IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 602 805 1043
Rank change year-on-year +203 +238 -304
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 317 158 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 268 129 199
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,750 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +3.45% +2.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 95,996 89,726 157,614
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.49% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,581 56,645 84,697
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,001 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +216 300 £42,500 -5.56% 25
UK excluding London +125 277 £42,500 -5.56% 29
Midlands +59 106 £40,000 -11.11% 7
Work from Home +129 104 £42,500 -5.56% 8
North of England +92 74 £42,500 - 11
East Midlands +46 73 £40,000 -8.57% 6
South West +7 37 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Yorkshire +104 34 £42,500 -5.56% 5
South East +18 34 £50,000 +11.11% 3
West Midlands +29 33 £42,500 -5.56% 1
London +83 32 £55,000 +4.76% 4
North West +15 28 £46,500 +9.41% 5
East of England +23 15 £42,500 -15.00% 1
North East +2 10 £37,500 -6.25% 2
Wales +20 7 £42,500 - 5
Scotland -60 4 £42,500 +6.25% 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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 featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 312 (98.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 181 (57.10%) Windows
3 155 (48.90%) Azure
4 142 (44.79%) Microsoft
5 130 (41.01%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (40.69%) VMware
7 124 (39.12%) Active Directory
8 120 (37.85%) Firewall
9 111 (35.02%) Windows Server
10 79 (24.92%) VMware Infrastructure
11 58 (18.30%) Hyper-V
11 58 (18.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 55 (17.35%) DNS
13 54 (17.03%) Cybersecurity
14 52 (16.40%) Cisco
14 52 (16.40%) SharePoint
14 52 (16.40%) Social Skills
15 51 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (14.83%) Linux
16 47 (14.83%) Wi-Fi
17 46 (14.51%) DHCP
18 45 (14.20%) ITIL
19 44 (13.88%) Windows Server 2016
20 43 (13.56%) Entra ID
20 43 (13.56%) SAN
20 43 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
21 38 (11.99%) Migration
22 36 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
22 36 (11.36%) PowerShell
23 35 (11.04%) Veeam

IT 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 58 (18.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (16.40%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.79%) IIS
4 2 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.32%) Moodle
Applications
1 29 (9.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 155 (48.90%) Azure
2 130 (41.01%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (13.56%) Entra ID
4 35 (11.04%) AWS
5 11 (3.47%) OneDrive
6 9 (2.84%) Mimecast
7 8 (2.52%) Nutanix
8 6 (1.89%) OCI
9 5 (1.58%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.26%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.95%) IaaS
12 2 (0.63%) OpenDNS
12 2 (0.63%) PaaS
12 2 (0.63%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.63%) SaaS
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.32%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.32%) Slack
13 1 (0.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 120 (37.85%) Firewall
2 55 (17.35%) DNS
3 47 (14.83%) Wi-Fi
4 46 (14.51%) DHCP
5 43 (13.56%) SAN
6 34 (10.73%) WAN
7 31 (9.78%) TCP/IP
8 24 (7.57%) VPN
9 23 (7.26%) VLAN
10 22 (6.94%) LAN
11 17 (5.36%) SD-WAN
12 12 (3.79%) Network Security
13 9 (2.84%) VoIP
14 8 (2.52%) WLAN
15 7 (2.21%) BGP
15 7 (2.21%) NAS
16 6 (1.89%) Wireless
17 5 (1.58%) Cisco ASA
17 5 (1.58%) MPLS
17 5 (1.58%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.15%) MySQL
3 5 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.32%) JIRA
General
1 52 (16.40%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.26%) Finance
3 20 (6.31%) Law
4 16 (5.05%) Telecoms
5 14 (4.42%) Automotive
6 12 (3.79%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.52%) Japanese Language
8 7 (2.21%) Legal
9 6 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.58%) Banking
10 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.58%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.58%) Retail
11 3 (0.95%) Military
12 2 (0.63%) Electronics
12 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.63%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.63%) LAMP
1 2 (0.63%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.73%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.10%) CCTV
3 9 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.89%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.58%) IoT
8 4 (1.26%) Clustering
8 4 (1.26%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.26%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.26%) iPad
8 4 (1.26%) Thin Client
9 3 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.63%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.63%) PKI
10 2 (0.63%) Replication
11 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 181 (57.10%) Windows
2 111 (35.02%) Windows Server
3 47 (14.83%) Linux
4 44 (13.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (6.62%) Windows 10
5 21 (6.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (5.99%) Apple iOS
6 19 (5.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (5.68%) Android
8 10 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (2.52%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.26%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.63%) Unix
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.32%) AIX
13 1 (0.32%) CentOS
13 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (98.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (17.03%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (14.20%) ITIL
5 43 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 38 (11.99%) Migration
7 22 (6.94%) Project Management
8 21 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (5.68%) Customer Service
9 18 (5.68%) Infrastructure Management
10 17 (5.36%) Project Delivery
11 16 (5.05%) Logistics
11 16 (5.05%) Storage Management
12 14 (4.42%) Proactive Monitoring
12 14 (4.42%) Service Management
13 13 (4.10%) Containerisation
14 12 (3.79%) Service Delivery
15 11 (3.47%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 11 (3.47%) High Availability
16 10 (3.15%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.31%) SQL
3 10 (3.15%) Swift
4 6 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (6.94%) Degree
2 15 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (3.15%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.84%) CCNA
5 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.89%) MCSE
6 6 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.95%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.95%) MCP
10 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.63%) CCNP
10 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.32%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CCAA
11 1 (0.32%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.32%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.84%) SLA
2 3 (0.95%) GDPR
3 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 124 (39.12%) Active Directory
2 79 (24.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (18.30%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.99%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (4.42%) Virtual Servers
6 13 (4.10%) vSphere
7 9 (2.84%) Docker
8 6 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.58%) VMware Server
10 4 (1.26%) Firmware
11 2 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.63%) pfSense
11 2 (0.63%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 36 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (5.36%) SCCM
3 10 (3.15%) WSUS
4 9 (2.84%) Ansible
5 6 (1.89%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 6 (1.89%) SCOM
5 6 (1.89%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.26%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.95%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.63%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.63%) NetCrunch
8 2 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.63%) vRealize
9 1 (0.32%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 142 (44.79%) Microsoft
2 129 (40.69%) VMware
3 52 (16.40%) Cisco
4 35 (11.04%) Veeam
5 25 (7.89%) Citrix
6 16 (5.05%) Meraki
7 12 (3.79%) HP
7 12 (3.79%) Oracle
8 10 (3.15%) Acronis
8 10 (3.15%) Dell
8 10 (3.15%) NetApp
8 10 (3.15%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.52%) Aruba
9 8 (2.52%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.89%) McAfee
10 6 (1.89%) Nasuni
10 6 (1.89%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.58%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.26%) Barracuda Networks
12 4 (1.26%) EqualLogic