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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 556 663
Rank change year-on-year +166 +107 -176
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 447 174 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.35% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 346 141 175
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £31,680
25th Percentile £45,313 £45,750 £41,845
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,968 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 12 June 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 12 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
South East +55 115 £58,750 +2.17% 7
North of England +93 112 £62,783 +21.91% 5
South West +4 76 £49,000 +3.16% 6
Midlands -18 73 £54,000 +2.86% 8
North West +30 64 £62,783 +23.10%
West Midlands +14 51 £54,500 +3.81% 6
East of England +17 36 £46,000 -28.13% 3
Yorkshire +79 26 £62,783 +19.59% 5
North East -1 22 £62,783 +16.80%
East Midlands -34 22 £47,500 -9.52% 2
Scotland -57 20 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Wales - 14 £41,067 - 1
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 12 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 436 (97.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 205 (45.86%) Windows
3 171 (38.26%) Azure
4 155 (34.68%) VMware
5 125 (27.96%) AWS
6 118 (26.40%) Linux
6 118 (26.40%) Microsoft
7 114 (25.50%) VMware Infrastructure
8 102 (22.82%) Active Directory
9 98 (21.92%) DNS
10 88 (19.69%) DevOps
11 86 (19.24%) Windows Server
11 86 (19.24%) ITIL
12 83 (18.57%) PowerShell
13 82 (18.34%) Security Cleared
14 76 (17.00%) Ansible
15 73 (16.33%) Mentoring
16 69 (15.44%) Microsoft 365
16 69 (15.44%) Python
17 67 (14.99%) DHCP
18 66 (14.77%) Hyper-V
19 64 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
20 63 (14.09%) Kubernetes
20 63 (14.09%) Bash
21 59 (13.20%) Public Sector
22 57 (12.75%) Coaching
23 55 (12.30%) Public Cloud
24 53 (11.86%) Docker
24 53 (11.86%) Terraform
25 52 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud

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 30 (6.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) Confluence
3 3 (0.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) JBoss
4 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.45%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.45%) CATIA
2 2 (0.45%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 171 (38.26%) Azure
2 125 (27.96%) AWS
3 69 (15.44%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (9.17%) SaaS
5 38 (8.50%) IaaS
6 37 (8.28%) Entra ID
6 37 (8.28%) OpenShift
7 24 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (4.03%) Nutanix
9 16 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (3.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (3.36%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (3.36%) Power Platform
10 15 (3.36%) Serverless
11 12 (2.68%) AWS KMS
11 12 (2.68%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (2.68%) CloudFront
11 12 (2.68%) Route 53
12 11 (2.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 98 (21.92%) DNS
2 67 (14.99%) DHCP
3 44 (9.84%) HTTP
4 40 (8.95%) TCP/IP
5 39 (8.72%) Firewall
6 35 (7.83%) SAN
7 31 (6.94%) LAN
8 22 (4.92%) WAN
9 19 (4.25%) VPN
10 15 (3.36%) VLAN
10 15 (3.36%) Wireless
11 11 (2.46%) VoIP
12 10 (2.24%) WLAN
13 8 (1.79%) Network Security
13 8 (1.79%) SSL
13 8 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (1.34%) NetScaler
14 6 (1.34%) TETRA
15 5 (1.12%) NAS
15 5 (1.12%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.57%) MySQL
4 4 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.89%) DB2
4 4 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.89%) RDBMS
4 4 (0.89%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (5.37%) GitLab
2 21 (4.70%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.57%) Git
4 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 59 (13.20%) Public Sector
2 38 (8.50%) Social Skills
3 37 (8.28%) Finance
4 24 (5.37%) Aerospace
5 23 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.80%) Automotive
7 16 (3.58%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.01%) Advertising
9 8 (1.79%) Legal
10 7 (1.57%) Games
10 7 (1.57%) Law
10 7 (1.57%) Retail
11 5 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Military
12 3 (0.67%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.12%) LDAP
2 3 (0.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.22%) .NET
3 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.22%) Middleware
3 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.30%) Public Cloud
2 52 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (9.17%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.03%) IoT
5 17 (3.80%) PKI
6 12 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.57%) CMDB
7 7 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.89%) EFT
10 3 (0.67%) EMC VNX
10 3 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.67%) PMI
10 3 (0.67%) Robotics
11 2 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.45%) Replication
11 2 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.22%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 205 (45.86%) Windows
2 118 (26.40%) Linux
3 86 (19.24%) Windows Server
4 38 (8.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (6.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (5.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (5.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (3.58%) Windows 10
9 15 (3.36%) Unix
10 11 (2.46%) Windows 7
11 10 (2.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (2.01%) CentOS
13 5 (1.12%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.89%) Rocky
14 4 (0.89%) Windows 2000
14 4 (0.89%) Windows NT
14 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.89%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (97.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 88 (19.69%) DevOps
3 86 (19.24%) ITIL
4 73 (16.33%) Mentoring
5 64 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (12.75%) Coaching
7 47 (10.51%) Change Management
8 45 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (8.28%) Migration
10 35 (7.83%) Decision-Making
10 35 (7.83%) Software Architecture
11 34 (7.61%) Roadmaps
12 32 (7.16%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (6.71%) Cybersecurity
15 28 (6.26%) Actionable Insight
16 27 (6.04%) Service Management
17 26 (5.82%) Agile
18 24 (5.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 23 (5.15%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 83 (18.57%) PowerShell
2 69 (15.44%) Python
3 63 (14.09%) Bash
4 38 (8.50%) Java
5 18 (4.03%) Perl
6 3 (0.67%) SQL
6 3 (0.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.22%) AWK
8 1 (0.22%) Bicep
8 1 (0.22%) C#
8 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (18.34%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.84%) DV Cleared
4 41 (9.17%) Degree
5 17 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.68%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.46%) HNC
8 7 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.12%) MCSE
9 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.89%) A+ Certification
10 4 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.45%) CCNA
12 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.79%) SLA
3 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 114 (25.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 102 (22.82%) Active Directory
3 66 (14.77%) Hyper-V
4 53 (11.86%) Docker
5 31 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (3.80%) vSphere
8 4 (0.89%) Firmware
9 3 (0.67%) KVM
9 3 (0.67%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (17.00%) Ansible
2 63 (14.09%) Kubernetes
3 53 (11.86%) Terraform
4 41 (9.17%) Puppet
5 26 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (5.59%) SCCM
7 20 (4.47%) vCenter Server
8 12 (2.68%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (2.46%) WSUS
10 10 (2.24%) SCOM
11 7 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (1.34%) Nagios
13 5 (1.12%) VxRail
14 4 (0.89%) Data Guard
14 4 (0.89%) SmoothWall
15 3 (0.67%) Check_MK
15 3 (0.67%) Nessus
15 3 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 155 (34.68%) VMware
2 118 (26.40%) Microsoft
3 40 (8.95%) Red Hat
4 24 (5.37%) Cisco
5 14 (3.13%) Veeam
6 13 (2.91%) EMC
7 12 (2.68%) CA
7 12 (2.68%) Citrix
7 12 (2.68%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.68%) Oracle
7 12 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.46%) BMC
9 10 (2.24%) Aruba
10 9 (2.01%) Dell
11 8 (1.79%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.79%) NetApp
12 7 (1.57%) Commvault
12 7 (1.57%) Globalscape
13 6 (1.34%) Meraki
13 6 (1.34%) Nimble Storage