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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 84 55
Rank change year-on-year -81 -29 +137
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1,087 3,183 5,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.98% 3.10% 5.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.68% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 637 2,677 1,725
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 £72,500 £90,000
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 51,417 86,448 93,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.74% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,323 60,550 54,986
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 £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 29 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 29 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 -84 1,035 £57,500 +15.00% 685
UK excluding London -87 805 £50,000 +5.26% 507
Work from Home -41 542 £60,000 +20.00% 307
North of England -33 436 £52,000 +13.04% 158
North West -2 376 £50,000 +3.09% 99
London -8 271 £75,000 +15.38% 214
South East -109 144 £45,000 -10.00% 92
Midlands -103 92 £45,074 +0.16% 80
West Midlands -46 65 £45,000 - 44
Yorkshire -74 49 £60,000 +33.33% 38
East of England -77 48 £55,320 +22.93% 51
South West -99 44 £57,194 +14.39% 82
Scotland +60 27 £52,500 +16.67% 30
East Midlands -89 27 £46,750 +3.89% 36
North East -25 11 £52,000 +17.45% 22
Wales -3 10 £48,073 +17.06% 13
Northern Ireland +43 5 £53,750 -10.42% 9

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
1 169 (15.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.76%) IIS
4 8 (0.74%) Confluence
5 7 (0.64%) Apache
5 7 (0.64%) nginx
6 4 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.18%) CICS
8 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.092%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.092%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.092%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (2.12%) AutoCAD
1 23 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.28%) Simulink
4 2 (0.18%) 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 (0.18%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.092%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 402 (36.98%) Azure
2 221 (20.33%) Microsoft 365
3 138 (12.70%) AWS
4 99 (9.11%) Entra ID
5 62 (5.70%) SaaS
6 43 (3.96%) GCP
7 42 (3.86%) IaaS
8 37 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (3.31%) Power Platform
10 30 (2.76%) PaaS
11 24 (2.21%) OneDrive
12 23 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (1.93%) GitHub
14 19 (1.75%) Azure AKS
14 19 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.75%) Serverless
15 18 (1.66%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 353 (32.47%) VPN
2 269 (24.75%) Cisco IOS
3 205 (18.86%) Firewall
4 130 (11.96%) DNS
5 107 (9.84%) DHCP
6 100 (9.20%) WAN
7 86 (7.91%) LAN
8 71 (6.53%) Network Security
9 61 (5.61%) SAN
10 52 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (4.14%) TCP/IP
12 44 (4.05%) SD-WAN
13 40 (3.68%) VLAN
14 38 (3.50%) NAS
15 23 (2.12%) Wireless
16 19 (1.75%) BGP
16 19 (1.75%) SMTP
17 18 (1.66%) OSPF
18 13 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
18 13 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (8.28%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.93%) Data Hub
2 21 (1.93%) SQL CLR
3 19 (1.75%) Power BI
4 17 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (1.10%) Metadata
8 9 (0.83%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.55%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.37%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.18%) DB2
13 2 (0.18%) MySQL
13 2 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 19 (1.75%) JIRA
3 16 (1.47%) Git
4 9 (0.83%) GitLab
5 6 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.55%) Vagrant
6 4 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.28%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.092%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.092%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.092%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.092%) Selenium
9 1 (0.092%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.092%) Subversion
General
1 321 (29.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 301 (27.69%) Analytical Skills
3 234 (21.53%) Social Skills
4 183 (16.84%) Finance
5 46 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.05%) Legal
7 33 (3.04%) Banking
8 27 (2.48%) Local Government
9 25 (2.30%) Back Office
10 22 (2.02%) Law
11 15 (1.38%) Retail
12 14 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.20%) Games
13 13 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.10%) Electronics
14 12 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 853 (78.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 125 (11.50%) Senior
3 115 (10.58%) Support Engineer
4 102 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 99 (9.11%) Infrastructure Support
6 95 (8.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 94 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
8 93 (8.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 76 (6.99%) IT Engineer
10 75 (6.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 72 (6.62%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 72 (6.62%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 57 (5.24%) Lead
13 46 (4.23%) Civil Engineer
13 46 (4.23%) Network Engineer
14 39 (3.59%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 35 (3.22%) Security Engineer
16 32 (2.94%) IT Support
