Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 234 275
Rank change year-on-year +126 +41 -106
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,145 1,429 1,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.50% 1.59% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 1.73% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,773 1,146 1,564
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,875 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,982 82,462 128,831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,404 52,476 75,206
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +109 484 £45,000 - 42
South East +82 471 £50,000 +11.11% 62
South West +86 377 £50,000 +5.26% 57
London +40 331 £63,000 +5.00% 74
Midlands +64 316 £45,000 -5.26% 57
North West +82 256 £45,000 -4.26% 26
East Midlands +67 162 £45,000 -10.00% 26
East of England +72 160 £45,000 -8.16% 29
West Midlands +40 154 £45,000 -5.26% 31
Yorkshire +88 151 £44,274 -1.61% 12
North East +42 75 £44,274 +2.37% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,069 (96.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,030 (48.02%) Windows
3 883 (41.17%) Azure
4 779 (36.32%) VMware
5 778 (36.27%) Microsoft
6 707 (32.96%) Active Directory
7 656 (30.58%) Microsoft 365
8 570 (26.57%) Windows Server
9 501 (23.36%) VMware Infrastructure
10 491 (22.89%) Linux
11 445 (20.75%) Firewall
12 397 (18.51%) PowerShell
13 385 (17.95%) Social Skills
14 382 (17.81%) DNS
15 337 (15.71%) ITIL
16 334 (15.57%) AWS
17 327 (15.24%) Security Cleared
18 322 (15.01%) Hyper-V
19 290 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
20 280 (13.05%) Microsoft Exchange
21 270 (12.59%) DHCP
22 264 (12.31%) WAN
23 257 (11.98%) Data Centre
24 253 (11.79%) Cisco
25 230 (10.72%) Finance
25 230 (10.72%) Microsoft Intune
26 222 (10.35%) LAN
27 210 (9.79%) DevOps
28 203 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
29 197 (9.18%) Entra ID

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 280 (13.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 180 (8.39%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.05%) IIS
4 11 (0.51%) Confluence
5 9 (0.42%) CMS
5 9 (0.42%) WordPress
6 7 (0.33%) Apache
7 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.19%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.047%) JBoss
10 1 (0.047%) Moodle
10 1 (0.047%) Site Server
10 1 (0.047%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.047%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.047%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.093%) CATIA
4 2 (0.093%) NASTRAN
4 2 (0.093%) Trello
5 1 (0.047%) 1Password
5 1 (0.047%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 883 (41.17%) Azure
2 656 (30.58%) Microsoft 365
3 334 (15.57%) AWS
4 197 (9.18%) Entra ID
5 132 (6.15%) IaaS
6 123 (5.73%) SaaS
7 60 (2.80%) PaaS
8 55 (2.56%) OneDrive
9 42 (1.96%) OpenShift
10 41 (1.91%) Nutanix
11 40 (1.86%) GCP
12 39 (1.82%) GitHub
13 35 (1.63%) Power Platform
14 33 (1.54%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (1.31%) Serverless
17 27 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 26 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
19 24 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
20 19 (0.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 445 (20.75%) Firewall
2 382 (17.81%) DNS
3 270 (12.59%) DHCP
4 264 (12.31%) WAN
5 222 (10.35%) LAN
6 186 (8.67%) SAN
7 155 (7.23%) VPN
8 128 (5.97%) TCP/IP
9 109 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
10 87 (4.06%) VLAN
11 80 (3.73%) Wireless
12 70 (3.26%) SD-WAN
13 58 (2.70%) NAS
14 54 (2.52%) HTTP
15 44 (2.05%) MPLS
15 44 (2.05%) WLAN
16 42 (1.96%) VoIP
17 40 (1.86%) Internet
17 40 (1.86%) Network Security
18 34 (1.59%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 43 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (1.49%) MySQL
4 17 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.61%) Big Data
6 10 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.28%) Power BI
8 4 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.19%) DB2
8 4 (0.19%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.19%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.093%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.093%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.093%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.047%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.047%) MS Access
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.047%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.047%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 53 (2.47%) GitLab
2 40 (1.86%) Git
3 30 (1.40%) JIRA
4 23 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.98%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.47%) Trac
7 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.33%) MSI
8 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.19%) Subversion
10 2 (0.093%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.093%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.047%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.047%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.047%) Vagrant
General
1 385 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 230 (10.72%) Finance
3 107 (4.99%) Public Sector
4 92 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (3.17%) Aerospace
6 57 (2.66%) Manufacturing
7 56 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 49 (2.28%) Law
8 49 (2.28%) Retail
9 45 (2.10%) Banking
10 39 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.40%) Automotive
