Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North of England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 284 411
Rank change year-on-year -27 +127 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 25 104 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.22% 0.59% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.63% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 16 89 28
10th Percentile - £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,597 £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,783 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +22.50% +2.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,968 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,434 £70,000 £62,000
England median annual salary £62,072 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.14% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,578 16,586 15,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 94.87% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 12,834 8,216
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,265 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,100 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West -38 18 £53,000 -15.58% 24
Yorkshire +59 7 £62,500 -0.45% 19
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 North of England region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (28.00%) Windows
6 6 (24.00%) DNS
6 6 (24.00%) Terraform
6 6 (24.00%) Ansible
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) Azure Certification
7 5 (20.00%) ARM Templates
7 5 (20.00%) AutoCAD
7 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 5 (20.00%) Finance
7 5 (20.00%) VMware
7 5 (20.00%) Linux
7 5 (20.00%) DHCP
7 5 (20.00%) Degree
8 4 (16.00%) TETRA
8 4 (16.00%) AWS
8 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (16.00%) IIS
8 4 (16.00%) ITIL
8 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2016

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (16.00%) IIS
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) DNS
2 5 (20.00%) DHCP
3 4 (16.00%) TETRA
4 3 (12.00%) Firewall
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (4.00%) NAS
5 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (4.00%) SAN
5 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Games
3 1 (4.00%) Local Government
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Linux
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (12.00%) CentOS
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) VMS
5 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (24.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (16.00%) ITIL
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (8.00%) Game Development
8 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.00%) Migration
8 2 (8.00%) Network Architecture
8 2 (8.00%) Tech Ops
9 1 (4.00%) Capacity Management
9 1 (4.00%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (4.00%) Identity Management
9 1 (4.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CCNA
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.00%) MCITP
2 1 (4.00%) MCSE
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) Citrix
3 1 (4.00%) Facebook
3 1 (4.00%) Meraki
3 1 (4.00%) NetApp
3 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.00%) Sophos
3 1 (4.00%) Synology
3 1 (4.00%) Veeam