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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 52 197
Rank change year-on-year -30 +145 -69
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 3,281 5,173 3,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.13% 5.47% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 5.73% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,747 1,672 2,326
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,174 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,492 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 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 -19 3,046 £50,000 -4.76% 488
UK excluding London -37 2,697 £47,500 - 393
Work from Home +47 1,095 £50,000 -9.09% 231
North of England -27 716 £46,000 -3.16% 96
South East -12 676 £50,000 +1.01% 96
London -3 502 £65,000 +4.00% 130
South West -14 481 £50,000 - 67
Midlands -36 438 £45,000 -8.16% 56
North West -36 350 £47,878 +0.80% 49
Yorkshire -4 259 £45,000 - 41
East of England -37 225 £45,000 -15.09% 40
West Midlands -48 224 £45,000 -5.26% 34
East Midlands -16 214 £45,000 -12.20% 22
North East -25 105 £45,000 +2.27% 6
Scotland -107 94 £45,000 -10.00% 35
Wales -9 64 £41,067 -3.37% 14
Northern Ireland -21 6 £60,000 +23.08% 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
1 330 (10.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 200 (6.10%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.89%) IIS
4 11 (0.34%) CMS
5 10 (0.30%) Confluence
6 9 (0.27%) WordPress
7 6 (0.18%) Apache
7 6 (0.18%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
8 5 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.091%) nginx
11 2 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.030%) Moodle
12 1 (0.030%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.030%) Site Server
Applications
1 93 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.18%) LightWave 3D
3 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.15%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.15%) OrCAD
4 5 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.061%) CATIA
6 2 (0.061%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.061%) Trello
7 1 (0.030%) 1Password
7 1 (0.030%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.061%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.030%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.030%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.030%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.030%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.030%) Ripple
6 1 (0.030%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,308 (39.87%) Azure
2 943 (28.74%) Microsoft 365
3 534 (16.28%) AWS
4 318 (9.69%) Entra ID
5 183 (5.58%) SaaS
6 181 (5.52%) IaaS
7 108 (3.29%) PaaS
8 86 (2.62%) GCP
9 79 (2.41%) OneDrive
10 65 (1.98%) Nutanix
11 57 (1.74%) Power Platform
12 54 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
13 50 (1.52%) OpenShift
14 40 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (1.10%) GitHub
16 31 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
17 30 (0.91%) Amazon S3
18 29 (0.88%) Serverless
19 28 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
20 22 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 622 (18.96%) Firewall
2 463 (14.11%) DNS
3 384 (11.70%) WAN
4 343 (10.45%) DHCP
5 321 (9.78%) LAN
6 278 (8.47%) SAN
7 212 (6.46%) VPN
8 160 (4.88%) TCP/IP
9 152 (4.63%) Wi-Fi
10 118 (3.60%) VLAN
10 118 (3.60%) Wireless
11 112 (3.41%) SD-WAN
12 96 (2.93%) Internet
13 92 (2.80%) Network Security
14 75 (2.29%) HTTP
15 73 (2.22%) MPLS
16 71 (2.16%) NAS
17 60 (1.83%) WLAN
18 57 (1.74%) VoIP
19 55 (1.68%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 76 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (1.25%) MySQL
4 30 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (0.52%) Power BI
7 14 (0.43%) Big Data
8 10 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.24%) DB2
9 8 (0.24%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.24%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.18%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.18%) SQLite
12 5 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.091%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.091%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.091%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (1.98%) GitLab
2 59 (1.80%) Git
3 44 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.22%) JIRA
5 22 (0.67%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.30%) Trac
7 7 (0.21%) MSI
7 7 (0.21%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.18%) Subversion
9 5 (0.15%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.091%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.061%) Ant
11 2 (0.061%) Gradle
11 2 (0.061%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.061%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.061%) Visual Studio
General
1 560 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 347 (10.58%) Finance
3 155 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (3.99%) Public Sector
5 120 (3.66%) Law
6 96 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 93 (2.83%) Aerospace
7 93 (2.83%) Telecoms
8 83 (2.53%) Retail
9 75 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 59 (1.80%) Banking
11 45 (1.37%) Legal
12 42 (1.28%) Automotive
13 38 (1.16%) Advertising
14 37 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
15 36 (1.10%) Electronics
16 33 (1.01%) Games
17 29 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.61%) Police
19 15 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2,454 (74.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 600 (18.29%) Senior
3 513 (15.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 410 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 329 (10.03%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 207 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 205 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 193 (5.88%) Network Engineer
9 175 (5.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 172 (5.24%) Infrastructure Support
11 157 (4.79%) Lead
12 140 (4.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 139 (4.24%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 124 (3.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 114 (3.47%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
16 112 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
17 100 (3.05%) Security Engineer
18 96 (2.93%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
19 94 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
20 85 (2.59%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.07%) .NET
2 17 (0.52%) ARM Templates
3 16 (0.49%) Kafka
4 15 (0.46%) LDAP
5 14 (0.43%) .NET Framework
5 14 (0.43%) JSON
5 14 (0.43%) XML
6 12 (0.37%) Node.js
6 12 (0.37%) Web Services
7 11 (0.34%) LAMP
8 9 (0.27%) OLE
8 9 (0.27%) RESTful
9 8 (0.24%) React
10 7 (0.21%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.18%) Compass CSS Framework
11 6 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (0.18%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.18%) Middleware
11 6 (0.18%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.18%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 353 (10.76%) Data Centre
2 145 (4.42%) Public Cloud
3 94 (2.86%) Driving Licence
4 89 (2.71%) Management Information System
5 88 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 75 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 68 (2.07%) PKI
8 50 (1.52%) Replication
9 46 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 42 (1.28%) IoT
11 40 (1.22%) Private Cloud
12 36 (1.10%) Clustering
13 29 (0.88%) Onboarding
14 27 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (0.73%) Security Posture
16 23 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
17 22 (0.67%) CCTV
18 21 (0.64%) Client/Server
19 20 (0.61%) PMI
20 19 (0.58%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 1,411 (43.01%) Windows
2 793 (24.17%) Windows Server
3 695 (21.18%) Linux
4 190 (5.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 155 (4.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 147 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 132 (4.02%) Windows 10
8 108 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 77 (2.35%) Ubuntu
10 53 (1.62%) Unix
11 45 (1.37%) VMS
12 32 (0.98%) CentOS
13 30 (0.91%) Android
14 29 (0.88%) Apple iOS
15 28 (0.85%) Mac OS
15 28 (0.85%) Windows 7
16 27 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
17 21 (0.64%) Debian
18 20 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
19 17 (0.52%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (14.78%) ITIL
2 409 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
3 354 (10.79%) Cybersecurity
4 329 (10.03%) DevOps
5 280 (8.53%) Mentoring
6 222 (6.77%) Customer Service
7 218 (6.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 216 (6.58%) Agile
9 201 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 174 (5.30%) Migration
11 158 (4.82%) Change Management
12 155 (4.72%) Roadmaps
13 145 (4.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 140 (4.27%) Coaching
14 140 (4.27%) Service Management
15 130 (3.96%) Project Management
16 129 (3.93%) CI/CD
17 128 (3.90%) Project Delivery
17 128 (3.90%) Service Delivery
18 105 (3.20%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 532 (16.21%) PowerShell
2 221 (6.74%) Python
3 175 (5.33%) SQL
4 148 (4.51%) Bash
5 59 (1.80%) Java
6 32 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 30 (0.91%) C#
8 28 (0.85%) Perl
9 26 (0.79%) Ruby
10 15 (0.46%) Go
10 15 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 14 (0.43%) C++
12 12 (0.37%) ActionScript
12 12 (0.37%) VB
13 11 (0.34%) Korn
14 10 (0.30%) Bicep
14 10 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.30%) Swift
14 10 (0.30%) VBScript
15 6 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 508 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 291 (8.87%) DV Cleared
3 270 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 269 (8.20%) Degree
5 162 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
6 133 (4.05%) CCNA
7 113 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 80 (2.44%) Azure Certification
9 65 (1.98%) CCNP
10 64 (1.95%) MCSE
11 50 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 40 (1.22%) CISSP
14 39 (1.19%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.79%) DBS Check
16 22 (0.67%) A+ Certification
16 22 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.61%) PMI Certification
18 19 (0.58%) MCSA
19 18 (0.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (4.94%) SLA
2 77 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 75 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (0.73%) GDPR
5 21 (0.64%) NIST
5 21 (0.64%) QA
6 18 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (0.43%) Data Quality
9 12 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.24%) NCSC
12 7 (0.21%) PMO
13 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
14 3 (0.091%) GRC
15 1 (0.030%) COBIT
15 1 (0.030%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.030%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 947 (28.86%) Active Directory
2 636 (19.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 440 (13.41%) Hyper-V
4 174 (5.30%) Docker
5 140 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
6 123 (3.75%) vSphere
7 93 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
8 48 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
9 36 (1.10%) XenApp
10 34 (1.04%) Firmware
11 31 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
12 21 (0.64%) XenDesktop
13 17 (0.52%) NFS
14 14 (0.43%) pfSense
15 12 (0.37%) OpenSSH
16 11 (0.34%) KVM
16 11 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 10 (0.30%) VMware NSX
18 9 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
18 9 (0.27%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 324 (9.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 265 (8.08%) Ansible
3 238 (7.25%) Terraform
4 195 (5.94%) SCCM
5 187 (5.70%) Kubernetes
6 113 (3.44%) vCenter Server
7 92 (2.80%) Puppet
8 67 (2.04%) WSUS
9 53 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 48 (1.46%) FortiGate
11 41 (1.25%) SCOM
12 38 (1.16%) EMC NetWorker
13 31 (0.94%) Nagios
13 31 (0.94%) ZABBIX
14 25 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 21 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
16 20 (0.61%) NetBackup
17 19 (0.58%) VxRail
18 18 (0.55%) Progress Chef
19 17 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1,111 (33.86%) Microsoft
2 1,020 (31.09%) VMware
3 408 (12.44%) Cisco
4 231 (7.04%) Veeam
5 209 (6.37%) Citrix
6 139 (4.24%) HP
7 120 (3.66%) Red Hat
8 107 (3.26%) Dell
9 105 (3.20%) Fortinet
10 93 (2.83%) Palo Alto
11 89 (2.71%) Meraki
12 75 (2.29%) Aruba
13 67 (2.04%) SolarWinds
14 66 (2.01%) Juniper
14 66 (2.01%) NetApp
15 63 (1.92%) Google
16 60 (1.83%) ServiceNow
17 53 (1.62%) EMC
18 48 (1.46%) Oracle
19 43 (1.31%) Sophos