Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 705 845
Rank change year-on-year +217 +140 -266
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 475 293 402
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 369 237 300
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,300 £37,775
25th Percentile £48,825 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £54,875
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +2.05% +9.75%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £70,188
90th Percentile £70,000 £96,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,350 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.24% +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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £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 7 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 7 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 +214 430 £60,000 +4.35% 42
UK excluding London +161 385 £57,350 +9.24% 37
Work from Home +173 223 £60,000 +9.09% 34
North of England +119 104 £62,783 +21.91% 4
South East +83 89 £60,000 +6.67% 7
London +97 79 £65,000 -7.14% 10
South West +6 66 £52,500 +16.67% 11
North West +64 62 £62,783 +23.10% 3
Midlands 0 57 £54,000 +2.86% 8
East of England +40 35 £50,000 -9.09% 2
West Midlands +20 34 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Yorkshire +93 23 £62,783 +19.59% 1
East Midlands -20 23 £47,500 -9.52% 2
North East +10 19 £62,783 +16.80%
Scotland -58 17 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Wales - 16 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +23 1 £51,000 +13.33%

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

For the 6 months to 7 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
5 155 (32.63%) Active Directory
6 150 (31.58%) Microsoft
7 144 (30.32%) Linux
8 132 (27.79%) AWS
9 130 (27.37%) Windows Server
10 126 (26.53%) VMware Infrastructure
11 111 (23.37%) PowerShell
12 108 (22.74%) DNS
13 106 (22.32%) Microsoft 365
14 92 (19.37%) Security Cleared
15 91 (19.16%) ITIL
15 91 (19.16%) Ansible
16 85 (17.89%) DevOps
17 83 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
18 81 (17.05%) Mentoring
19 80 (16.84%) DHCP
20 72 (15.16%) Terraform
21 70 (14.74%) Hyper-V
21 70 (14.74%) Social Skills
22 68 (14.32%) Firewall
23 67 (14.11%) Python
24 62 (13.05%) Entra ID
25 61 (12.84%) Coaching
26 58 (12.21%) Public Sector
27 57 (12.00%) Kubernetes
27 57 (12.00%) 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
2 132 (27.79%) AWS
3 106 (22.32%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (13.05%) Entra ID
5 57 (12.00%) SaaS
6 45 (9.47%) IaaS
7 35 (7.37%) 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%) Power Platform
13 14 (2.95%) Nutanix
14 12 (2.53%) AWS KMS
14 12 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (2.53%) CloudFront
14 12 (2.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 108 (22.74%) DNS
2 80 (16.84%) DHCP
3 68 (14.32%) Firewall
4 52 (10.95%) LAN
5 47 (9.89%) SAN
6 45 (9.47%) WAN
7 40 (8.42%) HTTP
8 38 (8.00%) TCP/IP
8 38 (8.00%) VPN
9 20 (4.21%) VLAN
10 15 (3.16%) Internet
10 15 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (3.16%) Wireless
11 13 (2.74%) VoIP
12 11 (2.32%) NAS
12 11 (2.32%) WLAN
13 10 (2.11%) NetScaler
13 10 (2.11%) SD-WAN
14 9 (1.89%) Network Security
15 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 41 (8.63%) Finance
4 38 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.21%) Retail
6 17 (3.58%) 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 12 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.53%) IoT
5 12 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 9 (1.89%) CMDB
8 8 (1.68%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.84%) EFT
12 3 (0.63%) EMC VNX
12 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.63%) PMI
12 3 (0.63%) Robotics
13 2 (0.42%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.42%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 274 (57.68%) Windows
2 144 (30.32%) Linux
3 130 (27.37%) Windows Server
4 42 (8.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 35 (7.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (7.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (4.84%) Windows 10
9 19 (4.00%) Ubuntu
10 18 (3.79%) Unix
11 13 (2.74%) VMS
12 11 (2.32%) Windows 7
13 9 (1.89%) CentOS
13 9 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.84%) Rocky
15 4 (0.84%) Windows 2000
15 4 (0.84%) Windows NT
15 4 (0.84%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (97.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 91 (19.16%) ITIL
3 85 (17.89%) DevOps
4 83 (17.47%) 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 43 (9.05%) Actionable Insight
10 39 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
11 37 (7.79%) Roadmaps
12 36 (7.58%) Migration
13 33 (6.95%) Decision-Making
13 33 (6.95%) Software Architecture
14 32 (6.74%) Agile
15 29 (6.11%) Service Management
16 27 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
17 25 (5.26%) Computer Science
18 24 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 21 (4.42%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 111 (23.37%) PowerShell
2 67 (14.11%) Python
3 56 (11.79%) Bash
4 40 (8.42%) Java
5 15 (3.16%) SQL
6 12 (2.53%) 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 92 (19.37%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.58%) DV Cleared
3 52 (10.95%) Degree
4 40 (8.42%) 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 12 (2.53%) 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
1 155 (32.63%) Active Directory
2 126 (26.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (14.74%) Hyper-V
4 54 (11.37%) Docker
5 34 (7.16%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (6.11%) 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 91 (19.16%) Ansible
2 72 (15.16%) Terraform
3 57 (12.00%) Kubernetes
4 45 (9.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (8.21%) 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 39 (8.21%) 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