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 to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 675 830
Rank change year-on-year +243 +155 -276
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 445 270 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 343 212 248
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £69,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.41% +0.91% +10.00%

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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +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 April 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 April 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
North of England +119 105 £62,783 +21.82% 8
South East +100 96 £60,000 +9.09% 5
London +123 85 £65,000 -7.14% 12
South West +10 68 £53,250 +18.33% 7
North West +56 62 £62,783 +23.10% 6
Midlands +4 55 £54,000 +2.86% 3
East of England +48 36 £48,250 -12.27% 4
West Midlands +27 32 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire +109 24 £62,783 +19.59% 2
East Midlands -20 23 £47,500 -9.52%
North East +13 19 £62,783 +16.80%
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 435 (97.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 276 (62.02%) Windows
3 212 (47.64%) Azure
4 184 (41.35%) VMware
5 164 (36.85%) Active Directory
6 141 (31.69%) Microsoft
7 131 (29.44%) Linux
8 130 (29.21%) Windows Server
9 128 (28.76%) VMware Infrastructure
10 122 (27.42%) AWS
11 119 (26.74%) PowerShell
12 113 (25.39%) DNS
12 113 (25.39%) Microsoft 365
13 95 (21.35%) ITIL
14 88 (19.78%) DevOps
15 87 (19.55%) Security Cleared
16 79 (17.75%) DHCP
17 78 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
18 77 (17.30%) Mentoring
19 75 (16.85%) Ansible
20 68 (15.28%) Firewall
21 66 (14.83%) Python
21 66 (14.83%) Hyper-V
22 62 (13.93%) Microsoft Exchange
22 62 (13.93%) Social Skills
23 61 (13.71%) Terraform
23 61 (13.71%) Entra ID
24 60 (13.48%) Bash
25 59 (13.26%) Coaching
26 58 (13.03%) Public Sector

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 62 (13.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (7.42%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.12%) IIS
4 3 (0.67%) Confluence
5 2 (0.45%) JBoss
5 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.45%) CATIA
2 2 (0.45%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 212 (47.64%) Azure
2 122 (27.42%) AWS
3 113 (25.39%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (13.71%) Entra ID
5 54 (12.13%) SaaS
6 51 (11.46%) IaaS
7 34 (7.64%) OpenShift
8 18 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (4.04%) Nutanix
9 17 (3.82%) PaaS
10 16 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.37%) Serverless
12 14 (3.15%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.70%) AWS KMS
13 12 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.70%) CloudFront
13 12 (2.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 113 (25.39%) DNS
2 79 (17.75%) DHCP
3 68 (15.28%) Firewall
4 53 (11.91%) LAN
5 46 (10.34%) WAN
6 38 (8.54%) VPN
7 37 (8.31%) TCP/IP
8 36 (8.09%) HTTP
9 30 (6.74%) SAN
10 20 (4.49%) VLAN
11 15 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (3.37%) Wireless
12 12 (2.70%) Internet
13 11 (2.47%) WLAN
14 10 (2.25%) NAS
14 10 (2.25%) SD-WAN
15 9 (2.02%) Network Security
16 8 (1.80%) SSL
17 7 (1.57%) NetScaler
18 6 (1.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.07%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.57%) MySQL
4 5 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (0.90%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.45%) DB2
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.39%) GitLab
2 21 (4.72%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.57%) Git
4 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 62 (13.93%) Social Skills
2 58 (13.03%) Public Sector
3 43 (9.66%) Finance
4 42 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.04%) Retail
6 16 (3.60%) Aerospace
7 14 (3.15%) Automotive
8 11 (2.47%) Advertising
9 8 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.12%) Military
11 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.67%) Banking
12 3 (0.67%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.45%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.45%) Law
13 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.35%) LDAP
2 5 (1.12%) JSON
3 3 (0.67%) AWS CDK
4 2 (0.45%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.45%) Middleware
5 1 (0.22%) EDI
5 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.69%) Public Cloud
2 46 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (8.09%) Data Centre
4 27 (6.07%) PKI
5 16 (3.60%) IoT
6 12 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.25%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.80%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.90%) EFT
11 3 (0.67%) Clustering
11 3 (0.67%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.67%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.67%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.67%) PMI
11 3 (0.67%) Robotics
11 3 (0.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 276 (62.02%) Windows
2 131 (29.44%) Linux
3 130 (29.21%) Windows Server
4 44 (9.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 37 (8.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 35 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (7.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (5.17%) Windows 10
9 17 (3.82%) Ubuntu
10 16 (3.60%) Unix
11 13 (2.92%) VMS
12 11 (2.47%) Windows 7
12 11 (2.47%) Windows Server 2003
12 11 (2.47%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (2.02%) CentOS
14 5 (1.12%) Windows 2000
14 5 (1.12%) Windows NT
14 5 (1.12%) Windows XP
15 4 (0.90%) Rocky
16 3 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (97.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 95 (21.35%) ITIL
3 88 (19.78%) DevOps
4 78 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (17.30%) Mentoring
6 59 (13.26%) Coaching
7 46 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
9 41 (9.21%) Change Management
10 37 (8.31%) Decision-Making
11 34 (7.64%) Roadmaps
12 32 (7.19%) Software Architecture
13 31 (6.97%) Agile
14 30 (6.74%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (6.52%) Migration
15 29 (6.52%) Service Management
16 25 (5.62%) Computer Science
17 24 (5.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 24 (5.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 119 (26.74%) PowerShell
2 66 (14.83%) Python
3 60 (13.48%) Bash
4 35 (7.87%) Java
5 21 (4.72%) SQL
6 16 (3.60%) Perl
7 3 (0.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.22%) AWK
8 1 (0.22%) Bicep
8 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 87 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 56 (12.58%) DV Cleared
3 53 (11.91%) Degree
4 36 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.47%) HNC
8 6 (1.35%) A+ Certification
8 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.45%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.45%) MCP
12 1 (0.22%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.80%) SLA
3 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.67%) GDPR
4 3 (0.67%) PMO
5 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 164 (36.85%) Active Directory
2 128 (28.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (14.83%) Hyper-V
4 51 (11.46%) Docker
5 29 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (4.94%) vSphere
8 5 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.67%) KVM
9 3 (0.67%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 75 (16.85%) Ansible
2 61 (13.71%) Terraform
3 55 (12.36%) Kubernetes
4 48 (10.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (8.76%) SCCM
6 37 (8.31%) Puppet
7 28 (6.29%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.60%) WSUS
9 14 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (2.92%) SCOM
11 12 (2.70%) CA Single Sign-On
12 9 (2.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (1.35%) Nagios
15 4 (0.90%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.90%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.90%) Nessus
15 4 (0.90%) SmoothWall
16 3 (0.67%) Check_MK
16 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 184 (41.35%) VMware
2 141 (31.69%) Microsoft
3 40 (8.99%) Cisco
4 38 (8.54%) Red Hat
5 19 (4.27%) Citrix
6 14 (3.15%) HP
6 14 (3.15%) Meraki
6 14 (3.15%) Veeam
7 12 (2.70%) CA
7 12 (2.70%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.70%) EMC
7 12 (2.70%) NetApp
7 12 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.70%) SolarWinds
8 11 (2.47%) Aruba
8 11 (2.47%) BMC
8 11 (2.47%) Commvault
9 9 (2.02%) Fortinet
9 9 (2.02%) Oracle
10 8 (1.80%) Globalscape