Infrastructure Specialist Jobs

Infrastructure Specialist
UK

The median Infrastructure Specialist salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 672 909 1101
Rank change year-on-year +237 +192 -256
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 228 66 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.066% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.072% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 149 53 107
10th Percentile £30,385 £36,550 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +12.90% -4.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,625 £86,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £44,900 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -0.22% -1.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
UK excluding London +158 205 £50,000 +11.36% 24
England +218 203 £50,000 -9.09% 23
North of England +126 114 £55,000 +27.91% 8
Work from Home +124 66 £65,000 +4.00% 5
Yorkshire +121 47 £58,500 +43.56% 1
North East +31 40 £41,500 -33.60% 6
South East +32 32 £55,000 +15.79% 4
South West - 28 £30,385 - 3
North West +27 27 £50,000 +0.70% 1
Midlands +18 15 £41,500 -33.06% 2
West Midlands +18 14 £41,500 -33.06% 1
London +105 11 £63,264 +15.03% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £65,000 -
Scotland -51 4 £65,000 +109.68% 6
Wales - 4 £65,000 -
East of England - 3 £50,000 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Infrastructure Specialist in the job title.

1 75 (32.89%) Windows
2 72 (31.58%) Azure
3 68 (29.82%) Active Directory
4 62 (27.19%) Windows Server
5 58 (25.44%) VMware
6 57 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 55 (24.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 49 (21.49%) Microsoft 365
9 47 (20.61%) SAN
10 40 (17.54%) Entra ID
11 36 (15.79%) Security Cleared
12 32 (14.04%) SC Cleared
13 31 (13.60%) IBM
13 31 (13.60%) Migration
14 30 (13.16%) Oracle
15 29 (12.72%) CSS
15 29 (12.72%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (12.28%) Roadmaps
17 27 (11.84%) Driving Licence
18 26 (11.40%) OneDrive
18 26 (11.40%) Finance
19 25 (10.96%) ITIL
19 25 (10.96%) Windows Server 2016
20 23 (10.09%) Cisco
20 23 (10.09%) VMware Infrastructure
21 22 (9.65%) Law
21 22 (9.65%) Firewall
22 21 (9.21%) Windows Server 2012
22 21 (9.21%) Mentoring
23 20 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune

Infrastructure Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 72 (31.58%) Azure
2 49 (21.49%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (17.54%) Entra ID
4 26 (11.40%) OneDrive
5 12 (5.26%) AWS
6 6 (2.63%) SaaS
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.44%) IaaS
7 1 (0.44%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.44%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.44%) OCI
7 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (20.61%) SAN
2 22 (9.65%) Firewall
3 20 (8.77%) Wireless
4 16 (7.02%) NAS
5 13 (5.70%) LAN
6 12 (5.26%) DNS
7 11 (4.82%) WAN
8 9 (3.95%) DHCP
9 6 (2.63%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.32%) Network Security
10 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.32%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.88%) BGP
11 2 (0.88%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.88%) OSPF
11 2 (0.88%) VLAN
11 2 (0.88%) VPN
11 2 (0.88%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
General
1 26 (11.40%) Finance
2 22 (9.65%) Law
3 16 (7.02%) Social Skills
4 4 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (0.44%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.72%) CSS
2 2 (0.88%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.72%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (11.84%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.95%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.07%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.63%) Clustering
5 6 (2.63%) Replication
6 5 (2.19%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.32%) Smart Energy
8 2 (0.88%) NHS
9 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.44%) PKI
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 75 (32.89%) Windows
2 62 (27.19%) Windows Server
3 25 (10.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (9.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (5.70%) Windows 10
6 12 (5.26%) Linux
7 10 (4.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.95%) Windows NT
8 9 (3.95%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.32%) Kali Linux
9 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (13.60%) Migration
3 28 (12.28%) Roadmaps
4 25 (10.96%) ITIL
5 21 (9.21%) Mentoring
6 16 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (7.02%) Preventative Maintenance
7 13 (5.70%) Cost Management
7 13 (5.70%) Performance Optimisation
8 12 (5.26%) Energy Management
8 12 (5.26%) Operations Management
9 11 (4.82%) Computer Science
9 11 (4.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (4.39%) Customer Service
10 10 (4.39%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (3.95%) Data Protection
11 9 (3.95%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (3.95%) Service Management
12 8 (3.51%) High Availability
12 8 (3.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.14%) PowerShell
2 9 (3.95%) VBScript
3 1 (0.44%) ActionScript
3 1 (0.44%) SQL
3 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.77%) Degree
4 16 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.88%) CCIE
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.88%) MCSA
7 2 (0.88%) MCSE
8 1 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.39%) GDPR
1 10 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.63%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.19%) SOC 1
4 3 (1.32%) NIST
5 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (29.82%) Active Directory
2 23 (10.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (6.58%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.95%) Firmware
6 3 (1.32%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.44%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.44%) vSphere
8 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 20 (8.77%) SCCM
2 17 (7.46%) vCenter Server
3 9 (3.95%) Sysprep
3 9 (3.95%) WSUS
4 3 (1.32%) SCVMM
4 3 (1.32%) SELinux
5 2 (0.88%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.44%) IBM BigFix
6 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 58 (25.44%) VMware
2 57 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 31 (13.60%) IBM
4 30 (13.16%) Oracle
5 23 (10.09%) Cisco
6 7 (3.07%) Citrix
7 2 (0.88%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (0.88%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.88%) NetApp
7 2 (0.88%) Veeam
7 2 (0.88%) Veritas
8 1 (0.44%) Capita
8 1 (0.44%) Dell
8 1 (0.44%) Meraki