Network Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £49,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 657 705 766
Rank change year-on-year +48 +61 -141
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 119 38 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.067% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.075% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 100 31 56
10th Percentile £35,675 £31,250 £34,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,802 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £45,773 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% -6.59% +11.36%
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,875 £67,500 £56,250
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
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 71,665 50,662 70,663
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 88.95% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,431 29,528 42,704
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 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,985
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%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Network 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 Network Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +40 53 £50,000 +5.26% 4
North of England +46 20 £42,500 -5.56%
North West +8 18 £42,500 -9.57%
Midlands +1 17 £50,000 +7.21% 4
South West -24 15 £57,500 +81.29% 2
East of England - 13 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -9 9 £45,000 -3.51% 2
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +69 1 £29,472 -23.94%
North East -11 1 £29,000 -31.76%
Scotland -63 1 £50,000 - 3
Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Network Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 117 (98.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (46.22%) WAN
3 53 (44.54%) Firewall
4 50 (42.02%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (41.18%) Azure
5 49 (41.18%) VMware
6 48 (40.34%) Cisco
7 41 (34.45%) Windows
8 40 (33.61%) LAN
9 36 (30.25%) Active Directory
10 32 (26.89%) Microsoft
10 32 (26.89%) Data Centre
11 27 (22.69%) VPN
11 27 (22.69%) Linux
12 25 (21.01%) Social Skills
13 24 (20.17%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (20.17%) CCNA
14 22 (18.49%) SD-WAN
15 21 (17.65%) Driving Licence
15 21 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
16 20 (16.81%) VMware Infrastructure
17 19 (15.97%) Microsoft Exchange
18 18 (15.13%) DNS
18 18 (15.13%) Windows Server
19 17 (14.29%) Wireless
20 16 (13.45%) HP
20 16 (13.45%) AWS
20 16 (13.45%) Hyper-V
20 16 (13.45%) Aruba
21 14 (11.76%) DHCP

Network 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 19 (15.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.36%) IIS
3 4 (3.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (42.02%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (41.18%) Azure
3 16 (13.45%) AWS
4 8 (6.72%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.04%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.36%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (2.52%) GCP
8 2 (1.68%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.84%) IaaS
9 1 (0.84%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (46.22%) WAN
2 53 (44.54%) Firewall
3 40 (33.61%) LAN
4 27 (22.69%) VPN
5 22 (18.49%) SD-WAN
6 21 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (15.13%) DNS
8 17 (14.29%) Wireless
9 14 (11.76%) DHCP
9 14 (11.76%) MPLS
9 14 (11.76%) TCP/IP
10 11 (9.24%) VLAN
11 10 (8.40%) BGP
12 7 (5.88%) SSL
13 6 (5.04%) SAN
14 5 (4.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (4.20%) VXLAN
15 4 (3.36%) BIG-IP
15 4 (3.36%) Broadband
15 4 (3.36%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.68%) JIRA
1 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.88%) Retail
3 5 (4.20%) Advertising
4 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.68%) Finance
6 2 (1.68%) Law
6 2 (1.68%) Military
7 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.36%) LAMP
2 1 (0.84%) JSON
2 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.89%) Data Centre
2 21 (17.65%) Driving Licence
3 11 (9.24%) Replication
4 5 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.52%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.84%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.84%) IoT
8 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 41 (34.45%) Windows
2 27 (22.69%) Linux
3 18 (15.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.04%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.36%) VMS
6 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.52%) Android
7 3 (2.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (98.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (10.92%) ITIL
2 13 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (9.24%) Migration
4 10 (8.40%) DevOps
5 9 (7.56%) Analytics
5 9 (7.56%) Load Balancing
6 8 (6.72%) CI/CD
6 8 (6.72%) Customer Service
6 8 (6.72%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (6.72%) Web Filtering
7 7 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (5.04%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (5.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (5.04%) Presales
9 5 (4.20%) Client Onboarding
9 5 (4.20%) Containerisation
9 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (4.20%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (4.20%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.20%) Bash
3 2 (1.68%) SQL
4 1 (0.84%) Bicep
4 1 (0.84%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (20.17%) CCNA
1 24 (20.17%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (6.72%) Degree
3 7 (5.88%) CCNP
4 5 (4.20%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) MCSE
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.68%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (30.25%) Active Directory
2 20 (16.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (13.45%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.88%) Docker
4 7 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.20%) vSphere
6 2 (1.68%) KVM
6 2 (1.68%) QEMU
6 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.68%) Xen
7 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.88%) Ansible
2 7 (5.88%) FortiGate
3 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.20%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (3.36%) BMC PATROL
5 4 (3.36%) SCCM
5 4 (3.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (41.18%) VMware
2 48 (40.34%) Cisco
3 32 (26.89%) Microsoft
4 16 (13.45%) Aruba
4 16 (13.45%) HP
5 11 (9.24%) F5
5 11 (9.24%) Veeam
6 10 (8.40%) Meraki
7 7 (5.88%) Citrix
8 6 (5.04%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.20%) Draytek
10 4 (3.36%) CheckPoint
10 4 (3.36%) Fortinet
10 4 (3.36%) Juniper
10 4 (3.36%) ProCurve
10 4 (3.36%) Synology
10 4 (3.36%) Zerto
11 3 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (1.68%) Darktrace
12 2 (1.68%) Ruckus Wireless