Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 440 616
Rank change year-on-year -109 +176 +219
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 144 487 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 96 350 243
10th Percentile £46,875 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,938 £49,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +1.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,968 £69,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +2.68% +12.00%

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 47,315 87,657 71,623
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.67% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,087 63,540 49,205
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
North of England +4 53 £62,500 -0.45% 19
London +50 40 £75,000 +15.38% 16
North West -22 33 £60,000 -4.43% 12
South East -16 17 £58,750 +2.17% 12
Yorkshire +31 14 £63,750 +1.54% 4
Midlands +31 12 £55,000 +1.85% 10
South West +40 11 £50,865 +3.74% 12
East of England +13 11 £60,000 +30.43% 19
West Midlands +27 7 £55,000 - 3
North East +28 6 £65,000 +3.53% 3
East Midlands +34 5 £56,000 +17.89% 7
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 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 England region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 141 (97.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (38.89%) Azure
3 49 (34.03%) Windows
4 45 (31.25%) Active Directory
5 40 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (25.00%) Cisco
7 34 (23.61%) Finance
8 32 (22.22%) Firewall
8 32 (22.22%) Microsoft
8 32 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (20.83%) VMware
10 28 (19.44%) Windows Server
11 27 (18.75%) Network Security
12 26 (18.06%) AWS
12 26 (18.06%) VPN
13 25 (17.36%) Mentoring
14 22 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (14.58%) DNS
16 19 (13.19%) DevOps
17 18 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
17 18 (12.50%) PowerShell
17 18 (12.50%) SharePoint
18 16 (11.11%) TETRA
18 16 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
18 16 (11.11%) LAN
18 16 (11.11%) Linux
18 16 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (11.11%) Terraform
18 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
19 15 (10.42%) Social Skills

Senior 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 18 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 16 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.17%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.08%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (38.89%) Azure
2 40 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (18.06%) AWS
4 10 (6.94%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.47%) GCP
8 4 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.78%) Route 53
8 4 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.39%) IaaS
9 2 (1.39%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.39%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.39%) PaaS
9 2 (1.39%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.39%) SaaS
10 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 32 (22.22%) Firewall
2 27 (18.75%) Network Security
3 26 (18.06%) VPN
4 21 (14.58%) DNS
5 16 (11.11%) LAN
5 16 (11.11%) TETRA
6 15 (10.42%) WAN
7 14 (9.72%) DHCP
8 12 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (6.94%) TCP/IP
10 8 (5.56%) VLAN
11 7 (4.86%) SAN
12 4 (2.78%) SNMP
13 3 (2.08%) OSPF
13 3 (2.08%) Wireshark
14 2 (1.39%) BGP
14 2 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
14 2 (1.39%) iSCSI
14 2 (1.39%) NAS
14 2 (1.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.69%) DB2
3 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.69%) GitLab
2 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (23.61%) Finance
2 15 (10.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.33%) Legal
4 11 (7.64%) Local Government
5 7 (4.86%) Automotive
5 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.47%) Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Games
8 3 (2.08%) Retail
9 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Aviation
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.69%) .NET
2 1 (0.69%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.56%) NHS
4 5 (3.47%) Clustering
5 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) BYOD
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.69%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.69%) PKI
7 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.69%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 49 (34.03%) Windows
2 28 (19.44%) Windows Server
3 16 (11.11%) Linux
4 13 (9.03%) Windows 10
5 7 (4.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.47%) CentOS
7 4 (2.78%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.39%) Android
8 2 (1.39%) Unix
8 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.69%) AIX
9 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (97.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (17.36%) Mentoring
4 22 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (13.19%) DevOps
6 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (10.42%) ITIL
8 14 (9.72%) Migration
9 13 (9.03%) Business Continuity
9 13 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (8.33%) Network Management
10 12 (8.33%) Project Management
10 12 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (6.94%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.94%) Configuration Management
12 10 (6.94%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
13 9 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (5.56%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.64%) Python
3 7 (4.86%) SQL
4 3 (2.08%) Bash
5 1 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (10.42%) CCNA
3 13 (9.03%) CCNP
4 9 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.86%) Degree
7 6 (4.17%) Security Cleared
8 5 (3.47%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.47%) MCSE
9 4 (2.78%) Postgraduate
9 4 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.39%) MCITP
10 2 (1.39%) MCSA
11 1 (0.69%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (10.42%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.78%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.08%) vSphere
8 2 (1.39%) Docker
8 2 (1.39%) Firmware
8 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.69%) KVM
9 1 (0.69%) NFS
9 1 (0.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (11.11%) Terraform
2 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (9.03%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.64%) Ansible
5 7 (4.86%) SCCM
6 6 (4.17%) SCOM
7 3 (2.08%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.39%) SmoothWall
8 2 (1.39%) WSUS
9 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.69%) Grafana
9 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.69%) linkerd
9 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.69%) Nessus
9 1 (0.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.69%) Puppet
9 1 (0.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 36 (25.00%) Cisco
2 32 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 30 (20.83%) VMware
4 12 (8.33%) Meraki
5 6 (4.17%) Acronis
5 6 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.47%) Citrix
6 5 (3.47%) Veeam
7 4 (2.78%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.08%) NetApp
8 3 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.39%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.39%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.39%) Dell
9 2 (1.39%) EMC
9 2 (1.39%) FactSet
9 2 (1.39%) Mitel
9 2 (1.39%) Oracle
9 2 (1.39%) Splunk