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 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 549 487
Rank change year-on-year +114 -62 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 329 97 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.23% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.25% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 238 73 368
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,275
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £70,938 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 - £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £52,500 £57,200
% change year-on-year +16.67% -8.22% +8.95%

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 86,622 38,048 92,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 89.26% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 57,427 21,318 67,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.32%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +82 274 £65,000 +4.72% 59
UK excluding London +130 262 £61,250 +16.67% 56
Work from Home +55 86 £65,576 +19.23% 28
North of England -9 69 £65,576 +19.23% 20
London -1 58 £80,000 -3.03% 6
South East +17 49 £60,000 +4.35% 15
Midlands -1 38 £52,500 -4.55% 7
South West -24 36 £65,000 +25.65% 10
North West +13 35 £70,000 +35.92% 11
Wales -6 33 £52,794 +8.65% 2
Yorkshire -22 27 £65,576 +4.92% 3
West Midlands -11 26 £70,000 +41.13% 4
East of England +4 18 £60,000 +23.71% 3
Scotland - 14 - -
East Midlands -25 12 £48,500 -13.39% 3
North East - 7 £70,000 - 6
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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.

1 320 (97.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 112 (34.04%) Azure
3 96 (29.18%) Microsoft
4 84 (25.53%) VMware
5 76 (23.10%) Windows
6 67 (20.36%) Active Directory
7 64 (19.45%) DNS
8 61 (18.54%) VMware Infrastructure
9 58 (17.63%) VPN
10 57 (17.33%) DHCP
10 57 (17.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 56 (17.02%) Windows Server
12 53 (16.11%) Firewall
12 53 (16.11%) Microsoft 365
13 50 (15.20%) WAN
14 47 (14.29%) ITIL
15 44 (13.37%) Entra ID
15 44 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (12.16%) Microsoft Intune
16 40 (12.16%) PowerShell
17 36 (10.94%) LAN
18 34 (10.33%) AWS
18 34 (10.33%) Security Cleared
19 31 (9.42%) TCP/IP
20 28 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
21 27 (8.21%) Degree
21 27 (8.21%) Terraform
22 25 (7.60%) CI/CD
22 25 (7.60%) Root Cause Analysis
23 24 (7.29%) DV Cleared

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 22 (6.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.86%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) AutoCAD
1 5 (1.52%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 112 (34.04%) Azure
2 53 (16.11%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (13.37%) Entra ID
4 34 (10.33%) AWS
5 16 (4.86%) IaaS
6 15 (4.56%) SaaS
7 11 (3.34%) Datadog
7 11 (3.34%) Nutanix
7 11 (3.34%) OneDrive
7 11 (3.34%) PaaS
8 8 (2.43%) GCP
9 6 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.22%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.22%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (19.45%) DNS
2 58 (17.63%) VPN
3 57 (17.33%) DHCP
4 53 (16.11%) Firewall
5 50 (15.20%) WAN
6 36 (10.94%) LAN
7 31 (9.42%) TCP/IP
8 18 (5.47%) SAN
8 18 (5.47%) SD-WAN
9 14 (4.26%) BGP
9 14 (4.26%) VLAN
10 13 (3.95%) Network Security
10 13 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (3.95%) WLAN
11 9 (2.74%) MPLS
12 6 (1.82%) NAS
13 5 (1.52%) IPsec
13 5 (1.52%) OSPF
13 5 (1.52%) SSH
13 5 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.65%) GitLab
2 8 (2.43%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.61%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.61%) Git
3 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 32 (9.73%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.12%) Finance
3 26 (7.90%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.65%) Banking
6 8 (2.43%) Legal
6 8 (2.43%) Retail
7 6 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.30%) Law
9 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.22%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.91%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.61%) Kafka
4 2 (0.61%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.61%) Middleware
5 1 (0.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OpenID
5 1 (0.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.99%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.04%) PKI
4 8 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (1.82%) Replication
7 5 (1.52%) CMDB
7 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.22%) Clustering
9 3 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.91%) YubiKey
10 2 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.61%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 76 (23.10%) Windows
2 56 (17.02%) Windows Server
3 23 (6.99%) Linux
4 18 (5.47%) Apple iOS
5 10 (3.04%) Android
6 8 (2.43%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.22%) Unix
7 4 (1.22%) VMS
8 2 (0.61%) CentOS
8 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (97.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (17.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (14.29%) ITIL
4 44 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (7.60%) CI/CD
6 25 (7.60%) Root Cause Analysis
7 22 (6.69%) Mentoring
7 22 (6.69%) Migration
8 21 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (6.38%) Project Delivery
9 20 (6.08%) Computer Science
9 20 (6.08%) High Availability
10 18 (5.47%) Incident Management
11 17 (5.17%) Service Delivery
12 16 (4.86%) Cloud Operations
12 16 (4.86%) DevOps
12 16 (4.86%) Problem Management
12 16 (4.86%) Service Management
13 15 (4.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (12.16%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.17%) Python
3 11 (3.34%) SQL
4 9 (2.74%) Bicep
5 4 (1.22%) Bash
6 2 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.21%) Degree
3 24 (7.29%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.69%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (6.08%) CCNP
6 20 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (4.86%) Azure Certification
9 12 (3.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (3.34%) CCIE
10 11 (3.34%) MCSE
11 6 (1.82%) CCNA
12 5 (1.52%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.30%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.43%) NIST
2 8 (2.43%) SLA
3 6 (1.82%) GDPR
4 3 (0.91%) COBIT
5 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 67 (20.36%) Active Directory
2 61 (18.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.08%) Hyper-V
4 13 (3.95%) vSphere
5 8 (2.43%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.52%) KVM
8 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.91%) Docker
9 3 (0.91%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.61%) Firmware
11 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (12.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (8.21%) Terraform
3 22 (6.69%) Ansible
4 12 (3.65%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.74%) SCCM
6 8 (2.43%) VxRail
7 6 (1.82%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.82%) WSUS
8 5 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.91%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.61%) Grafana
10 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.30%) Nessus
11 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.30%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 96 (29.18%) Microsoft
2 84 (25.53%) VMware
3 21 (6.38%) Cisco
4 17 (5.17%) Tenable
5 15 (4.56%) Veeam
6 11 (3.34%) Apple
6 11 (3.34%) HP
6 11 (3.34%) Zerto
7 10 (3.04%) Dell
7 10 (3.04%) Palo Alto
7 10 (3.04%) Samsung
8 9 (2.74%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.43%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.13%) Meraki
10 7 (2.13%) Splunk
11 6 (1.82%) Citrix
11 6 (1.82%) Commvault
11 6 (1.82%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.52%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.91%) Qualys