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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 518 481
Rank change year-on-year +149 -37 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 555 149 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.34% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 404 93 171
10th Percentile £43,000 £48,925 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +15.71% -

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 109,855 44,157 67,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,567 25,766 38,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

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 14 October 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 14 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
England +132 473 £60,000 -7.69% 202
UK excluding London +121 453 £60,000 -1.23% 167
Work from Home +65 163 £65,576 +0.89% 88
North of England +24 130 £70,000 +7.69% 47
South West +25 105 £50,000 - 15
North West +26 81 £70,000 +7.69% 31
South East +22 78 £60,000 - 30
London -24 68 £65,000 -10.34% 61
Midlands -4 59 £55,000 - 21
Wales -35 40 £50,000 +4.01% 13
East Midlands - 34 £55,000 - 10
Yorkshire -13 33 £65,576 +2.86% 10
West Midlands -23 25 £55,000 - 11
East of England -27 25 £40,000 -38.46% 22
Scotland +20 17 £55,000 -8.33% 22
North East -61 16 £70,000 +7.69% 6

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 540 (97.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 145 (26.13%) Microsoft
3 130 (23.42%) Azure
4 106 (19.10%) Windows
5 84 (15.14%) Active Directory
6 79 (14.23%) VMware
6 79 (14.23%) Windows Server
7 77 (13.87%) Microsoft 365
8 67 (12.07%) Entra ID
9 61 (10.99%) Firewall
10 60 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 59 (10.63%) VMware Infrastructure
12 56 (10.09%) Linux
13 52 (9.37%) VPN
14 51 (9.19%) DNS
15 50 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (9.01%) WAN
16 49 (8.83%) PowerShell
17 47 (8.47%) AWS
17 47 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (8.29%) Security Cleared
19 44 (7.93%) DHCP
19 44 (7.93%) Microsoft Intune
20 43 (7.75%) LAN
21 41 (7.39%) Problem-Solving
22 40 (7.21%) DevOps
22 40 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
23 39 (7.03%) Hyper-V
24 38 (6.85%) ITIL
24 38 (6.85%) Terraform

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 33 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (3.24%) AutoCAD
1 18 (3.24%) Civil 3D
2 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (23.42%) Azure
2 77 (13.87%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (12.07%) Entra ID
4 47 (8.47%) AWS
5 22 (3.96%) SaaS
6 17 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 16 (2.88%) IaaS
8 15 (2.70%) OneDrive
9 14 (2.52%) PowerApps
10 13 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (2.16%) PaaS
12 10 (1.80%) GCP
13 9 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (1.44%) Nutanix
14 8 (1.44%) OCI
15 6 (1.08%) Azure AKS
15 6 (1.08%) Datadog
15 6 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.90%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 61 (10.99%) Firewall
2 52 (9.37%) VPN
3 51 (9.19%) DNS
4 50 (9.01%) WAN
5 44 (7.93%) DHCP
6 43 (7.75%) LAN
7 35 (6.31%) TCP/IP
8 25 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (4.32%) Network Security
10 20 (3.60%) VLAN
11 16 (2.88%) WLAN
12 12 (2.16%) SAN
13 11 (1.98%) Internet
14 9 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (1.44%) SSL
16 7 (1.26%) BGP
16 7 (1.26%) SSH
17 6 (1.08%) IPsec
17 6 (1.08%) NAS
18 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.26%) Git
1 7 (1.26%) JIRA
2 5 (0.90%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.36%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
General
1 44 (7.93%) Public Sector
2 36 (6.49%) Social Skills
3 20 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (3.24%) Finance
5 16 (2.88%) Retail
6 12 (2.16%) Banking
7 10 (1.80%) Legal
7 10 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.62%) Law
9 6 (1.08%) Back Office
10 5 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.36%) Marketing
12 2 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.85%) Terraform
2 5 (0.90%) ARM Templates
2 5 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (0.90%) RESTful
3 3 (0.54%) REST
4 1 (0.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.18%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.18%) CSS
4 1 (0.18%) HTML
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.18%) OAuth
4 1 (0.18%) OpenID
4 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (2.88%) Public Cloud
2 14 (2.52%) Low-Code
3 12 (2.16%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.16%) Driving Licence
3 12 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (1.98%) PKI
5 10 (1.80%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.44%) Replication
7 7 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.26%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.08%) Clustering
8 6 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.90%) Blog
9 5 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.54%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 106 (19.10%) Windows
2 79 (14.23%) Windows Server
3 56 (10.09%) Linux
4 15 (2.70%) Unix
5 9 (1.62%) macOS
6 4 (0.72%) CentOS
6 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.36%) Android
7 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.18%) Rocky
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (97.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 50 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (7.39%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (7.21%) DevOps
6 40 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
7 38 (6.85%) ITIL
8 36 (6.49%) Mentoring
8 36 (6.49%) Project Delivery
9 34 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (5.77%) Root Cause Analysis
11 30 (5.41%) Business Continuity
11 30 (5.41%) CI/CD
12 29 (5.23%) Migration
13 27 (4.86%) Coaching
14 25 (4.50%) Incident Management
15 23 (4.14%) Change Management
16 22 (3.96%) Problem Management
17 21 (3.78%) AI
Programming Languages
1 49 (8.83%) PowerShell
2 26 (4.68%) Python
3 20 (3.60%) SQL
4 12 (2.16%) Bash
4 12 (2.16%) Go
5 9 (1.62%) Bicep
5 9 (1.62%) Java
6 4 (0.72%) R
7 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.36%) C++
9 1 (0.18%) C#
9 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.18%) Perl
9 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) Ruby
9 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 22 (3.96%) DV Cleared
2 22 (3.96%) SC Cleared
3 19 (3.42%) Degree
4 13 (2.34%) CCNP
4 13 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.26%) CCNA
8 6 (1.08%) CCIE
8 6 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.08%) JNCIP
9 4 (0.72%) MCSE
10 3 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) CCA
12 1 (0.18%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.62%) SLA
3 6 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.72%) GDPR
6 3 (0.54%) COBIT
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 84 (15.14%) Active Directory
2 59 (10.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (7.03%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.42%) vSphere
5 11 (1.98%) Docker
6 6 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.54%) Lustre
9 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.54%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.36%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.18%) Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) GPFS
11 1 (0.18%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (7.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.60%) Ansible
4 17 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.08%) Grafana
5 6 (1.08%) SCCM
6 5 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.72%) Nessus
7 4 (0.72%) SCOM
7 4 (0.72%) vRealize
7 4 (0.72%) VxRail
7 4 (0.72%) WSUS
8 3 (0.54%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.36%) Argo
9 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.36%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.18%) Avamar
Vendors
1 145 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 79 (14.23%) VMware
3 34 (6.13%) Cisco
4 20 (3.60%) Veeam
5 16 (2.88%) Citrix
6 13 (2.34%) Oracle
7 12 (2.16%) Meraki
7 12 (2.16%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.98%) HP
8 11 (1.98%) Zscaler
9 10 (1.80%) Aruba
9 10 (1.80%) Google
10 9 (1.62%) Qualys
11 7 (1.26%) Apple
12 6 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.08%) Dell
12 6 (1.08%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.08%) Zerto
13 5 (0.90%) Tenable
13 5 (0.90%) Ubiquiti