The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 762 743 777
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 100 155 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.093% 0.128% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.135% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 84 142 88
Average salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £32,050
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £52,950 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £43,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year
-1.16% +10.25%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
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%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 -30 99 £45,000 +2.27%
London +39 41 £50,000 -
South East -31 25 £45,000 +3.44%
South West +13 11 £37,750 -15.16%
Bristol - 9 - -
City of London +12 8 £51,250 -1.44%
East of England +12 7 £33,750 -25.00%
Surrey -2 7 £42,500 -
Buckinghamshire -5 7 £50,000 +25.00%
Milton Keynes -13 7 £50,000 +25.00%
North West -30 7 £43,500 +1.16%
Cheshire -1 6 £43,500 +24.28%
Essex - 5 £31,250 -
Derbyshire +4 4 £36,000 +17.07%
East Midlands -5 4 £36,000 +2.85%
Middlesex - 4 £43,750 -
West Midlands - 4 £36,250 -
Berkshire -4 3 £37,500 -25.00%
Tamworth - 3 £35,000 -
Staffordshire - 3 £35,000 -
Oxfordshire - 3 £45,000 -
Surbiton - 3 £35,000 -
Oxford - 3 £45,000 -
Docklands, London - 3 £47,500 -
Derby +10 2 £33,500 +15.51%
Reading +4 2 £37,500 -6.25%
Nantwich +1 2 £37,500 -
Saffron Walden - 2 £32,500 -
Macclesfield - 2 £45,000 -
Wiltshire +11 1 £42,500 -22.72%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in their job title.

1 194 (80.83%) Windows
2 161 (67.08%) VMware
3 142 (59.17%) Active Directory
4 138 (57.50%) Microsoft
5 125 (52.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 102 (42.50%) MS Exchange
7 93 (38.75%) VMware Infrastructure
8 88 (36.67%) Windows Server 2003
9 86 (35.83%) SAN
10 82 (34.17%) Exchange Server 2010
11 74 (30.83%) Cisco
12 71 (29.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 69 (28.75%) MS Excel
14 68 (28.33%) TCP/IP
15 63 (26.25%) MCSE
15 63 (26.25%) Firewall
16 60 (25.00%) Linux
17 59 (24.58%) DNS
18 57 (23.75%) SQL Server
19 55 (22.92%) WAN
20 54 (22.50%) Citrix
21 51 (21.25%) Exchange Server 2007
22 49 (20.42%) LAN
23 48 (20.00%) SharePoint
24 47 (19.58%) HP
25 44 (18.33%) NetApp
25 44 (18.33%) VPN
25 44 (18.33%) SQL
26 43 (17.92%) MCITP
27 42 (17.50%) Cisco Certification

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (2.917%) Middleware
2 6 (2.500%) LAMP
2 6 (2.500%) Software Packaging
3 4 (1.667%) .NET
4 2 (0.833%) SAML
5 1 (0.417%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.417%) Java EE
5 1 (0.417%) Application Packaging
5 1 (0.417%) ADSI
5 1 (0.417%) JMS
5 1 (0.417%) COM
5 1 (0.417%) J2EE
5 1 (0.417%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 102 (42.50%) MS Exchange
2 82 (34.17%) Exchange Server 2010
3 51 (21.25%) Exchange Server 2007
4 48 (20.00%) SharePoint
5 32 (13.33%) IIS
6 23 (9.583%) Exchange Server 2003
7 22 (9.167%) SharePoint 2010
8 13 (5.417%) Lync
9 9 (3.750%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 6 (2.500%) Apache
11 3 (1.250%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.833%) Commerce Server
12 2 (0.833%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.833%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.833%) Exchange Server 2000
12 2 (0.833%) Windows Azure
12 2 (0.833%) Amazon AWS
13 1 (0.417%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.417%) nginx
13 1 (0.417%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 69 (28.75%) MS Excel
2 16 (6.667%) MS Office
3 6 (2.500%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.083%) Google Apps
4 5 (2.083%) Office 365
4 5 (2.083%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.250%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (35.83%) SAN
2 68 (28.33%) TCP/IP
3 63 (26.25%) Firewall
4 59 (24.58%) DNS
5 55 (22.92%) WAN
6 49 (20.42%) LAN
7 44 (18.33%) VPN
8 37 (15.42%) DHCP
9 27 (11.25%) VoIP
10 26 (10.83%) NAS
11 20 (8.333%) iSCSI
12 13 (5.417%) MPLS
12 13 (5.417%) Wireless
13 11 (4.583%) Internet
13 11 (4.583%) VLAN
14 10 (4.167%) WLAN
15 8 (3.333%) SSL
15 8 (3.333%) VPLS
16 7 (2.917%) Fibre Channel
16 7 (2.917%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (23.75%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.583%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (5.417%) MySQL
4 8 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (0.833%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.417%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.417%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.417%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.500%) MSI
2 5 (2.083%) InstallShield
3 4 (1.667%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.417%) JIRA
General
1 21 (8.750%) Finance
2 14 (5.833%) Law
3 12 (5.000%) Marketing
4 7 (2.917%) Telecoms
5 6 (2.500%) Advertising
6 4 (1.667%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.250%) Back Office
7 3 (1.250%) Banking
8 2 (0.833%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.833%) Publishing
9 1 (0.417%) Legal
9 1 (0.417%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.417%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.417%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.167%) Clustering
2 15 (6.250%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.417%) SaaS
4 11 (4.583%) Blackberry
5 6 (2.500%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.083%) Fat Client
6 5 (2.083%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.083%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.250%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.250%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.250%) Firmware
8 2 (0.833%) iDTV
8 2 (0.833%) BBC
9 1 (0.417%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.417%) EqualLogic
9 1 (0.417%) Open Source
9 1 (0.417%) IaaS
9 1 (0.417%) Tandem
9 1 (0.417%) PKI
9 1 (0.417%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 194 (80.83%) Windows
2 125 (52.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 88 (36.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 60 (25.00%) Linux
5 29 (12.08%) UNIX
6 23 (9.583%) Windows 7
7 12 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (4.583%) Windows XP
9 10 (4.167%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (2.500%) Solaris
11 5 (2.083%) Windows 8
11 5 (2.083%) Windows 2000
11 5 (2.083%) Mac OS X
12 3 (1.250%) CentOS
12 3 (1.250%) SUSE
13 2 (0.833%) Windows 2000 Server
14 1 (0.417%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.417%) AIX
14 1 (0.417%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (13.33%) ITIL
2 13 (5.417%) Project Management
2 13 (5.417%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (5.417%) Information Security
3 12 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (4.583%) Migration
5 10 (4.167%) Service Delivery
5 10 (4.167%) Change Management
5 10 (4.167%) Information Security Management
5 10 (4.167%) Security Management
5 10 (4.167%) ISMS
6 8 (3.333%) ERP
6 8 (3.333%) Network Management
7 7 (2.917%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (2.917%) Network Design
8 6 (2.500%) Configuration Management
8 6 (2.500%) Supplier Management
9 5 (2.083%) Asset Management
10 4 (1.667%) E-Commerce
10 4 (1.667%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.33%) SQL
2 19 (7.917%) PowerShell
3 13 (5.417%) Perl
4 12 (5.000%) Python
5 8 (3.333%) PHP
5 8 (3.333%) Bash shell
6 6 (2.500%) VBScript
7 4 (1.667%) C#
8 3 (1.250%) Java
9 2 (0.833%) Ruby
9 2 (0.833%) Korn
10 1 (0.417%) VB
10 1 (0.417%) VBA
10 1 (0.417%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (29.58%) Microsoft Certification
2 63 (26.25%) MCSE
3 43 (17.92%) MCITP
4 42 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
5 34 (14.17%) CCNA
6 26 (10.83%) Degree
6 26 (10.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 18 (7.500%) MCTS
8 14 (5.833%) MCSA
9 10 (4.167%) MCP
10 9 (3.750%) CCNP
11 8 (3.333%) Citrix Certification
12 7 (2.917%) MCT
13 5 (2.083%) CCA
14 3 (1.250%) Security Cleared
14 3 (1.250%) CCEE
15 2 (0.833%) CCDP
15 2 (0.833%) CCEA
15 2 (0.833%) Linux+ Certification
15 2 (0.833%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.583%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.167%) SLA
3 4 (1.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 142 (59.17%) Active Directory
2 93 (38.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (11.25%) Hyper-V
4 26 (10.83%) vSphere
5 25 (10.42%) XenApp
6 17 (7.083%) VMware ESX
7 12 (5.000%) XenDesktop
8 8 (3.333%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (3.333%) VMware Server
8 8 (3.333%) UAG
9 6 (2.500%) Xen
10 5 (2.083%) XenServer
10 5 (2.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (1.667%) NFS
11 4 (1.667%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (1.667%) Forefront TMG
12 2 (0.833%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.833%) ISA Server
12 2 (0.833%) IAG
12 2 (0.833%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 31 (12.92%) SCCM
2 24 (10.00%) SCOM
3 13 (5.417%) WSUS
4 12 (5.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 11 (4.583%) Norton AntiVirus
6 10 (4.167%) Backup Exec
7 7 (2.917%) MOM
8 6 (2.500%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.833%) MAILsweeper
9 2 (0.833%) Nagios
9 2 (0.833%) Puppet
10 1 (0.417%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.417%) Sysprep
10 1 (0.417%) Cobbler
10 1 (0.417%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 161 (67.08%) VMware
2 138 (57.50%) Microsoft
3 74 (30.83%) Cisco
4 54 (22.50%) Citrix
5 47 (19.58%) HP
6 44 (18.33%) NetApp
7 22 (9.167%) Symantec
8 16 (6.667%) Red Hat
9 14 (5.833%) Sophos
10 12 (5.000%) IBM
11 11 (4.583%) CheckPoint
11 11 (4.583%) Juniper
12 10 (4.167%) NetSuite
12 10 (4.167%) Dell
13 7 (2.917%) Avaya
13 7 (2.917%) Veritas
13 7 (2.917%) McAfee
14 6 (2.500%) LANDesk
15 5 (2.083%) SonicWALL
15 5 (2.083%) 3PAR
Oswestry, West Midlands
Your success is driven by your proven track record in 2nd and 3rd line support - ideally with an emphasis on installing, configuring, supporting & maintaining; Server 2008/R2, Server...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - VMWare, Cisco, Microsoft Server 2008/2012, Active Directory, Exchange - Birmingham An experienced Virtualisation, VMWare professional is needed to be responsible for the technical design, support...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Skills required (to 3rd line): - Windows 2003/2008 - Active Directory administration - SQL Server 2005/2008 admin - Hyper-V/VMware/Virtualisation support - Good networking knowledge Desirable skills: - Citrix The...
Venturi
Salary: £32000 - £35000.00 per annum + great benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Fareham, South East
The ideal candidate will have a skill set to include as many of the following: Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise Support Microsoft Exchange (2003/2007/2010) Exchange Clustering Microsoft...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Pension
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Experience of ITIL Service Management principles (Incident, Problem, Change) " Extensive experience in supporting Windows Servers and Active Directory. " Knowledge and experience of installing and supporting Windows 2003/2008...
Premier Group Recruitment
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00
Posted: 21 May 2013
Derby, Derbyshire
Person Specification VMware / Virtualisation / Cisco / CCNA / CCNP / Microsoft Windows Server / Netapp / (OnTap 8.12) / NCIE / NCDA / Linux / Red Hat / Citrix / Unified Comms Technology / Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Derby / Derbyshire...
Reed Technology
Salary: £42000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
This is very much a Windows environment, using IIS, CDN, networking components, SAN technologies, etc... Skills required for the Infrastructure Engineer / Architect - Digital Entertainment - Solid Microsoft / Windows networking...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Saffron Walden, Essex
This role consists of 85% infrastructure/network management to ensure continual availability across the company. To carry out, build, configure and install all new software/hardware as required...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Saffron Walden, South East
This role consists of 85% infrastructure/network management to ensure continual availability across the company. To carry out, build, configure and install all new software/hardware as required...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Nantwich, North West
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES Essential :- Windows Server 2K8 (Multi-site Active Directory administration,DFS, DNS, DHCP)Enterprise skills (Monitoring, High Availability and Disaster Recovery)Network (Cisco hardware, TCPIP, DMVPN, Firewall/...
OCC Computing
Salary: £0 - 40k per year
Posted: 1 May 2013
Woking, Surrey
A good understanding of WAN environments including MPLS, VPNs and point-to-point links... CheckPoint Application Control/DLP... VoIP in an Avaya environment... Vulnerability assessments/Penetration testing... Raise/...
Fidessa
Salary: Competitive Salary
Posted: 21 May 2013