Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £57,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 693 817
Rank change year-on-year +206 +124 -228
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 475 292 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.32% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 370 236 296
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,250 £37,075
25th Percentile £48,825 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £55,000 £54,875
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +0.23% +9.75%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £70,813
90th Percentile £70,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +225 430 £60,000 +4.35% 34
UK excluding London +154 385 £57,500 +9.52% 32
Work from Home +165 224 £60,000 +9.09% 27
North of England +123 104 £62,783 +21.91% 4
South East +70 90 £60,000 +4.35% 5
London +92 79 £65,000 -7.14% 5
South West +16 65 £52,500 +16.67% 11
North West +54 62 £62,783 +23.10% 3
Midlands -17 57 £54,000 +2.86% 6
East of England +42 35 £50,000 -9.09% 2
West Midlands +2 34 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire +99 23 £62,783 +20.74% 1
East Midlands -20 23 £47,500 -9.52% 1
North East +7 19 £62,783 +16.80%
Scotland -54 17 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Wales - 16 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +16 1 £51,000 +27.50%

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 464 (97.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 274 (57.68%) Windows
3 213 (44.84%) Azure
4 187 (39.37%) VMware
5 156 (32.84%) Active Directory
6 150 (31.58%) Microsoft
7 143 (30.11%) Linux
8 131 (27.58%) AWS
9 130 (27.37%) Windows Server
10 126 (26.53%) VMware Infrastructure
11 110 (23.16%) PowerShell
12 108 (22.74%) DNS
13 106 (22.32%) Microsoft 365
14 92 (19.37%) ITIL
15 91 (19.16%) Security Cleared
16 90 (18.95%) Ansible
17 85 (17.89%) DevOps
18 84 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
19 81 (17.05%) Mentoring
20 79 (16.63%) DHCP
21 72 (15.16%) Terraform
22 70 (14.74%) Social Skills
23 69 (14.53%) Hyper-V
24 68 (14.32%) Firewall
25 67 (14.11%) Python
26 62 (13.05%) Entra ID
27 61 (12.84%) Coaching
28 58 (12.21%) Public Sector
29 56 (11.79%) Kubernetes
29 56 (11.79%) SaaS

Senior 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 54 (11.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (6.53%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.26%) IIS
4 3 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.42%) Apache
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) JBoss
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.42%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.42%) CATIA
2 2 (0.42%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 213 (44.84%) Azure
2 131 (27.58%) AWS
3 106 (22.32%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (13.05%) Entra ID
5 56 (11.79%) SaaS
6 46 (9.68%) IaaS
7 34 (7.16%) OpenShift
8 19 (4.00%) PaaS
9 18 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (3.58%) Amazon S3
10 17 (3.58%) Serverless
11 16 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.16%) Nutanix
12 15 (3.16%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.53%) AWS KMS
13 12 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.53%) CloudFront
13 12 (2.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 108 (22.74%) DNS
2 79 (16.63%) DHCP
3 68 (14.32%) Firewall
4 52 (10.95%) LAN
5 47 (9.89%) SAN
6 45 (9.47%) WAN
7 39 (8.21%) HTTP
8 38 (8.00%) VPN
9 37 (7.79%) TCP/IP
10 20 (4.21%) VLAN
11 15 (3.16%) Internet
11 15 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (3.16%) Wireless
12 13 (2.74%) VoIP
13 11 (2.32%) NAS
13 11 (2.32%) WLAN
14 10 (2.11%) NetScaler
14 10 (2.11%) SD-WAN
15 9 (1.89%) Network Security
16 8 (1.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.47%) MySQL
4 4 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.84%) DB2
4 4 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Pinot
5 2 (0.42%) Big Data
5 2 (0.42%) Flink
5 2 (0.42%) Presto
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.21%) Power BI
6 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (5.05%) GitLab
2 21 (4.42%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.47%) Git
4 5 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 70 (14.74%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.21%) Public Sector
3 42 (8.84%) Finance
4 39 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.21%) Retail
6 18 (3.79%) Aerospace
7 14 (2.95%) Law
8 13 (2.74%) Automotive
8 13 (2.74%) Legal
9 11 (2.32%) Advertising
10 9 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.63%) Banking
13 3 (0.63%) Military
13 3 (0.63%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.42%) Games
14 2 (0.42%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.21%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.26%) LDAP
2 3 (0.63%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.42%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.42%) JSON
3 2 (0.42%) Kafka
3 2 (0.42%) Node.js
4 1 (0.21%) .NET
4 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.21%) EDI
4 1 (0.21%) Middleware
4 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.58%) Public Cloud
2 45 (9.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (9.05%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.05%) PKI
5 13 (2.74%) IoT
6 12 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.11%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.89%) CMDB
9 8 (1.68%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.84%) EFT
13 3 (0.63%) EMC VNX
13 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.63%) PMI
13 3 (0.63%) Robotics
14 2 (0.42%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.42%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 274 (57.68%) Windows
2 143 (30.11%) Linux
3 130 (27.37%) Windows Server
4 42 (8.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 34 (7.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (7.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (4.84%) Windows 10
8 19 (4.00%) Ubuntu
9 18 (3.79%) Unix
10 13 (2.74%) VMS
11 11 (2.32%) Windows 7
12 9 (1.89%) CentOS
12 9 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.84%) Rocky
14 4 (0.84%) Windows 2000
14 4 (0.84%) Windows NT
14 4 (0.84%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (97.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 92 (19.37%) ITIL
3 85 (17.89%) DevOps
4 84 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (17.05%) Mentoring
6 61 (12.84%) Coaching
7 50 (10.53%) Change Management
8 49 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (8.63%) Actionable Insight
10 39 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
11 37 (7.79%) Roadmaps
12 36 (7.58%) Migration
13 34 (7.16%) Decision-Making
14 33 (6.95%) Agile
15 32 (6.74%) Software Architecture
16 29 (6.11%) Service Management
17 28 (5.89%) Disaster Recovery
18 25 (5.26%) Computer Science
19 24 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 21 (4.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 110 (23.16%) PowerShell
2 67 (14.11%) Python
3 56 (11.79%) Bash
4 39 (8.21%) Java
5 15 (3.16%) SQL
6 13 (2.74%) Perl
7 3 (0.63%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.42%) Go
8 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.21%) AWK
9 1 (0.21%) Bicep
9 1 (0.21%) C#
9 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 91 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.37%) DV Cleared
3 52 (10.95%) Degree
4 41 (8.63%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.32%) HNC
8 8 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.26%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.05%) MCSE
12 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.42%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.11%) SLA
3 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.42%) PMO
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 156 (32.84%) Active Directory
2 126 (26.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (14.53%) Hyper-V
4 53 (11.16%) Docker
5 34 (7.16%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (4.42%) vSphere
8 4 (0.84%) Firmware
9 3 (0.63%) KVM
9 3 (0.63%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 90 (18.95%) Ansible
2 72 (15.16%) Terraform
3 56 (11.79%) Kubernetes
4 45 (9.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (8.00%) Puppet
6 36 (7.58%) SCCM
7 32 (6.74%) vCenter Server
8 14 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (2.95%) WSUS
9 12 (2.53%) CA Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.32%) SCOM
11 10 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (1.26%) Nagios
14 5 (1.05%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.84%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.84%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.84%) SmoothWall
16 3 (0.63%) Check_MK
16 3 (0.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 187 (39.37%) VMware
2 150 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 38 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 35 (7.37%) Cisco
5 19 (4.00%) Citrix
6 17 (3.58%) Veeam
7 13 (2.74%) NetApp
7 13 (2.74%) Oracle
8 12 (2.53%) CA
8 12 (2.53%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.53%) EMC
8 12 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.32%) Aruba
9 11 (2.32%) BMC
9 11 (2.32%) Commvault
9 11 (2.32%) HP
10 10 (2.11%) Meraki
11 9 (1.89%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.89%) SolarWinds
12 8 (1.68%) Dell