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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 540 503
Rank change year-on-year +124 -37 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 429 153 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.34% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 327 93 230
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,779 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,851
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +2.94%

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 101,050 44,873 78,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.93% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,068 26,506 52,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -4.00% -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 20 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 20 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 +92 366 £60,000 -4.00% 74
UK excluding London +96 348 £57,500 -4.17% 69
Work from Home +43 119 £65,000 - 27
North of England -1 86 £70,000 +9.80% 21
South West +4 85 £51,250 +2.50% 17
South East +16 69 £60,000 - 12
London -24 62 £80,000 +6.67% 14
North West +6 52 £70,000 +12.00% 11
Midlands +5 42 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Wales -25 42 £50,000 +4.01% 1
East Midlands -1 27 £48,500 -11.82% 4
Yorkshire -20 27 £60,000 -4.00% 5
East of England -17 17 £40,000 -36.00% 4
West Midlands -22 15 £55,000 - 2
North East -58 7 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Scotland 0 5 - - 8
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 415 (96.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 124 (28.90%) Azure
3 114 (26.57%) Microsoft
4 96 (22.38%) Windows
5 82 (19.11%) VMware
6 74 (17.25%) Active Directory
7 73 (17.02%) Windows Server
8 69 (16.08%) Microsoft 365
9 68 (15.85%) Firewall
10 62 (14.45%) WAN
11 60 (13.99%) DNS
11 60 (13.99%) VMware Infrastructure
12 57 (13.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 54 (12.59%) DHCP
13 54 (12.59%) LAN
13 54 (12.59%) VPN
14 51 (11.89%) PowerShell
15 49 (11.42%) Entra ID
16 45 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (9.79%) Project Delivery
18 39 (9.09%) ITIL
18 39 (9.09%) Linux
19 38 (8.86%) Cisco
20 34 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
21 33 (7.69%) AWS
21 33 (7.69%) TCP/IP
22 32 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
23 30 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
23 30 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
24 29 (6.76%) 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 (6.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (3.96%) AutoCAD
1 17 (3.96%) Civil 3D
2 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 124 (28.90%) Azure
2 69 (16.08%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (11.42%) Entra ID
4 33 (7.69%) AWS
5 13 (3.03%) OneDrive
6 12 (2.80%) GCP
6 12 (2.80%) SaaS
7 11 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (2.56%) Nutanix
8 10 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (2.33%) Azure AKS
8 10 (2.33%) IaaS
9 8 (1.86%) PaaS
10 7 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.63%) Datadog
11 6 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.17%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.93%) GitHub
13 4 (0.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 68 (15.85%) Firewall
2 62 (14.45%) WAN
3 60 (13.99%) DNS
4 54 (12.59%) DHCP
4 54 (12.59%) LAN
4 54 (12.59%) VPN
5 33 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 24 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (5.36%) Network Security
8 18 (4.20%) WLAN
9 15 (3.50%) BGP
10 14 (3.26%) VLAN
11 13 (3.03%) SAN
12 10 (2.33%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.10%) MPLS
14 8 (1.86%) SSL
15 7 (1.63%) Internet
16 6 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
16 6 (1.40%) IPsec
16 6 (1.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.33%) GitLab
2 5 (1.17%) JIRA
3 3 (0.70%) Git
4 2 (0.47%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Chocolatey
General
1 35 (8.16%) Public Sector
2 30 (6.99%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.43%) Finance
4 12 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.10%) Legal
6 9 (2.10%) Retail
6 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.86%) Banking
8 4 (0.93%) Law
9 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.47%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.76%) Terraform
2 6 (1.40%) ARM Templates
3 4 (0.93%) ModSecurity
4 3 (0.70%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.47%) Kafka
5 2 (0.47%) REST
6 1 (0.23%) OAuth
6 1 (0.23%) OpenID
6 1 (0.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.66%) Data Centre
2 15 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.56%) PKI
3 11 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (1.63%) Replication
5 6 (1.40%) Clustering
5 6 (1.40%) CMDB
5 6 (1.40%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.17%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.70%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.70%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.23%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.38%) Windows
2 73 (17.02%) Windows Server
3 39 (9.09%) Linux
4 11 (2.56%) Unix
5 8 (1.86%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.47%) Android
6 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.47%) CentOS
6 2 (0.47%) VMS
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (96.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (13.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (9.79%) Project Delivery
5 39 (9.09%) ITIL
6 34 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (6.76%) Business Continuity
8 29 (6.76%) Mentoring
9 24 (5.59%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (5.59%) Incident Management
10 23 (5.36%) High Availability
11 20 (4.66%) Migration
11 20 (4.66%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (4.20%) Change Management
12 18 (4.20%) CI/CD
12 18 (4.20%) SIEM
13 17 (3.96%) Incident Response
13 17 (3.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (3.73%) AI
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.89%) PowerShell
2 27 (6.29%) Python
3 16 (3.73%) SQL
4 10 (2.33%) Bicep
5 4 (0.93%) Bash
5 4 (0.93%) R
6 3 (0.70%) Go
6 3 (0.70%) Java
7 2 (0.47%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.59%) Degree
3 22 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.66%) CCNP
4 20 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.33%) CCIE
9 8 (1.86%) CCNA
9 8 (1.86%) MCSE
10 7 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (1.40%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.10%) GDPR
3 8 (1.86%) SLA
4 5 (1.17%) NIST
5 3 (0.70%) COBIT
5 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 74 (17.25%) Active Directory
2 60 (13.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (6.76%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.43%) vSphere
5 10 (2.33%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.70%) Docker
9 3 (0.70%) Lustre
9 3 (0.70%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.47%) Firmware
10 2 (0.47%) KVM
10 2 (0.47%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.23%) GPFS
11 1 (0.23%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (5.83%) Ansible
3 14 (3.26%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.17%) VxRail
7 4 (0.93%) WSUS
8 3 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.70%) Grafana
9 2 (0.47%) Argo
9 2 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.47%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.47%) SCCM
9 2 (0.47%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.23%) Nessus
10 1 (0.23%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 114 (26.57%) Microsoft
2 82 (19.11%) VMware
3 38 (8.86%) Cisco
4 20 (4.66%) Veeam
5 13 (3.03%) HP
5 13 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.56%) Zscaler
7 10 (2.33%) Meraki
8 9 (2.10%) Zerto
9 8 (1.86%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.63%) Apple
10 7 (1.63%) Aruba
10 7 (1.63%) Citrix
10 7 (1.63%) Dell
11 6 (1.40%) Qualys
11 6 (1.40%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.17%) EMC
12 5 (1.17%) Tenable
12 5 (1.17%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (0.93%) Netskope