Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 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 486 676 834
Rank change year-on-year +190 +158 -249
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 476 293 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.29% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.32% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 368 239 294
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,400 £36,288
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £72,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £97,500 £89,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,200 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% +5.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England +197 432 £60,000 +7.14% 41
UK excluding London +165 387 £57,200 +8.95% 36
Work from Home +161 217 £62,500 +13.64% 21
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%
Scotland -65 17 £47,500 -7.32% 4
Wales - 15 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +18 1 £51,000 +27.50%

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

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 featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 465 (97.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 268 (56.30%) Windows
3 207 (43.49%) Azure
4 185 (38.87%) VMware
5 150 (31.51%) Active Directory
6 146 (30.67%) Microsoft
7 144 (30.25%) Linux
8 133 (27.94%) AWS
9 125 (26.26%) VMware Infrastructure
10 122 (25.63%) Windows Server
11 107 (22.48%) PowerShell
12 105 (22.06%) DNS
13 98 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
14 96 (20.17%) Security Cleared
15 94 (19.75%) Ansible
16 89 (18.70%) ITIL
17 86 (18.07%) DevOps
18 83 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
19 81 (17.02%) Mentoring
20 76 (15.97%) DHCP
21 74 (15.55%) Terraform
22 72 (15.13%) Social Skills
23 70 (14.71%) Hyper-V
24 69 (14.50%) Python
25 67 (14.08%) Firewall
26 60 (12.61%) Coaching
27 59 (12.39%) Entra ID
27 59 (12.39%) DV Cleared
28 58 (12.18%) SaaS
28 58 (12.18%) Kubernetes

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 50 (10.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (6.30%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.26%) IIS
4 3 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.42%) Apache
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) JBoss
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.42%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.42%) CATIA
2 2 (0.42%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 207 (43.49%) Azure
2 133 (27.94%) AWS
3 98 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (12.39%) Entra ID
5 58 (12.18%) SaaS
6 45 (9.45%) IaaS
7 36 (7.56%) OpenShift
8 18 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (3.78%) PaaS
9 17 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.57%) Serverless
10 16 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.15%) Nutanix
11 15 (3.15%) Power Platform
12 12 (2.52%) AWS KMS
12 12 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (2.52%) CloudFront
12 12 (2.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 105 (22.06%) DNS
2 76 (15.97%) DHCP
3 67 (14.08%) Firewall
4 52 (10.92%) LAN
5 47 (9.87%) SAN
6 45 (9.45%) WAN
7 41 (8.61%) HTTP
8 39 (8.19%) TCP/IP
9 38 (7.98%) VPN
10 20 (4.20%) VLAN
11 17 (3.57%) Internet
12 15 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (2.94%) Wireless
14 12 (2.52%) VoIP
15 11 (2.31%) NAS
15 11 (2.31%) WLAN
16 10 (2.10%) NetScaler
16 10 (2.10%) SD-WAN
17 8 (1.68%) Network Security
17 8 (1.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.47%) MySQL
4 4 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.84%) DB2
4 4 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Pinot
5 2 (0.42%) Big Data
5 2 (0.42%) Flink
5 2 (0.42%) Presto
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.21%) Power BI
6 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (5.04%) GitLab
2 21 (4.41%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.47%) Git
4 5 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 72 (15.13%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.18%) Public Sector
3 42 (8.82%) Finance
4 39 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.83%) Retail
6 21 (4.41%) Aerospace
7 14 (2.94%) Law
8 13 (2.73%) Automotive
8 13 (2.73%) Legal
9 11 (2.31%) Advertising
10 9 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.63%) Banking
13 3 (0.63%) Military
13 3 (0.63%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.42%) Games
14 2 (0.42%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.21%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.05%) LDAP
2 3 (0.63%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.42%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.42%) JSON
3 2 (0.42%) Kafka
3 2 (0.42%) Node.js
4 1 (0.21%) .NET
4 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.21%) EDI
4 1 (0.21%) Middleware
4 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.55%) Public Cloud
2 45 (9.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (8.82%) Data Centre
4 23 (4.83%) PKI
5 13 (2.73%) IoT
6 12 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.10%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.89%) CMDB
9 8 (1.68%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.84%) EFT
11 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.63%) EMC VNX
12 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.63%) PMI
12 3 (0.63%) Robotics
13 2 (0.42%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.42%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 268 (56.30%) Windows
2 144 (30.25%) Linux
3 122 (25.63%) Windows Server
4 41 (8.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 35 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (6.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (5.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (4.41%) Ubuntu
8 21 (4.41%) Windows 10
9 18 (3.78%) Unix
10 15 (3.15%) VMS
11 11 (2.31%) Windows 7
12 9 (1.89%) CentOS
12 9 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.84%) Rocky
14 4 (0.84%) Windows 2000
14 4 (0.84%) Windows NT
14 4 (0.84%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (97.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 89 (18.70%) ITIL
3 86 (18.07%) DevOps
4 83 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (17.02%) Mentoring
6 60 (12.61%) Coaching
7 49 (10.29%) Change Management
8 48 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (8.40%) Actionable Insight
10 38 (7.98%) Agile
11 37 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
12 36 (7.56%) Migration
12 36 (7.56%) Roadmaps
13 34 (7.14%) Decision-Making
13 34 (7.14%) Software Architecture
14 29 (6.09%) Service Management
15 27 (5.67%) Disaster Recovery
16 24 (5.04%) Computer Science
16 24 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 22 (4.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 107 (22.48%) PowerShell
2 69 (14.50%) Python
3 58 (12.18%) Bash
4 41 (8.61%) Java
5 13 (2.73%) Perl
5 13 (2.73%) SQL
6 3 (0.63%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.42%) Go
7 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.21%) AWK
8 1 (0.21%) Bicep
8 1 (0.21%) C#
8 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 96 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.39%) DV Cleared
3 50 (10.50%) Degree
4 45 (9.45%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.31%) HNC
8 8 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.26%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.05%) MCSE
12 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.42%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.73%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.10%) SLA
3 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.42%) PMO
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 150 (31.51%) Active Directory
2 125 (26.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (14.71%) Hyper-V
4 55 (11.55%) Docker
5 34 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (6.09%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (4.62%) vSphere
8 4 (0.84%) Firmware
9 3 (0.63%) KVM
9 3 (0.63%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 94 (19.75%) Ansible
2 74 (15.55%) Terraform
3 58 (12.18%) Kubernetes
4 41 (8.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (8.40%) Puppet
6 35 (7.35%) SCCM
7 32 (6.72%) vCenter Server
8 14 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.52%) CA Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.52%) WSUS
10 11 (2.31%) SCOM
11 8 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (1.26%) Nagios
14 5 (1.05%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.84%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.84%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.84%) SmoothWall
15 4 (0.84%) VxRail
16 3 (0.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 185 (38.87%) VMware
2 146 (30.67%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.19%) Red Hat
4 33 (6.93%) Cisco
5 19 (3.99%) Citrix
6 16 (3.36%) Veeam
7 13 (2.73%) NetApp
7 13 (2.73%) Oracle
8 12 (2.52%) CA
8 12 (2.52%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.52%) EMC
8 12 (2.52%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.31%) BMC
9 11 (2.31%) Commvault
10 10 (2.10%) Aruba
10 10 (2.10%) HP
11 8 (1.68%) Dell
11 8 (1.68%) Meraki
11 8 (1.68%) Nimble Storage
11 8 (1.68%) SolarWinds