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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 672 848
Rank change year-on-year +202 +176 -248
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 525 282 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.33% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 398 233 308
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,693
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £97,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +199 481 £60,000 +7.14% 55
UK excluding London +164 425 £55,000 +4.76% 40
Work from Home +164 231 £62,500 +13.64% 40
North of England +113 109 £62,783 +21.91% 5
South East +60 102 £58,750 +2.17% 10
London +105 89 £65,000 -7.14% 19
South West +20 77 £49,015 +5.98% 7
Midlands +1 68 £54,000 +2.86% 10
North West +49 63 £62,783 +23.10% 1
West Midlands +4 45 £55,000 +4.76% 7
East of England +26 36 £46,000 -28.13% 5
Yorkshire +75 25 £62,783 +19.59% 4
East Midlands -22 23 £47,500 -9.52% 3
North East +5 21 £62,783 +16.80%
Scotland -57 18 £47,500 -7.32% 3
Wales - 14 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +16 1 £51,000 +13.33%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 513 (97.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 272 (51.81%) Windows
3 207 (39.43%) Azure
4 190 (36.19%) VMware
5 151 (28.76%) Active Directory
6 149 (28.38%) Microsoft
6 149 (28.38%) Linux
7 142 (27.05%) AWS
8 131 (24.95%) VMware Infrastructure
9 118 (22.48%) Windows Server
10 106 (20.19%) PowerShell
11 105 (20.00%) Security Cleared
11 105 (20.00%) DNS
12 101 (19.24%) Ansible
13 95 (18.10%) Microsoft 365
14 90 (17.14%) ITIL
15 89 (16.95%) DevOps
16 85 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
17 81 (15.43%) Mentoring
18 78 (14.86%) Social Skills
19 77 (14.67%) Terraform
19 77 (14.67%) DHCP
20 75 (14.29%) Python
21 74 (14.10%) Hyper-V
22 72 (13.71%) Firewall
23 67 (12.76%) DV Cleared
24 64 (12.19%) Kubernetes
25 62 (11.81%) Bash
26 61 (11.62%) Entra ID
27 59 (11.24%) SaaS

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 47 (8.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (5.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.95%) IIS
4 3 (0.57%) Confluence
5 2 (0.38%) Apache
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) JBoss
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.38%) CATIA
2 2 (0.38%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.38%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.19%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 207 (39.43%) Azure
2 142 (27.05%) AWS
3 95 (18.10%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (11.62%) Entra ID
5 59 (11.24%) SaaS
6 44 (8.38%) IaaS
7 39 (7.43%) OpenShift
8 21 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (3.24%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.24%) Serverless
10 16 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.05%) Nutanix
10 16 (3.05%) PaaS
10 16 (3.05%) Power Platform
10 16 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.29%) AWS KMS
12 12 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (2.29%) CloudFront
12 12 (2.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 105 (20.00%) DNS
2 77 (14.67%) DHCP
3 72 (13.71%) Firewall
4 55 (10.48%) LAN
5 46 (8.76%) SAN
5 46 (8.76%) WAN
6 45 (8.57%) HTTP
7 42 (8.00%) TCP/IP
8 39 (7.43%) VPN
9 20 (3.81%) Internet
9 20 (3.81%) VLAN
10 15 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (2.86%) Wireless
11 13 (2.48%) Network Security
12 12 (2.29%) VoIP
13 11 (2.10%) WLAN
14 10 (1.90%) NetScaler
15 9 (1.71%) NAS
16 8 (1.52%) SD-WAN
16 8 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.33%) MySQL
4 4 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.76%) DB2
4 4 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.76%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Pinot
5 2 (0.38%) Big Data
5 2 (0.38%) Flink
5 2 (0.38%) Presto
6 1 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.19%) Power BI
6 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.76%) GitLab
2 22 (4.19%) Artifactory
3 8 (1.52%) Git
4 6 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 78 (14.86%) Social Skills
2 58 (11.05%) Public Sector
3 47 (8.95%) Finance
4 39 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.95%) Retail
6 24 (4.57%) Aerospace
7 16 (3.05%) Automotive
8 15 (2.86%) Law
9 13 (2.48%) Legal
9 13 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.29%) Advertising
11 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.14%) Games
13 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Military
14 3 (0.57%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.38%) Banking
15 2 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.38%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.95%) LDAP
2 3 (0.57%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.38%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.38%) Kafka
