Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 767 872
Rank change year-on-year +99 +105 +240
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 25 56 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.050% 0.065% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.069% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 13 48 41
10th Percentile £59,413 £45,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £59,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.02% -26.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,000 - -
UK median annual salary £71,991 £59,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.99% -25.63% +39.13%

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 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East +88 10 £60,000 +33.33% 14
North of England +41 9 £71,991 +25.20% 10
Yorkshire +69 8 £71,991 +20.99%
London +115 4 £83,750 +19.64% 9
Midlands +60 2 - - 1
West Midlands +44 1 - -
East Midlands +23 1 - - 1
North West -8 1 £85,000 +47.83% 10
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (80.00%) Windows
3 19 (76.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (52.00%) Linux
4 13 (52.00%) VMware
4 13 (52.00%) PowerShell
4 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
5 12 (48.00%) Ansible
5 12 (48.00%) Terraform
5 12 (48.00%) Windows Server
5 12 (48.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (48.00%) Python
6 11 (44.00%) Bluetooth
6 11 (44.00%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (44.00%) Bash
6 11 (44.00%) Puppet
6 11 (44.00%) LTE
6 11 (44.00%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (44.00%) Electronics
6 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
6 11 (44.00%) Penetration Testing
6 11 (44.00%) Software Testing
6 11 (44.00%) Project Planning
6 11 (44.00%) Degree
6 11 (44.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (44.00%) 5G
6 11 (44.00%) IoT
6 11 (44.00%) vSphere
6 11 (44.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (44.00%) Strategic Thinking

Lead Infrastructure Engineer 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 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) SaaS
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) 5G
1 11 (44.00%) Bluetooth
1 11 (44.00%) LTE
1 11 (44.00%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (32.00%) Internet
3 7 (28.00%) DKIM
3 7 (28.00%) DMARC
3 7 (28.00%) DNSSEC
3 7 (28.00%) SMTP
4 2 (8.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) Firewall
5 1 (4.00%) BGP
5 1 (4.00%) DHCP
5 1 (4.00%) HSRP
5 1 (4.00%) LAN
5 1 (4.00%) NAS
5 1 (4.00%) SSL
5 1 (4.00%) VLAN
5 1 (4.00%) WAN
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Electronics
2 11 (44.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (32.00%) Finance
4 6 (24.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) IoT
1 11 (44.00%) NB-IoT
2 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Windows
2 13 (52.00%) Linux
3 12 (48.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
2 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (44.00%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (44.00%) Project Planning
2 11 (44.00%) Software Testing
2 11 (44.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (4.00%) Line Management
5 1 (4.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (48.00%) Python
3 11 (44.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 11 (44.00%) Degree
1 11 (44.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CCNP
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (44.00%) vSphere
3 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Ansible
1 12 (48.00%) Terraform
2 11 (44.00%) Puppet
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (52.00%) VMware
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco
3 7 (28.00%) IronPort
3 7 (28.00%) Veritas
4 1 (4.00%) EMC
4 1 (4.00%) Juniper
4 1 (4.00%) NetApp
4 1 (4.00%) Zscaler