Infrastructure Operations Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 864 941
Rank change year-on-year +195 +77 +261
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Operations Engineer 18 50 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.051% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.054% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 12 36 21
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -10.53% +6.45%
75th Percentile £75,625 £51,049 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -15.79% +6.45%

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 47,606 93,229 94,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,326 66,845 59,589
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Operations Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Operations Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +166 18 £60,000 +30.43% 7
London +106 12 £75,000 +46.50% 3
UK excluding London +182 6 £35,000 -12.50% 3
Work from Home +161 6 £75,000 +76.47% 2
South West +114 3 £50,000 -
West Midlands +54 2 £35,000 -17.65%
Midlands +52 2 £35,000 -12.50% 2
North of England +70 1 - - 1
North West +19 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Infrastructure Operations 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 Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Firewall
3 7 (38.89%) CheckPoint
3 7 (38.89%) LAN
3 7 (38.89%) WAN
3 7 (38.89%) VPN
3 7 (38.89%) Fortinet
3 7 (38.89%) AWS
4 6 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 6 (33.33%) Meraki
4 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
4 6 (33.33%) Change Management
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco
4 6 (33.33%) WLAN
4 6 (33.33%) OSPF
5 5 (27.78%) BGP
5 5 (27.78%) MPLS
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
5 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
5 5 (27.78%) IPsec
5 5 (27.78%) Firmware
5 5 (27.78%) NX-OS
5 5 (27.78%) Dynatrace
5 5 (27.78%) VXLAN
5 5 (27.78%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (27.78%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (27.78%) AWS Direct Connect

Infrastructure Operations 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (11.11%) Datadog
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) LAN
2 7 (38.89%) VPN
2 7 (38.89%) WAN
3 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (33.33%) OSPF
3 6 (33.33%) WLAN
4 5 (27.78%) BGP
4 5 (27.78%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (27.78%) IPsec
4 5 (27.78%) MPLS
4 5 (27.78%) NX-OS
4 5 (27.78%) SD-WAN
4 5 (27.78%) VXLAN
5 4 (22.22%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (16.67%) NetScaler
6 3 (16.67%) Network Security
7 2 (11.11%) Wireless
8 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
3 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.56%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Change Management
2 6 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
3 5 (27.78%) Network Segmentation
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (22.22%) Network Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Runbook
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Observability
6 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CCIE
2 2 (11.11%) CCNA
2 2 (11.11%) CCNP
2 2 (11.11%) CCSA
2 2 (11.11%) CCSE
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Firmware
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) CheckPoint
1 7 (38.89%) Fortinet
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco
2 6 (33.33%) Meraki
2 6 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 5 (27.78%) Dynatrace
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Infoblox
4 4 (22.22%) VMware
5 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (5.56%) Zscaler