Infrastructure Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 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 133 225 278
Rank change year-on-year +92 +53 -72
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 833 573 1,050
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.34% 1.53% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.43% 1.59% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 720 472 749
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,725
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,968 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +6.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineer.

Infrastructure Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Infrastructure Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 825 (99.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 417 (50.06%) Windows
3 390 (46.82%) Azure
4 304 (36.49%) Microsoft
5 299 (35.89%) Active Directory
5 299 (35.89%) VMware
6 229 (27.49%) Microsoft 365
7 224 (26.89%) Windows Server
8 212 (25.45%) VMware Infrastructure
9 203 (24.37%) Firewall
10 201 (24.13%) Linux
11 192 (23.05%) Social Skills
12 187 (22.45%) ITIL
13 175 (21.01%) AWS
14 149 (17.89%) PowerShell
15 146 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
16 145 (17.41%) DNS
17 135 (16.21%) DevOps
18 128 (15.37%) Finance
19 120 (14.41%) Ansible
20 117 (14.05%) Mentoring
20 117 (14.05%) Terraform
21 110 (13.21%) WAN
22 109 (13.09%) Data Centre
22 109 (13.09%) Hyper-V
23 103 (12.36%) Cisco
24 99 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
25 98 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
26 96 (11.52%) DHCP
27 95 (11.40%) Coaching

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 98 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 30 (3.60%) IIS
4 8 (0.96%) Apache
5 6 (0.72%) Confluence
6 4 (0.48%) CMS
6 4 (0.48%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.36%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.36%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.24%) CATIA
4 2 (0.24%) NASTRAN
4 2 (0.24%) Trello
5 1 (0.12%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 390 (46.82%) Azure
2 229 (27.49%) Microsoft 365
3 175 (21.01%) AWS
4 94 (11.28%) Entra ID
5 75 (9.00%) IaaS
6 44 (5.28%) SaaS
7 42 (5.04%) Nutanix
8 27 (3.24%) GitHub
9 21 (2.52%) PaaS
9 21 (2.52%) Serverless
10 19 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (1.68%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.68%) GCP
13 14 (1.68%) OneDrive
14 13 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
15 12 (1.44%) AWS KMS
15 12 (1.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 203 (24.37%) Firewall
2 145 (17.41%) DNS
3 110 (13.21%) WAN
4 96 (11.52%) DHCP
5 91 (10.92%) LAN
6 79 (9.48%) SAN
7 75 (9.00%) VPN
8 44 (5.28%) Internet
9 40 (4.80%) Wi-Fi
10 38 (4.56%) TCP/IP
11 34 (4.08%) SD-WAN
12 33 (3.96%) BGP
13 32 (3.84%) VLAN
14 25 (3.00%) Network Security
14 25 (3.00%) Wireless
15 24 (2.88%) MPLS
15 24 (2.88%) WLAN
16 22 (2.64%) OSPF
17 18 (2.16%) 5G
18 13 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.28%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (1.68%) MySQL
5 5 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.48%) DB2
6 4 (0.48%) Power BI
7 3 (0.36%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.36%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.36%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Pinot
8 2 (0.24%) Big Data
8 2 (0.24%) Flink
8 2 (0.24%) Presto
9 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (5.64%) GitLab
2 35 (4.20%) Git
3 22 (2.64%) JIRA
4 21 (2.52%) Artifactory
5 18 (2.16%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.20%) Trac
7 5 (0.60%) MSI
8 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 192 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 128 (15.37%) Finance
3 62 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (6.84%) Public Sector
5 25 (3.00%) Advertising
5 25 (3.00%) Telecoms
6 23 (2.76%) Retail
7 20 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.68%) Law
9 11 (1.32%) Legal
10 10 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.08%) Banking
11 9 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.84%) Japanese Language
13 6 (0.72%) Automotive
13 6 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.72%) Military
14 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.44%) .NET
2 8 (0.96%) Kafka
3 6 (0.72%) .NET Framework
3 6 (0.72%) XML
4 5 (0.60%) LDAP
5 4 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (0.48%) YAML
6 3 (0.36%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.36%) AWS CDK
6 3 (0.36%) Django
6 3 (0.36%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.36%) JSON
6 3 (0.36%) RESTful
6 3 (0.36%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.24%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.24%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.24%) Middleware
7 2 (0.24%) Node.js
7 2 (0.24%) Web Services
8 1 (0.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 109 (13.09%) Data Centre
2 77 (9.24%) Public Cloud
3 38 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (4.44%) PKI
5 36 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.60%) IoT
7 22 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.16%) Clustering
9 17 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.80%) Driving Licence
11 14 (1.68%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.44%) CMDB
13 11 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.20%) IBM Mainframe
14 10 (1.20%) Mainframe
15 9 (1.08%) Life Science
16 8 (0.96%) Client/Server
16 8 (0.96%) Security Posture
17 7 (0.84%) Cloud Native
17 7 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 417 (50.06%) Windows
2 224 (26.89%) Windows Server
3 201 (24.13%) Linux
4 66 (7.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 60 (7.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 51 (6.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 41 (4.92%) Unix
8 36 (4.32%) Windows 10
9 29 (3.48%) Ubuntu
10 26 (3.12%) VMS
11 20 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 11 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (1.20%) Mac OS
13 10 (1.20%) zOS
14 8 (0.96%) Android
14 8 (0.96%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (0.84%) Debian
16 6 (0.72%) Windows 7
17 4 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (99.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 187 (22.45%) ITIL
3 146 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
4 135 (16.21%) DevOps
5 117 (14.05%) Mentoring
6 99 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 95 (11.40%) Coaching
8 74 (8.88%) Change Management
9 72 (8.64%) Migration
10 69 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
11 67 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
12 63 (7.56%) Agile
13 52 (6.24%) CI/CD
14 51 (6.12%) Roadmaps
14 51 (6.12%) Service Management
15 45 (5.40%) Customer Service
16 41 (4.92%) Root Cause Analysis
17 35 (4.20%) Task Automation
18 34 (4.08%) Information Security
18 34 (4.08%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 149 (17.89%) PowerShell
2 71 (8.52%) Python
3 53 (6.36%) Bash
4 33 (3.96%) SQL
5 23 (2.76%) Perl
6 13 (1.56%) ActionScript
6 13 (1.56%) VB
7 7 (0.84%) Java
8 6 (0.72%) Bicep
8 6 (0.72%) Ruby
9 3 (0.36%) Korn
9 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.24%) AWK
10 2 (0.24%) C#
10 2 (0.24%) Go
10 2 (0.24%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.12%) C++
11 1 (0.12%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 88 (10.56%) Security Cleared
2 84 (10.08%) Degree
3 50 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.64%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.64%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.20%) MCSE
10 9 (1.08%) CCNA
11 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.48%) MCITP
14 3 (0.36%) CCNP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.00%) SLA
2 20 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (2.04%) NIST
4 13 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.44%) QA
6 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 299 (35.89%) Active Directory
2 212 (25.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (13.09%) Hyper-V
4 63 (7.56%) Docker
5 56 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (6.24%) VMware ESXi
7 47 (5.64%) vSphere
8 15 (1.80%) NFS
9 14 (1.68%) XenApp
10 13 (1.56%) OpenSSH
10 13 (1.56%) pfSense
11 10 (1.20%) Firmware
12 7 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.72%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.60%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.36%) KVM
15 3 (0.36%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 120 (14.41%) Ansible
2 117 (14.05%) Terraform
3 79 (9.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 69 (8.28%) SCCM
5 46 (5.52%) Kubernetes
6 40 (4.80%) vCenter Server
7 28 (3.36%) WSUS
8 24 (2.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (1.92%) Puppet
11 15 (1.80%) Docker Swarm
11 15 (1.80%) FortiGate
11 15 (1.80%) PowerCLI
12 14 (1.68%) SCOM
12 14 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (1.56%) IBM BigFix
14 12 (1.44%) CA Single Sign-On
14 12 (1.44%) Grafana
15 10 (1.20%) Nagios
15 10 (1.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 304 (36.49%) Microsoft
2 299 (35.89%) VMware
3 103 (12.36%) Cisco
4 71 (8.52%) Veeam
5 56 (6.72%) Citrix
6 44 (5.28%) HP
7 34 (4.08%) Meraki
8 28 (3.36%) IBM
9 27 (3.24%) Fortinet
10 24 (2.88%) Red Hat
11 19 (2.28%) ServiceNow
12 18 (2.16%) Aruba
12 18 (2.16%) EMC
12 18 (2.16%) Splunk
13 17 (2.04%) Dynatrace
13 17 (2.04%) Juniper
14 16 (1.92%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.92%) Sophos
15 15 (1.80%) Commvault
15 15 (1.80%) NetApp