Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £59,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 785 879 1080
Rank change year-on-year +94 +201 -287
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 55 48 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.064% 0.052% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.057% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 47 39 22
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £70,979 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.63% +23.08% +21.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £97,328 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £94,500
UK median annual salary £59,500 £80,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.63% +39.13% +7.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,599 84,573 127,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 60,280 53,577 75,684
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 West -9 17 £70,000 -12.10% 9
North of England +50 12 £58,500 -33.88% 1
South East +12 10 £45,000 -21.74% 3
North West +11 7 £57,500 -27.96% 1
London +105 6 £85,000 - 5
Midlands +19 6 £58,500 +4.46% 2
Yorkshire +74 5 £59,500 -32.75%
West Midlands +21 5 £58,500 +4.46% 1
East of England - 4 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 55 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (61.82%) Azure
3 27 (49.09%) Windows
4 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
5 17 (30.91%) Linux
5 17 (30.91%) VMware
6 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
8 12 (21.82%) AWS
9 11 (20.00%) Observability
9 11 (20.00%) Windows Server
9 11 (20.00%) SLA
10 9 (16.36%) Active Directory
11 8 (14.55%) Firewall
11 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
12 7 (12.73%) DevOps
12 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
12 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (10.91%) DV Cleared
14 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
14 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
14 5 (9.09%) Cisco
14 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
14 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
14 5 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (7.27%) MySQL
15 4 (7.27%) Oracle

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 4 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.82%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) Azure
2 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (21.82%) AWS
4 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.27%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.82%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) LAN
2 4 (7.27%) WAN
3 3 (5.45%) DNS
3 3 (5.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.27%) MySQL
2 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.27%) RDBMS
2 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
1 3 (5.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.64%) MSI
General
1 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (7.27%) Law
3 3 (5.45%) Banking
3 3 (5.45%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Games
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) .NET
1 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 27 (49.09%) Windows
2 17 (30.91%) Linux
3 11 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (20.00%) Observability
3 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (12.73%) DevOps
4 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
4 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 5 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (7.27%) High Availability
6 4 (7.27%) Information Security
6 4 (7.27%) Software Testing
7 3 (5.45%) Agile
7 3 (5.45%) Asset Management
7 3 (5.45%) ITIL
7 3 (5.45%) Service Delivery
7 3 (5.45%) Task Automation
8 2 (3.64%) Budget Management
8 2 (3.64%) Budgeting
8 2 (3.64%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.27%) Python
2 4 (7.27%) Ruby
3 3 (5.45%) Bash
3 3 (5.45%) Korn
3 3 (5.45%) Perl
4 1 (1.82%) C#
4 1 (1.82%) Java
4 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Data Guard
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.45%) Puppet
2 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (3.64%) SCCM
4 1 (1.82%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) VMware
2 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.09%) Cisco
4 4 (7.27%) Oracle
5 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.45%) Sun
5 3 (5.45%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.82%) Dell