IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 618 812 1015
Rank change year-on-year +194 +203 -304
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 308 153 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 262 124 196
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.12% +4.71%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,249 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,750 £64,625 £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -

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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
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%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +236 291 £42,500 -5.56% 39
UK excluding London +143 271 £42,500 -5.56% 28
Midlands +89 102 £40,000 -11.11% 7
Work from Home +119 100 £42,500 -5.56% 9
East Midlands +41 68 £40,000 -11.11% 6
North of England +89 66 £40,000 -3.03% 14
South West +6 39 £46,250 -7.50% 1
South East +28 38 £50,000 +11.11% 4
West Midlands +39 34 £42,500 -5.56% 1
London +110 29 £55,000 +2.33% 13
Yorkshire +105 29 £42,500 -5.56% 7
North West +26 25 £44,250 +7.27% 5
East of England +27 15 £42,500 -15.00% 3
North East +2 10 £37,500 -6.25% 4
Wales - 7 £42,500 - 1
Scotland -62 4 £42,500 +6.25%

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, IT Infrastructure 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 304 (98.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 182 (59.09%) Windows
3 157 (50.97%) Azure
4 141 (45.78%) Microsoft
5 134 (43.51%) Microsoft 365
6 130 (42.21%) VMware
7 124 (40.26%) Active Directory
8 122 (39.61%) Firewall
9 111 (36.04%) Windows Server
10 85 (27.60%) VMware Infrastructure
11 61 (19.81%) Hyper-V
12 57 (18.51%) Microsoft Exchange
13 54 (17.53%) DNS
13 54 (17.53%) Cybersecurity
14 52 (16.88%) Social Skills
14 52 (16.88%) SharePoint
15 51 (16.56%) Cisco
16 48 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
17 46 (14.94%) Entra ID
18 45 (14.61%) SAN
18 45 (14.61%) DHCP
18 45 (14.61%) Linux
19 44 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
19 44 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
19 44 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
20 41 (13.31%) ITIL
21 38 (12.34%) WAN
21 38 (12.34%) PowerShell
22 37 (12.01%) Migration
23 36 (11.69%) Microsoft Intune

IT Infrastructure 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 57 (18.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (16.88%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.57%) IIS
4 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.32%) Moodle
Applications
1 26 (8.44%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 157 (50.97%) Azure
2 134 (43.51%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (14.94%) Entra ID
4 32 (10.39%) AWS
5 12 (3.90%) OneDrive
6 8 (2.60%) Mimecast
7 7 (2.27%) Nutanix
8 6 (1.95%) OCI
9 5 (1.62%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.30%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.97%) IaaS
11 3 (0.97%) PaaS
12 2 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.65%) OpenDNS
12 2 (0.65%) SaaS
13 1 (0.32%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.32%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.32%) Slack
13 1 (0.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 122 (39.61%) Firewall
2 54 (17.53%) DNS
3 45 (14.61%) DHCP
3 45 (14.61%) SAN
4 44 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 38 (12.34%) WAN
6 31 (10.06%) TCP/IP
7 26 (8.44%) LAN
7 26 (8.44%) VPN
8 23 (7.47%) VLAN
9 18 (5.84%) SD-WAN
10 14 (4.55%) Network Security
11 9 (2.92%) VoIP
12 8 (2.60%) WLAN
13 7 (2.27%) BGP
13 7 (2.27%) NAS
14 6 (1.95%) Wireless
15 5 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (1.62%) OSPF
16 4 (1.30%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.25%) MySQL
3 5 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.32%) JIRA
General
1 52 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.12%) Finance
3 20 (6.49%) Law
4 16 (5.19%) Telecoms
5 14 (4.55%) Automotive
6 12 (3.90%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.60%) Japanese Language
8 7 (2.27%) Legal
9 6 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.95%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.62%) Banking
10 5 (1.62%) Retail
11 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Military
13 2 (0.65%) Electronics
13 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.65%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.65%) JSON
1 2 (0.65%) LAMP
1 2 (0.65%) V-Ray
2 1 (0.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.57%) CCTV
3 9 (2.92%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.95%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.62%) IoT
8 4 (1.30%) Clustering
8 4 (1.30%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.30%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.30%) iPad
8 4 (1.30%) Thin Client
9 3 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.65%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.65%) PKI
11 1 (0.32%) FlexPod
11 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 182 (59.09%) Windows
2 111 (36.04%) Windows Server
3 45 (14.61%) Linux
4 44 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (6.82%) Windows 10
5 21 (6.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (6.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (6.17%) Apple iOS
8 18 (5.84%) Android
9 10 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (2.27%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.30%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.65%) Unix
12 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.32%) AIX
13 1 (0.32%) CentOS
13 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (98.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (17.53%) Cybersecurity
3 48 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 41 (13.31%) ITIL
6 37 (12.01%) Migration
7 23 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (6.49%) Customer Service
8 20 (6.49%) Project Management
9 18 (5.84%) Infrastructure Management
10 17 (5.52%) Storage Management
11 16 (5.19%) Project Delivery
12 15 (4.87%) Logistics
13 14 (4.55%) Service Management
14 13 (4.22%) Containerisation
14 13 (4.22%) Proactive Monitoring
14 13 (4.22%) Service Delivery
15 11 (3.57%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 11 (3.57%) High Availability
16 10 (3.25%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.34%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.47%) SQL
3 10 (3.25%) Swift
4 6 (1.95%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (6.82%) Degree
2 14 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.92%) CCNA
5 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (1.62%) MCSE
8 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.97%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.97%) MCP
9 2 (0.65%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.32%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.60%) SLA
2 3 (0.97%) GDPR
2 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 124 (40.26%) Active Directory
2 85 (27.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (19.81%) Hyper-V
4 20 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
6 13 (4.22%) vSphere
7 9 (2.92%) Docker
8 6 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.62%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.97%) Firmware
11 2 (0.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.65%) pfSense
11 2 (0.65%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (11.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (4.87%) SCCM
3 10 (3.25%) WSUS
4 9 (2.92%) Ansible
5 6 (1.95%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 6 (1.95%) SCOM
5 6 (1.95%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.30%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.97%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.65%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.65%) NetCrunch
8 2 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.65%) vRealize
9 1 (0.32%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 141 (45.78%) Microsoft
2 130 (42.21%) VMware
3 51 (16.56%) Cisco
4 32 (10.39%) Veeam
5 27 (8.77%) Citrix
6 15 (4.87%) HP
6 15 (4.87%) Meraki
7 12 (3.90%) Oracle
8 10 (3.25%) Acronis
9 9 (2.92%) NetApp
9 9 (2.92%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.60%) Aruba
10 8 (2.60%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.27%) Dell
12 6 (1.95%) McAfee
12 6 (1.95%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.62%) Nasuni
13 5 (1.62%) Rapid7
14 4 (1.30%) CyberArk
14 4 (1.30%) Cylance