Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 527 467
Rank change year-on-year +104 -60 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 395 153 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.34% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 300 98 290
10th Percentile £43,175 £46,362 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,250 £46,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -0.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,875 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% +2.86%

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 96,998 44,483 82,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.02% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 66,411 26,428 56,723
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%

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 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 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 +83 337 £60,000 -4.00% 52
UK excluding London +97 319 £57,500 -4.17% 42
Work from Home +33 101 £65,000 +4.00% 27
North of England -3 78 £65,576 +0.89% 10
South West -4 71 £50,000 - 8
South East +7 61 £60,000 +2.13% 11
London -19 58 £78,750 +5.00% 11
Midlands -10 43 £50,000 -9.09% 7
North West +13 42 £70,000 +12.00% 8
Wales -25 38 £50,000 +4.01% 1
Yorkshire -19 29 £60,000 -5.88% 1
East Midlands 0 26 £50,000 -9.09% 3
East of England -15 18 £40,000 -36.00% 4
West Midlands -13 17 £55,000 - 4
North East -48 7 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland +13 5 - - 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 31 July 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.

1 386 (97.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 127 (32.15%) Azure
3 113 (28.61%) Microsoft
4 85 (21.52%) Windows
5 81 (20.51%) VMware
6 68 (17.22%) Active Directory
7 65 (16.46%) Windows Server
8 64 (16.20%) Firewall
8 64 (16.20%) VMware Infrastructure
9 62 (15.70%) Microsoft 365
9 62 (15.70%) WAN
10 61 (15.44%) DNS
11 58 (14.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 55 (13.92%) DHCP
12 55 (13.92%) VPN
13 54 (13.67%) LAN
14 53 (13.42%) Entra ID
15 52 (13.16%) PowerShell
16 43 (10.89%) ITIL
17 41 (10.38%) Project Delivery
18 38 (9.62%) AWS
18 38 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
19 37 (9.37%) Cisco
20 36 (9.11%) Microsoft Intune
21 35 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
22 32 (8.10%) TCP/IP
23 31 (7.85%) Security Cleared
24 30 (7.59%) Incident Management
24 30 (7.59%) Linux
25 29 (7.34%) Mentoring

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 26 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.77%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (3.80%) AutoCAD
1 15 (3.80%) Civil 3D
2 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.25%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 127 (32.15%) Azure
2 62 (15.70%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (13.42%) Entra ID
4 38 (9.62%) AWS
5 12 (3.04%) Nutanix
6 11 (2.78%) IaaS
6 11 (2.78%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.53%) GCP
7 10 (2.53%) SaaS
8 9 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.52%) Datadog
10 6 (1.52%) PaaS
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.01%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.01%) GitHub
12 4 (1.01%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.20%) Firewall
2 62 (15.70%) WAN
3 61 (15.44%) DNS
4 55 (13.92%) DHCP
4 55 (13.92%) VPN
5 54 (13.67%) LAN
6 32 (8.10%) TCP/IP
7 21 (5.32%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (5.06%) Network Security
9 19 (4.81%) WLAN
10 15 (3.80%) BGP
10 15 (3.80%) VLAN
11 14 (3.54%) SAN
12 11 (2.78%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.28%) MPLS
14 8 (2.03%) SSL
15 6 (1.52%) IPsec
15 6 (1.52%) NAS
15 6 (1.52%) SSH
16 5 (1.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.78%) GitLab
2 4 (1.01%) JIRA
3 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.51%) Git
3 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Chocolatey
General
1 34 (8.61%) Public Sector
2 29 (7.34%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.56%) Finance
4 10 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.03%) Legal
6 8 (2.03%) Retail
6 8 (2.03%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.52%) Banking
8 4 (1.01%) Law
9 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.25%) Automotive
11 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.01%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.76%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.51%) Kafka
4 2 (0.51%) REST
5 1 (0.25%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.25%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.25%) OAuth
5 1 (0.25%) OpenID
5 1 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.57%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.78%) PKI
4 9 (2.28%) Replication
5 7 (1.77%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (1.52%) Clustering
6 6 (1.52%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.27%) CMDB
7 5 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.51%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.25%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.25%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 85 (21.52%) Windows
2 65 (16.46%) Windows Server
3 30 (7.59%) Linux
4 11 (2.78%) Android
4 11 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.77%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.27%) Unix
7 3 (0.76%) VMS
8 2 (0.51%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (97.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (14.68%) Disaster Recovery
3 43 (10.89%) ITIL
4 41 (10.38%) Project Delivery
5 38 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (7.59%) Incident Management
8 29 (7.34%) Mentoring
9 27 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (6.58%) Root Cause Analysis
11 25 (6.33%) Business Continuity
12 24 (6.08%) CI/CD
13 23 (5.82%) High Availability
14 19 (4.81%) Migration
15 17 (4.30%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (4.05%) Coaching
16 16 (4.05%) Incident Response
16 16 (4.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (3.80%) Proactive Monitoring
17 15 (3.80%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 25 (6.33%) Python
3 14 (3.54%) SQL
4 10 (2.53%) Bicep
5 4 (1.01%) Bash
6 3 (0.76%) Go
6 3 (0.76%) R
7 1 (0.25%) C++
7 1 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (7.85%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.33%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.08%) CCNP
3 24 (6.08%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (5.82%) Degree
5 18 (4.56%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.04%) MCSE
8 12 (3.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (2.78%) CCIE
10 8 (2.03%) CCNA
11 7 (1.77%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.52%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.28%) GDPR
3 7 (1.77%) SLA
4 5 (1.27%) NIST
5 3 (0.76%) COBIT
5 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 68 (17.22%) Active Directory
2 64 (16.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (6.84%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.81%) vSphere
5 10 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.53%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.27%) KVM
7 5 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.76%) Docker
8 3 (0.76%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.51%) Firmware
9 2 (0.51%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.25%) GPFS
10 1 (0.25%) Lustre
10 1 (0.25%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (9.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (6.84%) Terraform
3 26 (6.58%) Ansible
4 13 (3.29%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.77%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.77%) VxRail
7 5 (1.27%) WSUS
8 4 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.76%) Grafana
10 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.51%) SCCM
10 2 (0.51%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.25%) Avamar
11 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.25%) Nessus
11 1 (0.25%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 113 (28.61%) Microsoft
2 81 (20.51%) VMware
3 37 (9.37%) Cisco
4 22 (5.57%) Veeam
5 13 (3.29%) Apple
5 13 (3.29%) HP
5 13 (3.29%) Zerto
6 12 (3.04%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.78%) Meraki
8 10 (2.53%) Zscaler
9 9 (2.28%) Dell
9 9 (2.28%) Samsung
10 8 (2.03%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.52%) Citrix
11 6 (1.52%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.52%) Tenable
12 5 (1.27%) Aruba
12 5 (1.27%) Commvault
12 5 (1.27%) EMC
12 5 (1.27%) Ubiquiti