Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in Cardiff is £48,073 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 51 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 4 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.15% 1.82% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 1.94% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,411 £37,101 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,073 £41,067 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% - -
75th Percentile £49,736 £62,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £48,073 £41,067 -
% change year-on-year +17.06% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 181 620 527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.31% 93.80% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 128 539 403
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,157 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,719 £36,750 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,766 £67,070
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,250
South Wales median annual salary £51,449 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.33% - -10.00%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 across the Cardiff region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Line Management
2 3 (75.00%) Due Diligence
2 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (75.00%) Local Government
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Business Development
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) NHS
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Local Government
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Business Development
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Due Diligence
2 3 (75.00%) Line Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform