Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends

Infrastructure Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 117 76
Rank change year-on-year +39 -41 -41
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 2,351 1,293 2,523
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.59% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.91% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,828 764 1,975
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -

All Process & 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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Top 18 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 15 August 2026. 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 +37 2,117 £57,500 -4.17% 1,017
UK excluding London +42 1,810 £55,000 +4.76% 552
Work from Home +2 639 £60,000 - 355
North of England -9 480 £50,000 -9.09% 116
London +34 437 £75,000 +3.45% 557
South East +94 432 £60,000 +33.33% 143
South West +55 365 £55,000 -3.84% 95
North West -17 264 £50,000 -3.85% 63
Midlands +22 241 £50,000 +0.40% 55
Yorkshire +38 154 £51,500 -20.77% 30
East of England +23 153 £55,000 -8.33% 76
West Midlands -10 121 £53,688 - 37
East Midlands +40 120 £47,500 +35.71% 18
Wales +2 92 £45,000 -35.71% 11
North East -19 62 £46,250 -12.74% 25
Scotland +3 38 £50,000 -4.76% 60
Northern Ireland -73 6 £41,000 -31.67% 13
Channel Islands +6 3 £75,000 +15.38%

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 171 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 141 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 21 (0.89%) Confluence
3 21 (0.89%) IIS
4 13 (0.55%) Apache
5 9 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.34%) nginx
7 4 (0.17%) PowerFactory
8 2 (0.085%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.043%) Drupal
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.043%) SAS
9 1 (0.043%) Site Server
9 1 (0.043%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.40%) AutoCAD
3 23 (0.98%) Civil 3D
4 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.17%) Revit
6 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.085%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.085%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.085%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.043%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.043%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.043%) Eikon
3 1 (0.043%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 791 (33.65%) Azure
2 456 (19.40%) Microsoft 365
3 411 (17.48%) AWS
4 283 (12.04%) Entra ID
5 118 (5.02%) SaaS
6 78 (3.32%) IaaS
7 77 (3.28%) GCP
8 67 (2.85%) PaaS
9 57 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (2.13%) Serverless
12 49 (2.08%) GitHub
13 43 (1.83%) Mimecast
14 42 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
16 38 (1.62%) Datadog
17 37 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
18 36 (1.53%) OneDrive
19 35 (1.49%) Nutanix
20 33 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 365 (15.53%) Firewall
2 281 (11.95%) DNS
3 229 (9.74%) DHCP
4 202 (8.59%) VPN
5 142 (6.04%) WAN
6 127 (5.40%) LAN
7 116 (4.93%) TCP/IP
8 105 (4.47%) VLAN
9 95 (4.04%) Network Security
10 83 (3.53%) SAN
11 68 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
12 56 (2.38%) Wireless
13 35 (1.49%) VoIP
14 29 (1.23%) BGP
15 27 (1.15%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.89%) WLAN
17 17 (0.72%) NAS
17 17 (0.72%) SSL
18 15 (0.64%) OSPF
19 14 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 34 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 16 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (0.51%) MySQL
6 8 (0.34%) BigQuery
6 8 (0.34%) InfluxDB
6 8 (0.34%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.30%) Tableau
8 6 (0.26%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.21%) Big Data
9 5 (0.21%) Power BI
10 4 (0.17%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.17%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.13%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.085%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.085%) KNIME
12 2 (0.085%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 55 (2.34%) JIRA
2 54 (2.30%) Git
3 49 (2.08%) GitLab
4 39 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.94%) Claude Code
6 16 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.38%) Chocolatey
9 7 (0.30%) JMeter
9 7 (0.30%) Robot Framework
9 7 (0.30%) Selenium
9 7 (0.30%) TestRail
10 6 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.21%) Locust
12 2 (0.085%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.085%) MLflow
12 2 (0.085%) Snyk
12 2 (0.085%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.085%) Subversion
General
1 318 (13.53%) Social Skills
2 225 (9.57%) Finance
3 109 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 82 (3.49%) Legal
7 59 (2.51%) Retail
8 55 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 55 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 51 (2.17%) Banking
10 50 (2.13%) Law
11 32 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 31 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (0.98%) Marketing
15 20 (0.85%) Local Government
15 20 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.43%) Automotive
17 8 (0.34%) Advertising
18 7 (0.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,585 (67.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 525 (22.33%) Senior
3 408 (17.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 270 (11.48%) IT Engineer
5 203 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 184 (7.83%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 170 (7.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 153 (6.51%) Support Engineer
9 147 (6.25%) Network Engineer
10 122 (5.19%) Lead
11 113 (4.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
12 103 (4.38%) IT Support
13 96 (4.08%) IT Support Engineer
14 91 (3.87%) Infrastructure Support
15 82 (3.49%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 80 (3.40%) Security Engineer
17 79 (3.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
18 77 (3.28%) Architect
19 70 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (0.94%) LangChain
2 22 (0.94%) LangGraph
3 19 (0.81%) AWS CDK
4 15 (0.64%) SAML
5 13 (0.55%) .NET
5 13 (0.55%) Node.js
6 12 (0.51%) ARM Templates
7 11 (0.47%) HTML
8 10 (0.43%) ModSecurity
9 9 (0.38%) OpenID
9 9 (0.38%) REST
9 9 (0.38%) YAML
10 8 (0.34%) CSS
10 8 (0.34%) Kafka
10 8 (0.34%) OAuth
11 7 (0.30%) Apache NiFi
11 7 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.30%) Playwright
11 7 (0.30%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 154 (6.55%) Data Centre
2 112 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 106 (4.51%) Onboarding
4 102 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 87 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 60 (2.55%) Replication
7 41 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 40 (1.70%) PKI
9 39 (1.66%) Enterprise Storage
10 34 (1.45%) iSeries
10 34 (1.45%) Security Posture
11 33 (1.40%) CCTV
12 27 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 21 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (0.89%) Public Cloud
15 19 (0.81%) Clustering
15 19 (0.81%) Product Ownership
16 18 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 586 (24.93%) Windows
2 373 (15.87%) Windows Server
3 351 (14.93%) Linux
4 32 (1.36%) Ubuntu
5 28 (1.19%) VMS
6 26 (1.11%) Windows 10
7 24 (1.02%) Unix
8 22 (0.94%) Mac OS
9 21 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 20 (0.85%) CentOS
10 20 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.47%) Debian
12 8 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.30%) Android
14 6 (0.26%) Rocky
15 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.13%) Windows 7
17 2 (0.085%) Solaris
18 1 (0.043%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (13.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 284 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
3 266 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 248 (10.55%) CI/CD
5 247 (10.51%) DevOps
6 230 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 209 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
8 196 (8.34%) ITIL
9 169 (7.19%) Project Delivery
10 167 (7.10%) Migration
11 158 (6.72%) Platform Engineering
12 153 (6.51%) Mentoring
13 146 (6.21%) AI
13 146 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
14 139 (5.91%) Agile
15 130 (5.53%) Containerisation
16 127 (5.40%) Roadmaps
17 124 (5.27%) High Availability
18 118 (5.02%) Observability
19 105 (4.47%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 295 (12.55%) PowerShell
2 226 (9.61%) Python
3 131 (5.57%) Bash
4 91 (3.87%) SQL
5 69 (2.93%) Java
6 53 (2.25%) Bicep
7 31 (1.32%) R
8 25 (1.06%) Go
8 25 (1.06%) JavaScript
9 18 (0.77%) C#
10 17 (0.72%) PHP
11 15 (0.64%) Ruby
12 14 (0.60%) C++
12 14 (0.60%) Perl
13 12 (0.51%) TypeScript
14 9 (0.38%) Rust
15 7 (0.30%) VBScript
16 6 (0.26%) Scala
17 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 345 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 191 (8.12%) SC Cleared
3 149 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 122 (5.19%) Degree
5 91 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
6 81 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 76 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 60 (2.55%) CCNA
9 52 (2.21%) CCNP
10 48 (2.04%) AWS Certification
11 33 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 21 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
15 16 (0.68%) MCSE
16 15 (0.64%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.51%) CCIE
17 12 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
18 11 (0.47%) CISSP
19 10 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (2.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 39 (1.66%) SLA
4 38 (1.62%) GDPR
5 33 (1.40%) QA
6 32 (1.36%) NIST
7 16 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 15 (0.64%) GRC
9 10 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.30%) PERC
11 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.21%) NCSC
12 5 (0.21%) WCAG
13 4 (0.17%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.13%) COBIT
15 2 (0.085%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.085%) RMADS
System Software
1 449 (19.10%) Active Directory
2 305 (12.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 192 (8.17%) Hyper-V
4 139 (5.91%) Docker
5 89 (3.79%) vSphere
6 37 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 36 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
8 32 (1.36%) VMware NSX
9 31 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 29 (1.23%) Firmware
11 14 (0.60%) VMware Server
12 13 (0.55%) KVM
12 13 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.34%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.34%) Squid
14 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.13%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.085%) NDS
17 2 (0.085%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 301 (12.80%) Terraform
2 213 (9.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 202 (8.59%) Kubernetes
4 161 (6.85%) Ansible
5 57 (2.42%) Grafana
6 40 (1.70%) SCCM
7 39 (1.66%) vCenter Server
8 35 (1.49%) Puppet
9 33 (1.40%) Prometheus
10 25 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.02%) ZABBIX
12 16 (0.68%) Argo
12 16 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 14 (0.60%) Proxmox
14 13 (0.55%) VxRail
15 11 (0.47%) Nessus
15 11 (0.47%) Packer
16 10 (0.43%) WSUS
17 8 (0.34%) Graylog
18 7 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 703 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 414 (17.61%) VMware
3 138 (5.87%) Cisco
4 94 (4.00%) Veeam
5 51 (2.17%) Oracle
6 43 (1.83%) Fortinet
7 42 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 40 (1.70%) Meraki
9 39 (1.66%) IBM
10 36 (1.53%) HP
10 36 (1.53%) Splunk
11 33 (1.40%) Citrix
12 31 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (1.15%) Dell
14 26 (1.11%) Palo Alto
15 25 (1.06%) Commvault
16 24 (1.02%) Google
17 22 (0.94%) Databricks
17 22 (0.94%) NetApp
18 19 (0.81%) Dynatrace