Junior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Junior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 698 661 862
Rank change year-on-year -37 +201 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Infrastructure Engineer 14 2 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.005% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.005% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 16
10th Percentile £30,000 - -
25th Percentile £31,114 £26,250 £31,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £27,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £28,750 £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £27,500 £31,833
% change year-on-year +27.27% -13.61% -3.54%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 84,582 38,850 91,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 89.47% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,708 22,832 66,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Junior Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Junior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Junior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Junior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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 -34 12 £35,000 +27.27%
UK excluding London -61 10 £35,000 +27.27%
South East -8 9 £35,000 +27.27%
London - 2 £35,000 -
North East - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Junior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2026, Junior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Junior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 6 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Apple
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) IaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Meraki
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) User Experience
5 1 (7.14%) 4G
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) AI
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) BGP
5 1 (7.14%) Broadband
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (7.14%) Computacenter
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.14%) Data Science
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (7.14%) Git

Junior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) 4G
1 1 (7.14%) BGP
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (7.14%) IOS XR
1 1 (7.14%) MPLS
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Jinja
1 1 (7.14%) NETCONF
1 1 (7.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 6 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) AI
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Data Science
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Network Design
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Apple
1 2 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Computacenter
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
2 1 (7.14%) VMware