Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 421 521
Rank change year-on-year +68 +100 +204
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 40 78 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 39 52 88
10th Percentile £58,016 £53,750 £50,875
25th Percentile £64,375 £55,000 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £97,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,875 £110,000
England median annual salary £61,644 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.74% +7.14% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,624 22,265 32,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 16,628 23,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +14 6 £68,750 +5.77% 1
South London - 3 £61,644 - 2
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 London region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (97.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (85.00%) Azure
3 30 (75.00%) Windows
4 29 (72.50%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (62.50%) Cisco
5 25 (62.50%) Network Security
5 25 (62.50%) Firewall
6 23 (57.50%) Active Directory
7 22 (55.00%) VPN
7 22 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (50.00%) Finance
9 18 (45.00%) CCNA
10 17 (42.50%) CCNP
11 16 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (40.00%) Network Management
11 16 (40.00%) Meraki
12 15 (37.50%) Windows 10
13 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
13 10 (25.00%) Windows Server
14 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
14 9 (22.50%) VMware
14 9 (22.50%) AWS
14 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
14 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
15 8 (20.00%) Business Continuity
16 6 (15.00%) LAN
16 6 (15.00%) WAN

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 34 (85.00%) Azure
2 29 (72.50%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (22.50%) AWS
4 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) IaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Mimecast
6 2 (5.00%) PaaS
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (62.50%) Firewall
1 25 (62.50%) Network Security
2 22 (55.00%) VPN
3 16 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (15.00%) LAN
4 6 (15.00%) WAN
5 5 (12.50%) DNS
6 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (10.00%) VLAN
7 3 (7.50%) 4G
8 2 (5.00%) BGP
8 2 (5.00%) DHCP
8 2 (5.00%) HSRP
8 2 (5.00%) Internet
8 2 (5.00%) NetScaler
8 2 (5.00%) SAN
9 1 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (2.50%) NAS
9 1 (2.50%) Wireless
9 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) BYOD
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (75.00%) Windows
2 15 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 10 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (12.50%) Linux
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.00%) VMS
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (97.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (40.00%) Network Management
4 10 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 5 (12.50%) High Availability
8 4 (10.00%) BCP
8 4 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (10.00%) ITIL
8 4 (10.00%) Migration
9 3 (7.50%) Business Strategy
9 3 (7.50%) Incident Response
9 3 (7.50%) Inventory Management
9 3 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
9 3 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (7.50%) Problem Management
9 3 (7.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Bash
3 2 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (45.00%) CCNA
3 17 (42.50%) CCNP
4 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (57.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 5 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.50%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) Firmware
5 1 (2.50%) VMware Server
5 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (5.00%) SCCM
3 2 (5.00%) SCOM
3 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) SCVMM
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Cisco
2 16 (40.00%) Meraki
3 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (22.50%) VMware
5 5 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.50%) Acronis
6 3 (7.50%) Citrix
6 3 (7.50%) Zscaler
7 2 (5.00%) Arista
7 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
7 2 (5.00%) FactSet
7 2 (5.00%) Mitel
7 2 (5.00%) NetApp
7 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.00%) Refinitiv
7 2 (5.00%) Veeam
8 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.50%) EMC
8 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds