Infrastructure Team Leader Job Trends

Infrastructure Team Lead
UK

The median Infrastructure Team Lead salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 672 688
Rank change year-on-year +48 +16 +256
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Team Leader 18 33 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.061% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.066% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 16 32 33
10th Percentile - - £36,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £47,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £81,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% -3.08%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 53,748 49,914 53,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 92.93% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33,232 25,949 41,098
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Infrastructure Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Team Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Team Leader job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Team Leader
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Team Leader job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Team Leader job vacancies in the UK

Infrastructure Team Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Team Leader over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Team Leader in the UK

Infrastructure Team Leader
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
England +66 17 £55,000 - 6
UK excluding London +46 13 £48,750 -2.50% 7
North West +28 5 £40,000 -30.43%
North of England +17 5 £40,000 +14.29% 2
South East +34 4 £75,000 +4.17% 2
Work from Home +78 3 £70,000 +27.27% 2
London +40 3 £63,750 -16.12% 1
Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 2
South West +4 1 - -

Infrastructure Team Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 January 2026, Infrastructure Team Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Infrastructure Team Leader in the job title.

1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) AI
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) Docker
5 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Terraform
6 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Ansible
6 2 (11.11%) Argo
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
6 2 (11.11%) Bash
6 2 (11.11%) Broadband
6 2 (11.11%) Budget Control
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (11.11%) Degree
6 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (11.11%) GitOps
6 2 (11.11%) Go
6 2 (11.11%) Google

Infrastructure Team Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (16.67%) Games
2 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) AI
4 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Budget Control
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) GitOps
5 2 (11.11%) High Availability
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Product Management
5 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) Go
1 2 (11.11%) Java
1 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Argo
2 2 (11.11%) Kustomize
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) VMware