Infrastructure Security Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 825 953 1183
Rank change year-on-year +128 +230 -298
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 77 19 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.021% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 73 19 26
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,920 £54,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,968 £73,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £96,000 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +17.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +159 75 £45,000 -28.00% 5
UK excluding London +70 71 £45,000 -5.26% 3
North of England - 39 £36,128 - 1
Work from Home +96 36 £43,103 -31.04% 10
North West - 18 £61,391 - 1
Midlands +6 17 £54,250 +14.21% 1
East Midlands -5 12 £55,000 +15.79% 1
Yorkshire - 12 £36,128 -
North East - 9 £62,783 -
South East - 7 £45,000 - 1
London +100 6 £80,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands - 5 £45,000 -
East of England +23 4 £40,000 -11.11%
South West -21 2 £41,206 -31.32%
Scotland -64 2 £53,000 +32.50%

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (37.66%) Mentoring
3 29 (37.66%) Coaching
4 26 (33.77%) Azure
4 26 (33.77%) Microsoft
5 24 (31.17%) DevOps
6 23 (29.87%) Private Cloud
7 19 (24.68%) Entra ID
8 18 (23.38%) Active Directory
9 17 (22.08%) Finance
9 17 (22.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (16.88%) Service Management
10 13 (16.88%) Windows
10 13 (16.88%) AWS
11 12 (15.58%) PKI
11 12 (15.58%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (15.58%) CyberArk
11 12 (15.58%) ServiceNow
11 12 (15.58%) Security Architecture
11 12 (15.58%) ITIL
11 12 (15.58%) CA
11 12 (15.58%) CA Single Sign-On
11 12 (15.58%) DNS
11 12 (15.58%) Identity Management
11 12 (15.58%) Key Management
11 12 (15.58%) Secrets Management
11 12 (15.58%) GitLab
11 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (15.58%) Operational Stability

Infrastructure Security 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 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.77%) Azure
2 19 (24.68%) Entra ID
3 13 (16.88%) AWS
4 12 (15.58%) AWS KMS
4 12 (15.58%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.90%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.58%) DNS
2 10 (12.99%) Firewall
3 2 (2.60%) SAN
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) GitLab
General
1 17 (22.08%) Finance
2 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Retail
6 2 (2.60%) Welsh Language
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.87%) Private Cloud
2 17 (22.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (15.58%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (15.58%) PKI
3 12 (15.58%) Public Cloud
4 11 (14.29%) Data Centre
5 7 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.88%) Windows
2 11 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (37.66%) Coaching
3 29 (37.66%) Mentoring
4 24 (31.17%) DevOps
5 13 (16.88%) Service Management
6 12 (15.58%) Identity Management
6 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (15.58%) ITIL
6 12 (15.58%) Key Management
6 12 (15.58%) Operational Stability
6 12 (15.58%) Privileged Identity Management
6 12 (15.58%) Secrets Management
6 12 (15.58%) Security Architecture
7 9 (11.69%) Security Operations
8 6 (7.79%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (7.79%) Roadmaps
9 5 (6.49%) Change Management
9 5 (6.49%) Network Architecture
9 5 (6.49%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.99%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.49%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) NIST
2 6 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.49%) SOC 2
4 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (23.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) CA Single Sign-On
1 12 (15.58%) Single Sign-On
1 12 (15.58%) Terraform
2 4 (5.19%) vRealize
2 4 (5.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (3.90%) SCCM
4 2 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.30%) Nessus
5 1 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (33.77%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.58%) CA
2 12 (15.58%) CyberArk
2 12 (15.58%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.09%) VMware
4 4 (5.19%) Qualys
4 4 (5.19%) Veeam
5 1 (1.30%) Citrix
5 1 (1.30%) Netskope
5 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto