Infrastructure Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 701 726 829
Rank change year-on-year +25 +103 -138
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 69 7 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.091% 0.012% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.014% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 67 7 19
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,920 £43,125 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +17.00%
75th Percentile £63,984 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,968 - £65,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
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 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
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 Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England - 39 £36,128 - 1
North West - 18 £61,391 - 1
Midlands +3 16 £55,000 +15.79% 2
Yorkshire - 12 £36,128 -
East Midlands -6 11 £56,250 +18.42% 1
North East - 9 £62,783 -
South East - 7 £42,500 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £45,000 - 1
East of England -2 4 £40,000 -11.11%
South West -29 2 £41,206 -31.32% 1
Scotland -67 1 £46,000 +15.00% 2
Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Infrastructure Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 69 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (42.03%) Mentoring
3 29 (42.03%) Coaching
4 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
5 25 (36.23%) Azure
6 24 (34.78%) DevOps
7 23 (33.33%) Private Cloud
8 18 (26.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (24.64%) Entra ID
9 17 (24.64%) Active Directory
10 16 (23.19%) Finance
11 13 (18.84%) PKI
11 13 (18.84%) DNS
11 13 (18.84%) AWS
12 12 (17.39%) Security Architecture
12 12 (17.39%) Public Cloud
12 12 (17.39%) CyberArk
12 12 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (17.39%) ServiceNow
12 12 (17.39%) Service Management
12 12 (17.39%) CA
12 12 (17.39%) CA Single Sign-On
12 12 (17.39%) ITIL
12 12 (17.39%) Identity Management
12 12 (17.39%) Key Management
12 12 (17.39%) Secrets Management
12 12 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (17.39%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (17.39%) Operational Stability

Infrastructure Security 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 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.23%) Azure
2 17 (24.64%) Entra ID
3 13 (18.84%) AWS
4 12 (17.39%) AWS KMS
4 12 (17.39%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.84%) DNS
2 8 (11.59%) Firewall
3 1 (1.45%) DHCP
3 1 (1.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (17.39%) GitLab
General
1 16 (23.19%) Finance
2 12 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.90%) Retail
4 2 (2.90%) Welsh Language
5 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 23 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 18 (26.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (18.84%) PKI
4 12 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (17.39%) Public Cloud
5 7 (10.14%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (8.70%) Data Centre
7 5 (7.25%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Windows
2 10 (14.49%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (52.17%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (42.03%) Coaching
3 29 (42.03%) Mentoring
4 24 (34.78%) DevOps
5 12 (17.39%) Identity Management
5 12 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (17.39%) ITIL
5 12 (17.39%) Key Management
5 12 (17.39%) Operational Stability
5 12 (17.39%) Privileged Identity Management
5 12 (17.39%) Secrets Management
5 12 (17.39%) Security Architecture
5 12 (17.39%) Service Management
6 8 (11.59%) Security Operations
7 6 (8.70%) Roadmaps
8 5 (7.25%) Change Management
8 5 (7.25%) Network Architecture
8 5 (7.25%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (7.25%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
1 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (2.90%) Degree
1 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.39%) NIST
2 5 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.25%) SOC 2
3 4 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (24.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) CA Single Sign-On
1 12 (17.39%) Single Sign-On
1 12 (17.39%) Terraform
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.90%) SCCM
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.45%) Nessus
3 1 (1.45%) NetCrunch
3 1 (1.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.39%) CA
2 12 (17.39%) CyberArk
2 12 (17.39%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.35%) VMware
4 2 (2.90%) Qualys
5 1 (1.45%) Citrix
5 1 (1.45%) Netskope
5 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk