Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 399 484
Rank change year-on-year -81 +85 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 114 367 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.54% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 64 286 148
10th Percentile £44,125 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £49,011 £45,000 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,968 £60,438
90th Percentile £66,750 £68,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% +12.00%

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 38,783 67,817 44,512
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.69% 94.96% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 21,073 46,376 28,204
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,125 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +3.21%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 July 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 of England -15 53 £62,500 -0.45% 22
North West -8 33 £60,000 -4.43% 15
South East -15 17 £58,750 +6.82% 16
Yorkshire +22 14 £63,750 +1.54% 4
East of England -5 14 £62,500 +35.87% 17
South West +42 12 £50,000 -1.51% 12
Midlands +21 12 £55,000 +1.85% 15
West Midlands +23 7 £55,000 - 6
North East +15 6 £65,000 +3.53% 3
East Midlands +30 5 £56,000 +17.89% 8
Wales +16 5 £48,073 +17.06%
Scotland +74 1 £60,000 +26.32% 3
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 112 (98.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (27.19%) Windows
3 30 (26.32%) Azure
4 29 (25.44%) Microsoft
5 28 (24.56%) Active Directory
6 26 (22.81%) VMware
7 25 (21.93%) Mentoring
8 24 (21.05%) Windows Server
9 21 (18.42%) Finance
10 18 (15.79%) AWS
11 17 (14.91%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (14.04%) DevOps
12 16 (14.04%) Terraform
12 16 (14.04%) TETRA
13 15 (13.16%) Project Management
13 15 (13.16%) ITIL
13 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (12.28%) Firewall
14 14 (12.28%) Local Government
14 14 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
14 14 (12.28%) PowerShell
14 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (11.40%) Cisco
15 13 (11.40%) DNS
15 13 (11.40%) DHCP
16 12 (10.53%) Linux
16 12 (10.53%) NHS
16 12 (10.53%) Legal

Senior 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 11 (9.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.26%) IIS
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.32%) Azure
2 18 (15.79%) AWS
3 17 (14.91%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.14%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.51%) GCP
7 4 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.51%) Route 53
7 4 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.75%) IaaS
8 2 (1.75%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.75%) PaaS
8 2 (1.75%) SaaS
9 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.88%) GitHub
9 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.88%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.04%) TETRA
2 14 (12.28%) Firewall
3 13 (11.40%) DHCP
3 13 (11.40%) DNS
4 9 (7.89%) LAN
4 9 (7.89%) VPN
5 8 (7.02%) WAN
6 5 (4.39%) SAN
6 5 (4.39%) VLAN
7 4 (3.51%) Network Security
7 4 (3.51%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.63%) OSPF
8 3 (2.63%) SNMP
9 2 (1.75%) BGP
9 2 (1.75%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.75%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.88%) CATAPAN
10 1 (0.88%) SSH
10 1 (0.88%) Wireless
10 1 (0.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.88%) DB2
3 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.88%) GitLab
2 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (18.42%) Finance
2 14 (12.28%) Local Government
3 12 (10.53%) Legal
3 12 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.26%) Automotive
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Games
6 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (0.88%) Aviation
7 1 (0.88%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.88%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.88%) Node.js
2 1 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) NHS
2 9 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.39%) Clustering
5 2 (1.75%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.88%) PKI
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.19%) Windows
2 24 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.53%) Linux
4 5 (4.39%) CentOS
4 5 (4.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.51%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.75%) Android
6 2 (1.75%) Unix
6 2 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.88%) AIX
7 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (98.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (21.93%) Mentoring
3 16 (14.04%) DevOps
4 15 (13.16%) ITIL
4 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (13.16%) Project Management
5 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (8.77%) Configuration Management
8 10 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (7.89%) Migration
10 8 (7.02%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.02%) Due Diligence
10 8 (7.02%) Project Delivery
10 8 (7.02%) Risk Assessment
10 8 (7.02%) Strategic Planning
11 7 (6.14%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.28%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.89%) Python
3 7 (6.14%) SQL
4 1 (0.88%) Bash
4 1 (0.88%) Java
4 1 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (9.65%) Degree
2 10 (8.77%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.39%) CCNA
5 5 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.39%) MCSE
6 4 (3.51%) Postgraduate
6 4 (3.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.63%) CCNP
8 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.75%) MCITP
8 2 (1.75%) MCSA
9 1 (0.88%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (24.56%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.51%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.63%) vSphere
7 1 (0.88%) Docker
7 1 (0.88%) KVM
7 1 (0.88%) NFS
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.88%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (14.04%) Terraform
2 11 (9.65%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.89%) Ansible
4 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.51%) SCCM
6 3 (2.63%) SCOM
7 2 (1.75%) SmoothWall
7 2 (1.75%) WSUS
8 1 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.88%) Nessus
8 1 (0.88%) Packer
8 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.88%) Puppet
8 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.88%) WMI
Vendors
1 29 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 26 (22.81%) VMware
3 13 (11.40%) Cisco
4 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.63%) Veeam
5 2 (1.75%) Citrix
5 2 (1.75%) Dell
5 2 (1.75%) EMC
5 2 (1.75%) Oracle
5 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.88%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.88%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.88%) Facebook
6 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.88%) HP
6 1 (0.88%) IBM
6 1 (0.88%) Isilon
6 1 (0.88%) NetApp
6 1 (0.88%) Splunk