Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £58,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 711 833
Rank change year-on-year +234 +122 -259
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 485 297 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 380 239 303
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £37,775
25th Percentile £48,825 £48,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £56,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.02% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £69,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,350 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.24% +5.00% +5.26%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +219 440 £60,000 +4.35% 43
UK excluding London +164 392 £57,350 +9.24% 37
Work from Home +181 229 £60,000 +9.09% 37
North of England +109 104 £62,783 +21.82% 4
South East +82 92 £60,000 +6.67% 7
London +97 82 £65,000 -7.14% 11
South West +18 69 £52,500 +16.67% 10
North West +60 62 £62,783 +23.10% 3
Midlands +16 58 £54,000 +2.86% 8
East of England +45 35 £50,000 -9.09% 3
West Midlands +18 34 £55,000 +4.76% 5
East Midlands -15 24 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Yorkshire +102 23 £62,783 +19.59% 1
North East +10 19 £62,783 +16.80%
Scotland -60 17 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Wales - 16 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +17 1 £51,000 +27.50%

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 473 (97.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 284 (58.56%) Windows
3 222 (45.77%) Azure
4 198 (40.82%) VMware
5 162 (33.40%) Active Directory
6 151 (31.13%) Microsoft
7 146 (30.10%) Linux
8 137 (28.25%) VMware Infrastructure
9 136 (28.04%) Windows Server
10 133 (27.42%) AWS
11 118 (24.33%) PowerShell
12 113 (23.30%) Microsoft 365
13 111 (22.89%) DNS
14 94 (19.38%) ITIL
14 94 (19.38%) Security Cleared
15 91 (18.76%) Ansible
16 90 (18.56%) DevOps
17 85 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
18 82 (16.91%) Mentoring
19 80 (16.49%) DHCP
20 74 (15.26%) Hyper-V
21 72 (14.85%) Terraform
21 72 (14.85%) Social Skills
22 71 (14.64%) Python
23 70 (14.43%) Firewall
24 64 (13.20%) Entra ID
25 61 (12.58%) Coaching
26 60 (12.37%) Bash
27 59 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
28 58 (11.96%) Public Sector

Senior 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 59 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (7.22%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.24%) IIS
4 3 (0.62%) Confluence
5 2 (0.41%) Apache
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.41%) JBoss
5 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.41%) CATIA
2 2 (0.41%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 222 (45.77%) Azure
2 133 (27.42%) AWS
3 113 (23.30%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (13.20%) Entra ID
5 57 (11.75%) SaaS
6 50 (10.31%) IaaS
7 35 (7.22%) OpenShift
8 19 (3.92%) PaaS
9 18 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (3.51%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.51%) Nutanix
10 17 (3.51%) Serverless
11 16 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.09%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.47%) AWS KMS
13 12 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.47%) CloudFront
13 12 (2.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 111 (22.89%) DNS
2 80 (16.49%) DHCP
3 70 (14.43%) Firewall
4 53 (10.93%) LAN
5 48 (9.90%) SAN
6 46 (9.48%) WAN
7 40 (8.25%) HTTP
7 40 (8.25%) VPN
8 38 (7.84%) TCP/IP
9 20 (4.12%) VLAN
10 15 (3.09%) Internet
10 15 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (3.09%) Wireless
11 13 (2.68%) NAS
11 13 (2.68%) VoIP
12 11 (2.27%) WLAN
13 10 (2.06%) NetScaler
13 10 (2.06%) SD-WAN
14 9 (1.86%) Network Security
15 8 (1.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.44%) MySQL
4 4 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.82%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.62%) DB2
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.41%) Apache Pinot
6 2 (0.41%) Big Data
6 2 (0.41%) Flink
6 2 (0.41%) Presto
7 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Power BI
7 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (4.95%) GitLab
2 21 (4.33%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.44%) Git
4 5 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 72 (14.85%) Social Skills
2 58 (11.96%) Public Sector
3 44 (9.07%) Finance
4 42 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.12%) Retail
6 17 (3.51%) Aerospace
7 14 (2.89%) Law
8 13 (2.68%) Automotive
9 12 (2.47%) Legal
10 11 (2.27%) Advertising
11 9 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Military
14 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.62%) Banking
15 3 (0.62%) Social Housing
16 2 (0.41%) Games
16 2 (0.41%) Japanese Language
16 2 (0.41%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.21%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.24%) LDAP
2 4 (0.82%) JSON
3 3 (0.62%) AWS CDK
4 2 (0.41%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.41%) Kafka
4 2 (0.41%) Middleware
4 2 (0.41%) Node.js
5 1 (0.21%) .NET
5 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.21%) EDI
5 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.34%) Public Cloud
2 45 (9.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (8.87%) Data Centre
4 26 (5.36%) PKI
5 15 (3.09%) IoT
6 12 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.06%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.86%) CMDB
9 8 (1.65%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.03%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.82%) EFT
13 3 (0.62%) Clustering
13 3 (0.62%) EMC VNX
13 3 (0.62%) Fat Client
13 3 (0.62%) PMI
13 3 (0.62%) Robotics
13 3 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 284 (58.56%) Windows
2 146 (30.10%) Linux
3 136 (28.04%) Windows Server
4 44 (9.07%) Windows Server 2012
5 36 (7.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 35 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (6.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (4.74%) Windows 10
9 19 (3.92%) Ubuntu
9 19 (3.92%) Unix
10 13 (2.68%) VMS
11 11 (2.27%) Windows 7
12 9 (1.86%) CentOS
12 9 (1.86%) Windows Server 2003
12 9 (1.86%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.82%) Rocky
13 4 (0.82%) Windows 2000
13 4 (0.82%) Windows NT
13 4 (0.82%) Windows XP
14 3 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (97.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 94 (19.38%) ITIL
3 90 (18.56%) DevOps
4 85 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (16.91%) Mentoring
6 61 (12.58%) Coaching
7 49 (10.10%) Change Management
7 49 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (8.87%) Actionable Insight
9 39 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
10 38 (7.84%) Roadmaps
11 36 (7.42%) Decision-Making
11 36 (7.42%) Migration
12 33 (6.80%) Agile
12 33 (6.80%) Software Architecture
13 30 (6.19%) Disaster Recovery
14 29 (5.98%) Service Management
15 25 (5.15%) Computer Science
16 24 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 23 (4.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (24.33%) PowerShell
2 71 (14.64%) Python
3 60 (12.37%) Bash
4 41 (8.45%) Java
5 19 (3.92%) SQL
6 15 (3.09%) Perl
7 3 (0.62%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.41%) Go
8 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.21%) AWK
9 1 (0.21%) Bicep
9 1 (0.21%) C#
9 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 94 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 57 (11.75%) DV Cleared
3 52 (10.72%) Degree
4 42 (8.66%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.27%) HNC
8 8 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.24%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.03%) MCSE
12 3 (0.62%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.41%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.86%) SLA
3 5 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.62%) GDPR
5 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.41%) PMO
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 162 (33.40%) Active Directory
2 137 (28.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (15.26%) Hyper-V
4 54 (11.13%) Docker
5 34 (7.01%) VMware ESXi
6 32 (6.60%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (4.74%) vSphere
8 4 (0.82%) Firmware
8 4 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.62%) KVM
9 3 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.62%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 91 (18.76%) Ansible
2 72 (14.85%) Terraform
3 57 (11.75%) Kubernetes
4 47 (9.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (8.04%) Puppet
6 38 (7.84%) SCCM
7 32 (6.60%) vCenter Server
8 14 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.89%) WSUS
9 12 (2.47%) CA Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.27%) SCOM
11 10 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (1.24%) Nagios
14 5 (1.03%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.82%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.82%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.82%) SmoothWall
16 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 3 (0.62%) Nessus
Vendors
1 198 (40.82%) VMware
2 151 (31.13%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.04%) Red Hat
4 37 (7.63%) Cisco
5 21 (4.33%) Citrix
6 17 (3.51%) Veeam
7 13 (2.68%) HP
7 13 (2.68%) NetApp
7 13 (2.68%) Oracle
8 12 (2.47%) CA
8 12 (2.47%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.47%) EMC
8 12 (2.47%) Meraki
8 12 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.27%) Aruba
9 11 (2.27%) BMC
9 11 (2.27%) Commvault
9 11 (2.27%) SolarWinds
10 9 (1.86%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.65%) Dell