Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 7 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.78% - 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% - 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £47,400 - £54,400
25th Percentile £55,500 - £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +65.30%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +36.36% +7.32% -10.87%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 805 818 567
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 91.29% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 553 411 376
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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
Huntingdon - 3 - -
Peterborough - 2 £60,000 -
St Neots - 1 £60,000 -
Cambridge - 1 £44,000 - 2
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
East of England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 27 December 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (14.29%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Veeam
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Aruba
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam