Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 651 848
Rank change year-on-year +197 +197 -271
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 432 269 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.33% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 327 219 237
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,060
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £99,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% +7.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,789 81,044 130,352
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.54% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,868 51,693 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +120 103 £62,783 +21.91% 1
South East +50 89 £60,000 +4.35% 7
London +75 78 £65,000 -7.14% 9
South West +30 69 £52,500 +16.67% 13
North West +53 61 £62,783 +23.10%
Midlands +3 60 £52,000 -0.95% 8
West Midlands +19 37 £55,000 +4.76% 6
East of England +25 33 £46,500 -15.45% 3
Yorkshire +93 23 £62,783 +16.80% 1
East Midlands -14 23 £47,500 -9.52% 2
North East +11 19 £62,783 +16.80%
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 across the England region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 423 (97.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 257 (59.49%) Windows
3 194 (44.91%) Azure
4 166 (38.43%) VMware
5 149 (34.49%) Active Directory
6 132 (30.56%) Microsoft
7 129 (29.86%) Linux
8 121 (28.01%) AWS
9 111 (25.69%) Windows Server
10 110 (25.46%) VMware Infrastructure
11 106 (24.54%) PowerShell
12 105 (24.31%) DNS
13 91 (21.06%) Security Cleared
14 90 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
15 88 (20.37%) ITIL
16 82 (18.98%) DevOps
17 80 (18.52%) Ansible
18 79 (18.29%) Mentoring
19 76 (17.59%) DHCP
20 73 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
21 65 (15.05%) Python
22 64 (14.81%) Firewall
22 64 (14.81%) Terraform
23 59 (13.66%) Entra ID
23 59 (13.66%) Coaching
23 59 (13.66%) Social Skills
23 59 (13.66%) DV Cleared
23 59 (13.66%) Hyper-V
24 58 (13.43%) Bash
24 58 (13.43%) Public Sector

Senior 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 47 (10.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.16%) IIS
4 3 (0.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) JBoss
5 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.46%) CATIA
2 2 (0.46%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 194 (44.91%) Azure
2 121 (28.01%) AWS
3 90 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (13.66%) Entra ID
5 56 (12.96%) SaaS
6 43 (9.95%) IaaS
7 36 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 18 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (3.70%) PaaS
9 16 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.47%) Nutanix
10 15 (3.47%) Power Platform
10 15 (3.47%) Serverless
11 12 (2.78%) AWS KMS
11 12 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (2.78%) CloudFront
11 12 (2.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 105 (24.31%) DNS
2 76 (17.59%) DHCP
3 64 (14.81%) Firewall
4 52 (12.04%) LAN
5 45 (10.42%) WAN
6 39 (9.03%) TCP/IP
7 38 (8.80%) HTTP
8 35 (8.10%) VPN
9 30 (6.94%) SAN
10 20 (4.63%) VLAN
11 15 (3.47%) Internet
11 15 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (3.24%) Wireless
13 11 (2.55%) WLAN
14 10 (2.31%) SD-WAN
15 8 (1.85%) NAS
15 8 (1.85%) Network Security
15 8 (1.85%) SSL
16 7 (1.62%) NetScaler
17 6 (1.39%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.32%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.62%) MySQL
4 4 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.93%) DB2
4 4 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.23%) Power BI
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.56%) GitLab
2 21 (4.86%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.62%) Git
4 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 59 (13.66%) Social Skills
2 58 (13.43%) Public Sector
3 42 (9.72%) Finance
4 36 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.32%) Retail
6 21 (4.86%) Aerospace
7 13 (3.01%) Automotive
8 11 (2.55%) Advertising
9 8 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.69%) Banking
11 3 (0.69%) Military
11 3 (0.69%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.46%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.46%) Law
12 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.23%) Legal
13 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.16%) LDAP
2 3 (0.69%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.46%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.46%) JSON
4 1 (0.23%) .NET
4 1 (0.23%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.23%) EDI
4 1 (0.23%) Middleware
4 1 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.04%) Public Cloud
2 45 (10.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 34 (7.87%) Data Centre
4 23 (5.32%) PKI
5 13 (3.01%) IoT
6 12 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.31%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.85%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.93%) EFT
11 3 (0.69%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.69%) PMI
11 3 (0.69%) Robotics
12 2 (0.46%) CMDB
12 2 (0.46%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.46%) Replication
13 1 (0.23%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 257 (59.49%) Windows
2 129 (29.86%) Linux
3 111 (25.69%) Windows Server
4 38 (8.80%) Windows Server 2012
5 35 (8.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (7.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (6.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (4.86%) Windows 10
9 20 (4.63%) Ubuntu
10 15 (3.47%) Unix
10 15 (3.47%) VMS
11 11 (2.55%) Windows 7
12 9 (2.08%) CentOS
12 9 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.93%) Rocky
14 4 (0.93%) Windows 2000
14 4 (0.93%) Windows NT
14 4 (0.93%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (97.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 88 (20.37%) ITIL
3 82 (18.98%) DevOps
4 79 (18.29%) Mentoring
5 73 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (13.66%) Coaching
7 45 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (9.72%) Change Management
9 40 (9.26%) Actionable Insight
10 37 (8.56%) Agile
11 34 (7.87%) Decision-Making
11 34 (7.87%) Software Architecture
12 32 (7.41%) Roadmaps
13 29 (6.71%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (6.71%) Migration
13 29 (6.71%) Service Management
14 26 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (5.32%) Computer Science
17 22 (5.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 106 (24.54%) PowerShell
2 65 (15.05%) Python
3 58 (13.43%) Bash
4 37 (8.56%) Java
5 13 (3.01%) Perl
5 13 (3.01%) SQL
6 3 (0.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) AWK
8 1 (0.23%) Bicep
8 1 (0.23%) C#
8 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 91 (21.06%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.66%) DV Cleared
3 49 (11.34%) Degree
4 40 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.55%) HNC
8 6 (1.39%) A+ Certification
8 6 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (0.46%) MCP
13 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.23%) MCSA
13 1 (0.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.01%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.31%) SLA
3 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.46%) PMO
5 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 149 (34.49%) Active Directory
2 110 (25.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (13.66%) Hyper-V
4 52 (12.04%) Docker
5 28 (6.48%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (5.09%) vSphere
7 3 (0.69%) KVM
8 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 80 (18.52%) Ansible
2 64 (14.81%) Terraform
3 56 (12.96%) Kubernetes
4 41 (9.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (9.03%) Puppet
6 35 (8.10%) SCCM
7 28 (6.48%) vCenter Server
8 14 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.78%) CA Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.78%) WSUS
10 11 (2.55%) SCOM
11 8 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (1.62%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (1.39%) Nagios
14 4 (0.93%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.93%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.93%) SmoothWall
14 4 (0.93%) VxRail
15 3 (0.69%) Check_MK
15 3 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 166 (38.43%) VMware
2 132 (30.56%) Microsoft
3 39 (9.03%) Red Hat
4 33 (7.64%) Cisco
5 16 (3.70%) Citrix
6 13 (3.01%) NetApp
6 13 (3.01%) Veeam
7 12 (2.78%) CA
7 12 (2.78%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.78%) EMC
7 12 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.55%) BMC
8 11 (2.55%) Commvault
9 10 (2.31%) Aruba
9 10 (2.31%) HP
10 9 (2.08%) Oracle
11 8 (1.85%) Dell
11 8 (1.85%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.85%) Meraki
11 8 (1.85%) SolarWinds