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 10 December 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 518 446
Rank change year-on-year +42 -72 +159
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 180 231 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.37% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.40% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 127 148 240
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,956 £42,798
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,888 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,968 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £91,250 £87,419
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,704 58,391 48,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.00% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,404 32,367 37,457
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 +55 160 £65,000 +8.33% 48
UK excluding London +64 130 £62,500 +13.64% 55
Work from Home +39 53 £65,000 +5.44% 24
London +42 36 £75,000 +11.11% 11
East of England +45 35 £70,000 +55.56% 8
North of England +24 34 £65,000 +18.18% 6
South East +26 19 £60,000 +4.35% 21
Midlands +31 18 £55,000 +10.00% 3
North West +35 16 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +31 14 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire -7 11 £65,000 +18.18% 2
South West +13 10 £60,000 - 9
Scotland +3 9 £60,000 +20.00% 5
North East +12 7 £59,500 +19.00% 1
Wales +7 6 £55,000 +12.01% 5
East Midlands +13 4 £55,000 -4.35%

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2025, 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.

1 175 (97.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (42.78%) Azure
3 65 (36.11%) Windows
4 59 (32.78%) Firewall
5 50 (27.78%) VMware
6 49 (27.22%) Windows Server
7 44 (24.44%) Microsoft
8 39 (21.67%) Active Directory
9 36 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange
10 32 (17.78%) Terraform
11 29 (16.11%) Cisco
11 29 (16.11%) PowerShell
12 28 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
14 25 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (13.33%) Migration
16 23 (12.78%) Mentoring
16 23 (12.78%) Roadmaps
17 21 (11.67%) DevOps
18 20 (11.11%) AWS
19 19 (10.56%) Technology Roadmap
20 18 (10.00%) DNS
20 18 (10.00%) WAN
21 17 (9.44%) Azure Logic Apps
21 17 (9.44%) Hyper-V
21 17 (9.44%) Python
22 15 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
22 15 (8.33%) CI/CD
22 15 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery

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 32 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.22%) IIS
4 3 (1.67%) WinCC
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 77 (42.78%) Azure
2 36 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (11.11%) AWS
4 17 (9.44%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.22%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.78%) GCP
7 5 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.22%) Azure App Service
8 4 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.22%) GitHub
8 4 (2.22%) IaaS
8 4 (2.22%) PaaS
8 4 (2.22%) Route 53
9 3 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 59 (32.78%) Firewall
2 18 (10.00%) DNS
2 18 (10.00%) WAN
3 15 (8.33%) LAN
4 14 (7.78%) VPN
5 11 (6.11%) DHCP
6 10 (5.56%) TETRA
7 8 (4.44%) SAN
7 8 (4.44%) SD-WAN
8 6 (3.33%) VLAN
9 4 (2.22%) MPLS
9 4 (2.22%) Network Security
10 3 (1.67%) Modbus
10 3 (1.67%) SNMP
10 3 (1.67%) VSAN
10 3 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.11%) InfiniBand
11 2 (1.11%) SMTP
11 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.56%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.56%) Chocolatey
General
1 27 (15.00%) Finance
2 14 (7.78%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.56%) Law
4 7 (3.89%) Police
4 7 (3.89%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.78%) Banking
5 5 (2.78%) Legal
5 5 (2.78%) Local Government
5 5 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.78%) Retail
6 4 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.67%) Automotive
8 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.44%) .NET
2 5 (2.78%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.44%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.44%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.44%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.78%) NHS
6 4 (2.22%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.67%) SCADA
8 2 (1.11%) Clustering
8 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.56%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (36.11%) Windows
2 49 (27.22%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.11%) Linux
4 10 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.89%) VMS
5 7 (3.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.11%) Android
7 2 (1.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (97.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (13.33%) Migration
5 23 (12.78%) Mentoring
5 23 (12.78%) Roadmaps
6 21 (11.67%) DevOps
7 19 (10.56%) Technology Roadmap
8 15 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 15 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (7.22%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (6.11%) Asset Management
12 10 (5.56%) ITIL
12 10 (5.56%) Observability
12 10 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (5.00%) Agile
13 9 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (4.44%) SEO
14 8 (4.44%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.11%) PowerShell
2 17 (9.44%) Python
3 13 (7.22%) Bicep
4 10 (5.56%) SQL
5 4 (2.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (6.11%) Azure Certification
2 10 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.44%) Degree
5 6 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.78%) CCNP
7 4 (2.22%) CCNA
8 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.67%) MCSE
8 3 (1.67%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.11%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.67%) IEC 61131
2 3 (1.67%) IEC 61508
2 3 (1.67%) QA
2 3 (1.67%) SLA
3 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.11%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (21.67%) Active Directory
2 27 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (9.44%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.89%) Docker
5 6 (3.33%) vSphere
6 5 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.22%) XenApp
8 2 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.56%) Ceph
9 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.56%) Lustre
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.56%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (17.78%) Terraform
2 15 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.44%) Ansible
4 7 (3.89%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.22%) SCCM
6 3 (1.67%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.11%) PaperCut
7 2 (1.11%) SCOM
7 2 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.56%) Grafana
8 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.56%) Istio
8 1 (0.56%) linkerd
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (27.78%) VMware
2 44 (24.44%) Microsoft
3 29 (16.11%) Cisco
4 10 (5.56%) Dell
5 8 (4.44%) New Relic
5 8 (4.44%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.89%) Citrix
6 7 (3.89%) Veeam
7 6 (3.33%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.33%) Meraki
8 5 (2.78%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.22%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.22%) IBM
9 4 (2.22%) Juniper
9 4 (2.22%) SonicWALL
10 3 (1.67%) F5
10 3 (1.67%) Rockwell
10 3 (1.67%) Siemens
10 3 (1.67%) Splunk
11 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow