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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 538 461
Rank change year-on-year +113 -77 +174
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 364 124 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.28% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.31% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 259 84 417
10th Percentile £44,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,313 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +2.68%
75th Percentile £71,875 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +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 88,632 40,228 103,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.47% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,836 22,885 74,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,603
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 £98,474 £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 21 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 21 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 +94 311 £65,000 - 48
UK excluding London +114 296 £60,000 +4.35% 60
Work from Home +48 88 £65,576 +9.29% 23
North of England +6 75 £70,000 +14.29% 9
London +1 54 £80,000 -3.03% 14
South East +12 52 £60,000 +14.29% 12
South West -16 52 £65,000 +31.01% 11
Midlands +20 50 £55,000 -1.79% 4
North West +14 39 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Wales -22 33 £50,000 +4.01% 22
West Midlands +3 31 £56,250 -1.83% 1
Yorkshire -17 29 £60,000 -4.00% 2
East of England +1 21 £40,000 -33.33% 3
East Midlands -11 19 £52,500 -6.25% 3
Scotland - 8 - -
North East -41 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 359 (98.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 122 (33.52%) Azure
3 116 (31.87%) Microsoft
4 86 (23.63%) VMware
5 83 (22.80%) Windows
6 72 (19.78%) Active Directory
7 69 (18.96%) VMware Infrastructure
8 65 (17.86%) DNS
9 64 (17.58%) Windows Server
10 63 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
11 62 (17.03%) Disaster Recovery
11 62 (17.03%) VPN
12 59 (16.21%) DHCP
13 56 (15.38%) Firewall
14 54 (14.84%) WAN
15 50 (13.74%) Entra ID
16 48 (13.19%) PowerShell
17 45 (12.36%) ITIL
18 41 (11.26%) LAN
18 41 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
19 40 (10.99%) Microsoft Intune
20 37 (10.16%) Security Cleared
21 34 (9.34%) AWS
22 31 (8.52%) TCP/IP
23 30 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
23 30 (8.24%) Project Delivery
24 27 (7.42%) Cisco
24 27 (7.42%) Mentoring
25 26 (7.14%) Terraform
26 25 (6.87%) 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 25 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.20%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.65%) AutoCAD
1 6 (1.65%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 122 (33.52%) Azure
2 63 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (13.74%) Entra ID
4 34 (9.34%) AWS
5 14 (3.85%) IaaS
6 12 (3.30%) Nutanix
6 12 (3.30%) SaaS
7 11 (3.02%) OneDrive
8 9 (2.47%) Datadog
8 9 (2.47%) PaaS
9 8 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (2.20%) GCP
9 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.10%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.10%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 65 (17.86%) DNS
2 62 (17.03%) VPN
3 59 (16.21%) DHCP
4 56 (15.38%) Firewall
5 54 (14.84%) WAN
6 41 (11.26%) LAN
7 31 (8.52%) TCP/IP
8 17 (4.67%) SAN
8 17 (4.67%) WLAN
9 16 (4.40%) SD-WAN
9 16 (4.40%) VLAN
10 15 (4.12%) Network Security
11 14 (3.85%) BGP
12 12 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (2.47%) MPLS
14 6 (1.65%) IPsec
14 6 (1.65%) NAS
14 6 (1.65%) SSH
14 6 (1.65%) SSL
15 5 (1.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.30%) GitLab
2 5 (1.37%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.55%) Git
3 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 35 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 28 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 26 (7.14%) Finance
4 13 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.47%) Banking
6 8 (2.20%) Legal
6 8 (2.20%) Retail
7 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.55%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.27%) Automotive
9 1 (0.27%) Law
9 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.37%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.10%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.82%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.55%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.55%) Kafka
4 2 (0.55%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.55%) Middleware
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) OpenID
5 1 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.59%) Data Centre
2 18 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.30%) PKI
4 7 (1.92%) Replication
5 5 (1.37%) CMDB
5 5 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.10%) Clustering
6 4 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.82%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.55%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.55%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (22.80%) Windows
2 64 (17.58%) Windows Server
3 23 (6.32%) Linux
4 18 (4.95%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.30%) Android
6 6 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.10%) Unix
8 3 (0.82%) VMS
9 2 (0.55%) CentOS
9 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (98.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (17.03%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (12.36%) ITIL
4 41 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (8.24%) Project Delivery
6 27 (7.42%) Mentoring
7 24 (6.59%) CI/CD
7 24 (6.59%) Root Cause Analysis
8 22 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (5.77%) High Availability
10 19 (5.22%) Cloud Operations
11 18 (4.95%) Incident Management
11 18 (4.95%) Migration
12 17 (4.67%) Business Continuity
12 17 (4.67%) Computer Science
12 17 (4.67%) Problem Management
12 17 (4.67%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (4.40%) Incident Response
13 16 (4.40%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (13.19%) PowerShell
2 19 (5.22%) Python
3 12 (3.30%) SQL
4 9 (2.47%) Bicep
5 4 (1.10%) Bash
6 2 (0.55%) Go
7 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.87%) DV Cleared
3 24 (6.59%) Degree
4 23 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (6.32%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.04%) CCNP
6 17 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.30%) CCIE
7 12 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (3.02%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.02%) MCSE
9 7 (1.92%) CCNA
10 6 (1.65%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.20%) GDPR
2 8 (2.20%) NIST
3 5 (1.37%) SLA
4 3 (0.82%) COBIT
5 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 72 (19.78%) Active Directory
2 69 (18.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (6.87%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.95%) vSphere
5 10 (2.75%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.37%) KVM
10 3 (0.82%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.55%) Docker
12 1 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (10.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (7.14%) Terraform
3 23 (6.32%) Ansible
4 11 (3.02%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.47%) VxRail
6 7 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.92%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.65%) SCCM
7 6 (1.65%) WSUS
8 3 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.55%) Grafana
9 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.55%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.27%) Nessus
10 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 116 (31.87%) Microsoft
2 86 (23.63%) VMware
3 27 (7.42%) Cisco
4 18 (4.95%) Veeam
5 14 (3.85%) Tenable
6 11 (3.02%) Apple
6 11 (3.02%) HP
6 11 (3.02%) Zerto
7 10 (2.75%) Dell
7 10 (2.75%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.75%) Samsung
8 9 (2.47%) Meraki
9 7 (1.92%) Splunk
10 6 (1.65%) Citrix
10 6 (1.65%) Commvault
10 6 (1.65%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.65%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.37%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.37%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.37%) EMC