Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 245 285
Rank change year-on-year +127 +40 -110
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,339 1,498 2,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.34% 1.51% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.47% 1.65% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,934 1,198 1,767
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £59,996 £61,250 £61,125
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -

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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +129 2,174 £50,000 - 318
UK excluding London +108 1,943 £47,500 +1.06% 273
Work from Home +111 789 £50,000 - 124
North of England +108 487 £45,000 - 38
South East +86 478 £50,000 +11.11% 74
South West +77 389 £50,000 +5.26% 59
London +56 338 £63,000 +5.00% 75
Midlands +68 316 £45,000 -5.26% 49
North West +87 257 £45,000 -4.26% 18
East Midlands +70 163 £45,000 -10.00% 22
East of England +64 161 £45,000 -10.00% 29
West Midlands +38 153 £45,000 -5.26% 27
Yorkshire +93 152 £44,274 -1.61% 18
North East +41 76 £44,274 +2.37% 3
Scotland -43 65 £47,500 +5.56% 24
Wales +38 40 £41,067 +2.67% 4
Northern Ireland +14 9 £60,000 +33.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,253 (96.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,082 (46.26%) Windows
3 953 (40.74%) Azure
4 841 (35.96%) Microsoft
5 834 (35.66%) VMware
6 724 (30.95%) Active Directory
7 690 (29.50%) Microsoft 365
8 607 (25.95%) Windows Server
9 538 (23.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 537 (22.96%) Linux
11 469 (20.05%) Firewall
12 424 (18.13%) Social Skills
13 411 (17.57%) PowerShell
14 380 (16.25%) DNS
15 376 (16.08%) AWS
16 351 (15.01%) Security Cleared
17 349 (14.92%) Hyper-V
18 341 (14.58%) ITIL
19 312 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
20 285 (12.18%) Microsoft Exchange
21 280 (11.97%) WAN
22 279 (11.93%) Cisco
23 278 (11.89%) Data Centre
24 265 (11.33%) DHCP
25 259 (11.07%) Finance
26 229 (9.79%) LAN
26 229 (9.79%) DevOps
26 229 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
27 222 (9.49%) SAN
28 218 (9.32%) Entra ID

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
1 285 (12.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (7.95%) SharePoint
3 47 (2.01%) IIS
4 11 (0.47%) Confluence
5 9 (0.38%) Apache
5 9 (0.38%) CMS
5 9 (0.38%) WordPress
6 6 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.17%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.17%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.086%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.043%) JBoss
11 1 (0.043%) Moodle
11 1 (0.043%) Site Server
11 1 (0.043%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.043%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.30%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.086%) CATIA
5 2 (0.086%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.086%) Trello
6 1 (0.043%) 1Password
6 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.086%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 953 (40.74%) Azure
2 690 (29.50%) Microsoft 365
3 376 (16.08%) AWS
4 218 (9.32%) Entra ID
5 144 (6.16%) IaaS
6 132 (5.64%) SaaS
7 69 (2.95%) PaaS
8 56 (2.39%) OneDrive
9 55 (2.35%) GCP
10 44 (1.88%) OpenShift
11 42 (1.80%) Nutanix
12 40 (1.71%) GitHub
12 40 (1.71%) Power Platform
13 35 (1.50%) Amazon S3
14 32 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (1.33%) Serverless
16 28 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 26 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (0.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 469 (20.05%) Firewall
2 380 (16.25%) DNS
3 280 (11.97%) WAN
4 265 (11.33%) DHCP
5 229 (9.79%) LAN
6 222 (9.49%) SAN
7 169 (7.23%) VPN
8 134 (5.73%) TCP/IP
9 110 (4.70%) Wi-Fi
10 94 (4.02%) VLAN
11 81 (3.46%) SD-WAN
12 78 (3.33%) Wireless
13 61 (2.61%) NAS
14 58 (2.48%) HTTP
15 53 (2.27%) VoIP
16 46 (1.97%) MPLS
17 45 (1.92%) Internet
18 44 (1.88%) WLAN
19 43 (1.84%) Network Security
20 34 (1.45%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 45 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (1.37%) MySQL
4 19 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.64%) Big Data
7 10 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.26%) Power BI
9 4 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.17%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.17%) DB2
9 4 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.17%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.17%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.13%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.086%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.086%) Apache Pinot
11 2 (0.086%) Flink
11 2 (0.086%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.086%) Presto
Development Applications
1 55 (2.35%) GitLab
2 41 (1.75%) Git
3 36 (1.54%) JIRA
4 28 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.43%) Trac
7 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.30%) MSI
8 6 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.17%) Subversion
10 2 (0.086%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.086%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.043%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.043%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.043%) Vagrant
General
1 424 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 259 (11.07%) Finance
3 114 (4.87%) Public Sector
4 95 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (3.25%) Aerospace
6 66 (2.82%) Law
7 64 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 63 (2.69%) Manufacturing
9 55 (2.35%) Banking
9 55 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.31%) Retail
11 36 (1.54%) Legal
12 35 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.33%) Automotive
14 28 (1.20%) Advertising
15 16 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.60%) Games
17 13 (0.56%) Electronics
17 13 (0.56%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.28%) CSS
