IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 620 696
Rank change year-on-year +138 +76 -143
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 300 108 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 245 89 162
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.12% +4.71%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £55,600 £57,500 £58,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

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 74,776 49,490 72,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.82% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 29,308 43,150
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Midlands +38 115 £40,000 -11.11% 4
North of England +76 82 £42,500 +3.03% 13
East Midlands +30 79 £40,000 -30.43% 3
South West -2 38 £45,000 -10.00% 2
North West +19 36 £46,500 +12.73% 8
West Midlands +12 36 £43,750 -2.78% 1
Yorkshire +95 35 £42,500 -5.56% 4
South East -7 34 £50,000 +11.11% 5
East of England -1 15 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Wales +19 12 £42,500 - 4
North East -8 9 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Scotland -55 4 £42,500 +6.25% 1
IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 296 (98.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 155 (51.67%) Windows
3 132 (44.00%) Azure
4 129 (43.00%) Microsoft
5 118 (39.33%) Active Directory
6 117 (39.00%) Microsoft 365
7 115 (38.33%) VMware
8 97 (32.33%) Firewall
9 90 (30.00%) Windows Server
10 76 (25.33%) VMware Infrastructure
11 55 (18.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 54 (18.00%) DNS
13 53 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
15 50 (16.67%) Social Skills
16 47 (15.67%) Cisco
17 46 (15.33%) SharePoint
17 46 (15.33%) Hyper-V
18 45 (15.00%) DHCP
19 44 (14.67%) Windows Server 2016
20 42 (14.00%) Linux
21 41 (13.67%) Entra ID
22 40 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
23 39 (13.00%) ITIL
24 38 (12.67%) Wi-Fi
25 37 (12.33%) SAN
26 36 (12.00%) PowerShell
27 35 (11.67%) Veeam
28 32 (10.67%) Microsoft Intune
29 31 (10.33%) Migration

IT 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 55 (18.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (15.33%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.33%) IIS
4 2 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Moodle
Applications
1 28 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 132 (44.00%) Azure
2 117 (39.00%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (13.67%) Entra ID
4 28 (9.33%) AWS
5 10 (3.33%) Mimecast
5 10 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 9 (3.00%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.00%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.00%) IaaS
7 3 (1.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.67%) OpenDNS
8 2 (0.67%) PaaS
8 2 (0.67%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.67%) SaaS
9 1 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.33%) OCI
9 1 (0.33%) Slack
9 1 (0.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 97 (32.33%) Firewall
2 54 (18.00%) DNS
3 45 (15.00%) DHCP
4 38 (12.67%) Wi-Fi
5 37 (12.33%) SAN
6 29 (9.67%) WAN
7 27 (9.00%) TCP/IP
8 23 (7.67%) VLAN
8 23 (7.67%) VPN
9 19 (6.33%) LAN
10 14 (4.67%) SD-WAN
11 13 (4.33%) Network Security
12 8 (2.67%) NAS
13 7 (2.33%) WLAN
14 6 (2.00%) BGP
14 6 (2.00%) VoIP
14 6 (2.00%) Wireless
15 4 (1.33%) Internet
15 4 (1.33%) MPLS
15 4 (1.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.67%) JIRA
1 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (6.67%) Law
3 19 (6.33%) Finance
4 16 (5.33%) Telecoms
5 13 (4.33%) Automotive
5 13 (4.33%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.00%) Legal
6 6 (2.00%) Retail
7 5 (1.67%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Military
10 2 (0.67%) Electronics
10 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.67%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.67%) LAMP
1 2 (0.67%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.00%) CCTV
3 10 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.00%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.67%) IoT
8 4 (1.33%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.33%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.33%) iPad
8 4 (1.33%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.00%) Clustering
9 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.67%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.67%) PKI
10 2 (0.67%) Replication
11 1 (0.33%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 155 (51.67%) Windows
2 90 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 44 (14.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 42 (14.00%) Linux
5 21 (7.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (6.00%) Android
7 18 (6.00%) Apple iOS
8 15 (5.00%) Windows 10
9 7 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.67%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.33%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.67%) Unix
12 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.33%) AIX
13 1 (0.33%) CentOS
13 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (98.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
4 40 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (13.00%) ITIL
6 31 (10.33%) Migration
7 20 (6.67%) Project Management
8 18 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (6.00%) Customer Service
8 18 (6.00%) Infrastructure Management
9 17 (5.67%) Logistics
10 15 (5.00%) Project Delivery
11 14 (4.67%) Storage Management
12 13 (4.33%) Containerisation
12 13 (4.33%) Service Delivery
12 13 (4.33%) Service Management
13 11 (3.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
14 10 (3.33%) Mathematics
14 10 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (3.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.67%) SQL
3 10 (3.33%) Swift
4 7 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (7.33%) Degree
2 12 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.00%) CCNA
4 6 (2.00%) MCSE
4 6 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.67%) CCNP
9 1 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.33%) HNC
9 1 (0.33%) HND
9 1 (0.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.67%) SLA
2 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 118 (39.33%) Active Directory
2 76 (25.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (15.33%) Hyper-V
4 15 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
4 15 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (4.00%) vSphere
6 9 (3.00%) Docker
7 6 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.67%) VMware Server
9 4 (1.33%) Firmware
10 2 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.67%) pfSense
10 2 (0.67%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (10.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (6.33%) SCCM
3 10 (3.33%) Ansible
3 10 (3.33%) WSUS
4 6 (2.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 6 (2.00%) SCOM
5 5 (1.67%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.33%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.00%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.67%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.67%) NetCrunch
8 2 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.67%) vRealize
9 1 (0.33%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 129 (43.00%) Microsoft
2 115 (38.33%) VMware
3 47 (15.67%) Cisco
4 35 (11.67%) Veeam
5 21 (7.00%) Citrix
6 16 (5.33%) Meraki
7 10 (3.33%) Acronis
7 10 (3.33%) NetApp
8 9 (3.00%) Fortinet
8 9 (3.00%) HP
9 8 (2.67%) Aruba
9 8 (2.67%) Dell
10 7 (2.33%) Nasuni
10 7 (2.33%) Oracle
10 7 (2.33%) Rapid7
11 6 (2.00%) McAfee
11 6 (2.00%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.33%) Cylance
13 4 (1.33%) Extreme Networks