3 2 (0.38%) Node.js
4 1 (0.19%) .NET
4 1 (0.19%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.19%) EDI
4 1 (0.19%) Middleware
4 1 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.67%) Public Cloud
2 51 (9.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (8.19%) Data Centre
4 23 (4.38%) PKI
5 14 (2.67%) IoT
6 12 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.90%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.52%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.33%) CMDB
10 6 (1.14%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.95%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.76%) EFT
13 3 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (0.57%) EMC VNX
13 3 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.57%) PMI
13 3 (0.57%) Replication
13 3 (0.57%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 272 (51.81%) Windows
2 149 (28.38%) Linux
3 118 (22.48%) Windows Server
4 40 (7.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 39 (7.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (6.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (4.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (4.38%) Ubuntu
9 22 (4.19%) Windows 10
10 18 (3.43%) Unix
10 18 (3.43%) VMS
11 11 (2.10%) Windows 7
12 10 (1.90%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (1.71%) CentOS
14 5 (0.95%) Windows 2000
14 5 (0.95%) Windows NT
14 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.95%) Windows XP
15 4 (0.76%) Rocky
16 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (97.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (17.14%) ITIL
3 89 (16.95%) DevOps
4 85 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (15.43%) Mentoring
6 59 (11.24%) Coaching
7 50 (9.52%) Change Management
8 47 (8.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 44 (8.38%) Agile
10 40 (7.62%) Actionable Insight
11 38 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
12 37 (7.05%) Migration
12 37 (7.05%) Software Architecture
13 36 (6.86%) Roadmaps
14 35 (6.67%) Decision-Making
15 29 (5.52%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (5.52%) Service Management
16 26 (4.95%) Technical Leadership
17 25 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 23 (4.38%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 106 (20.19%) PowerShell
2 75 (14.29%) Python
3 62 (11.81%) Bash
4 44 (8.38%) Java
5 14 (2.67%) Perl
6 11 (2.10%) SQL
7 3 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.38%) Go
8 2 (0.38%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.19%) AWK
9 1 (0.19%) Bicep
9 1 (0.19%) C#
9 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 105 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.76%) DV Cleared
3 50 (9.52%) Degree
3 50 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.10%) HNC
8 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.14%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.14%) MCSE
10 6 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.57%) CCNA
12 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.67%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.90%) SLA
3 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.57%) GDPR
4 3 (0.57%) NIST
5 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.38%) PMO
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 151 (28.76%) Active Directory
2 131 (24.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (14.10%) Hyper-V
4 57 (10.86%) Docker
5 34 (6.48%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (4.19%) vSphere
8 4 (0.76%) Firmware
9 3 (0.57%) KVM
9 3 (0.57%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 101 (19.24%) Ansible
2 77 (14.67%) Terraform
3 64 (12.19%) Kubernetes
4 43 (8.19%) Puppet
5 41 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (6.48%) SCCM
7 32 (6.10%) vCenter Server
8 14 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (2.48%) WSUS
10 12 (2.29%) CA Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.29%) SCOM
11 8 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (1.33%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (1.14%) Nagios
13 6 (1.14%) VxRail
14 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.76%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.76%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.76%) SmoothWall
16 3 (0.57%) Nessus
Vendors
1 190 (36.19%) VMware
2 149 (28.38%) Microsoft
3 42 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 31 (5.90%) Cisco
5 17 (3.24%) Citrix
5 17 (3.24%) Veeam
6 13 (2.48%) Oracle
7 12 (2.29%) CA
7 12 (2.29%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.29%) EMC
7 12 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.10%) BMC
8 11 (2.10%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.10%) NetApp
9 10 (1.90%) Aruba
9 10 (1.90%) Commvault
9 10 (1.90%) Dell
10 9 (1.71%) HP
11 8 (1.52%) Meraki
11 8 (1.52%) Nimble Storage