2 17 (0.73%) .NET
3 14 (0.60%) LDAP
4 13 (0.56%) XML
5 12 (0.51%) JSON
5 12 (0.51%) Web Services
6 11 (0.47%) LAMP
7 8 (0.34%) .NET Framework
8 6 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (0.26%) JSON Schema
8 6 (0.26%) Kafka
8 6 (0.26%) KML
8 6 (0.26%) Regular Expression
8 6 (0.26%) Software Packaging
8 6 (0.26%) XML Schema
8 6 (0.26%) YAML
9 5 (0.21%) Middleware
9 5 (0.21%) Node.js
9 5 (0.21%) SAML
10 4 (0.17%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 278 (11.89%) Data Centre
2 98 (4.19%) Public Cloud
3 95 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
4 84 (3.59%) Driving Licence
5 55 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 54 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 52 (2.22%) PKI
8 41 (1.75%) Replication
9 36 (1.54%) Private Cloud
10 27 (1.15%) IoT
11 25 (1.07%) Clustering
12 23 (0.98%) Cloud Native
13 22 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (0.86%) CCTV
15 17 (0.73%) Client/Server
15 17 (0.73%) EMC VNX
15 17 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (0.60%) CMDB
16 14 (0.60%) Fat Client
16 14 (0.60%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,082 (46.26%) Windows
2 607 (25.95%) Windows Server
3 537 (22.96%) Linux
4 150 (6.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 118 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 117 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 111 (4.75%) Windows 10
8 94 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 58 (2.48%) Ubuntu
10 46 (1.97%) Unix
11 42 (1.80%) VMS
12 31 (1.33%) Apple iOS
13 29 (1.24%) Android
14 27 (1.15%) Mac OS
15 26 (1.11%) Windows 7
16 25 (1.07%) CentOS
17 16 (0.68%) Windows XP
18 15 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
19 14 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
20 10 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,253 (96.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 341 (14.58%) ITIL
3 312 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
4 229 (9.79%) DevOps
5 213 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
6 177 (7.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 175 (7.48%) Mentoring
8 141 (6.03%) Agile
9 139 (5.94%) Migration
10 125 (5.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 113 (4.83%) Coaching
12 110 (4.70%) Change Management
13 107 (4.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 98 (4.19%) Roadmaps
15 96 (4.10%) Customer Service
15 96 (4.10%) Service Management
16 86 (3.68%) Project Management
17 85 (3.63%) Service Delivery
18 79 (3.38%) CI/CD
18 79 (3.38%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 411 (17.57%) PowerShell
2 159 (6.80%) Python
3 126 (5.39%) Bash
4 118 (5.04%) SQL
5 50 (2.14%) Java
6 23 (0.98%) Perl
7 18 (0.77%) Ruby
8 10 (0.43%) ActionScript
8 10 (0.43%) Swift
8 10 (0.43%) VB
9 9 (0.38%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.38%) Korn
10 8 (0.34%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.30%) Bicep
12 6 (0.26%) Go
13 5 (0.21%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.13%) C#
14 3 (0.13%) C++
14 3 (0.13%) Rust
14 3 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 351 (15.01%) Security Cleared
2 197 (8.42%) DV Cleared
3 188 (8.04%) Degree
4 180 (7.70%) SC Cleared
5 99 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
6 86 (3.68%) CCNA
7 64 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 51 (2.18%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (1.67%) MCSE
11 31 (1.33%) HNC
12 30 (1.28%) AWS Certification
13 29 (1.24%) CCNP
14 24 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 20 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.73%) A+ Certification
17 14 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
18 13 (0.56%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.56%) MCP
18 13 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (3.76%) SLA
2 36 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.73%) GDPR
5 14 (0.60%) NIST
6 13 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 11 (0.47%) QA
8 10 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.21%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.086%) PMO
12 1 (0.043%) NCSC
System Software
1 724 (30.95%) Active Directory
2 538 (23.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 349 (14.92%) Hyper-V
4 139 (5.94%) Docker
5 130 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 104 (4.45%) vSphere
7 87 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (1.20%) XenApp
9 22 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
10 21 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (0.77%) Firmware
12 16 (0.68%) NFS
12 16 (0.68%) XenDesktop
13 13 (0.56%) pfSense
14 10 (0.43%) OpenSSH
14 10 (0.43%) VMware NSX
14 10 (0.43%) VMware Server
15 8 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (0.30%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.26%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 229 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 212 (9.06%) Ansible
3 169 (7.23%) SCCM
4 165 (7.05%) Terraform
5 129 (5.52%) Kubernetes
6 102 (4.36%) vCenter Server
7 66 (2.82%) Puppet
8 60 (2.57%) WSUS
9 39 (1.67%) SCOM
10 36 (1.54%) EMC NetWorker
11 29 (1.24%) FortiGate
12 28 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 26 (1.11%) Nagios
14 25 (1.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 22 (0.94%) NetBackup
16 18 (0.77%) ZABBIX
17 16 (0.68%) Grafana
17 16 (0.68%) SCDPM
17 16 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
18 15 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 841 (35.96%) Microsoft
2 834 (35.66%) VMware
3 279 (11.93%) Cisco
4 192 (8.21%) Veeam
5 153 (6.54%) Citrix
6 111 (4.75%) Red Hat
7 104 (4.45%) HP
8 75 (3.21%) Dell
9 74 (3.16%) Oracle
10 67 (2.86%) Meraki
11 66 (2.82%) Aruba
12 53 (2.27%) NetApp
13 49 (2.09%) EMC
14 46 (1.97%) Palo Alto
15 44 (1.88%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.80%) Google
16 42 (1.80%) SolarWinds
17 40 (1.71%) IBM
18 34 (1.45%) Juniper
19 31 (1.33%) ServiceNow