Head of Infrastructure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Head of Infrastructure
UK > UK excluding London

The median Head of Infrastructure salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 733 818
Rank change year-on-year +3 +85 -177
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Infrastructure 31 22 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.037% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.041% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 27
10th Percentile £56,000 £47,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,625 £57,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £68,886
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +23.39% -3.32%
75th Percentile £89,750 £95,625 £85,625
90th Percentile £97,875 £120,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £86,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -9.47% +15.15% -2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Head of Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Head of Infrastructure in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Head of Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Head of Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Head of Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Head of Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Head of Infrastructure
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Infrastructure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +59 10 £90,000 +89.47%
North West - 10 £90,000 -
South East +6 8 £98,000 +8.89%
Midlands 0 6 £75,000 -9.09% 2
South West -20 5 £65,000 -16.13%
West Midlands +25 3 £86,000 +4.24% 2
East Midlands - 3 £75,000 -
East of England +12 1 £97,500 +62.50%
Wales - 1 £52,956 -
Head of Infrastructure
UK

Head of Infrastructure Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Head of Infrastructure 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 UK excluding London region featuring Head of Infrastructure in the job title.

1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) ITIL
3 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
3 6 (19.35%) AWS
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) Project Management
5 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
5 4 (12.90%) VMware
5 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
5 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.68%) Customer Experience
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (9.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (9.68%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 3 (9.68%) Decision-Making
6 3 (9.68%) Agile
6 3 (9.68%) QA
6 3 (9.68%) Release Management
6 3 (9.68%) Performance Management
6 3 (9.68%) Waterfall
6 3 (9.68%) Node.js
6 3 (9.68%) Coaching
6 3 (9.68%) IoT

Head of Infrastructure Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) NAS
1 1 (3.23%) SAN
1 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
General
1 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
1 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Automotive
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) IoT
3 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
1 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) ITIL
2 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
3 5 (16.13%) DevOps
3 5 (16.13%) Project Management
4 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.68%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 3 (9.68%) Coaching
5 3 (9.68%) Customer Experience
5 3 (9.68%) Data Management
5 3 (9.68%) Decision-Making
5 3 (9.68%) People Management
5 3 (9.68%) Performance Management
5 3 (9.68%) Quality Management
5 3 (9.68%) Release Management
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) VMware
2 3 (9.68%) Citrix
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Meraki
4 1 (3.23%) Snow