Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 984 1201
Rank change year-on-year +123 +217 -357
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer 27 11 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.011% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.012% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 27 11 27
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,875 £35,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -15.89%
75th Percentile £53,750 £71,250 £56,875
90th Percentile £55,000 £77,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,250 £39,550
% change year-on-year +11.80% +1.77% -12.11%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
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%

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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Top 9 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 8 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 +95 27 £45,000 +5.88% 4
UK excluding London +12 27 £45,000 +11.80% 4
South West -14 12 £53,000 +24.71% 3
South East +26 11 £45,000 +5.88%
Work from Home +70 9 £42,500 -5.56% 2
West Midlands - 3 £42,500 - 1
Midlands - 3 £42,500 - 1
North of England +39 1 £50,000 +31.58%
North East - 1 £50,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 27 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 27 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (59.26%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (51.85%) Windows
3 14 (51.85%) Windows Server
4 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
5 12 (44.44%) Azure
6 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
6 8 (29.63%) VMware
7 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (18.52%) WAN
9 5 (18.52%) DHCP
9 5 (18.52%) DNS
9 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
10 4 (14.81%) SCCM
10 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
10 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
10 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
11 3 (11.11%) SQL
11 3 (11.11%) VoIP
11 3 (11.11%) High Availability
11 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (11.11%) Edge Virtualization
11 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
11 3 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
11 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (7.41%) Server Management
12 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2003

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 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (44.44%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DHCP
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
1 5 (18.52%) WAN
2 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 3 (11.11%) VoIP
3 2 (7.41%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
1 14 (51.85%) Windows Server
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
3 3 (11.11%) Edge Virtualization
3 3 (11.11%) High Availability
3 3 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.41%) Server Management
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) MCSA
1 1 (3.70%) MCSE
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) SCCM
2 1 (3.70%) SCOM
2 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) VMware