Head of Infrastructure Jobs in the City of London

Head of Infrastructure
Central London > City of London

The median Head of Infrastructure salary in the City of London is £140,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 179 222
Rank change year-on-year +45 +43 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Infrastructure 4 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.21% 0.030% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.031% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £129,250 - £111,000
25th Percentile £131,875 £160,000 £112,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £170,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £144,375 £180,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £144,750 - £129,000
Central London median annual salary £140,000 £170,000 £120,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% +41.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,788 3,216 4,356
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 96.14% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 2,524 3,637
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,150
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,441 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Head of Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Head of Infrastructure in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Head of Infrastructure in the City of London

Head of Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Infrastructure in the City of London.

Salary trend for Head of Infrastructure in the City of London

Head of Infrastructure Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, Head of Infrastructure 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 City of London region featuring Head of Infrastructure in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless

Head of Infrastructure Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) VMware