Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 578 635
Rank change year-on-year +196 +57 +189
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 15 14 38
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.041% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.043% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 29
10th Percentile £58,016 £50,250 £56,000
25th Percentile £70,097 £53,750 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £57,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +25.20% -27.79% +51.68%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £125,250 £110,000 £97,328
UK median annual salary £71,991 £59,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.99% -25.63% +39.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (66.67%) Windows
3 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 9 (60.00%) SaaS
4 8 (53.33%) Cloud Native
4 8 (53.33%) DKIM
4 8 (53.33%) DMARC
4 8 (53.33%) DNSSEC
4 8 (53.33%) IronPort
4 8 (53.33%) Banking
4 8 (53.33%) SMTP
4 8 (53.33%) Cisco
4 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (53.33%) Veritas
4 8 (53.33%) Internet
4 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (33.33%) Azure
6 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
7 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) AWS
7 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) HSRP
7 3 (20.00%) BGP
7 3 (20.00%) CCNP

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) SaaS
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DKIM
1 8 (53.33%) DMARC
1 8 (53.33%) DNSSEC
1 8 (53.33%) Internet
1 8 (53.33%) SMTP
2 3 (20.00%) BGP
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) HSRP
2 3 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (20.00%) Network Design
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (13.33%) Change Management
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (13.33%) Portfolio Management
3 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (13.33%) Storage Management
4 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CCNP
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
1 8 (53.33%) IronPort
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
1 8 (53.33%) Veritas
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) EMC
3 2 (13.33%) NetApp