Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 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 89 205 206
Rank change year-on-year +116 +1 -74
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,111 992 1,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.78% 1.75% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.93% 1.97% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,735 751 1,097
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,988 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,875 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
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
UK

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,045 (96.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 893 (42.30%) Windows
3 783 (37.09%) Azure
4 736 (34.86%) VMware
5 687 (32.54%) Microsoft
6 585 (27.71%) Active Directory
7 559 (26.48%) Microsoft 365
8 501 (23.73%) Windows Server
9 471 (22.31%) VMware Infrastructure
10 441 (20.89%) Linux
11 387 (18.33%) Firewall
12 339 (16.06%) Social Skills
13 333 (15.77%) Hyper-V
14 329 (15.59%) DNS
15 324 (15.35%) PowerShell
16 316 (14.97%) ITIL
17 311 (14.73%) Security Cleared
18 301 (14.26%) AWS
19 257 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
20 241 (11.42%) Data Centre
21 237 (11.23%) Cisco
22 234 (11.08%) DHCP
23 230 (10.90%) WAN
24 222 (10.52%) Microsoft Exchange
25 198 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
26 183 (8.67%) Finance
27 182 (8.62%) SAN
28 180 (8.53%) LAN
29 179 (8.48%) DevOps
30 174 (8.24%) Veeam

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 222 (10.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 155 (7.34%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.89%) IIS
4 9 (0.43%) CMS
5 6 (0.28%) Apache
5 6 (0.28%) Confluence
6 5 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.19%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.19%) WordPress
8 2 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.047%) JBoss
9 1 (0.047%) Moodle
9 1 (0.047%) nginx
9 1 (0.047%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.047%) WebLogic
Applications
1 60 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.095%) CATIA
5 2 (0.095%) NASTRAN
5 2 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.095%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.095%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 783 (37.09%) Azure
2 559 (26.48%) Microsoft 365
3 301 (14.26%) AWS
4 164 (7.77%) Entra ID
5 123 (5.83%) SaaS
6 107 (5.07%) IaaS
7 50 (2.37%) PaaS
8 47 (2.23%) OneDrive
8 47 (2.23%) OpenShift
9 43 (2.04%) Nutanix
10 42 (1.99%) Power Platform
11 38 (1.80%) GCP
12 28 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (1.18%) Amazon S3
14 24 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (0.99%) GitHub
16 20 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (0.90%) Serverless
18 17 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
19 16 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 387 (18.33%) Firewall
2 329 (15.59%) DNS
3 234 (11.08%) DHCP
4 230 (10.90%) WAN
5 182 (8.62%) SAN
6 180 (8.53%) LAN
7 129 (6.11%) VPN
8 119 (5.64%) TCP/IP
9 90 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
10 80 (3.79%) VLAN
11 69 (3.27%) SD-WAN
12 67 (3.17%) Wireless
13 59 (2.79%) HTTP
14 52 (2.46%) NAS
15 47 (2.23%) VoIP
16 41 (1.94%) MPLS
17 39 (1.85%) WLAN
18 29 (1.37%) BGP
19 28 (1.33%) Internet
19 28 (1.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (5.12%) SQL Server
2 36 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (1.52%) MySQL
4 17 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.62%) Big Data
6 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.28%) Power BI
9 5 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.19%) DB2
10 4 (0.19%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.047%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.047%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.047%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.047%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.047%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.047%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 39 (1.85%) GitLab
2 32 (1.52%) Git
3 29 (1.37%) JIRA
4 21 (0.99%) Artifactory
5 17 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.47%) Trac
7 7 (0.33%) MSI
8 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.095%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.095%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.047%) TeamCity
General
1 339 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 183 (8.67%) Finance
3 108 (5.12%) Public Sector
4 74 (3.51%) Aerospace
5 68 (3.22%) Manufacturing
6 58 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (2.42%) Law
8 42 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 39 (1.85%) Retail
10 36 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (1.66%) Automotive
12 28 (1.33%) Legal
13 26 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (1.14%) Advertising
15 19 (0.90%) Banking
16 18 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.71%) Games
18 8 (0.38%) Military
19 6 (0.28%) Electronics
19 6 (0.28%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (0.99%) CSS
2 12 (0.57%) .NET
2 12 (0.57%) Web Services
2 12 (0.57%) XML
3 9 (0.43%) JSON
4 6 (0.28%) .NET Framework
4 6 (0.28%) JSON Schema
4 6 (0.28%) KML
4 6 (0.28%) LAMP
4 6 (0.28%) LDAP
4 6 (0.28%) Regular Expression
4 6 (0.28%) Software Packaging
4 6 (0.28%) XML Schema
5 4 (0.19%) EJB
5 4 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.19%) Middleware
5 4 (0.19%) YAML
