Head of Infrastructure Jobs in England

Head of Infrastructure
UK > England

The median Head of Infrastructure salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 776 871
Rank change year-on-year +98 +95 +192
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Infrastructure 11 55 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.023% 0.064% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.068% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 9 44 54
10th Percentile £71,100 £63,888 £69,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £90,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £86,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -9.47% +22.58%
75th Percentile £142,500 £100,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £143,000 £116,750 £127,125
UK median annual salary £100,000 £86,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +16.28% -9.47% +15.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Head of Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Infrastructure in England

Head of Infrastructure
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Infrastructure in England.

Salary trend for Head of Infrastructure in England

Head of Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Head of Infrastructure in England

Head of Infrastructure
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Infrastructure within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
London +99 9 £125,000 +31.58% 9
South East +94 1 £72,500 -26.02% 2
North of England +43 1 £110,000 +22.22% 3
North West -3 1 £110,000 +22.22% 3
Head of Infrastructure
UK

Head of Infrastructure Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 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 England region featuring Head of Infrastructure in the job title.

1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
1 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
1 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Budgeting
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) People Management
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) CISM
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery

Head of Infrastructure Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (9.09%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Learning Management System
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
1 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (18.18%) Budgeting
2 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) People Management
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISM
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (9.09%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Citrix
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) VMware