Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 556 774
Rank change year-on-year +107 +218 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 387 292 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.45% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 269 242 348
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,386
25th Percentile £48,825 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +6.19% -
75th Percentile £67,968 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £89,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% +11.00% -3.85%

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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
London +68 96 £64,375 -0.96% 5
North of England +52 83 £62,783 +23.10% 6
South East +38 73 £55,000 - 6
South West +10 57 £49,029 +3.22% 3
Midlands -11 53 £54,000 +2.86% 2
North West +17 44 £62,783 +23.10% 3
West Midlands +10 40 £55,000 +10.00% 2
East of England +9 23 £45,000 -18.92% 1
Yorkshire +61 20 £62,783 +21.91% 2
North East +4 19 £62,783 +26.83% 1
East Midlands -31 13 £46,250 -11.90%
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 377 (97.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 205 (52.97%) Windows
3 142 (36.69%) Azure
4 133 (34.37%) Active Directory
5 128 (33.07%) VMware
6 112 (28.94%) Microsoft
7 102 (26.36%) AWS
8 92 (23.77%) Linux
9 85 (21.96%) Windows Server
10 81 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
11 78 (20.16%) Security Cleared
12 75 (19.38%) DevOps
13 74 (19.12%) Microsoft 365
13 74 (19.12%) DNS
14 72 (18.60%) PowerShell
15 66 (17.05%) Ansible
16 65 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
17 61 (15.76%) Mentoring
17 61 (15.76%) Python
17 61 (15.76%) Firewall
18 60 (15.50%) Social Skills
19 58 (14.99%) ITIL
20 57 (14.73%) DHCP
20 57 (14.73%) DV Cleared
21 55 (14.21%) Entra ID
22 54 (13.95%) Finance
23 51 (13.18%) Public Cloud
24 48 (12.40%) Terraform
25 47 (12.14%) Public Sector
26 46 (11.89%) Hyper-V

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 36 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (7.24%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.81%) IIS
4 3 (0.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) CATIA
2 1 (0.26%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 15 (3.88%) Ripple
2 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 142 (36.69%) Azure
2 102 (26.36%) AWS
3 74 (19.12%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (14.21%) Entra ID
5 43 (11.11%) SaaS
6 28 (7.24%) IaaS
7 26 (6.72%) OpenShift
8 17 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (4.39%) GCP
9 15 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (3.10%) Nutanix
11 9 (2.33%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.33%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.81%) AWS KMS
13 7 (1.81%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (1.81%) OneDrive
13 7 (1.81%) PaaS
13 7 (1.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 74 (19.12%) DNS
2 61 (15.76%) Firewall
3 57 (14.73%) DHCP
4 37 (9.56%) WAN
5 36 (9.30%) LAN
6 30 (7.75%) HTTP
6 30 (7.75%) TCP/IP
6 30 (7.75%) VPN
7 29 (7.49%) Network Security
8 27 (6.98%) SAN
9 18 (4.65%) Internet
10 14 (3.62%) VLAN
11 10 (2.58%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.81%) BGP
12 7 (1.81%) OSPF
12 7 (1.81%) Skype
12 7 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (1.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (1.55%) SSL
13 6 (1.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
1 20 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.29%) MySQL
3 4 (1.03%) DB2
4 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (6.98%) Artifactory
2 18 (4.65%) Git
3 17 (4.39%) GitLab
4 3 (0.78%) JIRA
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (15.50%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.95%) Finance
3 47 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.68%) Aerospace
5 22 (5.68%) Retail
6 16 (4.13%) Law
7 15 (3.88%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.84%) Automotive
9 10 (2.58%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.33%) Advertising
11 8 (2.07%) Games
12 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.78%) Military
13 3 (0.78%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.52%) Banking
14 2 (0.52%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.78%) REST
2 2 (0.52%) ARM Templates
2 2 (0.52%) LDAP
3 1 (0.26%) .NET
3 1 (0.26%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.26%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.18%) Public Cloud
2 32 (8.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.17%) PKI
5 15 (3.88%) Blockchain
5 15 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.33%) IoT
7 9 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.81%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.81%) Replication
9 6 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.03%) Clustering
11 3 (0.78%) EFT
11 3 (0.78%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.78%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.78%) Robotics
11 3 (0.78%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 205 (52.97%) Windows
2 92 (23.77%) Linux
3 85 (21.96%) Windows Server
4 27 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (6.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 23 (5.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (5.43%) Ubuntu
8 20 (5.17%) Windows 10
9 18 (4.65%) VMS
10 15 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (3.36%) Unix
12 10 (2.58%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (1.81%) CentOS
14 6 (1.55%) Windows 7
15 4 (1.03%) Rocky
15 4 (1.03%) Windows 2000
15 4 (1.03%) Windows NT
15 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (1.03%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (97.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 75 (19.38%) DevOps
3 65 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (15.76%) Mentoring
5 58 (14.99%) ITIL
6 43 (11.11%) Change Management
7 42 (10.85%) Agile
8 39 (10.08%) Coaching
9 27 (6.98%) Actionable Insight
9 27 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (6.20%) Information Security
10 24 (6.20%) Software Architecture
11 23 (5.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (5.68%) Decision-Making
13 21 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (5.43%) DevSecOps
14 20 (5.17%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (5.17%) Service Management
15 19 (4.91%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.60%) PowerShell
2 61 (15.76%) Python
3 42 (10.85%) Bash
4 26 (6.72%) Java
5 12 (3.10%) SQL
6 9 (2.33%) Perl
7 2 (0.52%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.26%) Bicep
8 1 (0.26%) C#
8 1 (0.26%) Ruby
8 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 57 (14.73%) DV Cleared
3 43 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 28 (7.24%) Degree
5 21 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (4.91%) CCNA
7 18 (4.65%) CCNP
8 16 (4.13%) CISSP
9 15 (3.88%) CEH
9 15 (3.88%) CISA
9 15 (3.88%) CRISC
10 8 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.29%) HNC
11 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.81%) SLA
3 6 (1.55%) NIST
4 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 133 (34.37%) Active Directory
2 81 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (11.89%) Hyper-V
4 31 (8.01%) Docker
5 23 (5.94%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (5.94%) vSphere
6 16 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.55%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.78%) Ceph
8 3 (0.78%) vCloud
9 2 (0.52%) KVM
10 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (17.05%) Ansible
2 48 (12.40%) Terraform
3 41 (10.59%) Kubernetes
4 34 (8.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (8.53%) Puppet
6 27 (6.98%) SCCM
7 25 (6.46%) vCenter Server
8 17 (4.39%) WSUS
9 14 (3.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.81%) CA Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.55%) VxRail
13 5 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (1.29%) SCOM
14 4 (1.03%) vRealize
15 3 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
15 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 3 (0.78%) Nagios
15 3 (0.78%) N-central
Vendors
1 128 (33.07%) VMware
2 112 (28.94%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.49%) Cisco
4 28 (7.24%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.62%) Citrix
5 14 (3.62%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.84%) BMC
6 11 (2.84%) Dell
7 10 (2.58%) EMC
7 10 (2.58%) Meraki
8 9 (2.33%) Veeam
9 8 (2.07%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.81%) CA
10 7 (1.81%) Commvault
10 7 (1.81%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.81%) Juniper
10 7 (1.81%) NetApp
10 7 (1.81%) Oracle
10 7 (1.81%) Zerto