Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 882 934 1232
Rank change year-on-year +52 +298 -343
Permanent jobs requiring a Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer 23 12 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.013% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.014% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 23 12 24
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £40,063 £36,581
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £54,000 £70,313 £56,563
90th Percentile £55,000 £76,875 £64,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,250 £39,550
% change year-on-year +11.80% +1.77% -12.11%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +79 23 £45,000 +5.88% 2
UK excluding London -21 22 £45,000 +11.80% 2
South West -17 12 £53,000 +24.71% 2
South East -4 9 £45,000 +5.88%
Work from Home +45 6 £38,750 -29.55%
London +105 1 £40,000 -43.86%
Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 -

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Microsoft 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 featuring Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (65.22%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (43.48%) Windows
3 10 (43.48%) Azure
4 9 (39.13%) Windows Server
5 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
5 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
6 6 (26.09%) VMware
7 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
8 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
8 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
8 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
9 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
9 3 (13.04%) VoIP
9 3 (13.04%) WAN
9 3 (13.04%) SQL
9 3 (13.04%) SCCM
10 2 (8.70%) Server Management
11 1 (4.35%) Availability Management
11 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (4.35%) Knowledge Transfer
11 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 1 (4.35%) Edge Virtualization
11 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
11 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto

Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer 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 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
1 3 (13.04%) VoIP
1 3 (13.04%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
3 2 (8.70%) Server Management
4 1 (4.35%) Availability Management
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Edge Virtualization
4 1 (4.35%) High Availability
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (4.35%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (4.35%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.35%) Performance Management
4 1 (4.35%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.35%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (4.35%) Task Automation
4 1 (4.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto