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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 527 496
Rank change year-on-year +106 -31 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 419 151 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.30% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.34% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 319 94 243
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,918 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,438 £67,734
90th Percentile £79,000 £83,750 £72,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +0.96%

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 100,001 44,901 79,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.94% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 68,291 26,543 52,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,122 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.10% -3.76% -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +105 358 £60,000 -4.00% 94
UK excluding London +92 341 £57,500 -4.17% 55
Work from Home +38 114 £65,000 +1.96% 31
North of England -13 83 £70,000 +9.80% 12
South West +7 80 £51,250 +2.50% 16
South East +20 68 £60,000 +2.13% 11
London -26 61 £78,750 +5.00% 44
North West +12 49 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Midlands +7 44 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Wales -25 41 £50,000 +4.01% 1
East Midlands 0 28 £49,250 -10.45% 2
Yorkshire -23 27 £60,000 -4.00% 2
East of England -16 17 £40,000 -36.00% 2
West Midlands -18 16 £55,000 - 4
North East -59 7 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +8 5 - - 7
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 405 (96.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (30.07%) Azure
3 113 (26.97%) Microsoft
4 96 (22.91%) Windows
5 83 (19.81%) VMware
6 74 (17.66%) Active Directory
7 73 (17.42%) Windows Server
8 68 (16.23%) Microsoft 365
9 67 (15.99%) Firewall
10 62 (14.80%) VMware Infrastructure
10 62 (14.80%) WAN
11 60 (14.32%) DNS
12 58 (13.84%) Disaster Recovery
13 54 (12.89%) DHCP
13 54 (12.89%) LAN
14 53 (12.65%) VPN
15 52 (12.41%) PowerShell
16 50 (11.93%) Entra ID
17 43 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
18 41 (9.79%) Project Delivery
19 39 (9.31%) Linux
20 38 (9.07%) Cisco
21 37 (8.83%) ITIL
22 33 (7.88%) AWS
22 33 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
22 33 (7.88%) TCP/IP
23 31 (7.40%) Microsoft Intune
23 31 (7.40%) Terraform
24 30 (7.16%) Microsoft Exchange
25 29 (6.92%) Business Continuity

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 30 (7.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (5.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (3.82%) AutoCAD
1 16 (3.82%) Civil 3D
2 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 126 (30.07%) Azure
2 68 (16.23%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (11.93%) Entra ID
4 33 (7.88%) AWS
5 13 (3.10%) OneDrive
6 12 (2.86%) GCP
7 11 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (2.63%) Nutanix
7 11 (2.63%) SaaS
8 10 (2.39%) IaaS
9 9 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (2.15%) Azure AKS
10 7 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.67%) Datadog
10 7 (1.67%) PaaS
11 6 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.19%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.95%) GitHub
13 4 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 67 (15.99%) Firewall
2 62 (14.80%) WAN
3 60 (14.32%) DNS
4 54 (12.89%) DHCP
4 54 (12.89%) LAN
5 53 (12.65%) VPN
6 33 (7.88%) TCP/IP
7 24 (5.73%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (5.25%) Network Security
9 18 (4.30%) WLAN
10 15 (3.58%) BGP
11 14 (3.34%) VLAN
12 13 (3.10%) SAN
13 10 (2.39%) SD-WAN
14 9 (2.15%) MPLS
15 8 (1.91%) SSL
16 7 (1.67%) Internet
17 6 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
17 6 (1.43%) IPsec
17 6 (1.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.39%) GitLab
2 5 (1.19%) JIRA
3 3 (0.72%) Git
4 2 (0.48%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.24%) Chocolatey
General
1 33 (7.88%) Public Sector
2 30 (7.16%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.53%) Finance
4 11 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.91%) Banking
7 8 (1.91%) Legal
7 8 (1.91%) Retail
8 4 (0.95%) Law
9 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
11 1 (0.24%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.43%) ARM Templates
2 4 (0.95%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.72%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.48%) Kafka
4 2 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.24%) OAuth
5 1 (0.24%) OpenID
5 1 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.77%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.63%) PKI
4 10 (2.39%) Public Cloud
5 8 (1.91%) Replication
6 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (1.43%) Clustering
7 6 (1.43%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.19%) CMDB
8 5 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.72%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.24%) Fibre Optics
12 1 (0.24%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.24%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.91%) Windows
2 73 (17.42%) Windows Server
3 39 (9.31%) Linux
4 10 (2.39%) Unix
5 8 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.72%) CentOS
6 3 (0.72%) VMS
7 2 (0.48%) Android
7 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (96.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (13.84%) Disaster Recovery
3 43 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (9.79%) Project Delivery
5 37 (8.83%) ITIL
6 33 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (6.92%) Business Continuity
7 29 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (6.68%) Mentoring
9 25 (5.97%) Incident Management
10 23 (5.49%) High Availability
11 22 (5.25%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (4.77%) Migration
12 20 (4.77%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (4.53%) CI/CD
14 18 (4.30%) SIEM
15 17 (4.06%) Change Management
15 17 (4.06%) Incident Response
15 17 (4.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (3.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (12.41%) PowerShell
2 27 (6.44%) Python
3 15 (3.58%) SQL
4 10 (2.39%) Bicep
5 4 (0.95%) Bash
5 4 (0.95%) R
6 3 (0.72%) Go
6 3 (0.72%) Java
7 2 (0.48%) C++
8 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (6.44%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.73%) Degree
3 23 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.01%) CCNP
4 21 (5.01%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.39%) CCIE
9 9 (2.15%) MCSE
10 8 (1.91%) CCNA
10 8 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (1.67%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.43%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.15%) GDPR
3 8 (1.91%) SLA
4 5 (1.19%) NIST
5 3 (0.72%) COBIT
5 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 74 (17.66%) Active Directory
2 62 (14.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (6.68%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.53%) vSphere
5 10 (2.39%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.72%) Docker
9 3 (0.72%) KVM
9 3 (0.72%) Lustre
9 3 (0.72%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.48%) Firmware
10 2 (0.48%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.24%) GPFS
11 1 (0.24%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (7.40%) Microsoft Intune
1 31 (7.40%) Terraform
2 26 (6.21%) Ansible
3 15 (3.58%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.43%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.19%) VxRail
7 4 (0.95%) WSUS
8 3 (0.72%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.72%) Grafana
9 2 (0.48%) Argo
9 2 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.48%) Nessus
9 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.48%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.48%) SCCM
9 2 (0.48%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 113 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 83 (19.81%) VMware
3 38 (9.07%) Cisco
4 21 (5.01%) Veeam
5 13 (3.10%) HP
5 13 (3.10%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.63%) Zscaler
7 10 (2.39%) Meraki
7 10 (2.39%) Zerto
8 7 (1.67%) Aruba
8 7 (1.67%) Citrix
8 7 (1.67%) Dell
8 7 (1.67%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.43%) Apple
9 6 (1.43%) Qualys
9 6 (1.43%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.19%) EMC
10 5 (1.19%) Tenable
10 5 (1.19%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (0.95%) CrowdStrike