Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 197 209
Rank change year-on-year +109 +12 -76
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,222 969 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.81% 1.74% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.97% 1.96% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,814 740 1,090
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,888
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% +0.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,825 £62,825
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%

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 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
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 £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%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +99 547 £50,000 +11.11% 46
North of England +103 524 £45,000 - 62
South West +77 442 £50,000 +5.26% 43
Midlands +71 373 £45,000 -5.26% 46
North West +98 293 £45,000 -4.26% 29
East of England +75 208 £45,000 -10.00% 28
East Midlands +68 187 £45,000 -10.00% 20
West Midlands +51 186 £45,000 -5.26% 26
Yorkshire +68 152 £43,387 -0.26% 25
North East +35 77 £45,000 -1.64% 8
Scotland -28 75 £47,500 +5.56% 21
Wales +50 46 £41,067 +2.67% 9
Northern Ireland +9 8 £60,000 +23.08% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,152 (96.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 903 (40.64%) Windows
3 803 (36.14%) Azure
4 752 (33.84%) VMware
5 703 (31.64%) Microsoft
6 591 (26.60%) Active Directory
7 564 (25.38%) Microsoft 365
8 504 (22.68%) Windows Server
9 485 (21.83%) VMware Infrastructure
10 459 (20.66%) Linux
11 389 (17.51%) Firewall
12 336 (15.12%) DNS
13 335 (15.08%) Social Skills
14 333 (14.99%) Hyper-V
15 330 (14.85%) PowerShell
16 318 (14.31%) ITIL
17 311 (14.00%) Security Cleared
18 310 (13.95%) AWS
19 260 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
20 249 (11.21%) Data Centre
21 243 (10.94%) Cisco
22 235 (10.58%) DHCP
23 229 (10.31%) WAN
24 222 (9.99%) Microsoft Exchange
25 197 (8.87%) Finance
26 196 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
27 187 (8.42%) SAN
28 180 (8.10%) Veeam
29 179 (8.06%) LAN
30 178 (8.01%) DevOps

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
1 222 (9.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 161 (7.25%) SharePoint
3 43 (1.94%) IIS
4 9 (0.41%) CMS
5 6 (0.27%) Apache
5 6 (0.27%) Confluence
6 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.18%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.18%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.18%) WordPress
8 2 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.045%) JBoss
9 1 (0.045%) Moodle
9 1 (0.045%) nginx
9 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.045%) WebLogic
Applications
1 61 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.36%) AutoCAD
3 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.090%) CATIA
5 2 (0.090%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.090%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.090%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.045%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 803 (36.14%) Azure
2 564 (25.38%) Microsoft 365
3 310 (13.95%) AWS
4 168 (7.56%) Entra ID
5 131 (5.90%) SaaS
6 111 (5.00%) IaaS
7 49 (2.21%) PaaS
8 48 (2.16%) Nutanix
8 48 (2.16%) OneDrive
9 46 (2.07%) OpenShift
10 44 (1.98%) Power Platform
11 34 (1.53%) GCP
12 31 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (1.13%) Amazon S3
13 25 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (0.95%) GitHub
15 20 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (0.86%) Serverless
17 18 (0.81%) PowerApps
18 17 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 389 (17.51%) Firewall
2 336 (15.12%) DNS
3 235 (10.58%) DHCP
4 229 (10.31%) WAN
5 187 (8.42%) SAN
6 179 (8.06%) LAN
7 133 (5.99%) VPN
8 122 (5.49%) TCP/IP
9 92 (4.14%) Wi-Fi
10 81 (3.65%) VLAN
11 69 (3.11%) SD-WAN
12 68 (3.06%) Wireless
13 61 (2.75%) HTTP
14 54 (2.43%) NAS
15 46 (2.07%) VoIP
16 40 (1.80%) MPLS
17 39 (1.76%) WLAN
18 31 (1.40%) Internet
19 30 (1.35%) iSCSI
20 29 (1.31%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 39 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (1.49%) MySQL
4 17 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.59%) Big Data
6 11 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.27%) Power BI
8 6 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.18%) DB2
9 4 (0.18%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.090%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.045%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.045%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.045%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.045%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.045%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 39 (1.76%) GitLab
2 33 (1.49%) Git
3 30 (1.35%) JIRA
4 21 (0.95%) Artifactory
5 17 (0.77%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.45%) Trac
7 7 (0.32%) MSI
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.090%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.090%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.090%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.045%) TeamCity
General
1 335 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 197 (8.87%) Finance
3 109 (4.91%) Public Sector
4 74 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 73 (3.29%) Manufacturing
6 63 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (2.30%) Law
8 41 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 38 (1.71%) Retail
10 37 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (1.58%) Automotive
12 30 (1.35%) Legal
13 26 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.13%) Advertising
15 20 (0.90%) Banking
16 17 (0.77%) Games
16 17 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.36%) Military
18 6 (0.27%) Electronics
18 6 (0.27%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (0.95%) CSS
2 14 (0.63%) Web Services
3 12 (0.54%) .NET
3 12 (0.54%) XML
4 9 (0.41%) JSON
5 6 (0.27%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.27%) JSON Schema
5 6 (0.27%) KML
5 6 (0.27%) LAMP
5 6 (0.27%) LDAP
5 6 (0.27%) Regular Expression
5 6 (0.27%) Software Packaging
5 6 (0.27%) XML Schema
6 4 (0.18%) EJB
6 4 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.18%) YAML
7 3 (0.14%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.14%) Middleware
7 3 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.090%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 249 (11.21%) Data Centre
2 95 (4.28%) Public Cloud
3 80 (3.60%) Driving Licence
4 73 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 65 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 46 (2.07%) PKI
7 44 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 37 (1.67%) Replication
9 31 (1.40%) IoT
10 30 (1.35%) Clustering
11 26 (1.17%) Private Cloud
12 19 (0.86%) EMC VNX
13 16 (0.72%) CCTV
13 16 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
14 15 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.59%) Cyber Defence
16 12 (0.54%) CMDB
17 11 (0.50%) Cloud Native
17 11 (0.50%) Operational Technology
18 10 (0.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 903 (40.64%) Windows
2 504 (22.68%) Windows Server
3 459 (20.66%) Linux
4 135 (6.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 104 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 102 (4.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 85 (3.83%) Windows 10
8 73 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 42 (1.89%) Ubuntu
10 36 (1.62%) Unix
11 27 (1.22%) Android
11 27 (1.22%) Apple iOS
12 25 (1.13%) CentOS
12 25 (1.13%) Windows 7
13 20 (0.90%) VMS
14 18 (0.81%) Mac OS
14 18 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (0.77%) Windows XP
16 13 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
17 9 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,152 (96.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 318 (14.31%) ITIL
3 260 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
4 196 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
5 178 (8.01%) DevOps
6 164 (7.38%) Mentoring
7 159 (7.16%) Disaster Recovery
8 116 (5.22%) Migration
9 111 (5.00%) Coaching
10 102 (4.59%) Agile
10 102 (4.59%) Change Management
11 99 (4.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (4.19%) Roadmaps
13 92 (4.14%) Customer Service
14 90 (4.05%) Service Management
15 88 (3.96%) Service Delivery
16 76 (3.42%) Project Management
17 75 (3.38%) Server Management
18 71 (3.20%) Collaborative Working
18 71 (3.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 330 (14.85%) PowerShell
2 122 (5.49%) Python
3 107 (4.82%) Bash
4 84 (3.78%) SQL
5 43 (1.94%) Java
6 17 (0.77%) Perl
7 13 (0.59%) ActionScript
7 13 (0.59%) VB
8 10 (0.45%) Swift
9 8 (0.36%) Bicep
9 8 (0.36%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.36%) Ruby
10 6 (0.27%) C++
11 5 (0.23%) Go
11 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.14%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.090%) AWK
13 2 (0.090%) C#
13 2 (0.090%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.045%) C
Qualifications
1 311 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 172 (7.74%) Degree
3 170 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 164 (7.38%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
6 84 (3.78%) CCNA
7 48 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 35 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (1.44%) MCSE
11 26 (1.17%) HNC
12 24 (1.08%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 22 (0.99%) CCNP
14 16 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.63%) A+ Certification
16 13 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 9 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
19 8 (0.36%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.60%) SLA
2 35 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 25 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.63%) GDPR
6 12 (0.54%) NIST
6 12 (0.54%) QA
7 9 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.23%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.14%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.045%) NCSC
System Software
1 591 (26.60%) Active Directory
2 485 (21.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 333 (14.99%) Hyper-V
4 124 (5.58%) Docker
5 110 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
6 95 (4.28%) vSphere
7 81 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (1.04%) XenApp
9 22 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.86%) Firmware
11 18 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
12 16 (0.72%) NFS
13 14 (0.63%) pfSense
14 13 (0.59%) OpenSSH
15 10 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
16 9 (0.41%) VMware Server
16 9 (0.41%) XenDesktop
17 8 (0.36%) VMware NSX
18 7 (0.32%) KVM
19 6 (0.27%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 173 (7.79%) Ansible
2 163 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 139 (6.26%) SCCM
4 125 (5.63%) Kubernetes
5 109 (4.91%) Terraform
6 95 (4.28%) vCenter Server
7 60 (2.70%) WSUS
8 51 (2.30%) Puppet
9 38 (1.71%) EMC NetWorker
10 37 (1.67%) SCOM
11 29 (1.31%) FortiGate
11 29 (1.31%) Nagios
12 25 (1.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 19 (0.86%) ZABBIX
14 16 (0.72%) Grafana
14 16 (0.72%) SCDPM
15 15 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
15 15 (0.68%) NetBackup
16 14 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 752 (33.84%) VMware
2 703 (31.64%) Microsoft
3 243 (10.94%) Cisco
4 180 (8.10%) Veeam
5 134 (6.03%) Citrix
6 107 (4.82%) HP
7 88 (3.96%) Red Hat
8 67 (3.02%) Dell
9 66 (2.97%) Meraki
10 63 (2.84%) Aruba
11 62 (2.79%) Oracle
12 52 (2.34%) EMC
13 47 (2.12%) NetApp
14 39 (1.76%) Fortinet
14 39 (1.76%) IBM
15 38 (1.71%) SolarWinds
16 33 (1.49%) Palo Alto
17 32 (1.44%) Juniper
18 31 (1.40%) Sophos
19 28 (1.26%) ServiceNow