The first table below looks at the demand for the Head of Infrastructure role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Head of Infrastructure in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Head of Infrastructure
Rank 812 817 841
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Infrastructure 50 82 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.046% 0.068% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.072% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 42 60 31
Average salary £66,250 £82,500 £85,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.69% -2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,250 £60,000 £57,593
10% offered a salary of more than £87,500 £102,550 £102,250
UK excluding London average salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Head of Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Head of Infrastructure within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Head of Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

Head of Infrastructure
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Head of Infrastructure within the UK.

Head of Infrastructure Salary Trend

Head of Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Head of Infrastructure over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Head of Infrastructure Salary Histogram

Head of Infrastructure
Top 22 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Infrastructure within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -6 50 £66,250 -19.69%
London +37 33 £62,747 -32.16%
City of London +7 12 £61,250 -35.52%
South East -5 6 £70,000 +7.69%
East of England +6 4 £70,000 -15.15%
North West +5 3 £85,000 +13.33%
East Sussex +3 3 £55,000 -15.38%
North East +2 2 £60,000 -18.64%
Yorkshire 0 2 £60,000 -
Bedfordshire -13 2 £70,000 -15.15%
Bedford - 2 £70,000 -
York - 2 £60,000 -
North Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 -
Surrey +5 1 £95,000 +46.15%
Berkshire +2 1 £87,500 +6.06%
Tyne and Wear -6 1 £60,000 -18.64%
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 1 £60,000 -27.27%
Kent - 1 £80,000 -
Essex - 1 £85,000 -
Staines - 1 £95,000 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £62,500 -
Hastings - 1 £60,000 -

Head of Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Head of Infrastructure in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Head of Infrastructure in their job title.

1 34 (32.69%) ITIL
2 29 (27.88%) Finance
3 26 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 19 (18.27%) Windows
5 18 (17.31%) Telecoms
6 17 (16.35%) Project Management
6 17 (16.35%) Service Management
7 16 (15.38%) UNIX
8 14 (13.46%) Cisco
9 13 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 13 (12.50%) LAN
9 13 (12.50%) WAN
9 13 (12.50%) Linux
10 12 (11.54%) Business Continuity
11 11 (10.58%) Banking
11 11 (10.58%) SAN
12 10 (9.615%) Active Directory
12 10 (9.615%) E-Commerce
12 10 (9.615%) Retail
12 10 (9.615%) Management Information System
12 10 (9.615%) ITSM
12 10 (9.615%) Degree
12 10 (9.615%) COBIT
13 9 (8.654%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (8.654%) Firewall
13 9 (8.654%) Legal
13 9 (8.654%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (8.654%) MS Exchange
14 8 (7.692%) PRINCE2
14 8 (7.692%) Information Management

