Junior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Junior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 738 720
Rank change year-on-year +82 -18 +383
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Infrastructure Engineer 9 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.012% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.012% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 14
10th Percentile - £23,500 £27,775
25th Percentile - £25,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £50,313 £38,750
90th Percentile - £53,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £35,000 £33,880
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.31% +4.25%

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 46,066 64,284 51,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 95.03% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,668 36,353 39,628
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

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 6 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 8 November 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 +89 9 £30,000 -22.58% 2
London +77 5 £30,000 -29.41%
UK excluding London +79 4 £30,000 -14.29% 2
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
Midlands - 3 - - 1
South East +34 1 £30,000 -14.29%

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 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 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
4 5 (55.56%) Degree
4 5 (55.56%) Juniper
4 5 (55.56%) Linux
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (55.56%) Time Management
4 5 (55.56%) VoIP
4 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (33.33%) Datadog
5 3 (33.33%) DNS
5 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 3 (33.33%) Google
5 3 (33.33%) IaaS
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 3 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (33.33%) JIRA
5 3 (33.33%) PaaS
5 3 (33.33%) SaaS

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (33.33%) Datadog
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) IaaS
3 3 (33.33%) PaaS
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) VoIP
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Time Management
3 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Juniper
3 3 (33.33%) Google
3 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow