Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 427 412
Rank change year-on-year +119 -15 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 444 114 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.37% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 339 62 144
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,266 £44,825
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +15.71% -
75th Percentile £69,390 £65,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 80,060 31,196 48,798
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 89.60% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 55,304 17,435 27,014
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -8.33%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 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 +11 130 £70,000 +7.69% 59
South West +17 104 £50,000 - 15
North West +33 83 £70,000 +7.69% 42
South East +8 75 £60,000 - 32
Midlands +1 58 £55,000 - 24
Wales -40 39 £50,000 +4.01% 15
East Midlands - 33 £55,000 - 11
Yorkshire -18 29 £62,788 -1.51% 9
West Midlands -28 25 £55,000 - 13
East of England -37 24 £40,000 -37.25% 22
North East -53 18 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Scotland +19 15 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 October 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 433 (97.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 89 (20.05%) Microsoft
3 88 (19.82%) Azure
4 80 (18.02%) Windows
5 59 (13.29%) VMware
6 58 (13.06%) Windows Server
7 53 (11.94%) Active Directory
8 49 (11.04%) VMware Infrastructure
9 46 (10.36%) Microsoft 365
10 41 (9.23%) Linux
11 39 (8.78%) Entra ID
12 35 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 34 (7.66%) Hyper-V
14 33 (7.43%) Firewall
14 33 (7.43%) VPN
14 33 (7.43%) WAN
15 32 (7.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (7.21%) Security Cleared
16 30 (6.76%) DNS
16 30 (6.76%) LAN
17 29 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
18 28 (6.31%) PowerShell
19 24 (5.41%) AWS
19 24 (5.41%) DevOps
19 24 (5.41%) Mentoring
19 24 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
19 24 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
19 24 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
20 23 (5.18%) Business Continuity
21 22 (4.95%) Cisco

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.90%) IIS
4 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (3.38%) AutoCAD
1 15 (3.38%) Civil 3D
2 2 (0.45%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 88 (19.82%) Azure
2 46 (10.36%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (8.78%) Entra ID
4 24 (5.41%) AWS
5 14 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.48%) PowerApps
6 11 (2.48%) SaaS
7 7 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.35%) Azure AKS
8 6 (1.35%) IaaS
8 6 (1.35%) Nutanix
8 6 (1.35%) OCI
9 4 (0.90%) GCP
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (0.90%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.90%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.68%) PaaS
11 2 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.43%) Firewall
1 33 (7.43%) VPN
1 33 (7.43%) WAN
2 30 (6.76%) DNS
2 30 (6.76%) LAN
3 22 (4.95%) DHCP
4 20 (4.50%) TCP/IP
5 16 (3.60%) WLAN
6 11 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (2.25%) Internet
7 10 (2.25%) Network Security
7 10 (2.25%) VLAN
8 9 (2.03%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (1.58%) SAN
10 6 (1.35%) IPsec
10 6 (1.35%) NAS
10 6 (1.35%) SSH
10 6 (1.35%) SSL
11 4 (0.90%) VSAN
12 3 (0.68%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.15%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.35%) JIRA
2 4 (0.90%) GitLab
3 3 (0.68%) Git
4 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
General
1 32 (7.21%) Public Sector
2 25 (5.63%) Social Skills
3 11 (2.48%) Retail
4 7 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (1.58%) Legal
5 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
6 3 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.68%) Finance
6 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.45%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.45%) Police
8 1 (0.23%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.38%) Terraform
2 1 (0.23%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.23%) OAuth
2 1 (0.23%) OpenID
2 1 (0.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (2.70%) Driving Licence
2 11 (2.48%) Low-Code
3 9 (2.03%) Data Centre
3 9 (2.03%) PKI
4 6 (1.35%) Clustering
4 6 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.13%) Replication
6 3 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.68%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.23%) CMDB
8 1 (0.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.23%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.23%) Life Science
8 1 (0.23%) Robotics
8 1 (0.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 80 (18.02%) Windows
2 58 (13.06%) Windows Server
3 41 (9.23%) Linux
4 10 (2.25%) Unix
5 9 (2.03%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.90%) CentOS
6 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.45%) Android
7 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (97.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
3 32 (7.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (5.41%) DevOps
5 24 (5.41%) Mentoring
5 24 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
6 23 (5.18%) Business Continuity
7 20 (4.50%) Coaching
7 20 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (4.50%) Project Delivery
8 18 (4.05%) Business Continuity Planning
8 18 (4.05%) ITIL
9 17 (3.83%) Incident Management
9 17 (3.83%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (3.60%) BCP
11 14 (3.15%) CI/CD
11 14 (3.15%) High Availability
12 13 (2.93%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.31%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.25%) SQL
3 7 (1.58%) Go
4 4 (0.90%) Python
4 4 (0.90%) R
5 2 (0.45%) Bicep
6 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (7.21%) Security Cleared
2 20 (4.50%) DV Cleared
3 13 (2.93%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.70%) Degree
5 8 (1.80%) CCNP
5 8 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.35%) CCIE
6 6 (1.35%) JNCIP
7 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.45%) CCNA
8 2 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.23%) CCA
9 1 (0.23%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.23%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) MCSE
9 1 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.45%) GDPR
2 2 (0.45%) SLA
3 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 53 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 49 (11.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (7.66%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.38%) vSphere
5 7 (1.58%) Docker
6 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.68%) Lustre
9 3 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.23%) Firmware
11 1 (0.23%) GPFS
11 1 (0.23%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.48%) Ansible
4 7 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.90%) Nessus
6 4 (0.90%) SCOM
6 4 (0.90%) vRealize
6 4 (0.90%) VxRail
6 4 (0.90%) WSUS
7 2 (0.45%) Argo
7 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.23%) Avamar
8 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.23%) Grafana
8 1 (0.23%) SCCM
8 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 89 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 59 (13.29%) VMware
3 22 (4.95%) Cisco
4 16 (3.60%) Citrix
5 15 (3.38%) Veeam
6 10 (2.25%) Aruba
6 10 (2.25%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.03%) Qualys
8 8 (1.80%) Oracle
9 7 (1.58%) Meraki
10 6 (1.35%) Dell
11 5 (1.13%) Intel
11 5 (1.13%) Zerto
12 4 (0.90%) Apple
12 4 (0.90%) BMC
12 4 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.90%) HP
13 3 (0.68%) EMC
13 3 (0.68%) Tenable
13 3 (0.68%) YouTube