Lead Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Dorset

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Dorset

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in Dorset is £130,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.24% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 - -
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £72,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -23.61% +63.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 406 617 360
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.90% 96.11% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 256 384 315
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,125 £77,500
South West median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +8.00%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Dorset

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Lead Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Dorset region featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Lustre
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Weka

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Weka
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) InfiniBand
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Ceph
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Lustre
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform