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 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 478 690 847
Rank change year-on-year +212 +157 -246
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 475 292 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.32% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 367 239 297
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,400 £36,325
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £97,500 £91,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,350 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.24% +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 94,627 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%

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 20 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 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 +212 432 £60,000 +7.14% 44
UK excluding London +160 386 £57,350 +9.24% 41
Work from Home +184 218 £62,500 +13.64% 26
North of England +111 103 £62,783 +21.91% 6
South East +67 90 £60,000 +4.35% 7
London +84 78 £65,000 -7.14% 8
South West +16 68 £52,500 +16.67% 12
North West +50 61 £62,783 +23.10% 2
Midlands -4 60 £52,000 -0.95% 9
West Midlands +19 37 £55,000 +4.76% 7
East of England +30 33 £46,500 -15.45% 3
Yorkshire +93 23 £62,783 +16.80% 3
East Midlands -21 23 £47,500 -9.52% 2
North East +12 19 £62,783 +16.80% 1
Scotland -59 17 £47,500 -7.32% 4
Wales - 14 £41,067 -
Northern Ireland +25 1 £51,000 +27.50%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 464 (97.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 268 (56.42%) Windows
3 206 (43.37%) Azure
4 185 (38.95%) VMware
5 149 (31.37%) Active Directory
6 145 (30.53%) Microsoft
7 143 (30.11%) Linux
8 133 (28.00%) AWS
9 125 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
10 121 (25.47%) Windows Server
11 105 (22.11%) PowerShell
11 105 (22.11%) DNS
12 96 (20.21%) Security Cleared
12 96 (20.21%) Microsoft 365
13 93 (19.58%) Ansible
14 90 (18.95%) ITIL
15 86 (18.11%) DevOps
16 84 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
17 81 (17.05%) Mentoring
18 76 (16.00%) DHCP
19 73 (15.37%) Terraform
20 72 (15.16%) Social Skills
21 70 (14.74%) Python
21 70 (14.74%) Hyper-V
22 66 (13.89%) Firewall
23 59 (12.42%) Bash
23 59 (12.42%) DV Cleared
23 59 (12.42%) Coaching
23 59 (12.42%) Entra ID
24 58 (12.21%) 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (6.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.05%) 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
1 206 (43.37%) Azure
2 133 (28.00%) AWS
3 96 (20.21%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (12.42%) Entra ID
5 57 (12.00%) SaaS
6 45 (9.47%) IaaS
7 36 (7.58%) OpenShift
8 18 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (3.58%) Amazon S3
9 17 (3.58%) PaaS
9 17 (3.58%) Serverless
10 16 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.37%) Nutanix
10 16 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.95%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.53%) AWS KMS
13 12 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.53%) CloudFront
13 12 (2.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 105 (22.11%) DNS
2 76 (16.00%) DHCP
3 66 (13.89%) Firewall
4 52 (10.95%) LAN
5 47 (9.89%) SAN
6 44 (9.26%) WAN
7 41 (8.63%) HTTP
8 39 (8.21%) TCP/IP
9 38 (8.00%) VPN
10 20 (4.21%) VLAN
11 17 (3.58%) Internet
12 15 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (2.95%) Wireless
14 12 (2.53%) VoIP
15 11 (2.32%) NAS
15 11 (2.32%) WLAN
16 10 (2.11%) NetScaler
17 9 (1.89%) SD-WAN
18 8 (1.68%) Network Security
18 8 (1.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.00%) 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%) Power BI
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.05%) GitLab
2 21 (4.42%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.47%) Git
4 5 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 72 (15.16%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.21%) Public Sector
3 43 (9.05%) Finance
4 40 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.84%) Retail
6 21 (4.42%) Aerospace
7 14 (2.95%) Law
8 13 (2.74%) Automotive
8 13 (2.74%) Legal
9 11 (2.32%) 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%) Presentation Skills
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 (11.58%) Public Cloud
2 45 (9.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (8.63%) Data Centre
4 23 (4.84%) PKI
5 14 (2.95%) IoT
6 12 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.11%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.68%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.68%) CMDB
8 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.84%) EFT
10 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.63%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.63%) PMI
11 3 (0.63%) Robotics
12 2 (0.42%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.42%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 268 (56.42%) Windows
2 143 (30.11%) Linux
3 121 (25.47%) Windows Server
4 41 (8.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 35 (7.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (6.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (5.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (4.42%) Windows 10
9 20 (4.21%) Ubuntu
10 18 (3.79%) Unix
11 15 (3.16%) VMS
12 11 (2.32%) Windows 7
13 9 (1.89%) CentOS
13 9 (1.89%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.84%) Rocky
15 4 (0.84%) Windows 2000
15 4 (0.84%) Windows NT
15 4 (0.84%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (97.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (18.95%) ITIL
3 86 (18.11%) DevOps
4 84 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (17.05%) Mentoring
6 59 (12.42%) Coaching
7 49 (10.32%) Change Management
8 47 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (8.42%) Actionable Insight
10 38 (8.00%) Agile
11 36 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (7.58%) Migration
11 36 (7.58%) Roadmaps
12 35 (7.37%) Decision-Making
13 34 (7.16%) Software Architecture
14 29 (6.11%) Service Management
15 28 (5.89%) Disaster Recovery
16 24 (5.05%) Computer Science
16 24 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 23 (4.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 105 (22.11%) PowerShell
2 70 (14.74%) Python
3 59 (12.42%) Bash
4 41 (8.63%) Java
5 14 (2.95%) Perl
6 13 (2.74%) SQL
7 3 (0.63%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.42%) Go
8 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.21%) AWK
9 1 (0.21%) Bicep
9 1 (0.21%) C#
9 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 96 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.42%) DV Cleared
3 50 (10.53%) Degree
4 45 (9.47%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (2.32%) 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 14 (2.95%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.11%) 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/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 149 (31.37%) Active Directory
2 125 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (14.74%) Hyper-V
4 54 (11.37%) Docker
5 34 (7.16%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (4.63%) 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 93 (19.58%) Ansible
2 73 (15.37%) Terraform
3 58 (12.21%) Kubernetes
4 40 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (8.21%) Puppet
6 35 (7.37%) SCCM
7 32 (6.74%) vCenter Server
8 14 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.53%) CA Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.53%) WSUS
10 11 (2.32%) 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%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 185 (38.95%) VMware
2 145 (30.53%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.21%) Red Hat
4 33 (6.95%) Cisco
5 19 (4.00%) Citrix
6 16 (3.37%) Veeam
7 13 (2.74%) NetApp
7 13 (2.74%) Oracle
8 12 (2.53%) CA
8 12 (2.53%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.53%) EMC
8 12 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.32%) BMC
9 11 (2.32%) Commvault
10 10 (2.11%) Aruba
10 10 (2.11%) HP
11 8 (1.68%) Dell
11 8 (1.68%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.68%) Meraki
11 8 (1.68%) SolarWinds