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 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 762 880 1121
Rank change year-on-year +118 +241 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Infrastructure Engineer 145 67 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.071% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.078% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 124 61 103
10th Percentile £36,900 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £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 £56,563 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £46,387 £49,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% -5.33% +11.36%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 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 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 +110 138 £50,000 +5.26% 16
UK excluding London +49 119 £49,500 +6.71% 14
South East +34 53 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Work from Home +53 37 £49,000 +8.89% 6
London +108 20 £62,500 +5.93% 7
North of England +43 20 £42,500 -5.56%
North West +9 18 £42,500 -9.57%
Midlands -4 17 £50,000 +7.21% 4
South West -17 15 £57,500 +46.35% 2
East of England - 13 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -13 9 £45,000 -3.51% 2
East Midlands - 8 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +60 1 £29,472 -23.94%
North East -10 1 £29,000 -31.76%
Scotland -65 1 £50,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 140 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (48.28%) Firewall
3 64 (44.14%) Azure
4 59 (40.69%) Cisco
5 56 (38.62%) WAN
5 56 (38.62%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (37.24%) VMware
7 50 (34.48%) Windows
8 43 (29.66%) Microsoft
9 41 (28.28%) Active Directory
10 40 (27.59%) LAN
11 39 (26.90%) Data Centre
12 37 (25.52%) Linux
12 37 (25.52%) VPN
13 32 (22.07%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (22.07%) Social Skills
14 27 (18.62%) Windows Server
15 25 (17.24%) CCNA
15 25 (17.24%) DNS
16 24 (16.55%) Microsoft Exchange
17 23 (15.86%) SD-WAN
18 22 (15.17%) Wireless
18 22 (15.17%) AWS
19 21 (14.48%) Driving Licence
19 21 (14.48%) Wi-Fi
19 21 (14.48%) SQL Server
19 21 (14.48%) VMware Infrastructure
20 20 (13.79%) Aruba
21 19 (13.10%) F5
21 19 (13.10%) Problem-Solving

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 (16.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.97%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.52%) IIS
3 8 (5.52%) WordPress
4 2 (1.38%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 64 (44.14%) Azure
2 56 (38.62%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (15.17%) AWS
4 10 (6.90%) OneDrive
5 8 (5.52%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.14%) IaaS
7 5 (3.45%) GCP
8 4 (2.76%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.38%) Kong
9 2 (1.38%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.38%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.38%) SaaS
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (48.28%) Firewall
2 56 (38.62%) WAN
3 40 (27.59%) LAN
4 37 (25.52%) VPN
5 25 (17.24%) DNS
6 23 (15.86%) SD-WAN
7 22 (15.17%) Wireless
8 21 (14.48%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (12.41%) BGP
10 16 (11.03%) TCP/IP
11 15 (10.34%) DHCP
11 15 (10.34%) MPLS
11 15 (10.34%) VLAN
12 10 (6.90%) OSPF
12 10 (6.90%) SAN
13 9 (6.21%) BIG-IP
13 9 (6.21%) Network Security
14 8 (5.52%) Fibre Channel
14 8 (5.52%) iSCSI
14 8 (5.52%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.38%) JIRA
2 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.69%) GitLab
General
1 32 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.97%) Finance
3 7 (4.83%) Retail
4 5 (3.45%) Advertising
5 4 (2.76%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.38%) Law
7 2 (1.38%) Military
7 2 (1.38%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) LAMP
2 1 (0.69%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.69%) JSON
2 1 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.90%) Data Centre
2 21 (14.48%) Driving Licence
3 16 (11.03%) Replication
4 8 (5.52%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.07%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.38%) PropTech
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.69%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (34.48%) Windows
2 37 (25.52%) Linux
3 27 (18.62%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.90%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.52%) VMS
5 8 (5.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (5.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.07%) Android
7 3 (2.07%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (9.66%) ITIL
4 11 (7.59%) DevOps
4 11 (7.59%) Load Balancing
4 11 (7.59%) Migration
5 10 (6.90%) Customer Service
5 10 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (6.21%) Analytics
6 9 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (5.52%) CI/CD
7 8 (5.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (5.52%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (5.52%) Web Filtering
8 6 (4.14%) Presales
9 5 (3.45%) Client Onboarding
9 5 (3.45%) High Availability
9 5 (3.45%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (3.45%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (3.45%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.66%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.59%) Bash
3 9 (6.21%) Python
4 2 (1.38%) SQL
5 1 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (22.07%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (17.24%) CCNA
3 14 (9.66%) CCNP
4 8 (5.52%) Degree
5 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.45%) CCIE
5 5 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.45%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.38%) MCSE
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) SLA
2 3 (2.07%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (28.28%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.72%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.21%) vSphere
5 7 (4.83%) Docker
5 7 (4.83%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.38%) KVM
6 2 (1.38%) QEMU
6 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.38%) Xen
7 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (12.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.21%) Terraform
3 8 (5.52%) Ansible
3 8 (5.52%) SCCM
4 7 (4.83%) FortiGate
5 6 (4.14%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.76%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 59 (40.69%) Cisco
2 54 (37.24%) VMware
3 43 (29.66%) Microsoft
4 20 (13.79%) Aruba
5 19 (13.10%) F5
6 16 (11.03%) HP
7 15 (10.34%) Palo Alto
7 15 (10.34%) Veeam
8 10 (6.90%) Meraki
9 9 (6.21%) CheckPoint
10 8 (5.52%) ProCurve
10 8 (5.52%) Synology
10 8 (5.52%) Zerto
11 7 (4.83%) Citrix
11 7 (4.83%) Fortinet
12 5 (3.45%) Draytek
13 4 (2.76%) Juniper
14 3 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (2.07%) SolarWinds
15 2 (1.38%) Google