Head of Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Head of Infrastructure in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Head of Infrastructure in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (3.846%) Node.js
2 3 (2.885%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.962%) LAMP
3 1 (0.962%) .NET
3 1 (0.962%) XML
Application Platforms
1 9 (8.654%) MS Exchange
2 4 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (3.846%) nginx
2 4 (3.846%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.885%) Apache
4 1 (0.962%) Lync
4 1 (0.962%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.962%) SAS
4 1 (0.962%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.962%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.923%) MS Excel
1 2 (1.923%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.50%) LAN
1 13 (12.50%) WAN
2 11 (10.58%) SAN
3 9 (8.654%) Firewall
4 6 (5.769%) VoIP
5 5 (4.808%) DNS
6 4 (3.846%) Internet
6 4 (3.846%) DHCP
7 3 (2.885%) MPLS
7 3 (2.885%) ATM
8 2 (1.923%) CTI
8 2 (1.923%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.923%) Softphone
8 2 (1.923%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.962%) 4G
9 1 (0.962%) LTE
9 1 (0.962%) BSS
9 1 (0.962%) 2G
9 1 (0.962%) VPN
9 1 (0.962%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.846%) MySQL
1 4 (3.846%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (3.846%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.846%) Redis
2 3 (2.885%) Big Data
2 3 (2.885%) DB2
3 2 (1.923%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.962%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.885%) WebLOAD
2 1 (0.962%) MSI
2 1 (0.962%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (27.88%) Finance
2 18 (17.31%) Telecoms
3 11 (10.58%) Banking
4 10 (9.615%) Retail
5 9 (8.654%) Legal
6 7 (6.731%) International Banking
7 4 (3.846%) Back Office
8 3 (2.885%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.923%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.962%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.962%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.962%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.615%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.731%) iSeries
3 6 (5.769%) SaaS
4 4 (3.846%) Replication
4 4 (3.846%) Computer Science
4 4 (3.846%) Statistics
5 3 (2.885%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.923%) IVR
6 2 (1.923%) Tandem
6 2 (1.923%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.923%) Clustering
6 2 (1.923%) Open Source
7 1 (0.962%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.962%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.962%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.27%) Windows
2 16 (15.38%) UNIX
3 13 (12.50%) Linux
4 5 (4.808%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (2.885%) VMS
5 3 (2.885%) Solaris
6 2 (1.923%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.923%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.962%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.962%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (0.962%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.962%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.962%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.69%) ITIL
2 26 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 17 (16.35%) Project Management
3 17 (16.35%) Service Management
4 12 (11.54%) Business Continuity
5 10 (9.615%) E-Commerce
5 10 (9.615%) ITSM
6 9 (8.654%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (8.654%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (7.692%) PRINCE2
7 8 (7.692%) Information Management
7 8 (7.692%) IT Governance
7 8 (7.692%) Problem Management
8 7 (6.731%) Strategic Planning
9 6 (5.769%) BCP
10 5 (4.808%) Data Analysis
10 5 (4.808%) Project Planning
10 5 (4.808%) Change Management
11 4 (3.846%) Information Security
11 4 (3.846%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.731%) Java
2 5 (4.808%) SQL
3 4 (3.846%) PHP
3 4 (3.846%) Python
4 1 (0.962%) Bash shell
4 1 (0.962%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.962%) C
4 1 (0.962%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (9.615%) Degree
2 5 (4.808%) CISM
2 5 (4.808%) CISSP
3 4 (3.846%) CISA
4 2 (1.923%) MCSE
4 2 (1.923%) MCSA
4 2 (1.923%) PhD
4 2 (1.923%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.923%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.923%) CCNP
4 2 (1.923%) CCNA
4 2 (1.923%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.962%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.962%) CEH
5 1 (0.962%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.962%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.615%) COBIT
2 5 (4.808%) QA
2 5 (4.808%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.846%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.885%) SLA
5 2 (1.923%) BS7799
5 2 (1.923%) BS25999
6 1 (0.962%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.962%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (9.615%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.808%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.962%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 3 (2.885%) Backup Exec
2 1 (0.962%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Cisco
2 13 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.769%) VMware
4 5 (4.808%) Citrix
4 5 (4.808%) SAP
5 4 (3.846%) HP
5 4 (3.846%) Nokia
5 4 (3.846%) Sun
5 4 (3.846%) IBM
5 4 (3.846%) Avaya
5 4 (3.846%) Rackspace
6 3 (2.885%) F5
6 3 (2.885%) Apple
6 3 (2.885%) Intel
6 3 (2.885%) Oracle
7 1 (0.962%) EMC
7 1 (0.962%) Sybase
Bath, Avon
Keywords: Media, Digital, Publishing, IT Operations, Head, Manager, LAN/WAN, Internet, Networks, Web hosting, High traffic Commutable from: Bristol, Bath, Chippenham, Swindon, Trowbridge, Salisbury, etc... * Have strong network...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Good Benefits Package
Posted: 22 May 2013
East Sussex
Skills for the successful Head of IT Infrastructure: Over 5 years experience managing technical service delivery in a large organisation 5 years + in an Operations Environment with troubleshooting...
ISL
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Staines, South East
The business is in a huge growth stage and the role will come with a great deal of autonomy and freedom.Role: Head of Infrastructure and Technology ArchitectureSalary: £...
FMC Select Ltd
Salary: £90000 - £100000 per annum + car, pension, bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
This role will give you the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and services including a range of cloud based services, Windows 8 End User Computing and...
Kings College London
Salary: £62.323 per annum inclusive of London Weighting
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
This role will give you the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and services including a range of cloud based services, Windows 8 End User Computing and...
King's College London
Salary: £62,323
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Changing lives for a safer LondonHead of Information Technology (Management, IT Infrastructure)Competitive SalaryLondon Probation Trust works with offenders in the community and in prison to turn their...
London Probation Trust
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Design, development and implementation of Information Security Management enablers and risk mitigators. Managing the delivery of Information Security Management projects... Maintain and implement the business continuity change management...
PNG Recruitment Solutions
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum £50k - £55k basic + benefits package
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Applicants are required to have in-depth knowledge of: -Microsoft Technologies, Operation Systems and Communication solutions (Windows Server, Exchange, Active Directory)- Information Security Management Methods, Tools and Techniques-...
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
The successful candidate will have the following skills, Ability to develop and implement management systems In-depth knowledge of Information Security Management Methods, Tools and Techniques... In-depth...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013