Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,200 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 414 579 654
Rank change year-on-year +165 +75 -186
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 387 179 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.34% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 307 138 172
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £43,909 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,200 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,968 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,946 52,777 68,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.21% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,984 30,164 42,468
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
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%
Scotland -65 17 £47,500 -7.32% 4
Wales - 15 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +18 1 £51,000 +27.50%
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 380 (98.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 204 (52.71%) Windows
3 169 (43.67%) Azure
4 150 (38.76%) VMware
5 118 (30.49%) Microsoft
5 118 (30.49%) AWS
6 117 (30.23%) Linux
7 109 (28.17%) VMware Infrastructure
8 102 (26.36%) Active Directory
9 94 (24.29%) DNS
10 90 (23.26%) Windows Server
11 87 (22.48%) PowerShell
12 82 (21.19%) ITIL
12 82 (21.19%) DevOps
13 77 (19.90%) Security Cleared
14 76 (19.64%) Ansible
15 75 (19.38%) Microsoft 365
16 74 (19.12%) Mentoring
17 66 (17.05%) DHCP
18 65 (16.80%) Hyper-V
19 63 (16.28%) Python
20 60 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
21 58 (14.99%) Public Sector
21 58 (14.99%) Coaching
22 57 (14.73%) Bash
23 56 (14.47%) Kubernetes
24 55 (14.21%) Public Cloud
25 54 (13.95%) Terraform
26 53 (13.70%) Docker
27 48 (12.40%) Change Management

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 34 (8.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.46%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.03%) IIS
4 3 (0.78%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) JBoss
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.52%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.52%) CATIA
2 2 (0.52%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 169 (43.67%) Azure
2 118 (30.49%) AWS
3 75 (19.38%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (10.85%) SaaS
5 37 (9.56%) Entra ID
6 36 (9.30%) OpenShift
7 35 (9.04%) IaaS
8 18 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (3.88%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.88%) Serverless
11 13 (3.36%) Nutanix
11 13 (3.36%) Power Platform
12 12 (3.10%) AWS KMS
12 12 (3.10%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.10%) CloudFront
12 12 (3.10%) Route 53
13 10 (2.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (24.29%) DNS
2 66 (17.05%) DHCP
3 41 (10.59%) HTTP
4 40 (10.34%) Firewall
5 39 (10.08%) TCP/IP
6 34 (8.79%) SAN
7 31 (8.01%) LAN
8 24 (6.20%) WAN
9 20 (5.17%) VPN
10 15 (3.88%) VLAN
11 14 (3.62%) Wireless
12 12 (3.10%) VoIP
13 10 (2.58%) WLAN
14 8 (2.07%) SSL
14 8 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (1.81%) NetScaler
15 7 (1.81%) Network Security
15 7 (1.81%) SD-WAN
16 6 (1.55%) TETRA
17 5 (1.29%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.91%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.81%) MySQL
4 4 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.03%) DB2
4 4 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.03%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (6.20%) GitLab
2 21 (5.43%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.81%) Git
4 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.78%) JIRA
General
1 58 (14.99%) Public Sector
2 35 (9.04%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.27%) Finance
4 21 (5.43%) Aerospace
5 17 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.36%) Automotive
7 9 (2.33%) Advertising
7 9 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.07%) Legal
8 8 (2.07%) Retail
9 7 (1.81%) Law
10 5 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Military
11 3 (0.78%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.29%) LDAP
2 3 (0.78%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.26%) .NET
3 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.26%) JSON
3 1 (0.26%) Middleware
3 1 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (14.21%) Public Cloud
2 45 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (10.08%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.39%) PKI
5 13 (3.36%) IoT
6 12 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.33%) CMDB
8 8 (2.07%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.03%) EFT
11 3 (0.78%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.78%) PMI
11 3 (0.78%) Robotics
12 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.26%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.26%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 204 (52.71%) Windows
2 117 (30.23%) Linux
3 90 (23.26%) Windows Server
4 35 (9.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (7.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (6.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (6.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (4.13%) Windows 10
9 15 (3.88%) Unix
10 11 (2.84%) Windows 7
11 9 (2.33%) CentOS
11 9 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
12 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.03%) Rocky
13 4 (1.03%) Windows 2000
13 4 (1.03%) Windows NT
13 4 (1.03%) Windows XP
14 3 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (98.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 82 (21.19%) DevOps
2 82 (21.19%) ITIL
3 74 (19.12%) Mentoring
4 60 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (14.99%) Coaching
6 48 (12.40%) Change Management
7 46 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (9.30%) Migration
9 35 (9.04%) Roadmaps
10 34 (8.79%) Software Architecture
11 32 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (7.75%) Actionable Insight
12 30 (7.75%) Decision-Making
13 27 (6.98%) Service Management
14 26 (6.72%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (6.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (5.94%) Agile
17 22 (5.68%) Technical Leadership
18 21 (5.43%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.48%) PowerShell
2 63 (16.28%) Python
3 57 (14.73%) Bash
4 37 (9.56%) Java
5 13 (3.36%) Perl
6 4 (1.03%) SQL
7 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.26%) AWK
9 1 (0.26%) Bicep
9 1 (0.26%) C#
9 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (19.90%) Security Cleared
2 45 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.34%) Degree
3 40 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 17 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.10%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 12 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (2.84%) HNC
7 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.03%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.03%) MCSE
9 4 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.26%) CCNA
12 1 (0.26%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.36%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.33%) SLA
3 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.26%) GDPR
4 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 109 (28.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 102 (26.36%) Active Directory
3 65 (16.80%) Hyper-V
4 53 (13.70%) Docker
5 27 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (5.68%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (4.13%) vSphere
8 4 (1.03%) Firmware
9 3 (0.78%) KVM
9 3 (0.78%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (19.64%) Ansible
2 56 (14.47%) Kubernetes
3 54 (13.95%) Terraform
4 39 (10.08%) Puppet
5 29 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (6.46%) SCCM
7 20 (5.17%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.10%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (2.84%) SCOM
9 11 (2.84%) WSUS
10 7 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.55%) Nagios
12 4 (1.03%) Data Guard
12 4 (1.03%) SmoothWall
12 4 (1.03%) VxRail
13 3 (0.78%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.78%) Nessus
13 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 150 (38.76%) VMware
2 118 (30.49%) Microsoft
3 39 (10.08%) Red Hat
4 26 (6.72%) Cisco
5 15 (3.88%) Citrix
6 13 (3.36%) Veeam
7 12 (3.10%) CA
7 12 (3.10%) CyberArk
7 12 (3.10%) EMC
7 12 (3.10%) Oracle
7 12 (3.10%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.84%) BMC
9 10 (2.58%) Aruba
10 8 (2.07%) Dell
10 8 (2.07%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.07%) Globalscape
10 8 (2.07%) NetApp
11 7 (1.81%) HP
11 7 (1.81%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.55%) Commvault