12 29 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (1.31%) Advertising
14 23 (1.07%) Legal
15 15 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.61%) Electronics
16 13 (0.61%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.56%) Games
18 11 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.03%) CSS
2 15 (0.70%) .NET
2 15 (0.70%) LDAP
3 13 (0.61%) XML
4 12 (0.56%) JSON
4 12 (0.56%) Web Services
5 11 (0.51%) LAMP
6 7 (0.33%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.28%) JSON Schema
7 6 (0.28%) KML
7 6 (0.28%) Regular Expression
7 6 (0.28%) Software Packaging
7 6 (0.28%) XML Schema
7 6 (0.28%) YAML
8 5 (0.23%) Middleware
8 5 (0.23%) SAML
9 4 (0.19%) EJB
10 3 (0.14%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 257 (11.98%) Data Centre
2 87 (4.06%) Public Cloud
3 83 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
4 81 (3.78%) Driving Licence
5 55 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 53 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 52 (2.42%) PKI
8 35 (1.63%) Replication
9 34 (1.59%) Private Cloud
10 25 (1.17%) IoT
11 23 (1.07%) Clustering
12 21 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (0.93%) CCTV
14 17 (0.79%) Client/Server
14 17 (0.79%) EMC VNX
15 16 (0.75%) Cloud Native
15 16 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
18 12 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1,030 (48.02%) Windows
2 570 (26.57%) Windows Server
3 491 (22.89%) Linux
4 150 (6.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 120 (5.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 114 (5.31%) Windows Server 2012
7 112 (5.22%) Windows 10
8 92 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 55 (2.56%) Ubuntu
10 42 (1.96%) Unix
11 41 (1.91%) VMS
12 31 (1.45%) Apple iOS
13 29 (1.35%) Android
14 26 (1.21%) Windows 7
15 25 (1.17%) CentOS
16 22 (1.03%) Mac OS
17 16 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
17 16 (0.75%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
19 9 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,069 (96.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 337 (15.71%) ITIL
3 290 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
4 210 (9.79%) DevOps
5 203 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
6 175 (8.16%) Disaster Recovery
7 164 (7.65%) Mentoring
8 131 (6.11%) Agile
9 128 (5.97%) Migration
10 109 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 106 (4.94%) Coaching
11 106 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (4.62%) Change Management
13 93 (4.34%) Service Management
14 91 (4.24%) Customer Service
14 91 (4.24%) Roadmaps
15 84 (3.92%) Service Delivery
16 79 (3.68%) Project Management
17 78 (3.64%) Collaborative Working
18 75 (3.50%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 397 (18.51%) PowerShell
2 150 (6.99%) Python
3 123 (5.73%) Bash
4 113 (5.27%) SQL
5 43 (2.00%) Java
6 22 (1.03%) Perl
7 14 (0.65%) Ruby
8 10 (0.47%) Swift
9 9 (0.42%) ActionScript
9 9 (0.42%) VB
10 8 (0.37%) Korn
11 7 (0.33%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) Bicep
14 3 (0.14%) C
14 3 (0.14%) C#
14 3 (0.14%) Rust
14 3 (0.14%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 327 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 186 (8.67%) DV Cleared
3 179 (8.34%) Degree
4 164 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 90 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
6 77 (3.59%) CCNA
7 52 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.45%) HNC
11 28 (1.31%) CCNP
12 27 (1.26%) MCSE
13 26 (1.21%) AWS Certification
14 21 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.65%) A+ Certification
16 14 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
17 13 (0.61%) MCP
18 12 (0.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (3.68%) SLA
2 28 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.79%) GDPR
5 14 (0.65%) NIST
6 13 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.47%) QA
8 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.093%) PMO
13 1 (0.047%) NCSC
System Software
1 707 (32.96%) Active Directory
2 501 (23.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 322 (15.01%) Hyper-V
4 125 (5.83%) Docker
5 121 (5.64%) VMware ESXi
6 101 (4.71%) vSphere
7 82 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (1.17%) XenApp
9 23 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (0.70%) NFS
12 14 (0.65%) Firmware
13 13 (0.61%) pfSense
14 10 (0.47%) VMware Server
14 10 (0.47%) XenDesktop
15 9 (0.42%) OpenSSH
16 8 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
17 7 (0.33%) Terminal Services
18 6 (0.28%) DFS Replication
18 6 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 230 (10.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 183 (8.53%) Ansible
3 169 (7.88%) SCCM
4 137 (6.39%) Terraform
5 117 (5.45%) Kubernetes
6 96 (4.48%) vCenter Server
7 64 (2.98%) Puppet
8 63 (2.94%) WSUS
9 39 (1.82%) SCOM
10 36 (1.68%) EMC NetWorker
11 31 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 26 (1.21%) Nagios
13 23 (1.07%) FortiGate
14 22 (1.03%) NetBackup
15 18 (0.84%) ZABBIX
16 16 (0.75%) Grafana
16 16 (0.75%) SCDPM
16 16 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 779 (36.32%) VMware
2 778 (36.27%) Microsoft
3 253 (11.79%) Cisco
4 180 (8.39%) Veeam
5 145 (6.76%) Citrix
6 108 (5.03%) Red Hat
7 104 (4.85%) HP
8 74 (3.45%) Dell
9 64 (2.98%) Aruba
10 61 (2.84%) Oracle
11 59 (2.75%) Meraki
12 46 (2.14%) NetApp
12 46 (2.14%) Palo Alto
13 43 (2.00%) EMC
13 43 (2.00%) SolarWinds
14 42 (1.96%) Fortinet
15 34 (1.59%) IBM
15 34 (1.59%) Juniper
16 29 (1.35%) Google
17 26 (1.21%) Commvault