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 £52,115 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 511 411 584
Rank change year-on-year -100 +173 +84
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 60 411 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.59% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 36 323 137
10th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £46,370 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,115 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,563 £67,968 £60,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +0.23%

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% -

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 28 May 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 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
North of England -42 24 £57,500 -8.41% 58
North West -45 17 £50,000 -20.36% 44
South East +4 12 £52,500 -12.50% 22
Midlands +6 9 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South West +49 7 £51,729 +3.46% 17
Yorkshire +45 7 £62,500 -0.45% 8
East Midlands +21 5 £56,000 +17.89% 5
Wales +37 4 £48,073 +17.06% 7
West Midlands +28 4 £49,600 -8.99% 10
East of England +12 4 £55,000 +19.57% 11
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 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (38.33%) Active Directory
3 22 (36.67%) Windows
4 21 (35.00%) Azure
5 16 (26.67%) Mentoring
6 15 (25.00%) VMware
7 14 (23.33%) ITIL
7 14 (23.33%) DevOps
7 14 (23.33%) Windows Server
8 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (21.67%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (21.67%) Finance
9 12 (20.00%) Degree
10 11 (18.33%) Project Management
10 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
10 11 (18.33%) Terraform
11 10 (16.67%) Configuration Management
11 10 (16.67%) Firewall
11 10 (16.67%) DNS
11 10 (16.67%) Local Government
12 9 (15.00%) AWS
12 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
12 9 (15.00%) Linux
12 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
12 9 (15.00%) Azure Certification
13 8 (13.33%) Ansible
13 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation

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 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.33%) IIS
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.67%) Apache
4 1 (1.67%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.00%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (15.00%) AWS
4 7 (11.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.00%) IaaS
7 3 (5.00%) PaaS
7 3 (5.00%) Route 53
7 3 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.33%) Nutanix
8 2 (3.33%) SaaS
9 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.67%) GCP
9 1 (1.67%) GitHub
9 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.67%) Serverless
9 1 (1.67%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) DNS
1 10 (16.67%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) DHCP
3 5 (8.33%) LAN
3 5 (8.33%) Network Security
4 4 (6.67%) SAN
4 4 (6.67%) TETRA
4 4 (6.67%) VPN
4 4 (6.67%) WAN
5 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.33%) BGP
6 2 (3.33%) OSPF
6 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.33%) SNMP
6 2 (3.33%) VLAN
7 1 (1.67%) Internet
7 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.67%) NAS
7 1 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) DB2
3 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (21.67%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Local Government
4 8 (13.33%) Legal
5 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Automotive
7 2 (3.33%) Games
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Aviation
8 1 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.67%) Node.js
2 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) NHS
2 5 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.67%) Clustering
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (36.67%) Windows
2 14 (23.33%) Windows Server
3 9 (15.00%) Linux
4 4 (6.67%) CentOS
4 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.33%) Android
6 2 (3.33%) Unix
6 2 (3.33%) VMS
6 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.67%) AIX
7 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 14 (23.33%) DevOps
3 14 (23.33%) ITIL
4 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.33%) Project Management
6 10 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.67%) High Availability
10 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
11 5 (8.33%) Due Diligence
11 5 (8.33%) Project Delivery
11 5 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
12 4 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.00%) Python
2 3 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Bash
3 1 (1.67%) Bicep
3 1 (1.67%) Java
3 1 (1.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Degree
2 9 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) CCNA
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.33%) MCITP
4 2 (3.33%) MCSA
4 2 (3.33%) MCSE
4 2 (3.33%) Postgraduate
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (38.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.67%) Docker
6 1 (1.67%) KVM
6 1 (1.67%) NFS
6 1 (1.67%) Squid
6 1 (1.67%) vSphere
6 1 (1.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Terraform
2 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (13.33%) Ansible
4 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.00%) SCCM
6 2 (3.33%) SCOM
6 2 (3.33%) SmoothWall
7 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.67%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.67%) Packer
7 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
7 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) Cisco
4 3 (5.00%) Citrix
4 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.33%) Dell
5 2 (3.33%) EMC
5 2 (3.33%) HP
5 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.67%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.67%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.67%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.67%) Facebook
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) Isilon
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.67%) Splunk
6 1 (1.67%) Veeam