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Which UK infrastructure jobs are in demand?
Fourteen tech infrastructure job titles and specialisms, from 1st line support to cloud architect: how much demand there is, what they pay, where the work is, and the skills employers ask for. Explore the roles ↓
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Why lead with share? The number of adverts IT Jobs Watch records swings a lot from year to year, whether from the market itself or from how many adverts they pick up. A role’s share of all IT adverts is the fairer way to compare years.
Demand by role and specialism
Open any row for its pay range, three-year trend, where the jobs are and the skills that come with it. Cybersecurity, DevOps and Data Centre are specialisms named across many job titles, so their adverts overlap with the titles below.
What each role pays
The thick bar is where most advertised salaries sit (the middle half); the thin line runs from low to high; the dot is the typical (median) salary.
A career ladder
How pay steps up from support roles to senior engineering, and the skills employers mention most at each step.
Where the work is
Adverts for all fourteen added together, by region, with the typical advertised salary in each. One advert can mention two of them and count in both, so read this as where demand is concentrated, not a head count.
The bigger picture
Official job vacancies in the information and communication industry compared with all industries, from the Office for National Statistics. Both start at 100.
Official figures appear once the feed is connected.
Our daily record
Each day we save the number of live adverts, so the trend builds up over time. Drag the timeline to read any day.
Where these numbers come from
- Source IT Jobs Watch. Advert counts, salaries, regions and skills come from IT Jobs Watch, which tracks UK permanent IT job adverts. Their statistics are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, and the figures in this section are shared under the same licence.
- Official context from the ONS. Vacancy and inflation figures are from the Office for National Statistics, under the Open Government Licence.
- Adverts aren’t jobs. One job can be advertised several times, and some are never advertised. Treat these as trends, not a count of vacancies, and not careers advice.