Infrastructure Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 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 559 722 776
Rank change year-on-year +163 +54 -123
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 208 48 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.082% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.092% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 137 19 72
10th Percentile £30,385 £34,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £63,250 £62,875 £49,063
90th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £59,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +12.90% -2.11%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist 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 +128 118 £55,000 +16.44% 3
Yorkshire +112 47 £58,500 +44.44% 1
North East +33 43 £55,000 -12.00% 2
South East +33 30 £55,000 +15.79% 4
North West +20 28 £50,000 +6.84%
South West +5 28 £30,385 - 2
Midlands +4 15 £41,500 -33.06% 1
West Midlands +20 14 £41,500 -33.06% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £65,000 -
Scotland -55 4 £65,000 +109.68% 4
East of England - 4 £49,293 - 1
Wales - 4 £65,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 71 (34.13%) Windows
1 71 (34.13%) Azure
2 65 (31.25%) Active Directory
3 59 (28.37%) Windows Server
4 57 (27.40%) VMware
5 54 (25.96%) Microsoft
6 52 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 48 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
8 38 (18.27%) Entra ID
9 37 (17.79%) SAN
10 35 (16.83%) Security Cleared
11 33 (15.87%) SC Cleared
12 31 (14.90%) Migration
13 29 (13.94%) Roadmaps
14 26 (12.50%) Finance
15 25 (12.02%) OneDrive
16 24 (11.54%) Driving Licence
17 22 (10.58%) VMware Infrastructure
17 22 (10.58%) Law
17 22 (10.58%) Firewall
17 22 (10.58%) ITIL
17 22 (10.58%) Windows Server 2016
18 21 (10.10%) Oracle
18 21 (10.10%) IBM
18 21 (10.10%) Mentoring
19 20 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
19 20 (9.62%) Cisco
19 20 (9.62%) CSS
19 20 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
20 19 (9.13%) VMware ESXi

Infrastructure Specialist 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 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 71 (34.13%) Azure
2 48 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (18.27%) Entra ID
4 25 (12.02%) OneDrive
5 12 (5.77%) AWS
6 6 (2.88%) SaaS
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.48%) IaaS
7 1 (0.48%) OCI
7 1 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (17.79%) SAN
2 22 (10.58%) Firewall
3 18 (8.65%) Wireless
4 16 (7.69%) NAS
5 12 (5.77%) DNS
6 11 (5.29%) LAN
7 9 (4.33%) DHCP
7 9 (4.33%) WAN
8 6 (2.88%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (1.44%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.44%) Network Security
9 3 (1.44%) Unified Communications
9 3 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.96%) VPN
10 2 (0.96%) WLAN
11 1 (0.48%) Internet
11 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
General
1 26 (12.50%) Finance
2 22 (10.58%) Law
3 9 (4.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.44%) Retail
5 1 (0.48%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.62%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.54%) Driving Licence
2 20 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.37%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.88%) Clustering
5 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.40%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.44%) Smart Energy
7 2 (0.96%) NHS
8 1 (0.48%) PKI
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (34.13%) Windows
2 59 (28.37%) Windows Server
3 22 (10.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (8.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (5.77%) Linux
6 10 (4.81%) Windows 10
7 9 (4.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (3.37%) Windows NT
10 3 (1.44%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (14.90%) Migration
3 29 (13.94%) Roadmaps
4 22 (10.58%) ITIL
5 21 (10.10%) Mentoring
6 16 (7.69%) Preventative Maintenance
7 15 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (6.25%) Cost Management
8 13 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (5.77%) Energy Management
9 12 (5.77%) Operations Management
10 9 (4.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (3.85%) Customer Service
11 8 (3.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 7 (3.37%) Decision-Making
12 7 (3.37%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (3.37%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (3.37%) Service Management
13 6 (2.88%) Network Design
13 6 (2.88%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.73%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.33%) VBScript
3 1 (0.48%) ActionScript
3 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (6.25%) Degree
5 10 (4.81%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.96%) MCSA
6 2 (0.96%) MCSE
7 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) GDPR
1 10 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.88%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.40%) SOC 1
4 3 (1.44%) NIST
5 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 65 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 22 (10.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.13%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (7.21%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.37%) Firmware
6 3 (1.44%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.48%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.48%) vSphere
8 1 (0.48%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (8.65%) SCCM
3 17 (8.17%) vCenter Server
4 7 (3.37%) Sysprep
4 7 (3.37%) WSUS
5 3 (1.44%) SCVMM
5 3 (1.44%) SELinux
6 2 (0.96%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.48%) IBM BigFix
7 1 (0.48%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.48%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 57 (27.40%) VMware
2 54 (25.96%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.10%) IBM
3 21 (10.10%) Oracle
4 20 (9.62%) Cisco
5 6 (2.88%) Citrix
6 2 (0.96%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (0.96%) Fortinet
6 2 (0.96%) NetApp
6 2 (0.96%) Veeam
6 2 (0.96%) Veritas
7 1 (0.48%) Capita
7 1 (0.48%) Dell
7 1 (0.48%) Meraki