Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £59,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 826 923 1183
Rank change year-on-year +97 +260 -325
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 58 52 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.052% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.057% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 49 43 24
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £75,208 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.63% +33.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £98,664 £73,750
90th Percentile - £100,000 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £79,632 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.54% +44.79% +4.76%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +91 56 £59,000 -26.25% 29
UK excluding London +17 53 £58,500 -26.54% 25
South West -8 18 £70,000 -12.10% 10
North of England +36 13 £57,500 -35.01% 2
Work from Home +57 12 £57,500 -28.13% 19
South East +16 12 £45,000 -21.74% 7
North West +4 8 £57,500 -27.96%
Midlands -2 6 £58,500 +4.46% 2
Yorkshire +77 5 £59,500 -32.75% 2
West Midlands +17 5 £58,500 +4.46%
East of England - 4 £55,000 - 4
London +88 3 £70,000 -24.32% 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (63.79%) Azure
3 24 (41.38%) Windows
4 20 (34.48%) Security Cleared
5 18 (31.03%) VMware
6 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
7 16 (27.59%) Linux
7 16 (27.59%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (25.86%) VMware Infrastructure
9 11 (18.97%) Observability
9 11 (18.97%) SLA
10 10 (17.24%) Firewall
11 9 (15.52%) Active Directory
11 9 (15.52%) AWS
12 8 (13.79%) DV Cleared
12 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
12 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
13 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
14 6 (10.34%) DevOps
14 6 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (10.34%) Aerospace
15 5 (8.62%) Cisco
15 5 (8.62%) ITIL
15 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
15 5 (8.62%) Information Security
15 5 (8.62%) Agile
15 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
15 5 (8.62%) Entra ID

Lead 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 4 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 37 (63.79%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (15.52%) AWS
4 5 (8.62%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.17%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) Firewall
2 4 (6.90%) LAN
2 4 (6.90%) WAN
3 3 (5.17%) DNS
3 3 (5.17%) Network Security
4 1 (1.72%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.90%) MySQL
2 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
2 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) MSI
General
1 8 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Aerospace
2 6 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Law
4 2 (3.45%) Games
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing
5 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) .NET
1 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (41.38%) Windows
2 16 (27.59%) Linux
3 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (18.97%) Observability
3 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
4 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.34%) DevOps
6 5 (8.62%) Agile
6 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.62%) Information Security
6 5 (8.62%) ITIL
6 5 (8.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 4 (6.90%) High Availability
7 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (6.90%) Service Management
7 4 (6.90%) Software Testing
8 3 (5.17%) Containerisation
8 3 (5.17%) Service Delivery
8 3 (5.17%) Task Automation
9 2 (3.45%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (3.45%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.72%) C#
2 1 (1.72%) Java
2 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.72%) Python
2 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.97%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (25.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Data Guard
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.45%) SCCM
4 1 (1.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) VMware
2 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) Cisco
4 4 (6.90%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Dell