Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £59,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 870 1109
Rank change year-on-year +104 +239 -315
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 56 50 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.057% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.062% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 48 41 18
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £75,208 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +18.52% +26.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £100,000 £73,750
90th Percentile - - £117,500
UK median annual salary £59,500 £80,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.63% +39.13% +1.32%

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 81,669 80,804 129,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.51% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,824 51,446 74,737
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 17 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 17 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 -3 18 £70,000 -12.10% 9
North of England +47 13 £57,500 -35.01% 2
South East +2 12 £45,000 -21.74% 3
North West +2 8 £57,500 -27.96% 1
Midlands -1 6 £58,500 +4.46% 2
Yorkshire +68 5 £59,500 -32.75% 1
West Midlands +19 5 £58,500 +4.46%
East of England - 4 £55,000 - 1
London +100 3 £70,000 -24.32% 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 56 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (66.07%) Azure
3 24 (42.86%) Windows
4 18 (32.14%) VMware
4 18 (32.14%) Security Cleared
5 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
6 16 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (26.79%) VMware Infrastructure
8 14 (25.00%) Linux
9 11 (19.64%) Observability
9 11 (19.64%) SLA
10 9 (16.07%) Active Directory
10 9 (16.07%) AWS
11 8 (14.29%) Firewall
11 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
11 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
11 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (10.71%) DV Cleared
14 5 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
14 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
14 5 (8.93%) Cisco
14 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
14 5 (8.93%) Information Security
14 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
14 5 (8.93%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 4 (7.14%) Data Guard
15 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
15 4 (7.14%) Degree

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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 37 (66.07%) Azure
2 16 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (16.07%) AWS
4 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.14%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.79%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
7 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) LAN
2 4 (7.14%) WAN
3 3 (5.36%) DNS
3 3 (5.36%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.14%) MySQL
2 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) MSI
General
1 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (7.14%) Law
3 2 (3.57%) Games
3 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing
4 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) .NET
1 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (42.86%) Windows
2 14 (25.00%) Linux
3 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (19.64%) Observability
3 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (8.93%) Information Security
5 5 (8.93%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (7.14%) DevOps
6 4 (7.14%) High Availability
6 4 (7.14%) Software Testing
7 3 (5.36%) Agile
7 3 (5.36%) ITIL
7 3 (5.36%) Service Delivery
7 3 (5.36%) Task Automation
8 2 (3.57%) Compatibility Testing
8 2 (3.57%) Computer Science
8 2 (3.57%) PRINCE2
8 2 (3.57%) Service Management
8 2 (3.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.79%) C#
2 1 (1.79%) Java
2 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.79%) Python
2 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Degree
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.64%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Data Guard
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.57%) SCCM
4 1 (1.79%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (32.14%) VMware
2 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.93%) Cisco
4 4 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Dell