Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 208 207
Rank change year-on-year +113 -1 -81
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1,978 1,020 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.73% 1.74% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.87% 1.95% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 767 1,087
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,995 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,813 £40,000 £36,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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 +108 490 £45,000 - 61
South East +79 484 £50,000 +11.11% 61
South West +79 402 £50,000 +5.26% 53
Midlands +67 324 £45,000 -5.26% 48
North West +72 259 £45,000 -4.26% 31
East Midlands +80 169 £45,000 -10.00% 18
East of England +64 167 £45,000 -10.00% 29
West Midlands +37 155 £45,000 -5.26% 30
Yorkshire +85 154 £44,274 -1.61% 25
North East +38 75 £44,274 +0.62% 6
Scotland -36 65 £47,500 +5.56% 21
Wales +38 39 £41,067 +2.67% 4
Northern Ireland +19 8 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1,915 (96.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 887 (44.84%) Windows
3 772 (39.03%) Azure
4 713 (36.05%) VMware
5 680 (34.38%) Microsoft
6 581 (29.37%) Active Directory
7 556 (28.11%) Microsoft 365
8 495 (25.03%) Windows Server
9 458 (23.15%) VMware Infrastructure
10 435 (21.99%) Linux
11 384 (19.41%) Firewall
12 343 (17.34%) Social Skills
13 328 (16.58%) Hyper-V
14 325 (16.43%) DNS
15 323 (16.33%) PowerShell
16 313 (15.82%) ITIL
17 300 (15.17%) Security Cleared
18 292 (14.76%) AWS
19 256 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
20 237 (11.98%) Cisco
21 235 (11.88%) Data Centre
22 232 (11.73%) WAN
23 230 (11.63%) DHCP
24 228 (11.53%) Microsoft Exchange
25 193 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
26 181 (9.15%) DevOps
26 181 (9.15%) LAN
27 179 (9.05%) Finance
28 178 (9.00%) SAN
29 170 (8.59%) Ansible

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 228 (11.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 160 (8.09%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.97%) IIS
4 9 (0.46%) CMS
5 7 (0.35%) Apache
6 6 (0.30%) Confluence
7 5 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.20%) WordPress
9 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.051%) JBoss
10 1 (0.051%) Moodle
10 1 (0.051%) nginx
10 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.051%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.051%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.35%) AutoCAD
2 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.10%) CATIA
4 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
4 2 (0.10%) Trello
5 1 (0.051%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.051%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 772 (39.03%) Azure
2 556 (28.11%) Microsoft 365
3 292 (14.76%) AWS
4 165 (8.34%) Entra ID
5 116 (5.86%) SaaS
6 109 (5.51%) IaaS
7 51 (2.58%) PaaS
8 48 (2.43%) OneDrive
9 46 (2.33%) OpenShift
10 40 (2.02%) GCP
11 39 (1.97%) Nutanix
11 39 (1.97%) Power Platform
12 25 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 24 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (1.06%) GitHub
16 20 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (0.96%) Serverless
18 17 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
19 14 (0.71%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 384 (19.41%) Firewall
2 325 (16.43%) DNS
3 232 (11.73%) WAN
4 230 (11.63%) DHCP
5 181 (9.15%) LAN
6 178 (9.00%) SAN
7 130 (6.57%) VPN
8 118 (5.97%) TCP/IP
9 90 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
10 78 (3.94%) VLAN
11 73 (3.69%) SD-WAN
12 66 (3.34%) Wireless
13 59 (2.98%) HTTP
14 50 (2.53%) NAS
15 47 (2.38%) VoIP
16 39 (1.97%) MPLS
17 38 (1.92%) WLAN
18 30 (1.52%) BGP
19 27 (1.37%) iSCSI
19 27 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 32 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (1.57%) MySQL
4 17 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.66%) Big Data
6 10 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.30%) Power BI
9 5 (0.25%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.20%) DB2
10 4 (0.20%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.051%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.051%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.051%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.051%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.051%) MS Access
12 1 (0.051%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.051%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (1.97%) GitLab
2 33 (1.67%) Git
3 29 (1.47%) JIRA
4 21 (1.06%) Artifactory
5 19 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.51%) Trac
7 7 (0.35%) MSI
8 3 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.051%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.051%) TeamCity
General
1 343 (17.34%) Social Skills
2 179 (9.05%) Finance
3 108 (5.46%) Public Sector
4 72 (3.64%) Aerospace
5 62 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 58 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (2.63%) Law
8 41 (2.07%) Telecoms
9 37 (1.87%) Retail
10 35 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.72%) Automotive
12 28 (1.42%) Legal
13 26 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.16%) Advertising
15 19 (0.96%) Banking
16 16 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.61%) Games
18 8 (0.40%) Military
19 6 (0.30%) Financial Institution
19 6 (0.30%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.06%) CSS
2 13 (0.66%) Web Services
2 13 (0.66%) XML
3 12 (0.61%) .NET
4 10 (0.51%) JSON
5 6 (0.30%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.30%) JSON Schema
5 6 (0.30%) KML
5 6 (0.30%) LAMP
5 6 (0.30%) LDAP
5 6 (0.30%) Regular Expression
5 6 (0.30%) Software Packaging
5 6 (0.30%) XML Schema
6 5 (0.25%) YAML
7 4 (0.20%) EJB
7 4 (0.20%) Middleware
8 3 (0.15%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.10%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 235 (11.88%) Data Centre
2 94 (4.75%) Public Cloud
3 81 (4.10%) Driving Licence
4 65 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
5 53 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 43 (2.17%) PKI
7 36 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 32 (1.62%) Replication
9 31 (1.57%) Private Cloud
10 27 (1.37%) Clustering
10 27 (1.37%) IoT
11 17 (0.86%) EMC VNX
12 16 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
13 14 (0.71%) CCTV
13 14 (0.71%) Cloud Native
14 13 (0.66%) CMDB
14 13 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
15 12 (0.61%) Operational Technology
16 10 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 887 (44.84%) Windows
2 495 (25.03%) Windows Server
3 435 (21.99%) Linux
4 133 (6.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 105 (5.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 100 (5.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 84 (4.25%) Windows 10
8 74 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (1.92%) Unix
10 37 (1.87%) Ubuntu
11 28 (1.42%) Android
11 28 (1.42%) Apple iOS
12 25 (1.26%) Windows 7
13 24 (1.21%) CentOS
14 21 (1.06%) VMS
15 18 (0.91%) Mac OS
16 17 (0.86%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
17 15 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
18 9 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,915 (96.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 313 (15.82%) ITIL
3 256 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
4 193 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
5 181 (9.15%) DevOps
6 166 (8.39%) Mentoring
7 154 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 113 (5.71%) Migration
9 111 (5.61%) Coaching
10 107 (5.41%) Agile
11 100 (5.06%) Change Management
12 98 (4.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 89 (4.50%) Customer Service
13 89 (4.50%) Roadmaps
14 88 (4.45%) Service Management
15 82 (4.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 76 (3.84%) Service Delivery
17 75 (3.79%) Project Management
18 70 (3.54%) Server Management
19 69 (3.49%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 323 (16.33%) PowerShell
2 120 (6.07%) Python
3 108 (5.46%) Bash
4 79 (3.99%) SQL
5 43 (2.17%) Java
6 14 (0.71%) Perl
7 11 (0.56%) ActionScript
7 11 (0.56%) VB
8 10 (0.51%) Swift
9 7 (0.35%) Bicep
9 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.25%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.25%) Ruby
11 3 (0.15%) C++
11 3 (0.15%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.10%) AWK
12 2 (0.10%) C#
12 2 (0.10%) Go
12 2 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.051%) PHP
Qualifications
1 300 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 165 (8.34%) SC Cleared
3 163 (8.24%) Degree
4 161 (8.14%) DV Cleared
5 90 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 85 (4.30%) CCNA
7 49 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 36 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (1.62%) MCSE
11 26 (1.31%) HNC
12 25 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 22 (1.11%) CCNP
15 17 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.66%) A+ Certification
17 12 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.46%) MCP
18 9 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.59%) SLA
2 30 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.71%) NIST
5 13 (0.66%) GDPR
6 12 (0.61%) QA
7 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.10%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.051%) NCSC
System Software
1 581 (29.37%) Active Directory
2 458 (23.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 328 (16.58%) Hyper-V
4 122 (6.17%) Docker
5 107 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
6 82 (4.15%) vSphere
7 81 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (1.16%) XenApp
9 19 (0.96%) Firmware
10 18 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (0.76%) NFS
13 13 (0.66%) pfSense
14 11 (0.56%) OpenSSH
14 11 (0.56%) XenDesktop
15 9 (0.46%) VMware Server
16 8 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.40%) VMware NSX
17 7 (0.35%) KVM
18 5 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 170 (8.59%) Ansible
2 160 (8.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 136 (6.88%) SCCM
4 117 (5.92%) Kubernetes
5 101 (5.11%) Terraform
6 88 (4.45%) vCenter Server
7 60 (3.03%) WSUS
8 47 (2.38%) Puppet
9 38 (1.92%) SCOM
10 36 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
11 28 (1.42%) FortiGate
12 26 (1.31%) Nagios
13 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 18 (0.91%) ZABBIX
15 16 (0.81%) Grafana
15 16 (0.81%) NetBackup
15 16 (0.81%) SCDPM
16 15 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 13 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 713 (36.05%) VMware
2 680 (34.38%) Microsoft
3 237 (11.98%) Cisco
4 166 (8.39%) Veeam
5 127 (6.42%) Citrix
6 100 (5.06%) HP
7 88 (4.45%) Red Hat
8 66 (3.34%) Dell
9 63 (3.19%) Meraki
10 61 (3.08%) Aruba
11 56 (2.83%) Oracle
12 49 (2.48%) EMC
13 46 (2.33%) NetApp
14 39 (1.97%) Fortinet
15 37 (1.87%) IBM
16 36 (1.82%) SolarWinds
17 32 (1.62%) Google
17 32 (1.62%) Juniper
18 31 (1.57%) Palo Alto
19 28 (1.42%) Sophos