Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in England 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 96 229 282
Rank change year-on-year +133 +53 -108
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,362 1,375 2,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.60% 1.63% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.74% 1.79% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 1,091 1,566
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £41,642 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the England region 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
South East +83 518 £50,000 +11.11% 61
North of England +107 509 £45,000 - 65
South West +76 423 £50,000 +5.26% 49
London +70 367 £62,500 +4.17% 73
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
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

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 across the England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,287 (96.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,048 (44.37%) Windows
3 902 (38.19%) Azure
4 815 (34.50%) VMware
5 790 (33.45%) Microsoft
6 706 (29.89%) Active Directory
7 652 (27.60%) Microsoft 365
8 570 (24.13%) Windows Server
9 527 (22.31%) Linux
10 521 (22.06%) VMware Infrastructure
11 462 (19.56%) Firewall
12 408 (17.27%) PowerShell
13 384 (16.26%) Social Skills
14 382 (16.17%) DNS
15 351 (14.86%) Security Cleared
16 348 (14.73%) AWS
17 337 (14.27%) Hyper-V
18 333 (14.10%) ITIL
19 290 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
20 270 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
20 270 (11.43%) DHCP
21 267 (11.30%) WAN
21 267 (11.30%) Data Centre
22 255 (10.80%) Cisco
23 249 (10.54%) Finance
24 236 (9.99%) Microsoft Intune
25 223 (9.44%) LAN
26 220 (9.31%) DevOps
27 209 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
28 205 (8.68%) Entra ID

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 270 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 179 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 47 (1.99%) IIS
4 10 (0.42%) Confluence
5 9 (0.38%) CMS
5 9 (0.38%) WordPress
6 6 (0.25%) Apache
7 5 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.17%) Jupyter
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 1 (0.042%) JBoss
10 1 (0.042%) Moodle
10 1 (0.042%) Site Server
10 1 (0.042%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.042%) WebLogic
Applications
1 71 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.085%) CATIA
5 2 (0.085%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.085%) Trello
6 1 (0.042%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.085%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.042%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 902 (38.19%) Azure
2 652 (27.60%) Microsoft 365
3 348 (14.73%) AWS
4 205 (8.68%) Entra ID
5 140 (5.93%) SaaS
6 129 (5.46%) IaaS
7 58 (2.46%) OneDrive
8 57 (2.41%) PaaS
9 49 (2.07%) Nutanix
10 47 (1.99%) OpenShift
11 43 (1.82%) Power Platform
12 37 (1.57%) GCP
13 33 (1.40%) GitHub
14 32 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (1.23%) Amazon S3
16 25 (1.06%) Serverless
16 25 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 22 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (0.80%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 462 (19.56%) Firewall
2 382 (16.17%) DNS
3 270 (11.43%) DHCP
4 267 (11.30%) WAN
5 223 (9.44%) LAN
6 183 (7.75%) SAN
7 159 (6.73%) VPN
8 135 (5.72%) TCP/IP
9 110 (4.66%) Wi-Fi
10 89 (3.77%) VLAN
11 78 (3.30%) Wireless
12 67 (2.84%) SD-WAN
13 59 (2.50%) HTTP
14 58 (2.46%) NAS
15 49 (2.07%) MPLS
16 48 (2.03%) Internet
17 45 (1.91%) WLAN
18 38 (1.61%) Network Security
18 38 (1.61%) VoIP
19 37 (1.57%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 45 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (1.40%) MySQL
4 22 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.55%) Big Data
7 10 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.25%) Power BI
9 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.17%) DB2
10 4 (0.17%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.13%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.085%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.085%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.042%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.042%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.042%) MS Access
13 1 (0.042%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (2.46%) GitLab
2 41 (1.74%) Git
3 30 (1.27%) JIRA
4 26 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.42%) Trac
7 7 (0.30%) MSI
8 4 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.085%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.085%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.042%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.042%) Subversion
11 1 (0.042%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.042%) Vagrant
General
1 384 (16.26%) Social Skills
2 249 (10.54%) Finance
3 106 (4.49%) Public Sector
4 91 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 65 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 58 (2.46%) Telecoms
8 53 (2.24%) Retail
9 48 (2.03%) Law
10 47 (1.99%) Banking
11 45 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (1.48%) Automotive
13 30 (1.27%) Advertising
14 29 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (1.06%) Legal
16 18 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (0.68%) Games
18 14 (0.59%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.55%) Electronics
19 13 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (0.93%) CSS
2 18 (0.76%) .NET
3 15 (0.64%) LDAP
4 12 (0.51%) Web Services
4 12 (0.51%) XML
5 11 (0.47%) LAMP
6 10 (0.42%) JSON
7 8 (0.34%) .NET Framework
8 6 (0.25%) JSON Schema
8 6 (0.25%) Kafka
8 6 (0.25%) KML
8 6 (0.25%) Regular Expression
8 6 (0.25%) Software Packaging
8 6 (0.25%) XML Schema
9 5 (0.21%) Middleware
9 5 (0.21%) YAML
10 4 (0.17%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (0.17%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.17%) EJB
10 4 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 267 (11.30%) Data Centre
2 88 (3.73%) Public Cloud
3 84 (3.56%) Driving Licence
4 82 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 68 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 56 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.29%) PKI
8 36 (1.52%) Replication
9 31 (1.31%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.23%) IoT
11 28 (1.19%) Clustering
12 23 (0.97%) CCTV
13 19 (0.80%) Cloud Native
13 19 (0.80%) EMC VNX
14 17 (0.72%) Client/Server
14 17 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
18 12 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,048 (44.37%) Windows
2 570 (24.13%) Windows Server
3 527 (22.31%) Linux
4 153 (6.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 121 (5.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 115 (4.87%) Windows 10
6 115 (4.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 97 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 63 (2.67%) Ubuntu
9 44 (1.86%) VMS
10 41 (1.74%) Unix
11 29 (1.23%) Apple iOS
12 28 (1.19%) CentOS
13 27 (1.14%) Android
14 26 (1.10%) Windows 7
15 21 (0.89%) Mac OS
16 17 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
16 17 (0.72%) Windows XP
17 13 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
18 10 (0.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,287 (96.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 333 (14.10%) ITIL
3 290 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
4 220 (9.31%) DevOps
5 209 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
6 174 (7.37%) Disaster Recovery
7 164 (6.94%) Mentoring
8 138 (5.84%) Agile
9 131 (5.55%) Migration
10 109 (4.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 107 (4.53%) Coaching
12 105 (4.45%) Change Management
13 97 (4.11%) Service Management
14 91 (3.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (3.81%) Roadmaps
16 88 (3.73%) Service Delivery
17 87 (3.68%) Customer Service
18 85 (3.60%) Collaborative Working
19 81 (3.43%) Project Management
20 77 (3.26%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 408 (17.27%) PowerShell
2 158 (6.69%) Python
3 127 (5.38%) Bash
4 116 (4.91%) SQL
5 47 (1.99%) Java
6 26 (1.10%) Perl
7 24 (1.02%) Ruby
8 13 (0.55%) JavaScript
9 12 (0.51%) ActionScript
9 12 (0.51%) VB
10 11 (0.47%) Korn
11 10 (0.42%) Swift
12 8 (0.34%) Go
13 7 (0.30%) C++
14 6 (0.25%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.17%) Bicep
15 4 (0.17%) C#
16 3 (0.13%) Rust
16 3 (0.13%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 351 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 205 (8.68%) DV Cleared
3 181 (7.66%) Degree
4 172 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 90 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
6 78 (3.30%) CCNA
7 51 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 39 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (1.31%) HNC
10 30 (1.27%) CCNP
11 28 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 26 (1.10%) MCSE
13 22 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 15 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.55%) A+ Certification
15 13 (0.55%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (0.51%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (3.77%) SLA
2 30 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (0.68%) GDPR
4 16 (0.68%) NIST
5 14 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.51%) QA
7 10 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.085%) PMO
11 1 (0.042%) NCSC
System Software
1 706 (29.89%) Active Directory
2 521 (22.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 337 (14.27%) Hyper-V
4 138 (5.84%) Docker
5 122 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
6 112 (4.74%) vSphere
7 80 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
8 32 (1.35%) XenApp
9 25 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (0.72%) NFS
12 14 (0.59%) Firmware
12 14 (0.59%) pfSense
12 14 (0.59%) XenDesktop
13 12 (0.51%) OpenSSH
14 9 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (0.38%) VMware Server
15 7 (0.30%) KVM
15 7 (0.30%) Terminal Services
16 5 (0.21%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 236 (9.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 193 (8.17%) Ansible
3 167 (7.07%) SCCM
4 151 (6.39%) Terraform
5 125 (5.29%) Kubernetes
6 103 (4.36%) vCenter Server
7 68 (2.88%) Puppet
8 60 (2.54%) WSUS
9 38 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
10 36 (1.52%) SCOM
11 29 (1.23%) Nagios
12 27 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 25 (1.06%) FortiGate
13 25 (1.06%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 20 (0.85%) NetBackup
15 19 (0.80%) ZABBIX
16 16 (0.68%) Grafana
16 16 (0.68%) SCDPM
16 16 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 815 (34.50%) VMware
2 790 (33.45%) Microsoft
3 255 (10.80%) Cisco
4 186 (7.87%) Veeam
5 153 (6.48%) Citrix
6 114 (4.83%) Red Hat
7 109 (4.61%) HP
8 77 (3.26%) Dell
9 63 (2.67%) Aruba
9 63 (2.67%) Oracle
10 62 (2.62%) Meraki
11 48 (2.03%) NetApp
11 48 (2.03%) Palo Alto
12 45 (1.91%) EMC
13 42 (1.78%) SolarWinds
14 41 (1.74%) Fortinet
15 34 (1.44%) IBM
16 33 (1.40%) Juniper
17 28 (1.19%) Google
18 26 (1.10%) ServiceNow