Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £53,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 246 277
Rank change year-on-year +32 +31 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 68 35 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.74% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.56% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 28 25 22
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,263 -
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,000 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £55,825 £56,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,250 £87,419 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,253 7,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.29% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,433 3,885 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,100 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Gloucestershire +15 38 £54,500 -4.39% 1
Wiltshire -13 10 £50,750 +15.34% 3
Bristol +2 9 £52,500 -36.61% 1
Devon -10 4 £47,500 +14.08% 1
Dorset -12 4 £57,500 +9.52% 1
Somerset +2 2 £57,200 +4.00%
Cornwall - 1 £40,000 -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 South West region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (70.59%) Windows
3 47 (69.12%) VMware
4 46 (67.65%) PowerShell
4 46 (67.65%) Azure
5 40 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (58.82%) Linux
6 37 (54.41%) DNS
6 37 (54.41%) Hyper-V
7 36 (52.94%) Security Cleared
8 35 (51.47%) DHCP
9 34 (50.00%) Python
9 34 (50.00%) AWS
9 34 (50.00%) SaaS
9 34 (50.00%) Ansible
9 34 (50.00%) Docker
9 34 (50.00%) DevOps
9 34 (50.00%) Kubernetes
10 33 (48.53%) DV Cleared
11 32 (47.06%) Java
11 32 (47.06%) HTTP
11 32 (47.06%) TCP/IP
11 32 (47.06%) Red Hat
11 32 (47.06%) Actionable Insight
11 32 (47.06%) Bash
11 32 (47.06%) Software Architecture
11 32 (47.06%) Puppet
11 32 (47.06%) OpenShift
11 32 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 16 (23.53%) Microsoft

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (13.24%) SharePoint
2 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 46 (67.65%) Azure
2 34 (50.00%) AWS
2 34 (50.00%) SaaS
3 32 (47.06%) OpenShift
4 15 (22.06%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (8.82%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.35%) IaaS
7 4 (5.88%) PaaS
7 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (54.41%) DNS
2 35 (51.47%) DHCP
3 32 (47.06%) HTTP
3 32 (47.06%) TCP/IP
4 7 (10.29%) SD-WAN
5 6 (8.82%) WAN
6 5 (7.35%) Firewall
7 4 (5.88%) SAN
7 4 (5.88%) Skype
8 3 (4.41%) NAS
9 2 (2.94%) BGP
9 2 (2.94%) BIG-IP
9 2 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (2.94%) LAN
9 2 (2.94%) MPLS
9 2 (2.94%) OSPF
9 2 (2.94%) VPN
9 2 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.94%) Wireless
10 1 (1.47%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (16.18%) Aerospace
2 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.35%) Military
4 3 (4.41%) Social Housing
5 2 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.41%) Clustering
2 3 (4.41%) Fat Client
2 3 (4.41%) PKI
2 3 (4.41%) Thin Client
3 2 (2.94%) CMDB
3 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (70.59%) Windows
2 40 (58.82%) Linux
3 32 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (14.71%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.47%) AIX
6 1 (1.47%) CentOS
6 1 (1.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (50.00%) DevOps
3 32 (47.06%) Actionable Insight
3 32 (47.06%) Software Architecture
4 11 (16.18%) Agile
4 11 (16.18%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
6 4 (5.88%) Database Mirroring
7 3 (4.41%) Incident Management
7 3 (4.41%) ITIL
7 3 (4.41%) Key Management
7 3 (4.41%) Migration
7 3 (4.41%) Patch Management
8 2 (2.94%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.94%) Digital Strategy
8 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (2.94%) Innovative Thinking
8 2 (2.94%) IT Strategy
8 2 (2.94%) Service Delivery
8 2 (2.94%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (67.65%) PowerShell
2 34 (50.00%) Python
3 32 (47.06%) Bash
3 32 (47.06%) Java
4 8 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 33 (48.53%) DV Cleared
3 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) GDPR
1 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (54.41%) Hyper-V
3 34 (50.00%) Docker
4 14 (20.59%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.41%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.41%) vSphere
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (50.00%) Ansible
1 34 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 32 (47.06%) Puppet
3 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (8.82%) SCCM
5 3 (4.41%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 3 (4.41%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.94%) Terraform
7 1 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (69.12%) VMware
2 32 (47.06%) Red Hat
3 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.35%) Cisco
5 3 (4.41%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.41%) Veeam
6 2 (2.94%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.94%) Citrix
6 2 (2.94%) F5
6 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.94%) HP
6 2 (2.94%) Meraki
7 1 (1.47%) Brocade
7 1 (1.47%) EMC
7 1 (1.47%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.47%) IBM
7 1 (1.47%) NetApp
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle