Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Wales

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in Wales is £49,104 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 102 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 6 16 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.54% 0.78% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.85% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44,956 £37,101 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,104 £41,067 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% - -
75th Percentile £53,252 £62,500 -
90th Percentile - £65,000 -
UK median annual salary £60,822 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.78% +4.55% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 963 1,893 1,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.52% 92.66% 85.89%
Number of salaries quoted 562 1,286 797
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,391
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,888 £70,000 £72,500
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 Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Wales

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Wales

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
South Wales +24 4 £48,073 +17.06% 6
West Wales - 2 £49,104 - 3
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Wales region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Line Management
3 3 (50.00%) Due Diligence
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Local Government
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Business Development
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) NHS
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (33.33%) IBM
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) Dell
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (33.33%) Runbook

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Local Government
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Business Development
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Due Diligence
3 3 (50.00%) Line Management
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Runbook
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Dell
1 2 (33.33%) IBM