Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 531 433
Rank change year-on-year +68 -98 +188
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 187 170 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.35% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 127 111 291
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,956 £42,798
25th Percentile £55,625 £47,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +1.85% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 56,236 49,146 59,685
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 92.50% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 34,885 25,424 46,340
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.14%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

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

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 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 22 January 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
England +67 159 £70,000 +16.67% 96
UK excluding London +48 129 £65,000 +18.18% 88
Work from Home +53 47 £70,000 +16.67% 29
London +35 44 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Midlands +34 29 £55,000 +15.79% 17
East of England +31 26 £75,000 +36.36% 11
West Midlands +44 24 £65,000 +44.44% 8
South East +32 24 £58,750 -2.08% 22
Scotland +6 17 - - 2
North of England +4 16 £65,000 +18.18% 19
South West +6 12 £70,000 +16.67% 14
North West +12 8 £65,000 +20.37% 5
Wales +6 6 £55,000 +12.01% 3
Yorkshire -17 6 £65,750 +19.55% 10
East Midlands -2 5 £55,000 -27.63% 9
North East +5 2 £57,500 +15.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 22 January 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 featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 179 (95.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 82 (43.85%) Azure
3 77 (41.18%) Windows
4 63 (33.69%) Firewall
5 62 (33.16%) Microsoft
6 60 (32.09%) VMware
7 54 (28.88%) Active Directory
7 54 (28.88%) Windows Server
8 47 (25.13%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (19.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 30 (16.04%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (15.51%) PowerShell
11 29 (15.51%) VMware Infrastructure
12 27 (14.44%) DNS
12 27 (14.44%) Terraform
13 26 (13.90%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (13.90%) Migration
14 24 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (12.83%) Entra ID
14 24 (12.83%) VPN
15 23 (12.30%) DHCP
15 23 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (12.30%) Roadmaps
16 22 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (11.76%) WAN
17 21 (11.23%) DevOps
18 20 (10.70%) Cisco
19 19 (10.16%) Technology Roadmap
20 18 (9.63%) ITIL
21 17 (9.09%) Azure Certification

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 36 (19.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.14%) IIS
4 3 (1.60%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.53%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 82 (43.85%) Azure
2 47 (25.13%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (12.83%) Entra ID
4 17 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.35%) AWS
6 10 (5.35%) IaaS
6 10 (5.35%) PaaS
7 9 (4.81%) OneDrive
7 9 (4.81%) SaaS
8 7 (3.74%) Datadog
9 4 (2.14%) Azure App Service
9 4 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.14%) GitHub
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.60%) Route 53
11 2 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.07%) GCP
11 2 (1.07%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (33.69%) Firewall
2 27 (14.44%) DNS
3 24 (12.83%) VPN
4 23 (12.30%) DHCP
5 22 (11.76%) WAN
6 15 (8.02%) SD-WAN
7 13 (6.95%) SAN
8 11 (5.88%) LAN
8 11 (5.88%) VLAN
9 9 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (4.28%) Network Security
11 7 (3.74%) TCP/IP
12 4 (2.14%) MPLS
13 3 (1.60%) Modbus
13 3 (1.60%) VSAN
14 2 (1.07%) InfiniBand
14 2 (1.07%) SMTP
14 2 (1.07%) SNMP
15 1 (0.53%) PSTN
15 1 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.74%) Chocolatey
2 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (15.51%) Finance
2 23 (12.30%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.35%) Law
4 9 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.81%) Banking
5 8 (4.28%) Retail
6 7 (3.74%) Police
6 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.60%) Legal
9 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.28%) .NET
2 2 (1.07%) Middleware
3 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.49%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (4.28%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.28%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (3.74%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.14%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.60%) SCADA
7 3 (1.60%) YubiKey
8 2 (1.07%) Clustering
8 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (41.18%) Windows
2 54 (28.88%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.49%) Linux
4 11 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (4.81%) Apple iOS
6 7 (3.74%) VMS
6 7 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.21%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.07%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (95.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (13.90%) Disaster Recovery
2 26 (13.90%) Migration
3 24 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (12.30%) Roadmaps
5 22 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (11.23%) DevOps
7 19 (10.16%) Technology Roadmap
8 18 (9.63%) ITIL
9 17 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 13 (6.95%) CI/CD
11 12 (6.42%) Cloud Operations
11 12 (6.42%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (5.88%) Asset Management
12 11 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (5.35%) Agile
13 10 (5.35%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (5.35%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.51%) PowerShell
2 14 (7.49%) Bicep
3 10 (5.35%) Python
4 8 (4.28%) SQL
5 4 (2.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 13 (6.95%) Degree
3 8 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.28%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) CCNA
6 3 (1.60%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.07%) CCNP
7 2 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.53%) CCIE
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
8 1 (0.53%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.53%) MCSE
8 1 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.81%) SLA
2 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.67%) NIST
5 3 (1.60%) IEC 61131
5 3 (1.60%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.60%) QA
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (28.88%) Active Directory
2 29 (15.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.49%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.74%) Docker
5 5 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.67%) vSphere
6 4 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.14%) XenApp
7 2 (1.07%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.53%) Ceph
8 1 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.53%) Firmware
8 1 (0.53%) Lustre
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.53%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (16.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (14.44%) Terraform
3 13 (6.95%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.28%) FortiGate
4 8 (4.28%) SCCM
5 7 (3.74%) Ansible
6 3 (1.60%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.07%) PaperCut
7 2 (1.07%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 62 (33.16%) Microsoft
2 60 (32.09%) VMware
3 20 (10.70%) Cisco
4 11 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 11 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 11 (5.88%) Tenable
5 10 (5.35%) Dell
6 8 (4.28%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.28%) New Relic
7 7 (3.74%) Citrix
8 6 (3.21%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.21%) Meraki
8 6 (3.21%) Veeam
9 5 (2.67%) Splunk
10 4 (2.14%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.14%) IBM
10 4 (2.14%) Juniper
10 4 (2.14%) Qualys
10 4 (2.14%) SonicWALL
11 3 (1.60%) Siemens