Infrastructure Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Infrastructure Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 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 567 669 796
Rank change year-on-year +102 +127 -139
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 214 59 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 137 19 76
10th Percentile £30,385 £34,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,810 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,800 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +4.00% -1.10%
75th Percentile £63,250 £56,100 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +12.90% -4.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Specialist in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region 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
North of England +100 123 £55,000 +17.52% 2
Yorkshire +96 48 £58,500 +46.19% 1
North East +25 47 £55,000 -12.00%
North West -5 28 £50,000 +18.62% 1
South West -25 28 £30,385 - 2
South East -8 26 £55,000 +15.79% 1
Midlands -26 15 £41,500 -33.06%
West Midlands 0 14 £41,500 -33.06%
Scotland -62 7 £50,000 +61.29% 6
East of England - 6 £48,585 -
Northern Ireland - 5 £65,000 -
Wales - 4 £65,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Infrastructure Specialist
UK

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

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

1 75 (35.05%) Azure
2 69 (32.24%) Windows
3 63 (29.44%) Active Directory
4 59 (27.57%) VMware
5 56 (26.17%) Windows Server
6 52 (24.30%) Microsoft
7 51 (23.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 49 (22.90%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (18.22%) Entra ID
10 38 (17.76%) SAN
11 33 (15.42%) Roadmaps
12 32 (14.95%) Migration
12 32 (14.95%) Security Cleared
12 32 (14.95%) SC Cleared
13 26 (12.15%) OneDrive
14 25 (11.68%) Finance
15 24 (11.21%) Driving Licence
16 23 (10.75%) Law
16 23 (10.75%) VMware Infrastructure
17 22 (10.28%) Mentoring
17 22 (10.28%) Firewall
18 21 (9.81%) IBM
18 21 (9.81%) Microsoft Intune
19 20 (9.35%) VMware ESXi
19 20 (9.35%) Oracle
19 20 (9.35%) CSS
19 20 (9.35%) Self-Motivation
20 19 (8.88%) Cisco
21 18 (8.41%) Wireless
21 18 (8.41%) Windows Server 2016

Infrastructure Specialist 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 15 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.05%) Azure
2 49 (22.90%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (18.22%) Entra ID
4 26 (12.15%) OneDrive
5 13 (6.07%) AWS
6 6 (2.80%) SaaS
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.47%) IaaS
7 1 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (17.76%) SAN
2 22 (10.28%) Firewall
3 18 (8.41%) Wireless
4 17 (7.94%) NAS
5 12 (5.61%) DNS
6 11 (5.14%) LAN
7 9 (4.21%) DHCP
7 9 (4.21%) WAN
8 6 (2.80%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.40%) Network Security
9 3 (1.40%) Unified Communications
9 3 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.93%) VPN
10 2 (0.93%) WLAN
11 1 (0.47%) Internet
11 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
General
1 25 (11.68%) Finance
2 23 (10.75%) Law
3 10 (4.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.40%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.21%) Driving Licence
2 20 (9.35%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.74%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.80%) Clustering
4 6 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.34%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.40%) Smart Energy
7 2 (0.93%) NHS
8 1 (0.47%) PKI
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (32.24%) Windows
2 56 (26.17%) Windows Server
3 18 (8.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (6.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (5.61%) Linux
6 9 (4.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (2.80%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.40%) Kali Linux
9 3 (1.40%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.40%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (15.42%) Roadmaps
3 32 (14.95%) Migration
4 22 (10.28%) Mentoring
5 17 (7.94%) ITIL
5 17 (7.94%) Preventative Maintenance
6 14 (6.54%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (6.07%) Cost Management
7 13 (6.07%) Performance Optimisation
8 12 (5.61%) Energy Management
8 12 (5.61%) Operations Management
9 9 (4.21%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (3.74%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (3.27%) Decision-Making
11 7 (3.27%) Network Virtualisation
12 6 (2.80%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (2.80%) Network Design
12 6 (2.80%) Network Monitoring
13 5 (2.34%) Data Security
13 5 (2.34%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.01%) PowerShell
2 9 (4.21%) VBScript
3 1 (0.47%) ActionScript
3 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (14.95%) SC Cleared
1 32 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (6.07%) Degree
4 6 (2.80%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.93%) MCSA
5 2 (0.93%) MCSE
6 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.67%) GDPR
2 9 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.80%) SOC 2
4 5 (2.34%) SOC 1
5 3 (1.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 63 (29.44%) Active Directory
2 23 (10.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.35%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (7.01%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.40%) Firmware
5 3 (1.40%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.47%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.47%) vSphere
7 1 (0.47%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (9.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (8.41%) vCenter Server
3 15 (7.01%) SCCM
4 3 (1.40%) SCVMM
4 3 (1.40%) SELinux
4 3 (1.40%) Sysprep
4 3 (1.40%) WSUS
5 2 (0.93%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.47%) IBM BigFix
6 1 (0.47%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 59 (27.57%) VMware
2 52 (24.30%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.81%) IBM
4 20 (9.35%) Oracle
5 19 (8.88%) Cisco
6 6 (2.80%) Citrix
7 2 (0.93%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.93%) NetApp
7 2 (0.93%) Veeam
7 2 (0.93%) Veritas
8 1 (0.47%) Capita
8 1 (0.47%) Dell