Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in England is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 506 441
Rank change year-on-year +85 -65 +235
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 269 104 426
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.28% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.31% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 201 90 352
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,483 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £61,644 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +2.74% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,288 £60,465 £58,500
% change year-on-year +7.98% +3.36% +6.36%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 71,466 33,303 77,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 89.28% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 46,824 21,286 59,791
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in England

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
North of England -27 60 £65,576 +19.23% 16
London +10 58 £82,500 - 15
South East -14 43 £59,000 +2.61% 14
Midlands -20 36 £55,000 +10.00% 7
North West -7 30 £65,576 +31.15% 6
South West -28 30 £65,000 +23.81% 2
East of England -10 27 £75,000 +54.64% 4
West Midlands -9 25 £67,500 +50.00% 7
Yorkshire -39 21 £65,576 +13.59% 6
East Midlands -52 11 £52,500 -7.89%
North East - 9 £65,576 - 4
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2026, 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 England region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 267 (99.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 110 (40.89%) Azure
3 87 (32.34%) Microsoft
4 72 (26.77%) Windows
5 65 (24.16%) Firewall
6 64 (23.79%) VMware
7 60 (22.30%) Active Directory
8 52 (19.33%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (17.84%) DNS
10 47 (17.47%) Windows Server
11 44 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (15.61%) DHCP
12 42 (15.61%) Microsoft Intune
13 41 (15.24%) Entra ID
14 38 (14.13%) Disaster Recovery
14 38 (14.13%) VMware Infrastructure
14 38 (14.13%) VPN
15 36 (13.38%) ITIL
15 36 (13.38%) WAN
16 34 (12.64%) Terraform
17 31 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
17 31 (11.52%) Mentoring
18 30 (11.15%) PowerShell
19 29 (10.78%) Cisco
20 28 (10.41%) AWS
20 28 (10.41%) CI/CD
21 26 (9.67%) Microsoft Exchange
22 25 (9.29%) LAN
22 25 (9.29%) Root Cause Analysis
23 24 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (9.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.97%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.37%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.37%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 110 (40.89%) Azure
2 52 (19.33%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (15.24%) Entra ID
4 28 (10.41%) AWS
5 14 (5.20%) SaaS
6 11 (4.09%) IaaS
6 11 (4.09%) OneDrive
6 11 (4.09%) PaaS
7 10 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.72%) Datadog
8 8 (2.97%) GCP
9 6 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.86%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.49%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.49%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 65 (24.16%) Firewall
2 48 (17.84%) DNS
3 42 (15.61%) DHCP
4 38 (14.13%) VPN
5 36 (13.38%) WAN
6 25 (9.29%) LAN
7 23 (8.55%) TCP/IP
8 19 (7.06%) SAN
8 19 (7.06%) SD-WAN
9 15 (5.58%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (5.20%) VLAN
11 8 (2.97%) Network Security
12 6 (2.23%) BGP
13 5 (1.86%) OSPF
14 4 (1.49%) NAS
15 3 (1.12%) HTTP
15 3 (1.12%) MPLS
15 3 (1.12%) VSAN
15 3 (1.12%) Wireless
15 3 (1.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.09%) GitLab
2 8 (2.97%) Chocolatey
3 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
General
1 31 (11.52%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.04%) Finance
3 17 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.72%) Banking
5 10 (3.72%) Law
5 10 (3.72%) Retail
6 7 (2.60%) Legal
6 7 (2.60%) Police
6 7 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.60%) .NET
2 4 (1.49%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.12%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.74%) Kafka
4 2 (0.74%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.74%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.69%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.97%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.12%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.37%) PKI
9 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 72 (26.77%) Windows
2 47 (17.47%) Windows Server
3 20 (7.43%) Apple iOS
4 12 (4.46%) Android
5 10 (3.72%) Linux
6 8 (2.97%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.23%) VMS
9 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.74%) CentOS
10 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (99.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (14.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 36 (13.38%) ITIL
5 31 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (11.52%) Mentoring
6 28 (10.41%) CI/CD
7 25 (9.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 24 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (8.18%) DevOps
10 21 (7.81%) Migration
11 18 (6.69%) Incident Management
12 16 (5.95%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (5.95%) Project Delivery
13 15 (5.58%) Agile
13 15 (5.58%) Service Delivery
13 15 (5.58%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (5.20%) Coaching
14 14 (5.20%) Problem Management
15 13 (4.83%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.15%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.58%) Bicep
3 11 (4.09%) Python
4 8 (2.97%) SQL
5 5 (1.86%) Bash
6 2 (0.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (8.18%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.81%) Azure Certification
3 16 (5.95%) Degree
4 12 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.09%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.12%) CCNA
10 3 (1.12%) CCNP
10 3 (1.12%) MCSE
11 2 (0.74%) CCIE
11 2 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.37%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.97%) SLA
3 6 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.86%) GDPR
5 4 (1.49%) NIST
6 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 60 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (7.06%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.86%) vSphere
6 4 (1.49%) Docker
6 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.74%) Firmware
7 2 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.74%) XenApp
8 1 (0.37%) Ceph
8 1 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.37%) Lustre
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.37%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (15.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (12.64%) Terraform
3 17 (6.32%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.83%) Ansible
5 9 (3.35%) FortiGate
5 9 (3.35%) SCCM
6 6 (2.23%) VxRail
7 4 (1.49%) WSUS
8 3 (1.12%) FlexNet
9 2 (0.74%) Grafana
9 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.37%) Nessus
10 1 (0.37%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (32.34%) Microsoft
2 64 (23.79%) VMware
3 29 (10.78%) Cisco
4 16 (5.95%) Palo Alto
5 15 (5.58%) Dell
5 15 (5.58%) Tenable
6 12 (4.46%) AppDynamics
6 12 (4.46%) Apple
6 12 (4.46%) Samsung
7 10 (3.72%) Veeam
8 9 (3.35%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.97%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.60%) Citrix
10 7 (2.60%) Meraki
10 7 (2.60%) New Relic
11 6 (2.23%) HP
12 5 (1.86%) Juniper
12 5 (1.86%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.49%) Commvault
13 4 (1.49%) Splunk