Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 709 730
Rank change year-on-year +166 +21 +128
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 28 56 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.076% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.080% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 10 48 22
10th Percentile £54,366 £45,000 £52,750
25th Percentile £60,156 £53,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,500 £75,816
Median % change year-on-year +19.66% -22.84% +37.85%
75th Percentile £73,886 £67,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £74,997 £75,000 £97,328
UK median annual salary £70,000 £59,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -25.63% +28.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +90 12 £60,750 +35.00% 13
North of England +34 7 £71,991 +25.20% 2
Yorkshire +63 6 £71,991 +20.99%
East of England +41 4 - - 9
Midlands +56 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - - 2
West Midlands +60 1 - -
East Midlands +39 1 - - 1
North West -7 1 £85,000 +47.83% 2
Wales - 1 £51,398 - 3
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Lead 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (60.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
3 16 (57.14%) Windows
3 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 15 (53.57%) Asset Management
4 15 (53.57%) Degree
5 14 (50.00%) Python
5 14 (50.00%) Terraform
6 13 (46.43%) VMware
6 13 (46.43%) PowerShell
6 13 (46.43%) Ansible
7 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (42.86%) Linux
8 11 (39.29%) Bluetooth
8 11 (39.29%) Penetration Testing
8 11 (39.29%) Software Testing
8 11 (39.29%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (39.29%) Electronics
8 11 (39.29%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (39.29%) IoT
8 11 (39.29%) vSphere
8 11 (39.29%) Bash
8 11 (39.29%) Puppet
8 11 (39.29%) LTE
8 11 (39.29%) Project Planning
8 11 (39.29%) Windows Server
8 11 (39.29%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (39.29%) 5G
8 11 (39.29%) Strategic Thinking

Lead Infrastructure Engineer 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 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.71%) IIS
3 2 (7.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Purview
1 5 (17.86%) SaaS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) 5G
1 11 (39.29%) Bluetooth
1 11 (39.29%) LTE
1 11 (39.29%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (25.00%) SMTP
3 5 (17.86%) DKIM
3 5 (17.86%) DMARC
3 5 (17.86%) DNSSEC
3 5 (17.86%) Internet
4 3 (10.71%) DNS
5 1 (3.57%) DHCP
5 1 (3.57%) Firewall
5 1 (3.57%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (60.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Electronics
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Law
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Advertising
6 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) YAML
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) IoT
1 11 (39.29%) NB-IoT
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) PKI
3 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Windows
2 12 (42.86%) Linux
3 11 (39.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (53.57%) Asset Management
3 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (39.29%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (39.29%) Project Planning
3 11 (39.29%) Software Testing
3 11 (39.29%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Workflow
6 3 (10.71%) Workflow Management
7 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.14%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (46.43%) PowerShell
3 11 (39.29%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 11 (39.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 11 (39.29%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (39.29%) vSphere
3 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.57%) Docker
4 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Terraform
2 13 (46.43%) Ansible
3 11 (39.29%) Puppet
4 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (46.43%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Cisco
3 5 (17.86%) IronPort
3 5 (17.86%) Veritas
4 4 (14.29%) Autodesk