Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 235 279
Rank change year-on-year +130 +44 -108
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 2,176 1,421 2,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.52% 1.61% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.66% 1.75% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,801 1,133 1,559
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.82%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in England

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +100 486 £45,000 - 50
South East +87 476 £50,000 +11.11% 80
South West +81 388 £50,000 +5.26% 58
London +51 338 £62,500 +4.17% 78
Midlands +63 320 £45,000 -5.26% 51
North West +75 257 £45,000 -4.26% 23
East Midlands +68 166 £45,000 -10.00% 22
East of England +66 163 £45,000 -10.00% 34
West Midlands +44 154 £45,000 -5.26% 29
Yorkshire +88 151 £44,274 -1.61% 24
North East +45 76 £44,274 +2.37% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2,101 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1,027 (47.20%) Windows
3 884 (40.63%) Azure
4 781 (35.89%) VMware
5 776 (35.66%) Microsoft
6 700 (32.17%) Active Directory
7 652 (29.96%) Microsoft 365
8 562 (25.83%) Windows Server
9 502 (23.07%) VMware Infrastructure
10 501 (23.02%) Linux
11 450 (20.68%) Firewall
12 396 (18.20%) PowerShell
13 388 (17.83%) Social Skills
14 379 (17.42%) DNS
15 333 (15.30%) AWS
16 331 (15.21%) ITIL
17 329 (15.12%) Security Cleared
18 325 (14.94%) Hyper-V
19 289 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
20 275 (12.64%) Microsoft Exchange
21 265 (12.18%) WAN
22 264 (12.13%) DHCP
23 257 (11.81%) Data Centre
24 255 (11.72%) Cisco
25 237 (10.89%) Finance
26 230 (10.57%) Microsoft Intune
27 221 (10.16%) LAN
28 216 (9.93%) DevOps
29 202 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
30 200 (9.19%) Entra ID

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 275 (12.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 181 (8.32%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.07%) IIS
4 11 (0.51%) Confluence
5 9 (0.41%) CMS
5 9 (0.41%) WordPress
6 7 (0.32%) Apache
7 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.18%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.046%) JBoss
10 1 (0.046%) Moodle
10 1 (0.046%) Site Server
10 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.046%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.046%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.18%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.092%) CATIA
4 2 (0.092%) NASTRAN
4 2 (0.092%) Trello
5 1 (0.046%) 1Password
5 1 (0.046%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 884 (40.63%) Azure
2 652 (29.96%) Microsoft 365
3 333 (15.30%) AWS
4 200 (9.19%) Entra ID
5 132 (6.07%) IaaS
6 129 (5.93%) SaaS
7 59 (2.71%) PaaS
8 56 (2.57%) OneDrive
9 44 (2.02%) Nutanix
9 44 (2.02%) OpenShift
10 40 (1.84%) GCP
11 37 (1.70%) GitHub
12 36 (1.65%) Power Platform
13 32 (1.47%) Amazon S3
14 31 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (1.29%) Serverless
16 27 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 25 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
19 18 (0.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 450 (20.68%) Firewall
2 379 (17.42%) DNS
3 265 (12.18%) WAN
4 264 (12.13%) DHCP
5 221 (10.16%) LAN
6 185 (8.50%) SAN
7 160 (7.35%) VPN
8 132 (6.07%) TCP/IP
9 110 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
10 87 (4.00%) VLAN
11 79 (3.63%) Wireless
12 71 (3.26%) SD-WAN
13 59 (2.71%) NAS
14 56 (2.57%) HTTP
15 46 (2.11%) MPLS
16 44 (2.02%) WLAN
17 42 (1.93%) Internet
17 42 (1.93%) VoIP
18 36 (1.65%) Network Security
19 34 (1.56%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 44 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (1.42%) MySQL
4 19 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.60%) Big Data
7 10 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.23%) Power BI
9 4 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.18%) DB2
9 4 (0.18%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.18%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.14%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.092%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.092%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.046%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.046%) MS Access
12 1 (0.046%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.046%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.046%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (2.48%) GitLab
2 41 (1.88%) Git
3 31 (1.42%) JIRA
4 25 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.97%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.46%) Trac
7 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.32%) MSI
8 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.18%) Subversion
10 2 (0.092%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.092%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.046%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.046%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.046%) Vagrant
General
1 388 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 237 (10.89%) Finance
3 107 (4.92%) Public Sector
4 93 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (3.22%) Aerospace
6 58 (2.67%) Manufacturing
7 56 (2.57%) Telecoms
8 50 (2.30%) Retail
9 49 (2.25%) Law
10 46 (2.11%) Banking
11 41 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (1.42%) Automotive
13 29 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (1.29%) Advertising
15 24 (1.10%) Legal
16 16 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.60%) Electronics
17 13 (0.60%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.55%) Games
19 11 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.01%) CSS
2 17 (0.78%) .NET
3 14 (0.64%) LDAP
4 13 (0.60%) Web Services
4 13 (0.60%) XML
5 12 (0.55%) JSON
6 11 (0.51%) LAMP
7 8 (0.37%) .NET Framework
8 6 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (0.28%) JSON Schema
8 6 (0.28%) KML
8 6 (0.28%) Regular Expression
8 6 (0.28%) Software Packaging
8 6 (0.28%) XML Schema
8 6 (0.28%) YAML
9 5 (0.23%) Middleware
9 5 (0.23%) SAML
10 4 (0.18%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.18%) EJB
10 4 (0.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 257 (11.81%) Data Centre
2 86 (3.95%) Public Cloud
3 83 (3.81%) Driving Licence
4 82 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 52 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 52 (2.39%) PKI
7 35 (1.61%) Replication
8 34 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 27 (1.24%) IoT
10 24 (1.10%) Clustering
11 21 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (0.92%) CCTV
13 19 (0.87%) Cloud Native
14 17 (0.78%) Client/Server
14 17 (0.78%) EMC VNX
15 16 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
17 13 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
18 12 (0.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1,027 (47.20%) Windows
2 562 (25.83%) Windows Server
3 501 (23.02%) Linux
4 150 (6.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 118 (5.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 114 (5.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 113 (5.19%) Windows 10
8 92 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 57 (2.62%) Ubuntu
10 42 (1.93%) Unix
10 42 (1.93%) VMS
11 31 (1.42%) Apple iOS
12 29 (1.33%) Android
13 26 (1.19%) Windows 7
14 25 (1.15%) CentOS
15 22 (1.01%) Mac OS
16 16 (0.74%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
18 14 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
19 9 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,101 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 331 (15.21%) ITIL
3 289 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
4 216 (9.93%) DevOps
5 202 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
6 172 (7.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 163 (7.49%) Mentoring
8 136 (6.25%) Agile
9 130 (5.97%) Migration
10 110 (5.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 106 (4.87%) Coaching
12 103 (4.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 100 (4.60%) Change Management
14 95 (4.37%) Service Management
15 90 (4.14%) Roadmaps
16 89 (4.09%) Customer Service
17 84 (3.86%) Service Delivery
18 81 (3.72%) Project Management
19 79 (3.63%) Collaborative Working
20 76 (3.49%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 396 (18.20%) PowerShell
2 153 (7.03%) Python
3 126 (5.79%) Bash
4 112 (5.15%) SQL
5 46 (2.11%) Java
6 23 (1.06%) Perl
7 17 (0.78%) Ruby
8 10 (0.46%) ActionScript
8 10 (0.46%) Swift
8 10 (0.46%) VB
9 9 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.37%) Korn
11 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.23%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.18%) Go
13 3 (0.14%) Bicep
13 3 (0.14%) C#
13 3 (0.14%) C++
13 3 (0.14%) Rust
13 3 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 329 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 191 (8.78%) DV Cleared
3 180 (8.27%) Degree
4 164 (7.54%) SC Cleared
5 90 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
6 77 (3.54%) CCNA
7 52 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (1.93%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.42%) HNC
11 29 (1.33%) CCNP
12 28 (1.29%) MCSE
13 26 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 21 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 16 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.60%) A+ Certification
16 13 (0.60%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
17 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (3.72%) SLA
2 28 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (0.78%) GDPR
5 14 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 14 (0.64%) NIST
6 12 (0.55%) QA
7 10 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.092%) PMO
12 1 (0.046%) NCSC
System Software
1 700 (32.17%) Active Directory
2 502 (23.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 325 (14.94%) Hyper-V
4 131 (6.02%) Docker
5 121 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 103 (4.73%) vSphere
7 81 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (1.29%) XenApp
9 22 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (0.74%) NFS
12 14 (0.64%) Firmware
13 13 (0.60%) pfSense
14 12 (0.55%) XenDesktop
15 10 (0.46%) OpenSSH
16 9 (0.41%) VMware Server
17 8 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
18 7 (0.32%) Terminal Services
19 6 (0.28%) KVM
20 5 (0.23%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 230 (10.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 184 (8.46%) Ansible
3 168 (7.72%) SCCM
4 141 (6.48%) Terraform
5 120 (5.51%) Kubernetes
6 97 (4.46%) vCenter Server
7 64 (2.94%) Puppet
8 60 (2.76%) WSUS
9 38 (1.75%) SCOM
10 36 (1.65%) EMC NetWorker
11 27 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 26 (1.19%) Nagios
13 25 (1.15%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 23 (1.06%) FortiGate
15 21 (0.97%) NetBackup
16 18 (0.83%) ZABBIX
17 16 (0.74%) Grafana
17 16 (0.74%) SCDPM
17 16 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
18 15 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 781 (35.89%) VMware
2 776 (35.66%) Microsoft
3 255 (11.72%) Cisco
4 180 (8.27%) Veeam
5 144 (6.62%) Citrix
6 108 (4.96%) Red Hat
7 104 (4.78%) HP
8 74 (3.40%) Dell
9 62 (2.85%) Aruba
10 61 (2.80%) Oracle
11 59 (2.71%) Meraki
12 47 (2.16%) NetApp
12 47 (2.16%) Palo Alto
13 43 (1.98%) EMC
14 42 (1.93%) SolarWinds
15 40 (1.84%) Fortinet
16 34 (1.56%) Juniper
17 33 (1.52%) IBM
18 31 (1.42%) Google
19 26 (1.19%) ServiceNow