Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 438 660
Rank change year-on-year -155 +222 +205
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 90 461 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.52% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.55% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 67 344 217
10th Percentile £45,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,150 £48,825 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile - £70,000 £99,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +0.23%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 28 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 28 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 +72 34 £82,500 +26.92% 28
North of England -42 24 £57,500 -8.41% 54
North West -45 17 £50,000 -20.36% 40
South East +4 12 £52,500 -12.50% 12
Midlands +6 9 £55,000 +10.00% 13
South West +49 7 £51,729 +3.46% 15
Yorkshire +45 7 £62,500 -0.45% 8
East Midlands +21 5 £56,000 +17.89% 4
West Midlands +28 4 £49,600 -8.99% 8
East of England +12 4 £55,000 +19.57% 11
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 89 (98.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (54.44%) Azure
3 46 (51.11%) Windows
4 44 (48.89%) Active Directory
5 38 (42.22%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (33.33%) Firewall
8 29 (32.22%) Cisco
8 29 (32.22%) Microsoft
8 29 (32.22%) Finance
9 28 (31.11%) Network Security
10 23 (25.56%) VPN
11 21 (23.33%) VMware
12 20 (22.22%) Windows Server
13 17 (18.89%) Mentoring
13 17 (18.89%) CCNA
13 17 (18.89%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (17.78%) ITIL
14 16 (17.78%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (17.78%) Meraki
14 16 (17.78%) Windows 10
14 16 (17.78%) Network Management
15 15 (16.67%) DevOps
15 15 (16.67%) PowerShell
15 15 (16.67%) DNS
15 15 (16.67%) CCNP
15 15 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (16.67%) Social Skills
16 14 (15.56%) AWS
16 14 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune

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 (14.44%) SharePoint
2 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.56%) IIS
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 49 (54.44%) Azure
2 38 (42.22%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (15.56%) AWS
4 10 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.44%) IaaS
6 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.44%) PaaS
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.33%) Route 53
7 3 (3.33%) SaaS
7 3 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.22%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.22%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.11%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.11%) Cohesity
9 1 (1.11%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (33.33%) Firewall
2 28 (31.11%) Network Security
3 23 (25.56%) VPN
4 16 (17.78%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (16.67%) DNS
6 9 (10.00%) DHCP
6 9 (10.00%) LAN
7 8 (8.89%) WAN
8 7 (7.78%) TCP/IP
9 6 (6.67%) SAN
10 4 (4.44%) TETRA
10 4 (4.44%) VLAN
11 2 (2.22%) BGP
11 2 (2.22%) NAS
11 2 (2.22%) NetScaler
11 2 (2.22%) OSPF
11 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.22%) SNMP
12 1 (1.11%) Internet
12 1 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.11%) DB2
3 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (32.22%) Finance
2 15 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Legal
3 8 (8.89%) Local Government
4 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Automotive
6 3 (3.33%) Games
7 2 (2.22%) Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Aviation
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Law
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.11%) .NET
2 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.56%) Clustering
2 5 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.44%) NHS
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.11%) BYOD
5 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (51.11%) Windows
2 20 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 16 (17.78%) Windows 10
4 13 (14.44%) Linux
5 7 (7.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.44%) CentOS
7 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.22%) Android
8 2 (2.22%) Unix
8 2 (2.22%) VMS
9 1 (1.11%) AIX
9 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (98.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (18.89%) Mentoring
4 16 (17.78%) ITIL
4 16 (17.78%) Network Management
5 15 (16.67%) DevOps
5 15 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Management
7 10 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 10 (11.11%) Project Management
8 9 (10.00%) Business Continuity
8 9 (10.00%) High Availability
8 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (10.00%) Migration
9 8 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
12 5 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.67%) Python
3 5 (5.56%) SQL
4 2 (2.22%) Bash
5 1 (1.11%) Bicep
5 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (18.89%) CCNA
1 17 (18.89%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (16.67%) CCNP
3 9 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 9 (10.00%) Degree
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.22%) MCITP
6 2 (2.22%) MCSA
6 2 (2.22%) MCSE
6 2 (2.22%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.11%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (48.89%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (12.22%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.22%) vSphere
9 1 (1.11%) Docker
9 1 (1.11%) Firmware
9 1 (1.11%) KVM
9 1 (1.11%) NFS
9 1 (1.11%) Squid
9 1 (1.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (12.22%) Terraform
3 10 (11.11%) Ansible
3 10 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.56%) SCCM
5 4 (4.44%) SCOM
5 4 (4.44%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.22%) SmoothWall
7 1 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.11%) Packer
7 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.11%) Puppet
7 1 (1.11%) SCVMM
7 1 (1.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (32.22%) Cisco
1 29 (32.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (23.33%) VMware
3 16 (17.78%) Meraki
4 6 (6.67%) Citrix
5 5 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.44%) Acronis
6 4 (4.44%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.33%) EMC
7 3 (3.33%) NetApp
7 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.33%) Veeam
8 2 (2.22%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.22%) Dell
8 2 (2.22%) FactSet
8 2 (2.22%) HP
8 2 (2.22%) Mitel
8 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.22%) Refinitiv
8 2 (2.22%) SolarWinds