6 3 (0.14%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.095%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 241 (11.42%) Data Centre
2 95 (4.50%) Public Cloud
3 81 (3.84%) Driving Licence
4 66 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 65 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (2.08%) PKI
7 40 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 35 (1.66%) Replication
9 30 (1.42%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.37%) Clustering
11 28 (1.33%) IoT
12 19 (0.90%) EMC VNX
13 16 (0.76%) CCTV
13 16 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
14 15 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.62%) Cloud Native
15 13 (0.62%) Cyber Defence
16 12 (0.57%) CMDB
17 11 (0.52%) Operational Technology
18 10 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 893 (42.30%) Windows
2 501 (23.73%) Windows Server
3 441 (20.89%) Linux
4 133 (6.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 104 (4.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 100 (4.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 83 (3.93%) Windows 10
8 73 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 38 (1.80%) Ubuntu
10 37 (1.75%) Unix
11 27 (1.28%) Android
11 27 (1.28%) Apple iOS
12 26 (1.23%) CentOS
13 25 (1.18%) Windows 7
14 20 (0.95%) VMS
15 18 (0.85%) Mac OS
16 17 (0.81%) Windows XP
17 16 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
18 13 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
19 9 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,045 (96.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 316 (14.97%) ITIL
3 257 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
4 198 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
5 179 (8.48%) DevOps
6 166 (7.86%) Mentoring
7 155 (7.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 114 (5.40%) Migration
9 111 (5.26%) Coaching
10 106 (5.02%) Agile
11 102 (4.83%) Change Management
12 97 (4.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 89 (4.22%) Customer Service
13 89 (4.22%) Roadmaps
13 89 (4.22%) Service Management
14 81 (3.84%) Service Delivery
15 77 (3.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 75 (3.55%) Project Management
17 73 (3.46%) Server Management
18 69 (3.27%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 324 (15.35%) PowerShell
2 119 (5.64%) Python
3 104 (4.93%) Bash
4 82 (3.88%) SQL
5 44 (2.08%) Java
6 14 (0.66%) Perl
7 12 (0.57%) ActionScript
7 12 (0.57%) VB
8 10 (0.47%) Swift
9 8 (0.38%) Bicep
10 6 (0.28%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.28%) Ruby
11 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.19%) C++
13 3 (0.14%) Go
13 3 (0.14%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.095%) AWK
14 2 (0.095%) C#
14 2 (0.095%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.047%) C
Qualifications
1 311 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 170 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 166 (7.86%) Degree
3 166 (7.86%) DV Cleared
4 90 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 85 (4.03%) CCNA
6 48 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.47%) MCSE
10 26 (1.23%) HNC
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 22 (1.04%) CCNP
13 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (0.66%) A+ Certification
15 13 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 9 (0.43%) MCP
17 9 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.60%) SLA
2 33 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 20 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.62%) GDPR
5 13 (0.62%) NIST
6 12 (0.57%) QA
7 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.24%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.095%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.095%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.047%) NCSC
System Software
1 585 (27.71%) Active Directory
2 471 (22.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 333 (15.77%) Hyper-V
4 124 (5.87%) Docker
5 107 (5.07%) VMware ESXi
6 88 (4.17%) vSphere
7 78 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (1.04%) XenApp
9 19 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
10 18 (0.85%) Firmware
10 18 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (0.71%) NFS
12 13 (0.62%) pfSense
13 12 (0.57%) OpenSSH
14 9 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (0.43%) VMware Server
14 9 (0.43%) XenDesktop
15 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
16 7 (0.33%) KVM
17 5 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 170 (8.05%) Ansible
2 161 (7.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 136 (6.44%) SCCM
4 121 (5.73%) Kubernetes
5 104 (4.93%) Terraform
6 92 (4.36%) vCenter Server
7 59 (2.79%) WSUS
8 48 (2.27%) Puppet
9 38 (1.80%) EMC NetWorker
10 36 (1.71%) SCOM
11 29 (1.37%) FortiGate
11 29 (1.37%) Nagios
12 25 (1.18%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 19 (0.90%) ZABBIX
14 16 (0.76%) Grafana
14 16 (0.76%) SCDPM
15 15 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
15 15 (0.71%) NetBackup
16 14 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 13 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 736 (34.86%) VMware
2 687 (32.54%) Microsoft
3 237 (11.23%) Cisco
4 174 (8.24%) Veeam
5 130 (6.16%) Citrix
6 104 (4.93%) HP
7 87 (4.12%) Red Hat
8 66 (3.13%) Dell
9 65 (3.08%) Meraki
10 62 (2.94%) Aruba
11 57 (2.70%) Oracle
12 51 (2.42%) EMC
13 47 (2.23%) NetApp
14 37 (1.75%) Fortinet
14 37 (1.75%) IBM
14 37 (1.75%) SolarWinds
15 32 (1.52%) Palo Alto
16 31 (1.47%) Juniper
17 30 (1.42%) Sophos
18 29 (1.37%) Google