firmware
13 21 (1.19%) pfSense
14 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 15 (0.85%) VMware Server
15 10 (0.57%) NFS
16 8 (0.45%) OpenSSH
17 5 (0.28%) FreeRADIUS
17 5 (0.28%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 156 (8.82%) Terraform
2 149 (8.43%) Ansible
3 130 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 107 (6.05%) Kubernetes
5 82 (4.64%) SCCM
6 74 (4.19%) Puppet
7 63 (3.56%) vCenter Server
8 31 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 31 (1.75%) Nagios
8 31 (1.75%) WSUS
9 23 (1.30%) Grafana
9 23 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.24%) FortiGate
11 21 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
12 15 (0.85%) Prometheus
13 13 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
15 11 (0.62%) Argo
15 11 (0.62%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 608 (34.39%) VMware
2 587 (33.20%) Microsoft
3 181 (10.24%) Cisco
4 119 (6.73%) Citrix
5 109 (6.17%) Veeam
6 104 (5.88%) Red Hat
7 58 (3.28%) HP
8 53 (3.00%) Dell
9 48 (2.71%) Meraki
10 44 (2.49%) Palo Alto
11 38 (2.15%) Fortinet
12 37 (2.09%) SolarWinds
13 35 (1.98%) Google
14 34 (1.92%) NetApp
15 31 (1.75%) Oracle
16 26 (1.47%) Aruba
17 22 (1.24%) CheckPoint
17 22 (1.24%) Juniper
17 22 (1.24%) ServiceNow
18 21 (1.19%) IBM