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 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 551 457
Rank change year-on-year +134 -94 +174
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 357 118 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.26% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.30% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 249 82 412
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +2.68%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.17% +4.09% +4.76%

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 87,567 39,822 102,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.41% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 60,055 22,546 73,745
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +99 304 £65,000 - 47
UK excluding London +131 287 £62,500 +9.17% 46
Work from Home +43 85 £65,576 +9.29% 24
North of England +3 73 £65,576 +9.29% 7
London -4 57 £80,000 -3.03% 10
South East +22 52 £60,000 +14.29% 17
South West -19 50 £65,000 +31.01% 5
Midlands +13 46 £55,000 - 9
North West +7 37 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales -22 30 £50,000 +4.01% 5
West Midlands +6 29 £56,250 +13.41% 5
Yorkshire -11 29 £60,000 -4.00% 1
East of England -5 20 £40,000 -33.33% 4
East Midlands -6 17 £52,500 -6.25% 4
Scotland - 11 - -
North East -41 7 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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.

1 351 (98.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 119 (33.33%) Azure
3 115 (32.21%) Microsoft
4 86 (24.09%) VMware
5 81 (22.69%) Windows
6 71 (19.89%) Active Directory
7 67 (18.77%) VMware Infrastructure
8 64 (17.93%) DNS
9 63 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
10 62 (17.37%) Windows Server
11 60 (16.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 60 (16.81%) VPN
12 57 (15.97%) DHCP
13 53 (14.85%) Firewall
14 51 (14.29%) WAN
15 49 (13.73%) Entra ID
16 45 (12.61%) ITIL
16 45 (12.61%) PowerShell
17 42 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (11.20%) Microsoft Intune
19 37 (10.36%) LAN
20 35 (9.80%) Security Cleared
21 34 (9.52%) AWS
22 31 (8.68%) TCP/IP
23 29 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
24 27 (7.56%) Project Delivery
25 26 (7.28%) Mentoring
25 26 (7.28%) Terraform
26 25 (7.00%) Cisco
26 25 (7.00%) Degree

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 24 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.68%) AutoCAD
1 6 (1.68%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 119 (33.33%) Azure
2 63 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (13.73%) Entra ID
4 34 (9.52%) AWS
5 15 (4.20%) IaaS
6 13 (3.64%) SaaS
7 12 (3.36%) Nutanix
8 11 (3.08%) OneDrive
9 10 (2.80%) Datadog
9 10 (2.80%) PaaS
10 8 (2.24%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (2.24%) GCP
10 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.12%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.12%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (17.93%) DNS
2 60 (16.81%) VPN
3 57 (15.97%) DHCP
4 53 (14.85%) Firewall
5 51 (14.29%) WAN
6 37 (10.36%) LAN
7 31 (8.68%) TCP/IP
8 18 (5.04%) SAN
9 17 (4.76%) SD-WAN
10 16 (4.48%) VLAN
11 14 (3.92%) BGP
11 14 (3.92%) WLAN
12 13 (3.64%) Network Security
13 11 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (2.52%) MPLS
15 6 (1.68%) NAS
16 5 (1.40%) IPsec
16 5 (1.40%) OSPF
16 5 (1.40%) SSL
16 5 (1.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.36%) GitLab
2 6 (1.68%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.56%) Git
3 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 35 (9.80%) Social Skills
2 28 (7.84%) Public Sector
3 27 (7.56%) Finance
4 14 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.80%) Banking
6 8 (2.24%) Legal
6 8 (2.24%) Retail
7 6 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.28%) Law
9 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.40%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.12%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.84%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.56%) Kafka
4 2 (0.56%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.56%) Middleware
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth
5 1 (0.28%) OpenID
5 1 (0.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.72%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.08%) PKI
4 7 (1.96%) Replication
5 6 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.40%) CMDB
6 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.12%) Clustering
7 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.84%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.84%) YubiKey
9 2 (0.56%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.56%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (22.69%) Windows
2 62 (17.37%) Windows Server
3 23 (6.44%) Linux
4 19 (5.32%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.36%) Android
6 7 (1.96%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.68%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.12%) Unix
9 3 (0.84%) VMS
10 2 (0.56%) CentOS
10 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (98.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (16.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (12.61%) ITIL
4 42 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (7.56%) Project Delivery
7 26 (7.28%) Mentoring
8 25 (7.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (6.72%) CI/CD
10 21 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (5.88%) High Availability
11 19 (5.32%) Cloud Operations
11 19 (5.32%) Migration
12 18 (5.04%) Computer Science
12 18 (5.04%) Incident Management
13 17 (4.76%) Problem Management
13 17 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (4.48%) Business Continuity
14 16 (4.48%) Service Delivery
14 16 (4.48%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (12.61%) PowerShell
2 18 (5.04%) Python
3 11 (3.08%) SQL
4 8 (2.24%) Bicep
5 4 (1.12%) Bash
6 2 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.00%) Degree
3 24 (6.72%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.16%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.88%) CCNP
6 18 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.36%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (3.08%) CCIE
9 11 (3.08%) MCSE
10 7 (1.96%) CCNA
11 5 (1.40%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.24%) GDPR
2 8 (2.24%) NIST
3 6 (1.68%) SLA
4 3 (0.84%) COBIT
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 71 (19.89%) Active Directory
2 67 (18.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.72%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.48%) vSphere
5 9 (2.52%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.40%) KVM
9 3 (0.84%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.56%) Docker
11 1 (0.28%) Firmware
11 1 (0.28%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (11.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (7.28%) Terraform
3 23 (6.44%) Ansible
4 10 (2.80%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.24%) VxRail
6 7 (1.96%) SCCM
6 7 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.96%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.68%) WSUS
8 3 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.56%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.56%) Grafana
9 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.28%) Nessus
10 1 (0.28%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 115 (32.21%) Microsoft
2 86 (24.09%) VMware
3 25 (7.00%) Cisco
4 17 (4.76%) Veeam
5 15 (4.20%) Tenable
6 11 (3.08%) Apple
6 11 (3.08%) HP
6 11 (3.08%) Zerto
7 10 (2.80%) Dell
7 10 (2.80%) Samsung
8 9 (2.52%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.24%) Meraki
10 7 (1.96%) Splunk
11 6 (1.68%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.68%) Citrix
11 6 (1.68%) Commvault
11 6 (1.68%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.68%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.68%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.40%) EMC