Network Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 705 832 1057
Rank change year-on-year +127 +225 -214
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 146 67 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.081% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.089% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 126 63 89
10th Percentile £36,900 £35,660 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +22.58%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,043 75,204 138,046
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.22% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 65,775 49,529 75,271
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in England

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in England

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in England

Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
South East +15 53 £50,000 +5.26% 3
London +83 24 £62,500 +5.93% 7
North of England +33 20 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North West -6 18 £42,500 -9.57%
Midlands -15 17 £50,000 +5.26% 3
South West -23 16 £57,500 +46.35% 3
East of England - 16 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands -12 9 £45,000 -5.26% 2
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 - 1
Yorkshire +56 1 £29,472 -9.32%
North East -18 1 £29,000 -31.76% 1
Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 141 (96.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (47.26%) Firewall
3 62 (42.47%) Azure
4 57 (39.04%) WAN
4 57 (39.04%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (38.36%) Cisco
6 54 (36.99%) VMware
7 46 (31.51%) Windows
8 42 (28.77%) Active Directory
9 41 (28.08%) LAN
10 40 (27.40%) Microsoft
10 40 (27.40%) Data Centre
11 34 (23.29%) Linux
12 33 (22.60%) VPN
12 33 (22.60%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (19.18%) Social Skills
14 26 (17.81%) CCNA
14 26 (17.81%) DNS
15 25 (17.12%) AWS
16 24 (16.44%) Microsoft Exchange
17 23 (15.75%) Wireless
17 23 (15.75%) SD-WAN
17 23 (15.75%) Windows Server
18 21 (14.38%) Driving Licence
18 21 (14.38%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (14.38%) VMware Infrastructure
19 20 (13.70%) BGP
19 20 (13.70%) Aruba
20 19 (13.01%) Microsoft Intune
20 19 (13.01%) F5

Network 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 24 (16.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.90%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.48%) IIS
3 8 (5.48%) WordPress
4 2 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 62 (42.47%) Azure
2 57 (39.04%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (17.12%) AWS
4 10 (6.85%) OneDrive
5 9 (6.16%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.42%) GCP
8 4 (2.74%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.37%) IaaS
9 2 (1.37%) Kong
9 2 (1.37%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.37%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.37%) SaaS
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (47.26%) Firewall
2 57 (39.04%) WAN
3 41 (28.08%) LAN
4 33 (22.60%) VPN
5 26 (17.81%) DNS
6 23 (15.75%) SD-WAN
6 23 (15.75%) Wireless
7 21 (14.38%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (13.70%) BGP
9 17 (11.64%) TCP/IP
10 16 (10.96%) DHCP
11 15 (10.27%) MPLS
12 12 (8.22%) OSPF
12 12 (8.22%) VLAN
13 10 (6.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 10 (6.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 10 (6.85%) SAN
14 9 (6.16%) BIG-IP
15 8 (5.48%) iSCSI
15 8 (5.48%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.37%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
General
1 28 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.27%) Finance
3 7 (4.79%) Retail
4 5 (3.42%) Advertising
5 4 (2.74%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.05%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.37%) Law
7 2 (1.37%) Military
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.48%) LAMP
2 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.68%) JSON
2 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.40%) Data Centre
2 21 (14.38%) Driving Licence
3 16 (10.96%) Replication
4 8 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.05%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.37%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.37%) PropTech
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.68%) IoT
8 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (31.51%) Windows
2 34 (23.29%) Linux
3 23 (15.75%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.85%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.48%) VMS
5 8 (5.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (5.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.05%) Android
7 3 (2.05%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (96.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (9.59%) ITIL
4 11 (7.53%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (7.53%) DevOps
4 11 (7.53%) Load Balancing
4 11 (7.53%) Migration
5 10 (6.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (6.16%) Analytics
7 8 (5.48%) CI/CD
7 8 (5.48%) Customer Service
7 8 (5.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (5.48%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (5.48%) Web Filtering
8 6 (4.11%) Presales
9 5 (3.42%) Change Control
9 5 (3.42%) DDoS Mitigation
9 5 (3.42%) High Availability
9 5 (3.42%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (3.42%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.59%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.53%) Bash
3 9 (6.16%) Python
4 2 (1.37%) SQL
5 1 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (22.60%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (17.81%) CCNA
3 14 (9.59%) CCNP
4 8 (5.48%) Degree
5 5 (3.42%) CCIE
5 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.42%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.37%) MCSE
7 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) SLA
2 5 (3.42%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (28.77%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.64%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.16%) vSphere
5 7 (4.79%) Docker
5 7 (4.79%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.37%) KVM
6 2 (1.37%) QEMU
6 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.37%) Xen
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (13.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.16%) Terraform
3 8 (5.48%) Ansible
3 8 (5.48%) FortiGate
3 8 (5.48%) SCCM
4 6 (4.11%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.42%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (2.74%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 56 (38.36%) Cisco
2 54 (36.99%) VMware
3 40 (27.40%) Microsoft
4 20 (13.70%) Aruba
5 19 (13.01%) F5
6 16 (10.96%) HP
6 16 (10.96%) Palo Alto
7 15 (10.27%) Veeam
8 10 (6.85%) CheckPoint
8 10 (6.85%) Fortinet
8 10 (6.85%) Meraki
9 8 (5.48%) ProCurve
9 8 (5.48%) Synology
9 8 (5.48%) Zerto
10 7 (4.79%) Citrix
11 5 (3.42%) Draytek
12 4 (2.74%) Juniper
13 3 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds
14 2 (1.37%) Darktrace