Infrastructure Engineering Jobs

Infrastructure Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 85 56
Rank change year-on-year -79 -29 +141
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,081 3,140 5,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.98% 3.08% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.65% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 635 2,655 1,738
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,886 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,433 £89,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +7.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 85,992 93,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 84.40% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,076 60,364 55,438
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 -74 1,029 £57,500 +15.00% 1,585
UK excluding London -88 803 £50,000 +5.26% 1,423
Work from Home -39 542 £60,000 +20.00% 847
North of England -32 437 £52,000 +13.04% 335
North West -8 376 £50,000 +5.26% 192
London -11 267 £75,000 +15.38% 356
South East -113 144 £45,000 -10.00% 414
Midlands -104 88 £45,147 +0.33% 230
West Midlands -41 62 £45,000 - 120
Yorkshire -69 50 £61,250 +36.11% 105
East of England -73 48 £55,320 +22.93% 176
South West -90 45 £57,347 +14.69% 192
Scotland +47 26 £52,500 +15.38% 79
East Midlands -83 26 £47,500 +5.56% 96
Wales -1 11 £49,735 +21.11% 34
North East -22 11 £52,000 +17.45% 43
Northern Ireland +41 5 £53,750 -10.42% 19

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (15.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (5.09%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.78%) IIS
4 7 (0.65%) Apache
4 7 (0.65%) Confluence
4 7 (0.65%) nginx
5 4 (0.37%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.19%) CICS
7 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.093%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.093%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.093%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.13%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.28%) Simulink
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Elite 3E
2 4 (0.37%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.37%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.28%) Primavera
4 2 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.093%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.093%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 397 (36.73%) Azure
2 218 (20.17%) Microsoft 365
3 136 (12.58%) AWS
4 96 (8.88%) Entra ID
5 61 (5.64%) SaaS
6 42 (3.89%) GCP
7 41 (3.79%) IaaS
8 38 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (3.24%) Power Platform
10 30 (2.78%) PaaS
11 24 (2.22%) OneDrive
12 22 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (1.94%) GitHub
14 20 (1.85%) Azure AKS
15 19 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (1.76%) Serverless
16 18 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.67%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 353 (32.65%) VPN
2 267 (24.70%) Cisco IOS
3 204 (18.87%) Firewall
4 133 (12.30%) DNS
5 110 (10.18%) DHCP
6 97 (8.97%) WAN
7 82 (7.59%) LAN
8 70 (6.48%) Network Security
9 58 (5.37%) SAN
10 52 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
11 43 (3.98%) SD-WAN
12 42 (3.89%) TCP/IP
13 40 (3.70%) VLAN
14 37 (3.42%) NAS
15 21 (1.94%) Wireless
16 20 (1.85%) SMTP
17 17 (1.57%) BGP
18 16 (1.48%) OSPF
19 13 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
20 12 (1.11%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (7.96%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.85%) Data Hub
2 20 (1.85%) SQL CLR
3 18 (1.67%) Power BI
4 14 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (1.02%) Metadata
6 11 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 9 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.37%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.19%) Big Data
12 2 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.19%) DB2
12 2 (0.19%) MySQL
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (3.05%) Jenkins
2 17 (1.57%) JIRA
3 14 (1.30%) Git
4 9 (0.83%) GitLab
5 6 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.46%) Vagrant
7 4 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.28%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.093%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.093%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.093%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.093%) Selenium
10 1 (0.093%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.093%) Subversion
General
1 322 (29.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 302 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
3 231 (21.37%) Social Skills
4 182 (16.84%) Finance
5 45 (4.16%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.07%) Legal
7 35 (3.24%) Banking
8 28 (2.59%) Local Government
9 24 (2.22%) Back Office
10 21 (1.94%) Law
11 15 (1.39%) Retail
12 14 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.20%) Games
13 13 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.11%) Electronics
15 11 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.56%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 846 (78.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 120 (11.10%) Senior
3 110 (10.18%) Support Engineer
4 101 (9.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 94 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
6 93 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
7 91 (8.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 88 (8.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 73 (6.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 72 (6.66%) IT Engineer
11 71 (6.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 68 (6.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 55 (5.09%) Lead
14 46 (4.26%) Civil Engineer
15 44 (4.07%) Network Engineer
16 39 (3.61%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
17 36 (3.33%) Security Engineer
18 31 (2.87%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
19 30 (2.78%) IT Support
20 28 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (24.51%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.30%) .NET
4 12 (1.11%) OLE
5 11 (1.02%) Middleware
5 11 (1.02%) SAML
6 10 (0.93%) .NET Core
6 10 (0.93%) .NET Framework
7 9 (0.83%) Dapper ORM
7 9 (0.83%) Entity Framework
8 6 (0.56%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.46%) Web Services
9 5 (0.46%) YAML
10 4 (0.37%) JSON
11 3 (0.28%) Node.js
11 3 (0.28%) OAuth
11 3 (0.28%) REST
12 2 (0.19%) XML
13 1 (0.093%) ADO
13 1 (0.093%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 262 (24.24%) Cyberattack
2 82 (7.59%) Data Centre
3 38 (3.52%) Clustering
4 34 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.87%) Private Cloud
6 27 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 25 (2.31%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.85%) PKI
9 19 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.48%) NHS
11 15 (1.39%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (1.20%) Hedge funds
14 12 (1.11%) Driving Licence
14 12 (1.11%) IoT
15 11 (1.02%) NB-IoT
16 10 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 646 (59.76%) Windows
2 421 (38.95%) Linux
3 270 (24.98%) Android
4 249 (23.03%) Windows Server
5 44 (4.07%) Windows 10
6 38 (3.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (1.48%) Ubuntu
9 15 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (1.30%) Unix
11 12 (1.11%) VMS
12 9 (0.83%) AIX
12 9 (0.83%) Debian
13 8 (0.74%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.65%) CentOS
15 6 (0.56%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.19%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (39.87%) Problem-Solving
2 411 (38.02%) DevOps
3 291 (26.92%) Platform Engineering
4 288 (26.64%) Task Automation
5 283 (26.18%) Risk Management
6 276 (25.53%) Line Management
7 268 (24.79%) Storage Management
8 266 (24.61%) Mathematics
9 116 (10.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 103 (9.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 98 (9.07%) High Availability
12 89 (8.23%) ITIL
13 86 (7.96%) Mentoring
14 81 (7.49%) CI/CD
15 77 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 76 (7.03%) Agile
17 73 (6.75%) Migration
18 66 (6.11%) Cloud Security
19 60 (5.55%) Project Management
20 59 (5.46%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 478 (44.22%) PowerShell
2 356 (32.93%) Python
3 294 (27.20%) Bash
4 83 (7.68%) SQL
5 15 (1.39%) T-SQL
6 14 (1.30%) C#
6 14 (1.30%) Java
7 5 (0.46%) Groovy
7 5 (0.46%) Perl
7 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.37%) Go
9 3 (0.28%) Bicep
9 3 (0.28%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.28%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.28%) Ruby
10 1 (0.093%) C++
10 1 (0.093%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.093%) JCL
10 1 (0.093%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.093%) VBA
Qualifications
1 123 (11.38%) Degree
2 105 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 66 (6.11%) Azure Certification
3 66 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 61 (5.64%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.09%) SC Cleared
6 42 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (2.96%) CCNA
8 29 (2.68%) CCNP
9 26 (2.41%) MCSA
10 19 (1.76%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.67%) MCSE
12 17 (1.57%) A+ Certification
13 16 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 15 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (1.39%) MCP
15 14 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.11%) HND
17 11 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (1.94%) Accessibility
2 21 (1.94%) GDPR
3 17 (1.57%) NIST
3 17 (1.57%) SLA
4 15 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 8 (0.74%) QA
5 8 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 6 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.37%) JSP 440
7 4 (0.37%) NIST 800
7 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.19%) NCSC
9 1 (0.093%) COBIT
9 1 (0.093%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.093%) GRC
System Software
1 351 (32.47%) Hyper-V
2 319 (29.51%) Docker
3 306 (28.31%) vSphere
4 276 (25.53%) Active Directory
5 274 (25.35%) VMware NSX
6 179 (16.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 53 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
8 47 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (1.11%) Firmware
11 9 (0.83%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.74%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.46%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.37%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.28%) NFS
16 2 (0.19%) Dovecot
16 2 (0.19%) Postfix
16 2 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 405 (37.47%) Terraform
2 357 (33.02%) Ansible
3 98 (9.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 92 (8.51%) Kubernetes
5 57 (5.27%) SCCM
6 28 (2.59%) Puppet
7 26 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (2.41%) vCenter Server
8 20 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
9 18 (1.67%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 14 (1.30%) Grafana
12 13 (1.20%) Prometheus
12 13 (1.20%) SCOM
13 11 (1.02%) WSUS
14 9 (0.83%) Nessus
15 8 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.74%) vMotion
16 7 (0.65%) Istio
17 6 (0.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 401 (37.10%) Cisco
2 361 (33.40%) Microsoft
3 278 (25.72%) Juniper
4 272 (25.16%) Splunk
5 262 (24.24%) 3PAR
6 254 (23.50%) VMware
7 67 (6.20%) Citrix
8 52 (4.81%) Meraki
9 37 (3.42%) Veeam
10 35 (3.24%) Google
11 33 (3.05%) Palo Alto
12 25 (2.31%) Fortinet
13 22 (2.04%) Dell
14 21 (1.94%) ServiceNow
15 20 (1.85%) Red Hat
16 19 (1.76%) SolarWinds
17 16 (1.48%) CheckPoint
18 15 (1.39%) HP
18 15 (1.39%) NetApp
19 11 (1.02%) Oracle