Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 767 856 1141
Rank change year-on-year +89 +285 -306
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 84 43 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.052% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.057% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 74 36 18
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,536 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,313 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £79,816 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% +20.48% +13.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £100,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £91,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £79,632 £60,902
% change year-on-year -24.65% +30.75% +2.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,043 75,204 138,046
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.22% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 65,775 49,529 75,271
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in England

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
South West -13 20 £70,000 -12.10% 3
South East -14 20 £60,000 +4.35% 1
North of England +25 16 £57,500 -35.01% 1
East of England - 14 £90,000 - 2
North West -10 11 £57,500 -27.79% 1
London +76 8 £70,000 -30.00% 5
Midlands - 6 £58,500 -
Yorkshire +52 5 £59,500 -32.75%
West Midlands - 5 £58,500 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (57.14%) Azure
3 28 (33.33%) Windows
4 24 (28.57%) VMware
5 23 (27.38%) Microsoft
6 19 (22.62%) VMware Infrastructure
7 18 (21.43%) Security Cleared
8 17 (20.24%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (16.67%) Linux
10 13 (15.48%) Observability
10 13 (15.48%) SLA
11 12 (14.29%) Active Directory
12 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
12 9 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.71%) Firewall
12 9 (10.71%) Windows Server
13 8 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
14 7 (8.33%) PowerApps
14 7 (8.33%) Information Security
14 7 (8.33%) AWS
14 7 (8.33%) Mentoring
15 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
15 6 (7.14%) DNS
16 5 (5.95%) Cisco
16 5 (5.95%) ITIL
16 5 (5.95%) SharePoint
16 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
16 5 (5.95%) DevOps

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (5.95%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.14%) Azure
2 17 (20.24%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.33%) AWS
4 7 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 5 (5.95%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.76%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.38%) IaaS
8 2 (2.38%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.19%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.19%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.19%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.19%) SaaS
9 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) Firewall
2 6 (7.14%) DNS
3 4 (4.76%) LAN
3 4 (4.76%) WAN
4 3 (3.57%) MPLS
4 3 (3.57%) Network Security
5 1 (1.19%) DHCP
5 1 (1.19%) VLAN
5 1 (1.19%) VRRP
5 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.76%) MySQL
2 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) MSI
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 4 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.76%) Law
4 3 (3.57%) Finance
4 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Games
5 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.19%) .NET
1 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.38%) IoT
2 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (33.33%) Windows
2 14 (16.67%) Linux
3 9 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (15.48%) Observability
3 9 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (8.33%) Information Security
5 7 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 5 (5.95%) DevOps
6 5 (5.95%) ITIL
6 5 (5.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (4.76%) High Availability
7 4 (4.76%) Software Testing
7 4 (4.76%) Task Automation
7 4 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (3.57%) Agile
8 3 (3.57%) Culture Change
8 3 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (3.57%) Incident Management
8 3 (3.57%) IT Strategy
8 3 (3.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.57%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) Bash
3 2 (2.38%) Perl
4 1 (1.19%) C#
4 1 (1.19%) Java
4 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.76%) Degree
2 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) CCNA
5 1 (1.19%) CCNP
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.19%) MCSA
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) SLA
2 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (22.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.95%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.19%) Docker
5 1 (1.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Data Guard
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.38%) SCCM
3 1 (1.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) VMware
2 23 (27.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.95%) Cisco
4 4 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (1.19%) Dell
5 1 (1.19%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.19%) Veeam