Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £58,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 727 820
Rank change year-on-year +13 +93 -189
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 50 28 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.047% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.052% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 42 21 11
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £79,632 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.54% +51.68% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £84,056 £64,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £97,328 £73,750
UK median annual salary £59,500 £80,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.63% +39.13% +7.48%

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 67,146 53,642 68,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.24% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,498 30,589 42,749
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South West -4 17 £70,000 -12.10% 9
North of England +49 12 £58,500 -33.88% 2
South East +16 11 £45,000 -21.74% 3
North West +8 7 £57,500 -27.96% 1
Midlands +4 6 £58,500 +4.46% 2
Yorkshire +78 5 £59,500 -32.75% 1
West Midlands +21 5 £58,500 +4.46%
East of England - 4 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (64.00%) Azure
3 21 (42.00%) Windows
4 16 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
6 14 (28.00%) VMware
7 12 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 11 (22.00%) Linux
9 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
9 9 (18.00%) AWS
10 8 (16.00%) SLA
10 8 (16.00%) Firewall
10 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
10 8 (16.00%) Observability
10 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
10 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.00%) Mentoring
11 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
13 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
13 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 5 (10.00%) Cisco
13 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
13 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
14 4 (8.00%) Data Guard
14 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
14 4 (8.00%) Degree
14 4 (8.00%) Software Testing
14 4 (8.00%) Information Security

Lead 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 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 32 (64.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (18.00%) AWS
4 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) LAN
2 4 (8.00%) WAN
3 3 (6.00%) DNS
3 3 (6.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.00%) MySQL
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) MSI
General
1 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (8.00%) Law
3 2 (4.00%) Games
3 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.00%) Windows
2 11 (22.00%) Linux
3 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (16.00%) Observability
3 7 (14.00%) Mentoring
3 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (8.00%) DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) High Availability
5 4 (8.00%) Information Security
5 4 (8.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (6.00%) Agile
6 3 (6.00%) ITIL
6 3 (6.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (6.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (4.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (4.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (4.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (4.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.00%) C#
2 1 (2.00%) Java
2 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.00%) Python
2 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Data Guard
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.00%) SCCM
4 1 (2.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.00%) VMware
3 5 (10.00%) Cisco
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Dell