Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 31 134
Rank change year-on-year -43 +103 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 2,497 4,362 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.52% 7.24% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 7.57% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,121 1,157 1,430
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,995 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,720 £40,804 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,635 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.05% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,208 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region 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
North of England -21 684 £46,000 -3.16% 71
South East -15 624 £50,000 +0.50% 89
South West -20 442 £50,000 - 78
Midlands -34 402 £45,000 -10.00% 73
North West -37 322 £47,500 -2.06% 37
Yorkshire +3 258 £45,000 - 28
West Midlands -41 208 £45,000 -9.09% 42
East Midlands -15 194 £45,000 -10.00% 30
East of England -46 193 £45,000 -11.76% 44
North East -24 102 £44,274 +4.17% 9
Scotland -119 90 £45,000 -10.00% 31
Wales -17 60 £41,067 -6.13% 12
Northern Ireland -16 7 £60,000 +29.73% 2
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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
1 271 (10.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (7.17%) SharePoint
3 55 (2.20%) IIS
4 11 (0.44%) CMS
5 7 (0.28%) Apache
6 6 (0.24%) Confluence
6 6 (0.24%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.16%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.16%) WordPress
9 2 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.040%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.040%) nginx
10 1 (0.040%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.040%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.24%) LightWave 3D
3 6 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
4 5 (0.20%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.080%) CATIA
6 2 (0.080%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.080%) Trello
7 1 (0.040%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.080%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.040%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (41.13%) Azure
2 783 (31.36%) Microsoft 365
3 404 (16.18%) AWS
4 233 (9.33%) Entra ID
5 137 (5.49%) IaaS
6 129 (5.17%) SaaS
7 83 (3.32%) PaaS
8 67 (2.68%) GCP
9 65 (2.60%) OneDrive
10 47 (1.88%) OpenShift
11 41 (1.64%) Power Platform
12 36 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
13 34 (1.36%) Nutanix
14 25 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (1.00%) Amazon S3
15 24 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (0.88%) GitHub
17 21 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 20 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 482 (19.30%) Firewall
2 386 (15.46%) DNS
3 297 (11.89%) WAN
4 291 (11.65%) DHCP
5 239 (9.57%) LAN
6 208 (8.33%) SAN
7 160 (6.41%) VPN
8 131 (5.25%) TCP/IP
9 109 (4.37%) Wi-Fi
10 103 (4.12%) SD-WAN
11 86 (3.44%) Wireless
12 82 (3.28%) VLAN
13 65 (2.60%) HTTP
14 61 (2.44%) Network Security
15 56 (2.24%) NAS
16 53 (2.12%) VoIP
17 49 (1.96%) WLAN
18 46 (1.84%) Internet
19 44 (1.76%) MPLS
20 38 (1.52%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 55 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (1.52%) MySQL
4 24 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (0.52%) Big Data
7 13 (0.52%) Power BI
8 9 (0.36%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.36%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.32%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.24%) SQLite
11 5 (0.20%) DB2
12 4 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.040%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.040%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.040%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 48 (1.92%) Git
2 41 (1.64%) GitLab
3 33 (1.32%) JIRA
4 28 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.40%) Trac
7 7 (0.28%) MSI
7 7 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.20%) Subversion
10 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.080%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.080%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.080%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.040%) Gradle
12 1 (0.040%) Maven
General
1 460 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 233 (9.33%) Finance
3 122 (4.89%) Public Sector
4 89 (3.56%) Law
5 82 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (3.16%) Aerospace
7 64 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (2.12%) Retail
9 45 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 37 (1.48%) Automotive
11 29 (1.16%) Advertising
11 29 (1.16%) Electronics
12 28 (1.12%) Games
12 28 (1.12%) Legal
13 26 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (0.80%) Banking
16 13 (0.52%) Military
17 11 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,860 (74.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 434 (17.38%) Senior
3 379 (15.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 340 (13.62%) IT Engineer
5 265 (10.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 157 (6.29%) Support Engineer
7 132 (5.29%) Infrastructure Support
8 130 (5.21%) Network Engineer
9 127 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 113 (4.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 110 (4.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 108 (4.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 101 (4.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 98 (3.92%) Lead
15 95 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 86 (3.44%) IT Support
17 82 (3.28%) Security Engineer
18 77 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
19 72 (2.88%) IT Support Engineer
20 71 (2.84%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.20%) .NET
2 14 (0.56%) XML
3 13 (0.52%) JSON
4 12 (0.48%) .NET Framework
4 12 (0.48%) Web Services
5 9 (0.36%) OLE
6 7 (0.28%) .NET Core
6 7 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (0.28%) LDAP
7 6 (0.24%) JSON Schema
7 6 (0.24%) KML
7 6 (0.24%) LAMP
7 6 (0.24%) React
7 6 (0.24%) Regular Expression
7 6 (0.24%) Software Packaging
7 6 (0.24%) XML Schema
8 5 (0.20%) AWS CDK
8 5 (0.20%) Node.js
8 5 (0.20%) YAML
9 4 (0.16%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 268 (10.73%) Data Centre
2 136 (5.45%) Public Cloud
3 89 (3.56%) Driving Licence
4 63 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 50 (2.00%) PKI
8 42 (1.68%) Replication
9 41 (1.64%) Cloud Native
10 38 (1.52%) Private Cloud
11 35 (1.40%) IoT
12 31 (1.24%) Clustering
13 26 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.00%) Onboarding
15 20 (0.80%) PMI
16 19 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
17 17 (0.68%) EMC VNX
18 16 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
19 14 (0.56%) CMDB
19 14 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1,155 (46.26%) Windows
2 663 (26.55%) Windows Server
3 522 (20.91%) Linux
4 170 (6.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 136 (5.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 132 (5.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 105 (4.21%) Windows 10
8 83 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 47 (1.88%) Ubuntu
10 44 (1.76%) Unix
11 31 (1.24%) Android
12 28 (1.12%) Apple iOS
13 27 (1.08%) Windows 7
14 26 (1.04%) CentOS
14 26 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
15 22 (0.88%) Mac OS
15 22 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
16 21 (0.84%) VMS
17 16 (0.64%) Windows NT
17 16 (0.64%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (17.30%) ITIL
2 325 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
3 290 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
4 250 (10.01%) DevOps
5 237 (9.49%) Mentoring
6 183 (7.33%) Customer Service
7 179 (7.17%) Disaster Recovery
8 161 (6.45%) Agile
9 152 (6.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 140 (5.61%) Migration
11 139 (5.57%) Coaching
12 131 (5.25%) Change Management
13 121 (4.85%) Roadmaps
13 121 (4.85%) Service Management
14 119 (4.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 110 (4.41%) Project Management
16 98 (3.92%) Service Delivery
17 95 (3.80%) Project Delivery
18 94 (3.76%) Server Management
19 82 (3.28%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 403 (16.14%) PowerShell
2 163 (6.53%) Python
3 134 (5.37%) SQL
4 113 (4.53%) Bash
5 50 (2.00%) Java
6 23 (0.92%) C#
7 19 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 12 (0.48%) Perl
8 12 (0.48%) Shell Script
9 10 (0.40%) Swift
9 10 (0.40%) VBScript
10 9 (0.36%) ActionScript
10 9 (0.36%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.36%) VB
11 6 (0.24%) Bicep
11 6 (0.24%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.20%) C++
13 4 (0.16%) C
13 4 (0.16%) Ruby
14 3 (0.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 421 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 236 (9.45%) DV Cleared
3 231 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 204 (8.17%) Degree
5 134 (5.37%) Cisco Certification
6 114 (4.57%) CCNA
7 85 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 60 (2.40%) Azure Certification
9 51 (2.04%) CCNP
10 45 (1.80%) MCSE
11 40 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 26 (1.04%) CISSP
14 25 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 20 (0.80%) PMI Certification
16 18 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (0.68%) A+ Certification
18 16 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
19 14 (0.56%) MCP
19 14 (0.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.21%) SLA
2 58 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 58 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (0.72%) GDPR
3 18 (0.72%) NIST
4 17 (0.68%) QA
5 12 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 12 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.44%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.20%) SOC 1
9 3 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.040%) NCSC
System Software
1 765 (30.64%) Active Directory
2 524 (20.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 397 (15.90%) Hyper-V
4 137 (5.49%) Docker
5 113 (4.53%) VMware ESXi
6 88 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
7 85 (3.40%) vSphere
8 39 (1.56%) Firmware
9 26 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
10 24 (0.96%) XenApp
11 14 (0.56%) NFS
11 14 (0.56%) XenDesktop
12 12 (0.48%) pfSense
13 11 (0.44%) VMware Server
14 10 (0.40%) KVM
15 9 (0.36%) OpenSSH
16 8 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.32%) VMware NSX
17 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 244 (9.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (8.41%) Ansible
3 158 (6.33%) SCCM
4 153 (6.13%) Kubernetes
4 153 (6.13%) Terraform
5 85 (3.40%) vCenter Server
6 72 (2.88%) Puppet
7 69 (2.76%) WSUS
8 43 (1.72%) SCOM
9 42 (1.68%) FortiGate
10 39 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 36 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
12 30 (1.20%) ZABBIX
13 27 (1.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 27 (1.08%) Nagios
14 20 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
15 17 (0.68%) Grafana
16 16 (0.64%) NetBackup
16 16 (0.64%) SCDPM
17 15 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 870 (34.84%) Microsoft
2 836 (33.48%) VMware
3 337 (13.50%) Cisco
4 180 (7.21%) Veeam
5 160 (6.41%) Citrix
6 113 (4.53%) HP
7 97 (3.88%) Red Hat
8 92 (3.68%) Dell
9 81 (3.24%) Fortinet
10 79 (3.16%) Meraki
11 69 (2.76%) Aruba
12 63 (2.52%) Palo Alto
13 56 (2.24%) NetApp
14 55 (2.20%) SolarWinds
15 50 (2.00%) EMC
16 49 (1.96%) Google
17 44 (1.76%) ServiceNow
18 42 (1.68%) Juniper
18 42 (1.68%) Sophos
19 38 (1.52%) Oracle