Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 878 937
Rank change year-on-year +185 +59 +297
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer 3 23 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.022% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.023% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 12
10th Percentile £46,100 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,625 £40,625 £40,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £53,125 £54,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £53,500 £55,000 £76,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,250
% change year-on-year +11.11% +11.80% +1.77%

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 50,436 99,993 86,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 94.87% 91.29%
Number of salaries quoted 26,329 71,016 55,934
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,890 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +1.78% -6.54% +6.37%

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft 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 Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 June 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
UK excluding London +165 3 £50,000 +11.11% 3
England +136 3 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Work from Home +132 2 £48,250 +24.52% 4
North of England - 2 £48,250 - 3
North West - 2 £48,250 - 1
Midlands +73 1 £52,500 +23.53%
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 June 2025, Microsoft 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 Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Okta
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Ping Identity
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Linux+ Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Dovecot
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification

Microsoft 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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Linux+ Certification
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Dovecot
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Okta
2 2 (66.67%) Ping Identity
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Imperva