Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 292 315
Rank change year-on-year +62 +23 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 62 13 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.64% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 53 13 19
10th Percentile - £47,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,000 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £51,000 £39,322
Median % change year-on-year +23.10% +29.70% -21.36%
75th Percentile £67,968 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,214 7,075 9,039
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 89.07% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,073 4,121 5,468
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Manchester +45 34 £62,641 +22.83% 2
Lancashire - 15 £62,783 -
Merseyside +23 12 £52,500 -19.23% 1
Cheshire -11 1 £60,000 -4.00%
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 North West region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (56.45%) Windows
3 31 (50.00%) Azure
4 27 (43.55%) Active Directory
5 25 (40.32%) Microsoft
5 25 (40.32%) Mentoring
5 25 (40.32%) Public Cloud
6 24 (38.71%) Coaching
7 22 (35.48%) Linux
7 22 (35.48%) Public Sector
8 21 (33.87%) ITIL
8 21 (33.87%) DNS
8 21 (33.87%) AWS
9 17 (27.42%) Entra ID
9 17 (27.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (24.19%) Windows Server
11 14 (22.58%) Roadmaps
12 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
12 13 (20.97%) DHCP
13 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (17.74%) Change Management
14 11 (17.74%) PKI
15 10 (16.13%) VMware
15 10 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
16 9 (14.52%) LAN
16 9 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (14.52%) DevOps
16 9 (14.52%) IaaS
16 9 (14.52%) Terraform
17 8 (12.90%) Power Platform

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (16.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.84%) IIS
4 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.00%) Azure
2 21 (33.87%) AWS
3 17 (27.42%) Entra ID
4 9 (14.52%) IaaS
4 9 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
6 7 (11.29%) AWS KMS
6 7 (11.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (9.68%) OneDrive
7 6 (9.68%) PowerApps
8 3 (4.84%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (4.84%) GitHub
9 2 (3.23%) GCP
9 2 (3.23%) PaaS
10 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.61%) Slack
10 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (33.87%) DNS
2 13 (20.97%) DHCP
3 9 (14.52%) LAN
4 6 (9.68%) Firewall
4 6 (9.68%) Network Security
5 4 (6.45%) TETRA
5 4 (6.45%) WLAN
6 3 (4.84%) SAN
7 2 (3.23%) WAN
7 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.61%) DMZ
8 1 (1.61%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.61%) SSL
8 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.61%) VLAN
8 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) GitLab
2 7 (11.29%) Artifactory
3 4 (6.45%) Git
4 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 22 (35.48%) Public Sector
2 3 (4.84%) Finance
3 2 (3.23%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) LDAP
2 3 (4.84%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 25 (40.32%) Public Cloud
2 17 (27.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (17.74%) PKI
4 7 (11.29%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.84%) PMI
7 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.61%) Robotics
8 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (56.45%) Windows
2 22 (35.48%) Linux
3 15 (24.19%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.29%) Unix
4 7 (11.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (9.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (40.32%) Mentoring
3 24 (38.71%) Coaching
4 21 (33.87%) ITIL
5 14 (22.58%) Roadmaps
6 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (17.74%) Change Management
8 9 (14.52%) DevOps
9 8 (12.90%) Service Management
9 8 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (11.29%) Architecture Roadmap
10 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
10 7 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (11.29%) Identity Management
10 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 7 (11.29%) Key Management
10 7 (11.29%) Migration
10 7 (11.29%) Operational Stability
10 7 (11.29%) Privileged Identity Management
10 7 (11.29%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
3 2 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) PMI Certification
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) A+ Certification
3 2 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (43.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.06%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Terraform
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (11.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 7 (11.29%) Ansible
3 7 (11.29%) CA Single Sign-On
3 7 (11.29%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (9.68%) WSUS
5 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (40.32%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) VMware
3 7 (11.29%) BMC
3 7 (11.29%) CA
3 7 (11.29%) Cisco
3 7 (11.29%) CyberArk
3 7 (11.29%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.45%) Aruba
4 4 (6.45%) Extreme Networks
4 4 (6.45%) Fortinet
4 4 (6.45%) NetApp
5 3 (4.84%) Juniper
6 2 (3.23%) Veeam
7 1 (1.61%) Dell
7 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds