Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 32 135
Rank change year-on-year -40 +103 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 2,532 4,338 1,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.53% 7.33% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 7.67% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,153 1,130 1,436
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,720 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London 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 -21 693 £46,000 -3.16% 87
South East -19 630 £50,000 +1.01% 119
South West -17 450 £50,000 - 82
Midlands -32 410 £45,000 -8.69% 65
North West -36 329 £47,500 -1.04% 40
Yorkshire -4 260 £45,000 - 43
West Midlands -41 211 £45,000 -5.26% 37
East Midlands -17 199 £45,000 -10.00% 28
East of England -46 196 £45,000 -14.29% 48
North East -23 102 £44,274 +4.17% 5
Scotland -115 92 £45,500 -9.00% 37
Wales -14 58 £41,067 -3.37% 10
Northern Ireland -11 7 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
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
1 265 (10.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 177 (6.99%) SharePoint
3 54 (2.13%) IIS
4 11 (0.43%) CMS
5 7 (0.28%) Apache
6 6 (0.24%) Confluence
6 6 (0.24%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.16%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.16%) WordPress
9 2 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.039%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.039%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.039%) nginx
10 1 (0.039%) WebSphere
Applications
1 80 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.24%) LightWave 3D
3 6 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
4 5 (0.20%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.079%) CATIA
6 2 (0.079%) NASTRAN
6 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.079%) Trello
7 1 (0.039%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.079%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.079%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (40.40%) Azure
2 777 (30.69%) Microsoft 365
3 402 (15.88%) AWS
4 237 (9.36%) Entra ID
5 138 (5.45%) IaaS
6 131 (5.17%) SaaS
7 80 (3.16%) PaaS
8 67 (2.65%) GCP
9 66 (2.61%) OneDrive
10 45 (1.78%) OpenShift
11 44 (1.74%) Power Platform
12 38 (1.50%) Nutanix
13 36 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
14 27 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (0.95%) Amazon S3
15 24 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (0.87%) GitHub
17 21 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 20 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
19 19 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 488 (19.27%) Firewall
2 381 (15.05%) DNS
3 296 (11.69%) WAN
4 282 (11.14%) DHCP
5 235 (9.28%) LAN
6 210 (8.29%) SAN
7 158 (6.24%) VPN
8 129 (5.09%) TCP/IP
9 111 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
10 103 (4.07%) SD-WAN
11 85 (3.36%) Wireless
12 82 (3.24%) VLAN
13 67 (2.65%) HTTP
14 60 (2.37%) Network Security
15 58 (2.29%) NAS
16 52 (2.05%) VoIP
17 48 (1.90%) WLAN
18 47 (1.86%) MPLS
19 46 (1.82%) Internet
20 38 (1.50%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 57 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (1.46%) MySQL
4 24 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (0.55%) Big Data
8 13 (0.51%) Power BI
9 9 (0.36%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.32%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.32%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.24%) SQLite
12 5 (0.20%) DB2
13 4 (0.16%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
15 1 (0.039%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.039%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.039%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (1.94%) Git
2 41 (1.62%) GitLab
3 34 (1.34%) JIRA
4 27 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.39%) Trac
7 7 (0.28%) MSI
7 7 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.20%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.16%) Subversion
11 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.079%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.079%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.079%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.039%) Gradle
13 1 (0.039%) Maven
General
1 460 (18.17%) Social Skills
2 239 (9.44%) Finance
3 124 (4.90%) Public Sector
4 89 (3.52%) Law
5 83 (3.28%) Aerospace
6 82 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
7 65 (2.57%) Manufacturing
8 56 (2.21%) Retail
9 54 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 38 (1.50%) Automotive
12 29 (1.15%) Advertising
13 28 (1.11%) Electronics
13 28 (1.11%) Games
13 28 (1.11%) Legal
14 26 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (0.87%) Banking
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 11 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,881 (74.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 438 (17.30%) Senior
3 379 (14.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 349 (13.78%) IT Engineer
5 271 (10.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 157 (6.20%) Support Engineer
7 133 (5.25%) Network Engineer
8 130 (5.13%) Infrastructure Support
9 126 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 112 (4.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 110 (4.34%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 108 (4.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 104 (4.11%) Lead
14 102 (4.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
15 95 (3.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 86 (3.40%) IT Support
17 80 (3.16%) Security Engineer
18 79 (3.12%) Systems Engineer
19 73 (2.88%) IT Support Engineer
20 68 (2.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.15%) .NET
2 14 (0.55%) XML
3 13 (0.51%) JSON
3 13 (0.51%) Web Services
4 12 (0.47%) .NET Framework
5 9 (0.36%) OLE
6 8 (0.32%) React
7 7 (0.28%) .NET Core
7 7 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (0.28%) Node.js
8 6 (0.24%) Compass CSS Framework
8 6 (0.24%) JSON Schema
8 6 (0.24%) KML
8 6 (0.24%) LAMP
8 6 (0.24%) LDAP
8 6 (0.24%) Regular Expression
8 6 (0.24%) RESTful
8 6 (0.24%) Software Packaging
8 6 (0.24%) web3js
8 6 (0.24%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 267 (10.55%) Data Centre
2 134 (5.29%) Public Cloud
3 90 (3.55%) Driving Licence
4 63 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 56 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (2.01%) PKI
8 42 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 42 (1.66%) Replication
9 38 (1.50%) Private Cloud
10 37 (1.46%) IoT
11 31 (1.22%) Clustering
12 26 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.03%) Onboarding
13 20 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
13 20 (0.79%) PMI
14 17 (0.67%) EMC VNX
15 16 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
16 14 (0.55%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1,144 (45.18%) Windows
2 649 (25.63%) Windows Server
3 525 (20.73%) Linux
4 167 (6.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 133 (5.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 128 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 103 (4.07%) Windows 10
8 79 (3.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 47 (1.86%) Ubuntu
10 46 (1.82%) Unix
11 31 (1.22%) Android
12 28 (1.11%) Apple iOS
13 27 (1.07%) CentOS
13 27 (1.07%) Windows 7
14 25 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.83%) Mac OS
15 21 (0.83%) VMS
15 21 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
16 16 (0.63%) Windows XP
17 15 (0.59%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (17.10%) ITIL
2 323 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
3 293 (11.57%) Cybersecurity
4 250 (9.87%) DevOps
5 237 (9.36%) Mentoring
6 181 (7.15%) Customer Service
7 175 (6.91%) Disaster Recovery
8 168 (6.64%) Agile
9 150 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 143 (5.65%) Migration
11 137 (5.41%) Coaching
12 132 (5.21%) Change Management
13 123 (4.86%) Roadmaps
13 123 (4.86%) Service Management
14 116 (4.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 113 (4.46%) Project Management
16 101 (3.99%) Service Delivery
17 95 (3.75%) Project Delivery
18 94 (3.71%) Server Management
19 83 (3.28%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 394 (15.56%) PowerShell
2 160 (6.32%) Python
3 130 (5.13%) SQL
4 112 (4.42%) Bash
5 48 (1.90%) Java
6 23 (0.91%) C#
7 22 (0.87%) JavaScript
8 14 (0.55%) Perl
9 11 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.39%) ActionScript
10 10 (0.39%) Swift
10 10 (0.39%) VB
10 10 (0.39%) VBScript
11 9 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.24%) Bicep
12 6 (0.24%) C++
12 6 (0.24%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.20%) Ruby
14 3 (0.12%) Groovy
14 3 (0.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 419 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 234 (9.24%) DV Cleared
2 234 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 208 (8.21%) Degree
4 137 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
5 117 (4.62%) CCNA
6 86 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 53 (2.09%) CCNP
9 47 (1.86%) MCSE
10 41 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 26 (1.03%) CISSP
13 25 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 20 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 18 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.67%) A+ Certification
17 16 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (0.59%) MCSA
19 14 (0.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.13%) SLA
2 60 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 60 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (0.75%) QA
4 18 (0.71%) GDPR
4 18 (0.71%) NIST
5 14 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 13 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.20%) SOC 1
10 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.039%) NCSC
System Software
1 758 (29.94%) Active Directory
2 519 (20.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 394 (15.56%) Hyper-V
4 136 (5.37%) Docker
5 114 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
6 89 (3.52%) vSphere
7 87 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
8 36 (1.42%) Firmware
9 27 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
10 25 (0.99%) XenApp
11 14 (0.55%) NFS
11 14 (0.55%) XenDesktop
12 12 (0.47%) pfSense
13 10 (0.39%) KVM
13 10 (0.39%) OpenSSH
14 9 (0.36%) VMware Server
15 8 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
15 8 (0.32%) VMware NSX
16 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 242 (9.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 205 (8.10%) Ansible
3 158 (6.24%) SCCM
4 153 (6.04%) Kubernetes
5 151 (5.96%) Terraform
6 85 (3.36%) vCenter Server
7 70 (2.76%) Puppet
8 66 (2.61%) WSUS
9 42 (1.66%) SCOM
10 41 (1.62%) FortiGate
11 37 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 36 (1.42%) EMC NetWorker
13 30 (1.18%) ZABBIX
14 27 (1.07%) Nagios
15 25 (0.99%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 21 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
17 16 (0.63%) Grafana
17 16 (0.63%) NetBackup
17 16 (0.63%) SCDPM
17 16 (0.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 867 (34.24%) Microsoft
2 833 (32.90%) VMware
3 338 (13.35%) Cisco
4 181 (7.15%) Veeam
5 158 (6.24%) Citrix
6 115 (4.54%) HP
7 95 (3.75%) Dell
8 91 (3.59%) Red Hat
9 80 (3.16%) Fortinet
10 79 (3.12%) Meraki
11 67 (2.65%) Aruba
12 63 (2.49%) Palo Alto
13 57 (2.25%) NetApp
14 54 (2.13%) SolarWinds
15 51 (2.01%) EMC
15 51 (2.01%) Google
16 45 (1.78%) ServiceNow
17 43 (1.70%) Juniper
18 41 (1.62%) Sophos
19 38 (1.50%) Oracle