IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £42,500 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 550 750 959
Rank change year-on-year +200 +209 -214
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 330 144 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 270 117 197
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £64,250 £64,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £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%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in England

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the England 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
Midlands +44 117 £40,000 -11.11% 5
North of England +77 86 £42,500 +3.03% 12
East Midlands +35 81 £40,000 -30.43% 3
North West +7 40 £45,000 +9.09% 7
South West -8 39 £46,250 -7.50% 3
London +86 37 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands +7 36 £43,750 -2.78% 2
Yorkshire +92 35 £42,500 -5.56% 4
South East -25 34 £50,000 +11.11% 5
East of England 0 15 £42,500 -15.00% 2
North East -9 9 £37,500 -6.25% 1
IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

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

1 323 (97.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 178 (53.94%) Windows
3 147 (44.55%) Azure
4 135 (40.91%) Microsoft
5 131 (39.70%) Microsoft 365
6 127 (38.48%) VMware
7 125 (37.88%) Active Directory
8 110 (33.33%) Firewall
9 106 (32.12%) Windows Server
10 78 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
11 57 (17.27%) Microsoft Exchange
12 55 (16.67%) DNS
13 54 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
13 54 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (16.06%) Social Skills
15 50 (15.15%) SharePoint
15 50 (15.15%) Linux
15 50 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
16 49 (14.85%) Hyper-V
16 49 (14.85%) Windows Server 2016
17 48 (14.55%) DHCP
17 48 (14.55%) Cisco
18 44 (13.33%) ITIL
18 44 (13.33%) Entra ID
19 43 (13.03%) Disaster Recovery
20 40 (12.12%) Data Centre
21 39 (11.82%) Migration
22 38 (11.52%) PowerShell
23 36 (10.91%) Veeam
24 33 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune

IT 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 57 (17.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (15.15%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.94%) IIS
4 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Moodle
Applications
1 29 (8.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 147 (44.55%) Azure
2 131 (39.70%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 31 (9.39%) AWS
5 10 (3.03%) Mimecast
6 9 (2.73%) Nutanix
6 9 (2.73%) OneDrive
7 6 (1.82%) OCI
8 5 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.21%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.21%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.91%) IaaS
10 3 (0.91%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.61%) OpenDNS
11 2 (0.61%) PaaS
11 2 (0.61%) SaaS
12 1 (0.30%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 110 (33.33%) Firewall
2 55 (16.67%) DNS
3 50 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
4 48 (14.55%) DHCP
5 31 (9.39%) WAN
6 30 (9.09%) SAN
7 29 (8.79%) TCP/IP
8 22 (6.67%) LAN
9 21 (6.36%) VLAN
10 20 (6.06%) VPN
11 13 (3.94%) Network Security
11 13 (3.94%) SD-WAN
12 8 (2.42%) WLAN
13 6 (1.82%) BGP
13 6 (1.82%) MPLS
13 6 (1.82%) VoIP
13 6 (1.82%) Wireless
14 5 (1.52%) Internet
15 4 (1.21%) NAS
15 4 (1.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.03%) MySQL
3 5 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (0.91%) JIRA
2 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 21 (6.36%) Finance
3 16 (4.85%) Law
3 16 (4.85%) Telecoms
4 13 (3.94%) Automotive
4 13 (3.94%) Manufacturing
5 9 (2.73%) Japanese Language
6 6 (1.82%) Aerospace
6 6 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.82%) Legal
7 5 (1.52%) Banking
7 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.52%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.52%) Retail
8 3 (0.91%) Military
8 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.61%) Electronics
9 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.61%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.61%) LAMP
1 2 (0.61%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.85%) CCTV
3 10 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.12%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.82%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.52%) IoT
7 4 (1.21%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.21%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.21%) Thin Client
8 3 (0.91%) Clustering
8 3 (0.91%) Replication
9 2 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.61%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.61%) PKI
10 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 178 (53.94%) Windows
2 106 (32.12%) Windows Server
3 50 (15.15%) Linux
4 49 (14.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (7.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (6.36%) Windows 10
7 20 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (5.76%) Apple iOS
9 18 (5.45%) Android
10 11 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (2.42%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.21%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.61%) Unix
14 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.30%) AIX
15 1 (0.30%) CentOS
15 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (97.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (13.33%) ITIL
4 43 (13.03%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (11.82%) Migration
6 23 (6.97%) Project Management
7 20 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (5.45%) Customer Service
8 18 (5.45%) Infrastructure Management
9 17 (5.15%) Logistics
10 16 (4.85%) Project Delivery
11 14 (4.24%) Service Delivery
11 14 (4.24%) Service Management
11 14 (4.24%) Storage Management
12 13 (3.94%) Containerisation
13 12 (3.64%) Incident Management
14 11 (3.33%) Capacity Management
14 11 (3.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 10 (3.03%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (11.52%) PowerShell
2 19 (5.76%) SQL
3 10 (3.03%) Swift
4 7 (2.12%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (6.67%) Degree
2 13 (3.94%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (2.42%) CCNA
5 6 (1.82%) MCSE
5 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.61%) CCNP
9 2 (0.61%) MCP
10 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.30%) HNC
10 1 (0.30%) HND
10 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.42%) SLA
2 4 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 125 (37.88%) Active Directory
2 78 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (14.85%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.85%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
5 15 (4.55%) vSphere
6 9 (2.73%) Docker
7 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.52%) VMware Server
8 4 (1.21%) Firmware
9 2 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.61%) pfSense
9 2 (0.61%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.76%) SCCM
3 10 (3.03%) Ansible
3 10 (3.03%) WSUS
4 6 (1.82%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 6 (1.82%) SCOM
4 6 (1.82%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.21%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.91%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.61%) Backup Exec
7 2 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.61%) NetCrunch
7 2 (0.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.61%) vRealize
8 1 (0.30%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 135 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 127 (38.48%) VMware
3 48 (14.55%) Cisco
4 36 (10.91%) Veeam
5 22 (6.67%) Citrix
6 17 (5.15%) Meraki
7 13 (3.94%) Dell
7 13 (3.94%) NetApp
8 12 (3.64%) HP
8 12 (3.64%) Oracle
8 12 (3.64%) Red Hat
9 10 (3.03%) Acronis
9 10 (3.03%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.42%) Aruba
11 7 (2.12%) Nasuni
11 7 (2.12%) Rapid7
12 6 (1.82%) McAfee
13 5 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.52%) SolarWinds
14 4 (1.21%) CyberArk