Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 162 151
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 6 23 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.22% 0.52% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.54% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 16
10th Percentile £53,600 - £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £59,200 £58,000 £56,313
England median annual salary £61,644 £60,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year +2.74% +5.73% -4.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,622 4,221 2,496
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 94.51% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 3,051 1,332
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
Leicestershire +31 2 £56,000 +17.89%
Nottinghamshire +22 1 - - 1
Northamptonshire -13 1 - - 1
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 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 East Midlands region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) Legal
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) PaaS
3 3 (50.00%) IaaS
3 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Control
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) RBAC
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) MCITP
2 1 (16.67%) MCSA
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Isilon