Infrastructure Engineering Jobs

Infrastructure Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 56 195
Rank change year-on-year -31 +139 -66
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3,058 5,399 3,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.10% 5.22% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 5.46% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,600 1,847 2,336
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,373 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,918 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 6 May 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 6 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 -23 2,831 £50,000 -4.76% 507
UK excluding London -42 2,510 £47,500 -2.06% 422
Work from Home +52 1,084 £50,000 -9.09% 219
North of England -20 682 £46,000 -3.16% 79
South East -15 627 £50,000 +0.76% 97
London -12 467 £65,000 +2.36% 122
South West -18 449 £50,250 +0.50% 84
Midlands -31 403 £45,000 -10.00% 74
North West -40 319 £47,500 -5.00% 40
Yorkshire +1 258 £45,000 - 31
West Midlands -39 211 £45,000 -8.16% 44
East of England -46 193 £45,000 -10.89% 50
East Midlands -22 192 £45,000 -10.00% 30
North East -23 103 £44,637 +5.03% 11
Scotland -121 93 £45,000 -10.00% 33
Wales -15 61 £41,067 -6.13% 12
Northern Ireland -20 7 £60,000 +33.33% 2

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
1 355 (11.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 210 (6.87%) SharePoint
3 64 (2.09%) IIS
4 11 (0.36%) CMS
5 10 (0.33%) WordPress
6 8 (0.26%) Confluence
7 7 (0.23%) Apache
8 6 (0.20%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.098%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.098%) nginx
12 2 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.033%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.033%) Site Server
13 1 (0.033%) WebSphere
Applications
1 90 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.20%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.20%) LightWave 3D
3 6 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.16%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.065%) CATIA
6 2 (0.065%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.065%) Trello
7 1 (0.033%) 1Password
7 1 (0.033%) Notion
7 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 7 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.065%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.065%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.033%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.033%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.033%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,313 (42.94%) Azure
2 966 (31.59%) Microsoft 365
3 520 (17.00%) AWS
4 317 (10.37%) Entra ID
5 195 (6.38%) IaaS
6 169 (5.53%) SaaS
7 119 (3.89%) PaaS
8 92 (3.01%) GCP
9 77 (2.52%) OneDrive
10 62 (2.03%) Nutanix
11 52 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
12 50 (1.64%) Power Platform
13 48 (1.57%) OpenShift
14 42 (1.37%) GitHub
15 37 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
16 30 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (0.95%) Amazon S3
17 29 (0.95%) Serverless
18 21 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 603 (19.72%) Firewall
2 476 (15.57%) DNS
3 385 (12.59%) WAN
4 355 (11.61%) DHCP
5 331 (10.82%) LAN
6 286 (9.35%) SAN
7 218 (7.13%) VPN
8 156 (5.10%) TCP/IP
9 150 (4.91%) Wi-Fi
10 124 (4.05%) Wireless
11 116 (3.79%) SD-WAN
12 113 (3.70%) VLAN
13 95 (3.11%) Network Security
14 90 (2.94%) Internet
15 73 (2.39%) NAS
16 66 (2.16%) HTTP
17 65 (2.13%) MPLS
18 61 (1.99%) WLAN
19 58 (1.90%) VoIP
20 53 (1.73%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (5.69%) SQL Server
2 64 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (1.31%) MySQL
4 29 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (0.62%) Power BI
7 17 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.39%) Big Data
9 10 (0.33%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.29%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.26%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.20%) SQLite
14 5 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.13%) DB2
15 4 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.13%) Tableau
16 3 (0.098%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (2.03%) Git
2 61 (1.99%) GitLab
3 39 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.21%) JIRA
5 21 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.33%) Trac
7 7 (0.23%) MSI
7 7 (0.23%) Subversion
7 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.098%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.098%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.065%) Ant
11 2 (0.065%) Gradle
11 2 (0.065%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.065%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.065%) Visual Studio
General
1 558 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 331 (10.82%) Finance
3 157 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (4.38%) Public Sector
5 124 (4.05%) Law
6 92 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 83 (2.71%) Aerospace
9 75 (2.45%) Retail
10 67 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 63 (2.06%) Banking
12 46 (1.50%) Legal
13 38 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (1.21%) Advertising
14 37 (1.21%) Automotive
15 36 (1.18%) Electronics
16 28 (0.92%) Games
17 22 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.65%) Police
19 16 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 2,248 (73.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 556 (18.18%) Senior
3 474 (15.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 379 (12.39%) IT Engineer
5 304 (9.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 190 (6.21%) Support Engineer
7 182 (5.95%) Network Engineer
8 167 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 166 (5.43%) Infrastructure Support
10 138 (4.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 130 (4.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 125 (4.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 124 (4.05%) Lead
14 120 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
15 119 (3.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 108 (3.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
17 106 (3.47%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
18 100 (3.27%) Security Engineer
19 87 (2.84%) IT Support
20 86 (2.81%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.01%) .NET
2 19 (0.62%) ARM Templates
3 17 (0.56%) JSON
4 15 (0.49%) LDAP
4 15 (0.49%) XML
5 13 (0.43%) .NET Framework
6 12 (0.39%) LAMP
6 12 (0.39%) Web Services
7 10 (0.33%) Kafka
7 10 (0.33%) Node.js
8 9 (0.29%) OLE
9 8 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.23%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.20%) EDI
11 6 (0.20%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.20%) Middleware
11 6 (0.20%) React
11 6 (0.20%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.20%) RESTful
11 6 (0.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 341 (11.15%) Data Centre
2 147 (4.81%) Public Cloud
3 91 (2.98%) Driving Licence
4 90 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 87 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 70 (2.29%) PKI
7 62 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 51 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 50 (1.64%) Replication
10 43 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 39 (1.28%) IoT
12 34 (1.11%) Clustering
13 30 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (0.92%) Onboarding
15 27 (0.88%) Security Posture
16 21 (0.69%) Client/Server
17 20 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
17 20 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (0.65%) PMI
18 19 (0.62%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1,433 (46.86%) Windows
2 830 (27.14%) Windows Server
3 654 (21.39%) Linux
4 197 (6.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 163 (5.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 150 (4.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 134 (4.38%) Windows 10
8 105 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 67 (2.19%) Ubuntu
10 53 (1.73%) Unix
11 41 (1.34%) VMS
12 32 (1.05%) Android
13 31 (1.01%) Apple iOS
14 30 (0.98%) Mac OS
15 28 (0.92%) Windows 7
16 27 (0.88%) CentOS
17 26 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
18 23 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
19 17 (0.56%) Windows NT
20 16 (0.52%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (16.09%) ITIL
2 417 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
3 347 (11.35%) Cybersecurity
4 330 (10.79%) DevOps
5 283 (9.25%) Mentoring
6 225 (7.36%) Customer Service
7 222 (7.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 208 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 204 (6.67%) Agile
10 177 (5.79%) Migration
11 160 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 157 (5.13%) Roadmaps
13 148 (4.84%) Change Management
14 141 (4.61%) Coaching
15 137 (4.48%) Service Management
16 128 (4.19%) Project Delivery
17 123 (4.02%) Project Management
18 120 (3.92%) CI/CD
19 116 (3.79%) Service Delivery
20 103 (3.37%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 540 (17.66%) PowerShell
2 230 (7.52%) Python
3 183 (5.98%) SQL
4 151 (4.94%) Bash
5 56 (1.83%) Java
6 30 (0.98%) C#
7 29 (0.95%) Perl
8 25 (0.82%) JavaScript
9 19 (0.62%) Ruby
10 13 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.39%) Go
12 11 (0.36%) Korn
13 10 (0.33%) Bicep
13 10 (0.33%) Swift
13 10 (0.33%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.33%) VBScript
14 9 (0.29%) ActionScript
14 9 (0.29%) VB
15 8 (0.26%) C
15 8 (0.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 494 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 287 (9.39%) DV Cleared
3 271 (8.86%) Degree
4 259 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 158 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
6 129 (4.22%) CCNA
7 117 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 79 (2.58%) Azure Certification
9 68 (2.22%) MCSE
10 60 (1.96%) CCNP
11 52 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 46 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 37 (1.21%) AWS Certification
13 37 (1.21%) CISSP
14 24 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 23 (0.75%) A+ Certification
15 23 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.69%) MCSA
17 20 (0.65%) PMI Certification
18 19 (0.62%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.04%) SLA
2 69 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 68 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (0.82%) GDPR
5 19 (0.62%) QA
6 18 (0.59%) NIST
7 16 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 16 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.26%) NCSC
11 8 (0.26%) PMO
12 5 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.16%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.098%) GRC
14 1 (0.033%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 982 (32.11%) Active Directory
2 650 (21.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 432 (14.13%) Hyper-V
4 159 (5.20%) Docker
5 138 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
6 113 (3.70%) vSphere
7 99 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
8 47 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
9 40 (1.31%) Firmware
10 35 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 29 (0.95%) XenApp
12 17 (0.56%) XenDesktop
13 14 (0.46%) NFS
14 13 (0.43%) pfSense
14 13 (0.43%) VMware NSX
15 11 (0.36%) VMware Server
16 10 (0.33%) KVM
17 9 (0.29%) DFS Replication
17 9 (0.29%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 325 (10.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 261 (8.53%) Ansible
3 224 (7.33%) Terraform
4 207 (6.77%) SCCM
5 175 (5.72%) Kubernetes
6 107 (3.50%) vCenter Server
7 93 (3.04%) Puppet
8 73 (2.39%) WSUS
9 58 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 47 (1.54%) FortiGate
11 44 (1.44%) SCOM
12 37 (1.21%) EMC NetWorker
13 30 (0.98%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 30 (0.98%) ZABBIX
14 27 (0.88%) Nagios
15 22 (0.72%) NetBackup
16 19 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
17 18 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
18 17 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
18 17 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1,117 (36.53%) Microsoft
2 1,015 (33.19%) VMware
3 405 (13.24%) Cisco
4 229 (7.49%) Veeam
5 200 (6.54%) Citrix
6 138 (4.51%) HP
7 121 (3.96%) Red Hat
8 106 (3.47%) Fortinet
9 100 (3.27%) Dell
10 89 (2.91%) Palo Alto
11 87 (2.84%) Meraki
12 76 (2.49%) Aruba
13 70 (2.29%) SolarWinds
14 67 (2.19%) Google
15 66 (2.16%) Juniper
16 64 (2.09%) NetApp
17 58 (1.90%) ServiceNow
18 51 (1.67%) EMC
19 46 (1.50%) Oracle
20 42 (1.37%) Commvault