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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 43 191
Rank change year-on-year -33 +148 -44
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 2,786 4,802 3,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 5.95% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 6.24% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,220 1,585 2,516
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £75,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% -

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 -29 2,585 £50,000 -4.76% 252
UK excluding London -36 2,253 £48,500 +2.11% 231
Work from Home +49 927 £52,500 -2.39% 128
North of England -38 533 £48,378 +1.85% 66
South East -31 521 £50,000 +5.26% 51
London -23 460 £65,000 +1.17% 63
South West -9 444 £50,000 +5.26% 35
Midlands -42 400 £45,000 -9.21% 23
North West -39 281 £49,250 +3.68% 29
East of England -29 213 £45,000 -10.00% 19
West Midlands -47 205 £50,000 +1.46% 19
East Midlands -20 195 £45,000 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire -28 177 £47,500 +5.56% 31
Scotland -104 85 £45,000 -18.18% 24
North East -26 73 £46,000 -5.15% 8
Wales -5 54 £41,067 -3.37% 4
Northern Ireland -17 6 £60,000 +20.00% 15

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
1 257 (9.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 164 (5.89%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.58%) IIS
4 11 (0.39%) Confluence
5 9 (0.32%) CMS
6 6 (0.22%) WordPress
7 4 (0.14%) Apache
7 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.14%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.11%) nginx
8 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.036%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.036%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 78 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.29%) AutoCAD
3 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.14%) OrCAD
5 4 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.072%) Trello
8 1 (0.036%) CATIA
8 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.036%) NASTRAN
8 1 (0.036%) Notion
8 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.54%) Ripple
2 12 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.036%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.036%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.036%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.036%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.036%) Primavera
4 1 (0.036%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.036%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.036%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (36.90%) Azure
2 705 (25.31%) Microsoft 365
3 466 (16.73%) AWS
4 269 (9.66%) Entra ID
5 181 (6.50%) SaaS
6 139 (4.99%) IaaS
7 93 (3.34%) PaaS
8 90 (3.23%) GCP
9 64 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
10 56 (2.01%) Nutanix
11 52 (1.87%) OneDrive
12 45 (1.62%) Power Platform
13 38 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (1.15%) OpenShift
16 26 (0.93%) Mimecast
17 25 (0.90%) GitHub
18 23 (0.83%) Amazon S3
19 22 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
20 20 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 516 (18.52%) Firewall
2 362 (12.99%) DNS
3 293 (10.52%) WAN
4 251 (9.01%) DHCP
5 229 (8.22%) LAN
6 211 (7.57%) SAN
7 190 (6.82%) VPN
8 127 (4.56%) TCP/IP
9 115 (4.13%) VLAN
10 107 (3.84%) Wi-Fi
11 101 (3.63%) Network Security
12 91 (3.27%) SD-WAN
13 85 (3.05%) Internet
14 79 (2.84%) Wireless
15 69 (2.48%) NAS
16 64 (2.30%) HTTP
17 57 (2.05%) MPLS
18 51 (1.83%) iSCSI
19 49 (1.76%) VoIP
20 46 (1.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 89 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (1.08%) MySQL
4 29 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (0.54%) Power BI
7 14 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 13 (0.47%) Big Data
9 11 (0.39%) DB2
10 8 (0.29%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.25%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.22%) SQLite
13 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.14%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.14%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.14%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.14%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.072%) GIS
Development Applications
1 61 (2.19%) Git
2 54 (1.94%) GitLab
3 46 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.22%) JIRA
5 27 (0.97%) Artifactory
6 13 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.32%) Trac
8 7 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.14%) LabVIEW
11 3 (0.11%) Axure RP
12 2 (0.072%) Gradle
12 2 (0.072%) MSI
12 2 (0.072%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.036%) Maven
13 1 (0.036%) Metasploit
13 1 (0.036%) Rational DOORS
13 1 (0.036%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.036%) Visual Studio
General
1 444 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 342 (12.28%) Finance
3 125 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (4.20%) Public Sector
5 101 (3.63%) Law
6 96 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 82 (2.94%) Aerospace
8 81 (2.91%) Telecoms
9 79 (2.84%) Retail
10 78 (2.80%) Banking
11 74 (2.66%) Manufacturing
12 56 (2.01%) Games
13 44 (1.58%) Legal
14 31 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (1.11%) Electronics
14 31 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 27 (0.97%) Advertising
16 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (0.79%) Automotive
18 21 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 2,162 (77.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 493 (17.70%) Senior
3 412 (14.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 326 (11.70%) IT Engineer
5 267 (9.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 220 (7.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 182 (6.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 161 (5.78%) Support Engineer
9 153 (5.49%) Lead
10 152 (5.46%) Network Engineer
11 125 (4.49%) Infrastructure Support
12 121 (4.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 108 (3.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 106 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
15 92 (3.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 88 (3.16%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
16 88 (3.16%) Security Engineer
17 82 (2.94%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
18 81 (2.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
19 77 (2.76%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.90%) .NET
2 19 (0.68%) Kafka
3 16 (0.57%) LDAP
4 14 (0.50%) Web Services
5 13 (0.47%) JSON
5 13 (0.47%) REST
6 12 (0.43%) .NET Framework
6 12 (0.43%) RESTful
7 11 (0.39%) Node.js
7 11 (0.39%) XML
8 8 (0.29%) ARM Templates
9 7 (0.25%) React
9 7 (0.25%) YAML
10 6 (0.22%) Compass CSS Framework
10 6 (0.22%) JSON Schema
10 6 (0.22%) KML
10 6 (0.22%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.22%) web3js
10 6 (0.22%) XML Schema
11 5 (0.18%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 305 (10.95%) Data Centre
2 119 (4.27%) Public Cloud
3 81 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 74 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 68 (2.44%) PKI
6 60 (2.15%) Clustering
7 54 (1.94%) Cloud Native
8 49 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.58%) Driving Licence
10 39 (1.40%) Replication
11 34 (1.22%) IoT
12 29 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 28 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
14 26 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
15 24 (0.86%) Product Ownership
16 21 (0.75%) Blockchain
17 19 (0.68%) Cyberattack
18 18 (0.65%) Client/Server
18 18 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
19 17 (0.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1,117 (40.09%) Windows
2 635 (22.79%) Windows Server
3 585 (21.00%) Linux
4 151 (5.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 121 (4.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 112 (4.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 102 (3.66%) Windows 10
8 88 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 64 (2.30%) Ubuntu
10 43 (1.54%) VMS
11 33 (1.18%) CentOS
12 28 (1.01%) Unix
13 26 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
14 23 (0.83%) Android
15 19 (0.68%) Apple iOS
15 19 (0.68%) Debian
15 19 (0.68%) Windows 7
16 14 (0.50%) Mac OS
17 11 (0.39%) zOS
18 10 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (11.52%) ITIL
3 305 (10.95%) DevOps
4 256 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
5 193 (6.93%) Agile
6 187 (6.71%) Mentoring
7 185 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 176 (6.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 146 (5.24%) Customer Service
10 142 (5.10%) Change Management
11 140 (5.03%) CI/CD
12 133 (4.77%) Migration
13 121 (4.34%) Service Delivery
14 117 (4.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 112 (4.02%) Project Delivery
16 108 (3.88%) Information Security
17 103 (3.70%) Roadmaps
17 103 (3.70%) Service Management
18 100 (3.59%) Project Management
19 91 (3.27%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 479 (17.19%) PowerShell
2 217 (7.79%) Python
3 161 (5.78%) SQL
4 127 (4.56%) Bash
5 49 (1.76%) Java
6 37 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.22%) Ruby
8 29 (1.04%) Go
9 25 (0.90%) Perl
10 24 (0.86%) C#
11 16 (0.57%) ActionScript
11 16 (0.57%) C++
11 16 (0.57%) VB
12 14 (0.50%) Bicep
13 12 (0.43%) Korn
13 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.36%) VBScript
15 9 (0.32%) Swift
16 6 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 399 (14.32%) Security Cleared
2 227 (8.15%) DV Cleared
3 219 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 211 (7.57%) Degree
5 150 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
6 119 (4.27%) CCNA
7 104 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 83 (2.98%) Azure Certification
9 75 (2.69%) CCNP
10 46 (1.65%) MCSE
11 41 (1.47%) CISSP
12 34 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 28 (1.01%) AWS Certification
15 18 (0.65%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.65%) MCSA
16 16 (0.57%) CCIE
16 16 (0.57%) CEH
17 15 (0.54%) CISA
17 15 (0.54%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (4.74%) SLA
2 92 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 25 (0.90%) QA
5 22 (0.79%) GDPR
5 22 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 15 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 13 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (0.39%) Data Quality
10 10 (0.36%) NCSC
10 10 (0.36%) NIST
11 5 (0.18%) SOC 1
12 3 (0.11%) GRC
12 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.072%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.036%) COBIT
14 1 (0.036%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.036%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.036%) PMO
System Software
1 752 (26.99%) Active Directory
2 524 (18.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 349 (12.53%) Hyper-V
4 152 (5.46%) Docker
5 138 (4.95%) vSphere
6 121 (4.34%) VMware ESXi
7 84 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
8 52 (1.87%) XenApp
9 35 (1.26%) XenDesktop
10 34 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 30 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
12 24 (0.86%) Firmware
13 19 (0.68%) NFS
14 17 (0.61%) VMware NSX
15 16 (0.57%) OpenSSH
16 15 (0.54%) pfSense
17 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 7 (0.25%) KVM
18 7 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
19 4 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 251 (9.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 244 (8.76%) Ansible
3 222 (7.97%) Terraform
4 171 (6.14%) Kubernetes
5 144 (5.17%) SCCM
6 93 (3.34%) vCenter Server
7 80 (2.87%) Puppet
8 49 (1.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 48 (1.72%) WSUS
10 32 (1.15%) FortiGate
11 28 (1.01%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 28 (1.01%) SCOM
12 26 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
13 24 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
13 24 (0.86%) Nagios
14 22 (0.79%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
16 20 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
17 19 (0.68%) Grafana
17 19 (0.68%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 923 (33.13%) Microsoft
2 836 (30.01%) VMware
3 354 (12.71%) Cisco
4 181 (6.50%) Citrix
5 169 (6.07%) Veeam
6 110 (3.95%) Red Hat
7 94 (3.37%) HP
8 90 (3.23%) Dell
9 85 (3.05%) Meraki
10 84 (3.02%) Fortinet
11 65 (2.33%) Palo Alto
12 54 (1.94%) SolarWinds
13 50 (1.79%) Oracle
14 49 (1.76%) IBM
15 48 (1.72%) NetApp
16 47 (1.69%) Aruba
16 47 (1.69%) Google
17 41 (1.47%) ServiceNow
18 39 (1.40%) Juniper
19 37 (1.33%) EMC