IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 623 685
Rank change year-on-year +127 +62 -132
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 292 110 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 241 91 162
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.12% +4.71%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Infrastructure Engineer
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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +65 112 £40,000 -11.11% 4
North of England +90 78 £42,500 +6.25% 13
East Midlands +44 77 £40,000 -30.43% 2
South West +3 38 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Yorkshire +87 35 £42,500 -5.56% 3
West Midlands +6 35 £42,500 -5.56% 2
South East -16 32 £50,000 +11.11% 4
North West +8 31 £47,500 +18.75% 10
East of England +6 16 £42,500 -15.00% 2
Wales +16 12 £42,500 - 4
North East -2 10 £37,500 -6.25%
Scotland -65 4 £42,500 +6.25% 2
IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 289 (98.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 152 (52.05%) Windows
3 132 (45.21%) Azure
4 129 (44.18%) Microsoft
5 118 (40.41%) Microsoft 365
6 116 (39.73%) Active Directory
7 115 (39.38%) VMware
8 98 (33.56%) Firewall
9 89 (30.48%) Windows Server
10 76 (26.03%) VMware Infrastructure
11 53 (18.15%) Cybersecurity
11 53 (18.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 52 (17.81%) DNS
12 52 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
13 51 (17.47%) Social Skills
14 47 (16.10%) Hyper-V
15 46 (15.75%) Cisco
16 45 (15.41%) SharePoint
17 43 (14.73%) DHCP
18 42 (14.38%) Linux
18 42 (14.38%) Windows Server 2016
19 41 (14.04%) Entra ID
19 41 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
20 39 (13.36%) ITIL
21 37 (12.67%) SAN
22 36 (12.33%) Wi-Fi
22 36 (12.33%) PowerShell
23 33 (11.30%) Veeam
23 33 (11.30%) Microsoft Intune
24 30 (10.27%) Migration

IT Infrastructure Engineer 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 53 (18.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (15.41%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.45%) IIS
4 2 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) Moodle
Applications
1 28 (9.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 132 (45.21%) Azure
2 118 (40.41%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (14.04%) Entra ID
4 27 (9.25%) AWS
5 10 (3.42%) OneDrive
6 9 (3.08%) Mimecast
7 8 (2.74%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.03%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.03%) IaaS
8 3 (1.03%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.68%) OpenDNS
9 2 (0.68%) PaaS
9 2 (0.68%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.68%) SaaS
10 1 (0.34%) OCI
10 1 (0.34%) Slack
10 1 (0.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 98 (33.56%) Firewall
2 52 (17.81%) DNS
3 43 (14.73%) DHCP
4 37 (12.67%) SAN
5 36 (12.33%) Wi-Fi
6 29 (9.93%) WAN
7 26 (8.90%) TCP/IP
8 23 (7.88%) VLAN
9 22 (7.53%) VPN
10 19 (6.51%) LAN
11 14 (4.79%) SD-WAN
12 13 (4.45%) Network Security
13 8 (2.74%) NAS
14 7 (2.40%) BGP
14 7 (2.40%) WLAN
15 6 (2.05%) VoIP
15 6 (2.05%) Wireless
16 5 (1.71%) MPLS
16 5 (1.71%) OSPF
17 3 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.42%) MySQL
3 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 51 (17.47%) Social Skills
2 20 (6.85%) Finance
2 20 (6.85%) Law
3 16 (5.48%) Telecoms
4 14 (4.79%) Automotive
5 13 (4.45%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.05%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.05%) Legal
6 6 (2.05%) Retail
7 5 (1.71%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Electronics
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.68%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.68%) LAMP
1 2 (0.68%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.93%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.14%) CCTV
3 10 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.05%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.71%) IoT
8 4 (1.37%) Clustering
8 4 (1.37%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.37%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.37%) iPad
8 4 (1.37%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.68%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.68%) PKI
10 2 (0.68%) Replication
11 1 (0.34%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 152 (52.05%) Windows
2 89 (30.48%) Windows Server
3 42 (14.38%) Linux
3 42 (14.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (6.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (5.82%) Android
6 17 (5.82%) Apple iOS
7 13 (4.45%) Windows 10
8 7 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.71%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.37%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.68%) Unix
11 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.34%) AIX
12 1 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (98.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (18.15%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (13.36%) ITIL
6 30 (10.27%) Migration
7 20 (6.85%) Project Management
8 19 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (6.16%) Customer Service
9 18 (6.16%) Infrastructure Management
10 17 (5.82%) Logistics
11 16 (5.48%) Project Delivery
12 14 (4.79%) Storage Management
13 13 (4.45%) Containerisation
13 13 (4.45%) Service Management
14 12 (4.11%) Service Delivery
15 11 (3.77%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 10 (3.42%) Mathematics
16 10 (3.42%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (3.08%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.33%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.85%) SQL
3 10 (3.42%) Swift
4 7 (2.40%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (7.53%) Degree
2 11 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.40%) CCNA
4 7 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (2.05%) MCSE
6 5 (1.71%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) CCNP
9 2 (0.68%) MCP
10 1 (0.34%) CCAA
10 1 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) HNC
10 1 (0.34%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.08%) SLA
2 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 116 (39.73%) Active Directory
2 76 (26.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (16.10%) Hyper-V
4 15 (5.14%) Virtual Servers
4 15 (5.14%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (4.11%) vSphere
6 9 (3.08%) Docker
7 6 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.71%) VMware Server
9 4 (1.37%) Firmware
10 2 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.68%) pfSense
10 2 (0.68%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (11.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (6.16%) SCCM
3 10 (3.42%) Ansible
3 10 (3.42%) WSUS
4 6 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 6 (2.05%) SCOM
5 5 (1.71%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.37%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (1.03%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.68%) Backup Exec
8 2 (0.68%) NetCrunch
8 2 (0.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.68%) vRealize
9 1 (0.34%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 129 (44.18%) Microsoft
2 115 (39.38%) VMware
3 46 (15.75%) Cisco
4 33 (11.30%) Veeam
5 22 (7.53%) Citrix
6 15 (5.14%) Meraki
7 10 (3.42%) Acronis
7 10 (3.42%) HP
8 9 (3.08%) NetApp
9 8 (2.74%) Aruba
9 8 (2.74%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.40%) Dell
10 7 (2.40%) Oracle
11 6 (2.05%) McAfee
11 6 (2.05%) Nasuni
11 6 (2.05%) Rapid7
11 6 (2.05%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.37%) Cylance
13 4 (1.37%) Extreme Networks