Network Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Network Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Network Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 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 767 875 1141
Rank change year-on-year +108 +266 -275
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 155 70 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.075% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.082% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 133 65 102
10th Percentile £37,020 £36,000 £36,425
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +22.58%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £47,000 £48,875
% change year-on-year +5.32% -3.84% +13.01%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Network Infrastructure Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Infrastructure Engineer within the UK 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
England +106 146 £50,000 +5.26% 18
UK excluding London +22 125 £49,500 +5.32% 15
South East +34 53 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Work from Home +67 40 £49,000 +8.89% 6
London +64 24 £62,500 +5.93% 8
North of England +36 20 £42,500 -5.56% 1
North West +5 18 £42,500 -9.57%
Midlands -22 17 £50,000 +5.26% 4
South West -23 16 £57,500 +46.35% 3
East of England - 16 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -9 9 £45,000 -5.26% 2
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 - 2
Scotland -61 3 £50,000 - 3
Yorkshire +62 1 £29,472 -9.32%
North East -15 1 £29,000 -31.76% 1

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

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

1 150 (96.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 73 (47.10%) Firewall
3 66 (42.58%) Azure
4 60 (38.71%) Cisco
5 57 (36.77%) WAN
5 57 (36.77%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (34.84%) VMware
7 50 (32.26%) Windows
8 44 (28.39%) Microsoft
9 42 (27.10%) Active Directory
10 41 (26.45%) LAN
11 40 (25.81%) Data Centre
12 38 (24.52%) Linux
13 37 (23.87%) VPN
14 33 (21.29%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (20.65%) Social Skills
16 27 (17.42%) Windows Server
17 26 (16.77%) CCNA
17 26 (16.77%) DNS
18 25 (16.13%) AWS
19 24 (15.48%) Microsoft Exchange
20 23 (14.84%) Wireless
20 23 (14.84%) SD-WAN
21 21 (13.55%) Wi-Fi
21 21 (13.55%) SQL Server
21 21 (13.55%) VMware Infrastructure
21 21 (13.55%) Driving Licence
22 20 (12.90%) Aruba
22 20 (12.90%) BGP
23 19 (12.26%) Microsoft Intune

Network 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 24 (15.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.39%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.16%) IIS
3 8 (5.16%) WordPress
4 2 (1.29%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 66 (42.58%) Azure
2 57 (36.77%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (16.13%) AWS
4 10 (6.45%) OneDrive
5 9 (5.81%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.87%) IaaS
7 5 (3.23%) GCP
8 4 (2.58%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.29%) Kong
9 2 (1.29%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.29%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.29%) SaaS
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (47.10%) Firewall
2 57 (36.77%) WAN
3 41 (26.45%) LAN
4 37 (23.87%) VPN
5 26 (16.77%) DNS
6 23 (14.84%) SD-WAN
6 23 (14.84%) Wireless
7 21 (13.55%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (12.90%) BGP
9 17 (10.97%) TCP/IP
10 16 (10.32%) DHCP
10 16 (10.32%) VLAN
11 15 (9.68%) MPLS
12 12 (7.74%) OSPF
13 11 (7.10%) Network Security
14 10 (6.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 10 (6.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (6.45%) SAN
15 9 (5.81%) BIG-IP
16 8 (5.16%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
General
1 32 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.68%) Finance
3 7 (4.52%) Retail
4 5 (3.23%) Advertising
5 4 (2.58%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.58%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.29%) Law
7 2 (1.29%) Military
7 2 (1.29%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.16%) LAMP
2 1 (0.65%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.65%) JSON
2 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.81%) Data Centre
2 21 (13.55%) Driving Licence
3 16 (10.32%) Replication
4 8 (5.16%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.94%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.29%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.29%) PropTech
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.65%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.65%) IoT
9 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (32.26%) Windows
2 38 (24.52%) Linux
3 27 (17.42%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.45%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.16%) VMS
5 8 (5.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (5.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.94%) Android
7 3 (1.94%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (96.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (9.03%) ITIL
4 11 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (7.10%) DevOps
4 11 (7.10%) Load Balancing
4 11 (7.10%) Migration
5 10 (6.45%) Customer Service
5 10 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (5.81%) Analytics
7 8 (5.16%) CI/CD
7 8 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (5.16%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (5.16%) Web Filtering
8 6 (3.87%) Presales
9 5 (3.23%) Client Onboarding
9 5 (3.23%) DDoS Mitigation
9 5 (3.23%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (3.23%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (3.23%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.03%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.10%) Bash
3 9 (5.81%) Python
4 2 (1.29%) SQL
5 1 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (21.29%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (16.77%) CCNA
3 14 (9.03%) CCNP
4 8 (5.16%) Degree
5 5 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.23%) CCIE
5 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.29%) MCSE
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) SLA
2 5 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (27.10%) Active Directory
2 21 (13.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.97%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.81%) vSphere
5 7 (4.52%) Docker
5 7 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.29%) KVM
6 2 (1.29%) QEMU
6 2 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.29%) Xen
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (12.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.81%) Terraform
3 8 (5.16%) Ansible
3 8 (5.16%) FortiGate
3 8 (5.16%) SCCM
4 6 (3.87%) Kubernetes
5 5 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (2.58%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 60 (38.71%) Cisco
2 54 (34.84%) VMware
3 44 (28.39%) Microsoft
4 20 (12.90%) Aruba
5 19 (12.26%) F5
6 16 (10.32%) HP
6 16 (10.32%) Palo Alto
7 15 (9.68%) Veeam
8 10 (6.45%) CheckPoint
8 10 (6.45%) Fortinet
8 10 (6.45%) Meraki
9 8 (5.16%) ProCurve
9 8 (5.16%) Synology
9 8 (5.16%) Zerto
10 7 (4.52%) Citrix
11 5 (3.23%) Draytek
12 4 (2.58%) Juniper
13 3 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.94%) SolarWinds
14 2 (1.29%) Google