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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 239 289
Rank change year-on-year +133 +50 -112
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,540 1,465 2,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.42% 1.55% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.55% 1.70% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,077 1,162 1,776
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,813
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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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 +133 2,362 £50,000 - 323
UK excluding London +116 2,111 £47,500 +1.06% 282
Work from Home +95 812 £50,000 - 162
South East +83 518 £50,000 +11.11% 60
North of England +107 509 £45,000 - 65
South West +76 423 £50,000 +5.26% 49
London +70 367 £62,500 +4.17% 72
Midlands +81 350 £45,000 -5.26% 44
North West +90 276 £45,000 -4.26% 34
East of England +76 190 £45,000 -10.00% 35
East Midlands +73 180 £45,000 -10.00% 18
West Midlands +46 170 £45,000 -5.26% 26
Yorkshire +66 152 £44,274 -1.61% 26
North East +42 79 £44,274 -0.51% 5
Scotland -38 69 £47,500 +5.56% 27
Wales +45 45 £41,067 +2.67% 9
Northern Ireland +12 8 £60,000 +23.08% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,454 (96.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,106 (43.54%) Windows
3 974 (38.35%) Azure
4 872 (34.33%) VMware
5 857 (33.74%) Microsoft
6 732 (28.82%) Active Directory
7 693 (27.28%) Microsoft 365
8 615 (24.21%) Windows Server
9 564 (22.20%) Linux
10 558 (21.97%) VMware Infrastructure
11 486 (19.13%) Firewall
12 423 (16.65%) PowerShell
13 422 (16.61%) Social Skills
14 391 (15.39%) AWS
15 385 (15.16%) DNS
16 373 (14.69%) Security Cleared
17 366 (14.41%) Hyper-V
18 344 (13.54%) ITIL
19 312 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
20 285 (11.22%) Data Centre
21 283 (11.14%) Microsoft Exchange
21 283 (11.14%) WAN
22 279 (10.98%) Cisco
23 273 (10.75%) DHCP
24 272 (10.71%) Finance
25 237 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
26 233 (9.17%) LAN
27 232 (9.13%) DevOps
28 224 (8.82%) Entra ID
29 222 (8.74%) SAN

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
1 283 (11.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 184 (7.24%) SharePoint
3 48 (1.89%) IIS
4 10 (0.39%) Confluence
5 9 (0.35%) CMS
5 9 (0.35%) WordPress
6 8 (0.31%) Apache
7 6 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.16%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.079%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.039%) JBoss
12 1 (0.039%) Moodle
12 1 (0.039%) Site Server
12 1 (0.039%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.039%) WebLogic
Applications
1 71 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.079%) CATIA
5 2 (0.079%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.079%) Trello
6 1 (0.039%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.079%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.039%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 974 (38.35%) Azure
2 693 (27.28%) Microsoft 365
3 391 (15.39%) AWS
4 224 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 143 (5.63%) SaaS
6 141 (5.55%) IaaS
7 66 (2.60%) PaaS
8 59 (2.32%) OneDrive
9 50 (1.97%) GCP
10 49 (1.93%) Nutanix
11 47 (1.85%) OpenShift
12 45 (1.77%) Power Platform
13 35 (1.38%) GitHub
14 32 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.06%) Serverless
17 25 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 22 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
19 21 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
20 19 (0.75%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 486 (19.13%) Firewall
2 385 (15.16%) DNS
3 283 (11.14%) WAN
4 273 (10.75%) DHCP
5 233 (9.17%) LAN
6 222 (8.74%) SAN
7 173 (6.81%) VPN
8 140 (5.51%) TCP/IP
9 110 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
10 97 (3.82%) VLAN
11 79 (3.11%) Wireless
12 77 (3.03%) SD-WAN
13 62 (2.44%) HTTP
13 62 (2.44%) NAS
14 51 (2.01%) Internet
14 51 (2.01%) VoIP
15 49 (1.93%) MPLS
16 45 (1.77%) Network Security
16 45 (1.77%) WLAN
17 37 (1.46%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 45 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (1.30%) MySQL
4 22 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.59%) Big Data
7 10 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.24%) Power BI
9 5 (0.20%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.16%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.16%) DB2
10 4 (0.16%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.12%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.079%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.079%) Apache Pinot
12 2 (0.079%) Flink
12 2 (0.079%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.079%) Presto
13 1 (0.039%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 58 (2.28%) GitLab
2 41 (1.61%) Git
3 35 (1.38%) JIRA
4 29 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.87%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.39%) Trac
7 7 (0.28%) MSI
8 4 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.079%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.079%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.039%) Subversion
11 1 (0.039%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.039%) Vagrant
General
1 422 (16.61%) Social Skills
2 272 (10.71%) Finance
3 113 (4.45%) Public Sector
4 94 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (3.15%) Aerospace
6 70 (2.76%) Manufacturing
7 65 (2.56%) Law
7 65 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 59 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (2.28%) Retail
10 53 (2.09%) Banking
11 37 (1.46%) Legal
12 35 (1.38%) Automotive
12 35 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (1.18%) Advertising
14 18 (0.71%) Games
14 18 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (0.55%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.51%) Electronics
16 13 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.18%) CSS
2 18 (0.71%) .NET
3 15 (0.59%) LDAP
4 12 (0.47%) Web Services
4 12 (0.47%) XML
5 11 (0.43%) LAMP
6 10 (0.39%) JSON
7 8 (0.31%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.31%) Kafka
8 6 (0.24%) JSON Schema
8 6 (0.24%) KML
8 6 (0.24%) Regular Expression
8 6 (0.24%) Software Packaging
8 6 (0.24%) XML Schema
9 5 (0.20%) Middleware
9 5 (0.20%) Node.js
9 5 (0.20%) YAML
10 4 (0.16%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (0.16%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 285 (11.22%) Data Centre
2 100 (3.94%) Public Cloud
3 95 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
4 84 (3.31%) Driving Licence
5 68 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 58 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.13%) PKI
8 42 (1.65%) Replication
9 32 (1.26%) Private Cloud
10 30 (1.18%) IoT
11 29 (1.14%) Clustering
12 23 (0.91%) CCTV
13 22 (0.87%) Cloud Native
14 19 (0.75%) EMC VNX
15 18 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.67%) Client/Server
16 17 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
17 14 (0.55%) Fat Client
17 14 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
17 14 (0.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,106 (43.54%) Windows
2 615 (24.21%) Windows Server
3 564 (22.20%) Linux
4 154 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 122 (4.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 118 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 115 (4.53%) Windows 10
8 97 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (2.48%) Ubuntu
10 45 (1.77%) Unix
11 44 (1.73%) VMS
12 29 (1.14%) Apple iOS
13 28 (1.10%) CentOS
14 27 (1.06%) Android
15 26 (1.02%) Mac OS
15 26 (1.02%) Windows 7
16 17 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
16 17 (0.67%) Windows XP
17 13 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
18 10 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,454 (96.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 344 (13.54%) ITIL
3 312 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
4 232 (9.13%) DevOps
5 219 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
6 182 (7.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 175 (6.89%) Mentoring
8 144 (5.67%) Agile
9 140 (5.51%) Migration
10 124 (4.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 116 (4.57%) Change Management
12 113 (4.45%) Coaching
13 99 (3.90%) Service Management
14 98 (3.86%) Roadmaps
15 94 (3.70%) Customer Service
16 93 (3.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 89 (3.50%) Service Delivery
18 86 (3.39%) Project Management
19 85 (3.35%) Collaborative Working
20 80 (3.15%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 423 (16.65%) PowerShell
2 164 (6.46%) Python
3 128 (5.04%) Bash
4 121 (4.76%) SQL
5 51 (2.01%) Java
6 26 (1.02%) Perl
7 24 (0.94%) Ruby
8 13 (0.51%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.47%) ActionScript
9 12 (0.47%) VB
10 11 (0.43%) Korn
11 10 (0.39%) Go
11 10 (0.39%) Swift
12 8 (0.31%) Bicep
13 7 (0.28%) C++
14 6 (0.24%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.16%) C#
17 3 (0.12%) Rust
17 3 (0.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 373 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 211 (8.31%) DV Cleared
3 191 (7.52%) Degree
4 188 (7.40%) SC Cleared
5 101 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
6 89 (3.50%) CCNA
7 63 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 48 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 43 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (1.46%) MCSE
11 32 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 31 (1.22%) HNC
13 30 (1.18%) CCNP
14 26 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (0.71%) A+ Certification
17 14 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
18 13 (0.51%) DBS Check
18 13 (0.51%) MCP
18 13 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (3.82%) SLA
2 40 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 29 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (0.63%) GDPR
4 16 (0.63%) NIST
5 14 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.47%) QA
7 10 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.079%) PMO
11 1 (0.039%) NCSC
System Software
1 732 (28.82%) Active Directory
2 558 (21.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 366 (14.41%) Hyper-V
4 146 (5.75%) Docker
5 129 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
6 112 (4.41%) vSphere
7 87 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
8 32 (1.26%) XenApp
9 25 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
11 18 (0.71%) Firmware
11 18 (0.71%) XenDesktop
12 17 (0.67%) NFS
13 14 (0.55%) pfSense
14 12 (0.47%) OpenSSH
15 10 (0.39%) VMware NSX
16 9 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
16 9 (0.35%) VMware Server
17 7 (0.28%) KVM
17 7 (0.28%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 237 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 219 (8.62%) Ansible
3 172 (6.77%) Terraform
4 167 (6.57%) SCCM
5 134 (5.28%) Kubernetes
6 108 (4.25%) vCenter Server
7 68 (2.68%) Puppet
8 60 (2.36%) WSUS
9 38 (1.50%) EMC NetWorker
10 37 (1.46%) SCOM
11 31 (1.22%) FortiGate
12 29 (1.14%) Nagios
13 28 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 25 (0.98%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 20 (0.79%) NetBackup
16 19 (0.75%) ZABBIX
17 16 (0.63%) Grafana
17 16 (0.63%) SCDPM
17 16 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
18 15 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 872 (34.33%) VMware
2 857 (33.74%) Microsoft
3 279 (10.98%) Cisco
4 200 (7.87%) Veeam
5 162 (6.38%) Citrix
6 115 (4.53%) Red Hat
7 110 (4.33%) HP
8 78 (3.07%) Dell
9 76 (2.99%) Oracle
10 70 (2.76%) Meraki
11 68 (2.68%) Aruba
12 54 (2.13%) NetApp
13 51 (2.01%) EMC
14 48 (1.89%) Palo Alto
15 44 (1.73%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.65%) SolarWinds
17 39 (1.54%) IBM
18 38 (1.50%) Google
19 33 (1.30%) Juniper
20 31 (1.22%) ServiceNow