Junior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Junior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 883 898 1242
Rank change year-on-year +15 +344 -290
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Infrastructure Engineer 21 21 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.023% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.025% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 21
10th Percentile - £26,450 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,833 £36,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £36,500
90th Percentile £49,875 £50,000 £43,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,417 £38,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year -12.06% +38.18% +5.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
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 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Junior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +31 21 £35,000 -6.67% 2
UK excluding London -46 15 £33,417 -12.06% 2
Work from Home +37 11 £47,500 +11.76% 2
London +88 6 £47,500 +26.67%
East of England -8 6 £31,833 -25.10%
South East -23 6 £42,500 +26.87% 1
South West - 3 £35,000 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (85.71%) Windows
3 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
3 11 (52.38%) Azure
4 10 (47.62%) VMware
5 9 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (38.10%) Line Management
7 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
8 6 (28.57%) Blackberry
8 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
8 6 (28.57%) Law
8 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
8 6 (28.57%) Windows 10
8 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (23.81%) Firewall
10 3 (14.29%) Cisco
10 3 (14.29%) Debian
10 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
10 3 (14.29%) SCCM
10 3 (14.29%) iSCSI
10 3 (14.29%) Citrix
10 3 (14.29%) NetApp
10 3 (14.29%) Firmware
10 3 (14.29%) CheckPoint
10 3 (14.29%) OSPF
10 3 (14.29%) BGP

Junior 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 9 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (14.29%) Cloudflare
3 3 (14.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) BGP
2 3 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 3 (14.29%) NetScaler
2 3 (14.29%) OSPF
2 3 (14.29%) RIP
3 1 (4.76%) DHCP
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) MariaDB
1 3 (14.29%) MySQL
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (28.57%) Law
1 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.52%) Advertising
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Blackberry
1 6 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Debian
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Line Management
3 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.52%) Change Management
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
4 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (9.52%) Problem Management
4 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (14.29%) Docker
3 3 (14.29%) Firmware
3 3 (14.29%) NFS
3 3 (14.29%) pfSense
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (47.62%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Aruba
3 3 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) Citrix
3 3 (14.29%) NetApp
3 3 (14.29%) QNAP
3 3 (14.29%) Synology
3 3 (14.29%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds