Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £61,644 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 595 444 664
Rank change year-on-year -151 +220 +182
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 98 431 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.50% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.53% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 80 326 215
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,700 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +7.14% -5.49%
75th Percentile £79,063 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £99,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +1.15%

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 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% -

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 18 May 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 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
London +76 40 £82,500 +26.92% 24
North of England -33 25 £57,500 -8.41% 50
North West -44 18 £53,000 -15.58% 24
Midlands +18 13 £49,600 -8.15% 10
South East +10 9 £57,500 -4.17% 14
Yorkshire +50 7 £62,500 -0.45% 15
South West +47 7 £51,729 -1.47% 13
West Midlands +19 7 £45,000 -18.18% 7
East Midlands +6 6 £56,000 +17.89% 2
East of England +10 4 £48,500 +4.30% 8
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 97 (98.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (62.24%) Azure
3 54 (55.10%) Windows
4 49 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 47 (47.96%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (42.86%) Firewall
7 36 (36.73%) Microsoft
7 36 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (32.65%) Cisco
9 30 (30.61%) Network Security
10 27 (27.55%) VMware
10 27 (27.55%) VPN
10 27 (27.55%) Windows Server
11 25 (25.51%) Finance
12 23 (23.47%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (20.41%) CCNA
13 20 (20.41%) ITIL
14 19 (19.39%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (19.39%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (19.39%) VMware Infrastructure
15 18 (18.37%) PowerShell
15 18 (18.37%) CCNP
16 17 (17.35%) Disaster Recovery
16 17 (17.35%) AWS
16 17 (17.35%) Meraki
17 16 (16.33%) Windows 10
17 16 (16.33%) Network Management
17 16 (16.33%) DNS
18 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
19 14 (14.29%) Linux

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 13 (13.27%) SharePoint
2 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (7.14%) IIS
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.24%) Azure
2 47 (47.96%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (17.35%) AWS
4 12 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.12%) IaaS
5 6 (6.12%) PaaS
5 6 (6.12%) SaaS
6 3 (3.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (3.06%) GCP
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.04%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.04%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.04%) Route 53
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.02%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.02%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (42.86%) Firewall
2 30 (30.61%) Network Security
3 27 (27.55%) VPN
4 19 (19.39%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (16.33%) DNS
6 11 (11.22%) DHCP
7 10 (10.20%) LAN
7 10 (10.20%) VLAN
7 10 (10.20%) WAN
8 8 (8.16%) TCP/IP
9 7 (7.14%) SAN
10 5 (5.10%) BGP
11 4 (4.08%) TETRA
12 3 (3.06%) 4G
12 3 (3.06%) HSRP
12 3 (3.06%) Internet
12 3 (3.06%) SD-WAN
13 2 (2.04%) NAS
13 2 (2.04%) NetScaler
13 2 (2.04%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.02%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.02%) JIRA
1 1 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (25.51%) Finance
2 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Local Government
5 4 (4.08%) Legal
6 3 (3.06%) Games
6 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Automotive
7 2 (2.04%) Banking
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Aviation
8 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.02%) .NET
2 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.10%) Clustering
4 3 (3.06%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) BYOD
6 1 (1.02%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 54 (55.10%) Windows
2 27 (27.55%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.33%) Windows 10
4 14 (14.29%) Linux
5 7 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.08%) CentOS
6 4 (4.08%) VMS
7 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.04%) Android
9 1 (1.02%) AIX
9 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.02%) Unix
9 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (98.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (20.41%) ITIL
4 17 (17.35%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (16.33%) Network Management
6 14 (14.29%) DevOps
7 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure Management
8 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.22%) High Availability
9 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (10.20%) Business Continuity
10 10 (10.20%) Configuration Management
11 9 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (8.16%) Migration
12 8 (8.16%) Project Management
13 7 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
14 6 (6.12%) Decision-Making
14 6 (6.12%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.37%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.14%) Python
3 3 (3.06%) Bash
3 3 (3.06%) SQL
4 1 (1.02%) Bicep
4 1 (1.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (23.47%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (20.41%) CCNA
3 18 (18.37%) CCNP
4 11 (11.22%) Degree
5 10 (10.20%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
7 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.04%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.04%) MCITP
9 2 (2.04%) MCSA
9 2 (2.04%) MCSE
10 1 (1.02%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.06%) QA
3 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (19.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.22%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (10.20%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.08%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.02%) Docker
7 1 (1.02%) Firmware
7 1 (1.02%) KVM
7 1 (1.02%) NFS
7 1 (1.02%) Squid
7 1 (1.02%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (19.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.20%) Ansible
2 10 (10.20%) Terraform
3 9 (9.18%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.08%) SCCM
4 4 (4.08%) SCOM
4 4 (4.08%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.04%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.04%) SmoothWall
6 1 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.02%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.02%) Packer
6 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.02%) Puppet
6 1 (1.02%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 32 (32.65%) Cisco
3 27 (27.55%) VMware
4 17 (17.35%) Meraki
5 6 (6.12%) Acronis
6 5 (5.10%) Citrix
6 5 (5.10%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.08%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.08%) Veeam
8 3 (3.06%) Dell
8 3 (3.06%) EMC
8 3 (3.06%) NetApp
8 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.06%) WatchGuard
8 3 (3.06%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.04%) Arista
9 2 (2.04%) Bloomberg
9 2 (2.04%) Mitel
9 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.04%) Refinitiv