16 32 (2.94%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (24.38%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (2.48%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.29%) .NET
4 13 (1.20%) Middleware
5 12 (1.10%) OLE
6 11 (1.01%) SAML
7 10 (0.92%) .NET Core
7 10 (0.92%) .NET Framework
8 9 (0.83%) Dapper ORM
8 9 (0.83%) Entity Framework
9 5 (0.46%) 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
12 2 (0.18%) REST
12 2 (0.18%) XML
13 1 (0.092%) EDI
13 1 (0.092%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 262 (24.10%) Cyberattack
2 83 (7.64%) Data Centre
3 38 (3.50%) Clustering
4 34 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.04%) Private Cloud
6 26 (2.39%) Public Cloud
7 25 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.84%) PKI
9 19 (1.75%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.47%) NHS
11 15 (1.38%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (1.20%) Hedge funds
14 12 (1.10%) Driving Licence
14 12 (1.10%) IoT
15 11 (1.01%) NB-IoT
16 10 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 645 (59.34%) Windows
2 421 (38.73%) Linux
3 270 (24.84%) Android
4 249 (22.91%) Windows Server
5 44 (4.05%) Windows 10
6 38 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (1.47%) Ubuntu
9 16 (1.47%) Unix
10 15 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (1.20%) VMS
12 9 (0.83%) AIX
12 9 (0.83%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.83%) Debian
13 7 (0.64%) CentOS
13 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (39.83%) Problem-Solving
2 415 (38.18%) DevOps
3 289 (26.59%) Platform Engineering
3 289 (26.59%) Task Automation
4 283 (26.03%) Risk Management
5 276 (25.39%) Line Management
6 269 (24.75%) Storage Management
7 266 (24.47%) Mathematics
8 115 (10.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 104 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 100 (9.20%) High Availability
11 90 (8.28%) ITIL
12 86 (7.91%) Mentoring
13 83 (7.64%) CI/CD
14 79 (7.27%) Agile
15 76 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 75 (6.90%) Migration
17 68 (6.26%) Cloud Security
18 60 (5.52%) Project Management
19 57 (5.24%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 480 (44.16%) PowerShell
2 356 (32.75%) Python
3 294 (27.05%) Bash
4 85 (7.82%) SQL
5 16 (1.47%) T-SQL
6 14 (1.29%) C#
6 14 (1.29%) Java
7 6 (0.55%) Groovy
8 5 (0.46%) Perl
8 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.37%) Go
10 3 (0.28%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.28%) Ruby
11 2 (0.18%) Bicep
12 1 (0.092%) C++
12 1 (0.092%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.092%) JCL
12 1 (0.092%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.092%) VBA
Qualifications
1 123 (11.32%) Degree
2 104 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 68 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 66 (6.07%) Azure Certification
5 59 (5.43%) DV Cleared
6 55 (5.06%) SC Cleared
7 44 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (3.13%) CCNA
9 30 (2.76%) CCNP
10 27 (2.48%) MCSA
11 19 (1.75%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.75%) MCSE
12 18 (1.66%) A+ Certification
13 16 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.47%) MCP
13 16 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 15 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
15 13 (1.20%) HND
16 12 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (2.02%) GDPR
3 21 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.66%) NIST
5 17 (1.56%) SLA
6 16 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.74%) QA
7 8 (0.74%) SOC 2
8 7 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.37%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.18%) NCSC
11 1 (0.092%) COBIT
11 1 (0.092%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.092%) GRC
System Software
1 351 (32.29%) Hyper-V
2 317 (29.16%) Docker
3 308 (28.33%) vSphere
4 278 (25.57%) Active Directory
5 274 (25.21%) VMware NSX
6 177 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 51 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
8 46 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
9 21 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (1.10%) Firmware
11 9 (0.83%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.74%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.46%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.37%) NFS
14 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.37%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.28%) XenApp
16 2 (0.18%) Dovecot
16 2 (0.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 408 (37.53%) Terraform
2 359 (33.03%) Ansible
3 101 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 94 (8.65%) Kubernetes
5 59 (5.43%) SCCM
6 28 (2.58%) Puppet
6 28 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (2.30%) vCenter Server
8 21 (1.93%) Failover Clustering
9 18 (1.66%) Progress Chef
10 15 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 15 (1.38%) Grafana
11 14 (1.29%) Prometheus
12 13 (1.20%) SCOM
13 10 (0.92%) WSUS
14 9 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.83%) Nessus
15 8 (0.74%) vMotion
16 7 (0.64%) Istio
17 6 (0.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 404 (37.17%) Cisco
2 364 (33.49%) Microsoft
3 279 (25.67%) Juniper
4 272 (25.02%) Splunk
5 262 (24.10%) 3PAR
6 251 (23.09%) VMware
7 66 (6.07%) Citrix
8 55 (5.06%) Meraki
9 39 (3.59%) Veeam
10 36 (3.31%) Google
11 32 (2.94%) Palo Alto
12 25 (2.30%) Fortinet
13 22 (2.02%) ServiceNow
14 21 (1.93%) Dell
14 21 (1.93%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.75%) SolarWinds
16 16 (1.47%) CheckPoint
17 15 (1.38%) HP
17 15 (1.38%) NetApp
18 12 (1.10%) Oracle