Infrastructure Engineering Jobs

Infrastructure Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 57 196
Rank change year-on-year -30 +139 -69
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3,077 5,294 3,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 5.34% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 5.59% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,610 1,771 2,311
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,073 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -26 2,853 £50,000 -4.76% 488
UK excluding London -40 2,530 £47,500 -2.06% 411
Work from Home +48 1,066 £50,000 -9.09% 208
North of England -22 694 £46,000 -3.16% 72
South East -18 633 £50,000 +1.01% 112
London -9 468 £65,000 - 130
South West -15 450 £50,000 - 83
Midlands -33 406 £45,000 -8.69% 63
North West -35 329 £47,500 -2.06% 33
Yorkshire +2 261 £45,000 - 36
West Midlands -40 210 £45,000 -5.26% 36
East Midlands -15 196 £45,000 -10.00% 27
East of England -47 194 £45,000 -14.29% 40
North East -23 102 £44,274 +4.17% 4
Scotland -121 91 £45,000 -10.00% 38
Wales -15 59 £41,067 -3.37% 10
Northern Ireland -20 7 £60,000 +33.33% 2

Infrastructure Engineering
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
1 333 (10.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 203 (6.60%) SharePoint
3 63 (2.05%) IIS
4 11 (0.36%) CMS
5 9 (0.29%) WordPress
6 8 (0.26%) Confluence
7 7 (0.23%) Apache
8 6 (0.19%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.097%) nginx
12 2 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.032%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.032%) Site Server
13 1 (0.032%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.19%) LightWave 3D
3 6 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.16%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.065%) CATIA
6 2 (0.065%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.065%) Trello
7 1 (0.032%) 1Password
7 1 (0.032%) Notion
7 1 (0.032%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 9 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.065%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.065%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.032%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.032%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,289 (41.89%) Azure
2 944 (30.68%) Microsoft 365
3 519 (16.87%) AWS
4 313 (10.17%) Entra ID
5 187 (6.08%) IaaS
6 174 (5.65%) SaaS
7 114 (3.70%) PaaS
8 94 (3.05%) GCP
9 76 (2.47%) OneDrive
10 61 (1.98%) Nutanix
11 53 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
11 53 (1.72%) Power Platform
12 47 (1.53%) OpenShift
13 38 (1.23%) GitHub
14 34 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
15 33 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (1.01%) Serverless
17 29 (0.94%) Amazon S3
17 29 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
18 22 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 604 (19.63%) Firewall
2 461 (14.98%) DNS
3 382 (12.41%) WAN
4 339 (11.02%) DHCP
5 322 (10.46%) LAN
6 279 (9.07%) SAN
7 213 (6.92%) VPN
8 154 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 153 (4.97%) Wi-Fi
10 118 (3.83%) Wireless
11 115 (3.74%) SD-WAN
11 115 (3.74%) VLAN
12 91 (2.96%) Internet
12 91 (2.96%) Network Security
13 70 (2.27%) NAS
14 69 (2.24%) HTTP
14 69 (2.24%) MPLS
15 60 (1.95%) WLAN
16 59 (1.92%) VoIP
17 53 (1.72%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 68 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (1.30%) MySQL
4 29 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (0.58%) Power BI
7 17 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.45%) Big Data
9 9 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.26%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.19%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.19%) SQLite
13 5 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.16%) DB2
14 4 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.13%) Tableau
15 3 (0.097%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (1.95%) Git
1 60 (1.95%) GitLab
2 40 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 38 (1.23%) JIRA
4 21 (0.68%) Artifactory
5 10 (0.32%) Trac
6 7 (0.23%) MSI
6 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.19%) Subversion
8 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.097%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.097%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.065%) Ant
10 2 (0.065%) Gradle
10 2 (0.065%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.065%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.065%) Vagrant
General
1 559 (18.17%) Social Skills
2 333 (10.82%) Finance
3 155 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 124 (4.03%) Law
6 92 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 91 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 89 (2.89%) Aerospace
9 78 (2.53%) Retail
10 68 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 63 (2.05%) Banking
12 46 (1.49%) Legal
13 38 (1.23%) Automotive
14 37 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 36 (1.17%) Advertising
16 35 (1.14%) Electronics
17 28 (0.91%) Games
18 25 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
19 20 (0.65%) Police
20 14 (0.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,253 (73.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 551 (17.91%) Senior
3 464 (15.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 386 (12.54%) IT Engineer
5 306 (9.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 193 (6.27%) Support Engineer
7 180 (5.85%) Network Engineer
8 170 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 163 (5.30%) Infrastructure Support
10 140 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 134 (4.35%) Lead
12 128 (4.16%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 127 (4.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 122 (3.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 112 (3.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
15 112 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
16 98 (3.18%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
17 97 (3.15%) Security Engineer
18 89 (2.89%) IT Support
18 89 (2.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.10%) .NET
2 19 (0.62%) ARM Templates
3 16 (0.52%) JSON
4 15 (0.49%) XML
5 14 (0.45%) .NET Framework
5 14 (0.45%) LDAP
6 12 (0.39%) Kafka
6 12 (0.39%) Node.js
6 12 (0.39%) Web Services
7 11 (0.36%) LAMP
8 9 (0.29%) OLE
8 9 (0.29%) RESTful
9 8 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.26%) React
10 7 (0.23%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.19%) Compass CSS Framework
11 6 (0.19%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.19%) Middleware
11 6 (0.19%) web3js
11 6 (0.19%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 344 (11.18%) Data Centre
2 145 (4.71%) Public Cloud
3 94 (3.05%) Driving Licence
4 88 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 85 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 66 (2.14%) PKI
7 62 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 52 (1.69%) Cloud Native
9 49 (1.59%) Replication
10 43 (1.40%) Private Cloud
11 38 (1.23%) IoT
12 31 (1.01%) Clustering
13 30 (0.97%) Onboarding
14 29 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (0.81%) Security Posture
16 21 (0.68%) Client/Server
16 21 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (0.65%) PMI
18 19 (0.62%) CCTV
18 19 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,392 (45.24%) Windows
2 791 (25.71%) Windows Server
3 663 (21.55%) Linux
4 188 (6.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 155 (5.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 144 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 131 (4.26%) Windows 10
8 103 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 71 (2.31%) Ubuntu
10 54 (1.75%) Unix
11 43 (1.40%) VMS
12 32 (1.04%) Android
13 31 (1.01%) Apple iOS
14 29 (0.94%) Mac OS
15 28 (0.91%) CentOS
15 28 (0.91%) Windows 7
16 25 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
17 21 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
18 17 (0.55%) Debian
19 16 (0.52%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (15.73%) ITIL
2 412 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
3 350 (11.37%) Cybersecurity
4 325 (10.56%) DevOps
5 282 (9.16%) Mentoring
6 224 (7.28%) Customer Service
7 216 (7.02%) Agile
8 213 (6.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 203 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 174 (5.65%) Migration
11 157 (5.10%) Roadmaps
12 155 (5.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 151 (4.91%) Change Management
14 141 (4.58%) Coaching
15 140 (4.55%) Service Management
16 129 (4.19%) Project Delivery
17 128 (4.16%) Project Management
18 123 (4.00%) CI/CD
19 122 (3.96%) Service Delivery
20 101 (3.28%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 519 (16.87%) PowerShell
2 218 (7.08%) Python
3 174 (5.65%) SQL
4 145 (4.71%) Bash
5 56 (1.82%) Java
6 30 (0.97%) C#
7 29 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 25 (0.81%) Perl
9 20 (0.65%) Ruby
10 14 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.36%) Go
13 10 (0.32%) ActionScript
13 10 (0.32%) C++
13 10 (0.32%) Swift
13 10 (0.32%) VB
13 10 (0.32%) VBScript
14 9 (0.29%) Bicep
14 9 (0.29%) Korn
15 6 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 491 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 282 (9.16%) DV Cleared
3 267 (8.68%) Degree
4 262 (8.51%) SC Cleared
5 155 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
6 126 (4.09%) CCNA
7 117 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 80 (2.60%) Azure Certification
9 69 (2.24%) MCSE
10 62 (2.01%) CCNP
11 53 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 45 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 39 (1.27%) AWS Certification
14 37 (1.20%) CISSP
15 25 (0.81%) DBS Check
16 23 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.71%) MCSA
18 21 (0.68%) A+ Certification
19 20 (0.65%) PMI Certification
20 18 (0.58%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.00%) SLA
2 71 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 68 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (0.81%) GDPR
5 21 (0.68%) QA
6 18 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.58%) NIST
7 14 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 14 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.29%) NCSC
11 8 (0.26%) PMO
12 5 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.16%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.097%) GRC
14 1 (0.032%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 948 (30.81%) Active Directory
2 620 (20.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 421 (13.68%) Hyper-V
4 165 (5.36%) Docker
5 142 (4.61%) VMware ESXi
6 114 (3.70%) vSphere
7 93 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
9 36 (1.17%) Firmware
10 32 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
10 32 (1.04%) XenApp
11 19 (0.62%) XenDesktop
12 16 (0.52%) NFS
13 13 (0.42%) pfSense
14 10 (0.32%) KVM
14 10 (0.32%) OpenSSH
14 10 (0.32%) VMware NSX
14 10 (0.32%) VMware Server
15 8 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
15 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 318 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 258 (8.38%) Ansible
3 231 (7.51%) Terraform
4 200 (6.50%) SCCM
5 179 (5.82%) Kubernetes
6 107 (3.48%) vCenter Server
7 88 (2.86%) Puppet
8 68 (2.21%) WSUS
9 53 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 47 (1.53%) FortiGate
11 43 (1.40%) SCOM
12 36 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
13 30 (0.97%) ZABBIX
14 27 (0.88%) Nagios
15 25 (0.81%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 22 (0.71%) NetBackup
17 20 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
18 17 (0.55%) Grafana
18 17 (0.55%) vRealize
18 17 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,101 (35.78%) Microsoft
2 986 (32.04%) VMware
3 404 (13.13%) Cisco
4 226 (7.34%) Veeam
5 199 (6.47%) Citrix
6 135 (4.39%) HP
7 116 (3.77%) Red Hat
8 105 (3.41%) Dell
8 105 (3.41%) Fortinet
9 89 (2.89%) Palo Alto
10 85 (2.76%) Meraki
11 73 (2.37%) Aruba
12 69 (2.24%) Google
13 66 (2.14%) Juniper
13 66 (2.14%) SolarWinds
14 65 (2.11%) NetApp
15 60 (1.95%) ServiceNow
16 51 (1.66%) EMC
17 46 (1.49%) Oracle
18 41 (1.33%) Sophos