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 £51,729 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 417 573
Rank change year-on-year -107 +156 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 64 386 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.54% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.57% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 44 306 136
10th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £44,989 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,729 £57,350 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +9.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,563 £67,968 £60,000
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% +1.15%

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 36,224 67,834 52,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 94.85% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,759 47,939 30,034
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 18 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 18 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 -33 25 £57,500 -8.41% 50
North West -44 18 £53,000 -15.58% 24
Midlands +18 13 £49,600 -8.15% 10
South East +10 9 £57,500 -4.17% 14
Yorkshire +50 7 £62,500 -0.45% 15
South West +47 7 £51,729 -1.47% 13
West Midlands +19 7 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Wales +27 6 £49,104 +19.57% 9
East Midlands +6 6 £56,000 +17.89% 2
East of England +10 4 £48,500 +4.30% 8
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 18 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 64 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (43.75%) Active Directory
3 27 (42.19%) Azure
4 26 (40.63%) Microsoft
4 26 (40.63%) Windows
5 18 (28.13%) VMware
5 18 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (26.56%) Windows Server
6 17 (26.56%) Firewall
7 16 (25.00%) ITIL
7 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (21.88%) Degree
9 13 (20.31%) DNS
9 13 (20.31%) DevOps
10 11 (17.19%) Linux
10 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
11 10 (15.63%) Configuration Management
11 10 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
11 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
11 10 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (15.63%) Terraform
12 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
12 9 (14.06%) AWS
12 9 (14.06%) Cisco
12 9 (14.06%) DHCP
12 9 (14.06%) Azure Certification
13 8 (12.50%) Project Management
13 8 (12.50%) Finance

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 (10.94%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.81%) IIS
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
4 1 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.56%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (7.81%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.19%) Azure
2 18 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (14.06%) AWS
4 7 (10.94%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.25%) IaaS
6 4 (6.25%) PaaS
6 4 (6.25%) SaaS
7 3 (4.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.13%) Nutanix
8 2 (3.13%) Route 53
8 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.56%) GCP
9 1 (1.56%) GitHub
9 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.56%) Serverless
9 1 (1.56%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.56%) Firewall
2 13 (20.31%) DNS
3 9 (14.06%) DHCP
4 6 (9.38%) VLAN
5 5 (7.81%) Network Security
5 5 (7.81%) SAN
5 5 (7.81%) VPN
6 4 (6.25%) LAN
6 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.25%) TETRA
6 4 (6.25%) WAN
7 3 (4.69%) BGP
7 3 (4.69%) SD-WAN
7 3 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (3.13%) OSPF
8 2 (3.13%) SNMP
9 1 (1.56%) Internet
9 1 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.56%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.56%) DB2
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
1 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Finance
2 8 (12.50%) Local Government
3 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Legal
5 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.13%) Automotive
6 2 (3.13%) Games
6 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Aviation
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.56%) Node.js
2 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.25%) Clustering
4 3 (4.69%) NHS
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.63%) Windows
2 17 (26.56%) Windows Server
3 11 (17.19%) Linux
4 4 (6.25%) CentOS
4 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.13%) Android
6 2 (3.13%) VMS
6 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.56%) AIX
7 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.56%) Unix
7 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (25.00%) ITIL
2 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (20.31%) DevOps
4 10 (15.63%) Configuration Management
4 10 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
5 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (12.50%) Project Management
7 7 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (9.38%) High Availability
9 5 (7.81%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (6.25%) CI/CD
10 4 (6.25%) Migration
10 4 (6.25%) Project Delivery
10 4 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.69%) Python
3 1 (1.56%) Bash
3 1 (1.56%) Bicep
3 1 (1.56%) Java
3 1 (1.56%) Perl
3 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) Degree
2 9 (14.06%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.13%) CCNA
5 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.13%) MCITP
5 2 (3.13%) MCSA
5 2 (3.13%) MCSE
5 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CCNP
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.13%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 28 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (7.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.56%) Docker
7 1 (1.56%) KVM
7 1 (1.56%) NFS
7 1 (1.56%) Squid
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Terraform
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (12.50%) Ansible
3 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.69%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.13%) SCCM
5 2 (3.13%) SCOM
5 2 (3.13%) SmoothWall
6 1 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.56%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.56%) Packer
6 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.56%) Puppet
6 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 18 (28.13%) VMware
3 9 (14.06%) Cisco
4 5 (7.81%) Dell
5 3 (4.69%) Acronis
5 3 (4.69%) IBM
5 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.69%) WatchGuard
6 2 (3.13%) Citrix
6 2 (3.13%) EMC
6 2 (3.13%) HP
6 2 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.13%) Sophos
6 2 (3.13%) Veeam
7 1 (1.56%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (1.56%) NetApp
7 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.56%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Synology