Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £59,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 922 1160
Rank change year-on-year +72 +238 -340
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 55 51 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.049% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.054% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 47 42 29
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £75,052 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.63% +39.13% +7.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £97,328 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £79,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £79,632 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.54% +44.79% +7.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +116 53 £59,500 -25.63% 18
UK excluding London +13 47 £58,500 -26.54% 13
South West -7 15 £70,000 -12.10% 7
Work from Home +57 14 £57,500 -27.79% 9
North of England +35 12 £58,500 -33.88% 1
South East +23 10 £45,000 -21.74% 3
North West +20 7 £57,500 -27.96% 1
London +117 6 £85,000 - 5
Midlands +4 6 £58,500 +4.46% 2
Yorkshire +88 5 £59,500 -32.75%
West Midlands +30 5 £58,500 +4.46% 1
East of England - 4 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (60.00%) Azure
3 27 (49.09%) Windows
4 19 (34.55%) Linux
4 19 (34.55%) Security Cleared
5 17 (30.91%) VMware
6 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
8 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
9 12 (21.82%) AWS
10 11 (20.00%) Windows Server
10 11 (20.00%) Observability
10 11 (20.00%) SLA
11 10 (18.18%) Firewall
12 9 (16.36%) Active Directory
12 9 (16.36%) DevOps
13 8 (14.55%) DV Cleared
13 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
14 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
15 6 (10.91%) Aerospace
16 5 (9.09%) Cisco
16 5 (9.09%) ITIL
16 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
16 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
16 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
16 5 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 4 (7.27%) High Availability

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 33 (60.00%) Azure
2 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (21.82%) AWS
4 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.27%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.82%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.18%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) LAN
2 4 (7.27%) WAN
3 3 (5.45%) DNS
3 3 (5.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.27%) MySQL
2 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.27%) RDBMS
2 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
1 3 (5.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.64%) MSI
General
1 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Aerospace
2 6 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Law
4 3 (5.45%) Banking
4 3 (5.45%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Games
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (49.09%) Windows
2 19 (34.55%) Linux
3 11 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (20.00%) Observability
3 9 (16.36%) DevOps
4 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
7 5 (9.09%) ITIL
7 5 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 4 (7.27%) Agile
8 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.27%) High Availability
8 4 (7.27%) Information Security
8 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (7.27%) Service Management
9 3 (5.45%) Asset Management
9 3 (5.45%) Containerisation
9 3 (5.45%) Service Delivery
9 3 (5.45%) Software Testing
9 3 (5.45%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.45%) Bash
2 3 (5.45%) Korn
2 3 (5.45%) Perl
2 3 (5.45%) Python
2 3 (5.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Data Guard
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.45%) Puppet
2 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (3.64%) SCCM
4 1 (1.82%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) VMware
2 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.09%) Cisco
4 4 (7.27%) Oracle
5 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.45%) Sun
5 3 (5.45%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.82%) Dell