Network Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 762 910
Rank change year-on-year +117 +148 +165
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 47 134 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.14% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.14% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 40 114 60
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,445 £38,222
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +5.82% -5.50%
75th Percentile £72,188 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £64,625 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +5.32% -4.08%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 43 £57,500 +15.00% 19
London +121 27 £61,644 -1.37% 9
Work from Home +182 23 £60,822 +24.33% 5
UK excluding London +117 20 £50,000 +1.01% 13
South West +97 4 £56,687 -1.41% 6
North of England +68 4 £50,250 +18.24% 1
Scotland - 4 £50,000 - 1
Midlands +70 3 £45,000 -10.00% 1
East of England +51 3 £42,500 -15.00%
West Midlands +45 3 £45,000 - 1
Yorkshire +76 2 £50,250 +34.95% 1
South East +58 2 £27,500 -45.00% 4
North East +50 1 £44,500 +53.45%
North West +15 1 £55,000 +29.41%

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (93.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (70.21%) Firewall
3 21 (44.68%) Azure
4 19 (40.43%) Cisco
5 18 (38.30%) Data Centre
6 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
6 17 (36.17%) Windows
7 16 (34.04%) AWS
7 16 (34.04%) VMware
8 15 (31.91%) WAN
8 15 (31.91%) Active Directory
8 15 (31.91%) BGP
8 15 (31.91%) Windows Server
9 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (29.79%) LAN
9 14 (29.79%) Network Security
10 13 (27.66%) VLAN
10 13 (27.66%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (25.53%) Fortinet
11 12 (25.53%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (25.53%) VPN
12 11 (23.40%) Meraki
12 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
13 10 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
13 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (19.15%) Wireless
14 9 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
15 8 (17.02%) CCNP
15 8 (17.02%) ITIL

Network 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 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) IIS
2 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) AWS
3 13 (27.66%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.51%) Nutanix
5 3 (6.38%) IaaS
5 3 (6.38%) PaaS
5 3 (6.38%) SaaS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.26%) Mimecast
6 2 (4.26%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.13%) GCP
7 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (70.21%) Firewall
2 15 (31.91%) BGP
2 15 (31.91%) WAN
3 14 (29.79%) LAN
3 14 (29.79%) Network Security
4 13 (27.66%) VLAN
5 12 (25.53%) VPN
6 9 (19.15%) Wireless
7 7 (14.89%) DNS
7 7 (14.89%) OSPF
7 7 (14.89%) SD-WAN
7 7 (14.89%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (12.77%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (12.77%) HSRP
8 6 (12.77%) TCP/IP
8 6 (12.77%) WLAN
9 5 (10.64%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (10.64%) DHCP
9 5 (10.64%) NX-OS
9 5 (10.64%) VXLAN
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Banking
3 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Retail
4 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) Middleware
2 1 (2.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (38.30%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.26%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) CCTV
4 1 (2.13%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.17%) Windows
2 15 (31.91%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.51%) Linux
4 2 (4.26%) VMS
5 1 (2.13%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (93.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (17.02%) ITIL
6 7 (14.89%) Change Management
6 7 (14.89%) Network Design
7 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
7 6 (12.77%) Network Architecture
8 5 (10.64%) Agile
8 5 (10.64%) Business Continuity
8 5 (10.64%) Incident Response
8 5 (10.64%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (10.64%) Patch Management
8 5 (10.64%) Process Improvement
8 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
9 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.51%) Migration
9 4 (8.51%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.64%) Python
3 3 (6.38%) SQL
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Java
4 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (17.02%) CCNP
3 7 (14.89%) Degree
3 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.51%) CCNA
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.26%) CCIE
6 2 (4.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CCSA
7 1 (2.13%) CCSE
7 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
System Software
1 15 (31.91%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (17.02%) Hyper-V
4 7 (14.89%) Firmware
4 7 (14.89%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (10.64%) vSphere
6 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.13%) SCCM
3 1 (2.13%) SCOM
3 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Cisco
2 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
3 16 (34.04%) VMware
4 12 (25.53%) Fortinet
5 11 (23.40%) Meraki
6 7 (14.89%) CheckPoint
6 7 (14.89%) Palo Alto
6 7 (14.89%) SolarWinds
7 5 (10.64%) Arista
8 4 (8.51%) Dynatrace
8 4 (8.51%) Extreme Networks
8 4 (8.51%) Infoblox
9 2 (4.26%) Acronis
9 2 (4.26%) Darktrace
9 2 (4.26%) Juniper
9 2 (4.26%) WatchGuard
9 2 (4.26%) Yardi
10 1 (2.13%) Rapid7
10 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.13%) Synology