Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 832 925
Rank change year-on-year +146 +93 +263
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 26 58 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.058% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.061% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 14 49 43
10th Percentile £55,905 £45,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,625 £53,750 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £59,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.99% -25.63% +28.00%
75th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £98,664
90th Percentile £99,875 - £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £58,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +23.06% -26.54% +44.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,683 94,601 90,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.69% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 27,196 67,610 57,343
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England +116 25 £71,991 +22.02% 43
UK excluding London +157 22 £71,991 +23.06% 46
Work from Home +121 10 £71,991 +25.20% 6
South East +93 10 £60,000 +33.33% 13
North of England +41 9 £71,991 +25.20% 11
Yorkshire +66 8 £71,991 +20.99%
London +112 4 £83,750 +19.64% 12
Midlands +66 2 - - 1
West Midlands +39 1 - -
East Midlands +25 1 - - 1
North West -12 1 £85,000 +47.83% 11
Wales - 1 £51,398 - 2

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 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 featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (76.92%) Windows
3 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
4 13 (50.00%) Linux
4 13 (50.00%) Python
4 13 (50.00%) VMware
4 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 13 (50.00%) Terraform
5 12 (46.15%) Windows Server
5 12 (46.15%) Ansible
5 12 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (42.31%) Bash
6 11 (42.31%) Puppet
6 11 (42.31%) LTE
6 11 (42.31%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (42.31%) Electronics
6 11 (42.31%) Asset Management
6 11 (42.31%) Penetration Testing
6 11 (42.31%) Software Testing
6 11 (42.31%) Project Planning
6 11 (42.31%) Degree
6 11 (42.31%) Bluetooth
6 11 (42.31%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (42.31%) vSphere
6 11 (42.31%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (42.31%) 5G
6 11 (42.31%) IoT
6 11 (42.31%) Strategic Thinking
6 11 (42.31%) Inclusion and Diversity

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) SaaS
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (15.38%) Azure
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) 5G
1 11 (42.31%) Bluetooth
1 11 (42.31%) LTE
1 11 (42.31%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (30.77%) Internet
3 7 (26.92%) DKIM
3 7 (26.92%) DMARC
3 7 (26.92%) DNSSEC
3 7 (26.92%) SMTP
4 2 (7.69%) DNS
4 2 (7.69%) Firewall
5 1 (3.85%) BGP
5 1 (3.85%) DHCP
5 1 (3.85%) HSRP
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) NAS
5 1 (3.85%) SSL
5 1 (3.85%) VLAN
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Electronics
2 11 (42.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (30.77%) Finance
4 6 (23.08%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) IoT
1 11 (42.31%) NB-IoT
2 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Windows
2 13 (50.00%) Linux
3 12 (46.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (42.31%) Asset Management
2 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (42.31%) Penetration Testing
2 11 (42.31%) Project Planning
2 11 (42.31%) Software Testing
2 11 (42.31%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
3 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (3.85%) Containerisation
5 1 (3.85%) Decision-Making
5 1 (3.85%) High Availability
5 1 (3.85%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.85%) Roadmaps
5 1 (3.85%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) CompTIA Security+
1 11 (42.31%) Degree
1 11 (42.31%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CCNP
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (42.31%) vSphere
3 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.85%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Terraform
2 12 (46.15%) Ansible
3 11 (42.31%) Puppet
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (26.92%) Cisco
3 7 (26.92%) IronPort
3 7 (26.92%) Veritas
4 1 (3.85%) EMC
4 1 (3.85%) Juniper
4 1 (3.85%) NetApp
4 1 (3.85%) Zscaler