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 £55,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 583 660
Rank change year-on-year +177 +77 -188
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 415 175 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.34% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 324 136 178
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,875 £31,680
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,563 £41,422
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,968 £60,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £54,875
% change year-on-year +3.60% +1.14% +9.75%

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 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
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 28 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 28 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 +126 107 £62,783 +21.91% 2
South East +67 100 £60,000 +4.35% 9
South West +20 76 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Midlands +5 65 £50,000 -4.76% 8
North West +59 63 £62,783 +23.10% 1
West Midlands +23 42 £54,500 +3.81% 7
East of England +21 35 £46,000 -22.69% 5
Yorkshire +90 24 £62,783 +19.59%
East Midlands -18 23 £47,500 -9.52% 1
North East +8 20 £62,783 +16.80% 1
Scotland -49 17 £47,500 -7.32% 3
Wales - 14 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +15 1 £51,000 +13.33%
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 28 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.

1 407 (98.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 207 (49.88%) Windows
3 169 (40.72%) Azure
4 156 (37.59%) VMware
5 124 (29.88%) AWS
6 120 (28.92%) Linux
7 118 (28.43%) Microsoft
8 114 (27.47%) VMware Infrastructure
9 98 (23.61%) Active Directory
10 94 (22.65%) DNS
11 89 (21.45%) Windows Server
12 87 (20.96%) PowerShell
13 86 (20.72%) DevOps
14 84 (20.24%) ITIL
15 82 (19.76%) Security Cleared
16 78 (18.80%) Ansible
17 74 (17.83%) Mentoring
18 71 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
19 68 (16.39%) Hyper-V
20 67 (16.14%) Python
20 67 (16.14%) DHCP
21 62 (14.94%) Kubernetes
22 61 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
22 61 (14.70%) Bash
23 58 (13.98%) Public Sector
24 57 (13.73%) Coaching
25 55 (13.25%) Public Cloud
25 55 (13.25%) Docker
26 53 (12.77%) Terraform
27 50 (12.05%) SC Cleared

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 32 (7.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.72%) Confluence
3 3 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) JBoss
4 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.48%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.48%) CATIA
2 2 (0.48%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 169 (40.72%) Azure
2 124 (29.88%) AWS
3 71 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (10.36%) SaaS
5 39 (9.40%) OpenShift
6 37 (8.92%) Entra ID
7 34 (8.19%) IaaS
8 21 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (3.61%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.61%) Serverless
11 14 (3.37%) Nutanix
12 13 (3.13%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.89%) AWS KMS
13 12 (2.89%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.89%) CloudFront
13 12 (2.89%) Route 53
14 10 (2.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 94 (22.65%) DNS
2 67 (16.14%) DHCP
3 45 (10.84%) HTTP
4 42 (10.12%) TCP/IP
5 39 (9.40%) Firewall
6 35 (8.43%) SAN
7 30 (7.23%) LAN
8 21 (5.06%) WAN
9 20 (4.82%) VPN
10 16 (3.86%) VLAN
11 14 (3.37%) Wireless
12 12 (2.89%) VoIP
13 10 (2.41%) WLAN
14 8 (1.93%) SSL
14 8 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (1.69%) NetScaler
15 7 (1.69%) Network Security
16 6 (1.45%) TETRA
17 5 (1.20%) NAS
17 5 (1.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.69%) MySQL
4 4 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.96%) DB2
4 4 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.96%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (5.78%) GitLab
2 21 (5.06%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.69%) Git
4 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) JIRA
General
1 58 (13.98%) Public Sector
2 36 (8.67%) Social Skills
3 33 (7.95%) Finance
4 24 (5.78%) Aerospace
5 18 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.61%) Automotive
7 13 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.17%) Advertising
9 8 (1.93%) Legal
9 8 (1.93%) Retail
10 7 (1.69%) Law
11 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.96%) Games
13 3 (0.72%) Military
13 3 (0.72%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.20%) LDAP
2 3 (0.72%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.24%) .NET
3 1 (0.24%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.24%) JSON
3 1 (0.24%) Middleware
3 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.25%) Public Cloud
2 49 (11.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 39 (9.40%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.10%) PKI
5 14 (3.37%) IoT
6 12 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.93%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.69%) CMDB
9 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.96%) EFT
11 3 (0.72%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.72%) PMI
11 3 (0.72%) Robotics
12 2 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.24%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 207 (49.88%) Windows
2 120 (28.92%) Linux
3 89 (21.45%) Windows Server
4 39 (9.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (7.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 27 (6.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (5.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (4.10%) Windows 10
9 15 (3.61%) Unix
10 11 (2.65%) Windows 7
11 10 (2.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (2.17%) CentOS
13 5 (1.20%) Ubuntu
13 5 (1.20%) Windows 2000
13 5 (1.20%) Windows NT
13 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (1.20%) Windows XP
14 4 (0.96%) Rocky
15 3 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.24%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (98.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 86 (20.72%) DevOps
3 84 (20.24%) ITIL
4 74 (17.83%) Mentoring
5 61 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (13.73%) Coaching
7 48 (11.57%) Change Management
8 45 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (8.92%) Software Architecture
10 36 (8.67%) Migration
11 35 (8.43%) Roadmaps
12 31 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
12 31 (7.47%) Decision-Making
13 30 (7.23%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (6.51%) Disaster Recovery
14 27 (6.51%) Service Management
15 26 (6.27%) Agile
16 25 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 21 (5.06%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 87 (20.96%) PowerShell
2 67 (16.14%) Python
3 61 (14.70%) Bash
4 40 (9.64%) Java
5 14 (3.37%) Perl
6 4 (0.96%) SQL
7 3 (0.72%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.24%) AWK
9 1 (0.24%) Bicep
9 1 (0.24%) C#
9 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.60%) DV Cleared
4 41 (9.88%) Degree
5 17 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.65%) HNC
8 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.96%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.96%) MCSE
10 4 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.24%) CCNA
13 1 (0.24%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.37%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.17%) SLA
3 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 114 (27.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 98 (23.61%) Active Directory
3 68 (16.39%) Hyper-V
4 55 (13.25%) Docker
5 28 (6.75%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (5.30%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (4.10%) vSphere
8 4 (0.96%) Firmware
9 3 (0.72%) KVM
9 3 (0.72%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (18.80%) Ansible
2 62 (14.94%) Kubernetes
3 53 (12.77%) Terraform
4 42 (10.12%) Puppet
5 27 (6.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (6.27%) SCCM
7 20 (4.82%) vCenter Server
8 12 (2.89%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (2.89%) SCOM
8 12 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (2.89%) WSUS
9 7 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (1.45%) Nagios
11 5 (1.20%) VxRail
12 4 (0.96%) Data Guard
12 4 (0.96%) SmoothWall
13 3 (0.72%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.72%) Nessus
13 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 156 (37.59%) VMware
2 118 (28.43%) Microsoft
3 42 (10.12%) Red Hat
4 26 (6.27%) Cisco
5 15 (3.61%) Citrix
6 13 (3.13%) Veeam
7 12 (2.89%) CA
7 12 (2.89%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.89%) EMC
7 12 (2.89%) Oracle
7 12 (2.89%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.65%) BMC
9 10 (2.41%) Aruba
10 9 (2.17%) Dell
11 8 (1.93%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.93%) Globalscape
11 8 (1.93%) NetApp
12 7 (1.69%) HP
12 7 (1.69%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.45%) Commvault