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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 569 458
Rank change year-on-year +152 -111 +178
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 347 115 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.26% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.29% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 241 78 413
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £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 £75,000 £83,438 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.54% +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 86,830 39,579 100,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.52% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,401 22,377 72,921
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,878 £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 11 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 11 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 +97 294 £65,000 - 46
UK excluding London +138 279 £65,000 +13.54% 39
Work from Home +49 84 £66,538 +10.90% 22
North of England +7 72 £67,788 +12.98% 8
London -2 56 £80,000 -3.03% 13
South East +17 51 £60,000 +14.29% 14
South West -9 48 £65,000 +25.65% 5
Midlands +14 43 £55,000 - 6
North West +19 37 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Wales -17 30 £50,000 +4.01% 5
West Midlands +2 28 £57,500 +15.93% 4
Yorkshire -22 28 £62,788 +6.87% 1
East of England -3 18 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands -12 15 £50,000 -10.71% 2
Scotland - 12 - -
North East -37 7 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 341 (98.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 115 (33.14%) Azure
3 110 (31.70%) Microsoft
4 85 (24.50%) VMware
5 78 (22.48%) Windows
6 68 (19.60%) Active Directory
7 65 (18.73%) VMware Infrastructure
8 62 (17.87%) DNS
9 60 (17.29%) Windows Server
10 59 (17.00%) VPN
11 58 (16.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 58 (16.71%) Microsoft 365
12 55 (15.85%) DHCP
13 52 (14.99%) WAN
14 51 (14.70%) Firewall
15 46 (13.26%) Entra ID
16 44 (12.68%) ITIL
17 42 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (11.82%) PowerShell
19 38 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
20 37 (10.66%) LAN
21 35 (10.09%) Security Cleared
22 34 (9.80%) AWS
23 30 (8.65%) TCP/IP
24 29 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
25 26 (7.49%) Root Cause Analysis
25 26 (7.49%) Terraform
26 25 (7.20%) Degree
27 24 (6.92%) CI/CD
27 24 (6.92%) Cisco

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 23 (6.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.31%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.44%) AutoCAD
1 5 (1.44%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 115 (33.14%) Azure
2 58 (16.71%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (13.26%) Entra ID
4 34 (9.80%) AWS
5 15 (4.32%) IaaS
6 13 (3.75%) SaaS
7 12 (3.46%) Nutanix
8 11 (3.17%) OneDrive
9 10 (2.88%) Datadog
9 10 (2.88%) PaaS
10 8 (2.31%) GCP
11 7 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.15%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.15%) Mimecast
15 3 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (17.87%) DNS
2 59 (17.00%) VPN
3 55 (15.85%) DHCP
4 52 (14.99%) WAN
5 51 (14.70%) Firewall
6 37 (10.66%) LAN
7 30 (8.65%) TCP/IP
8 18 (5.19%) SAN
8 18 (5.19%) SD-WAN
9 14 (4.03%) BGP
9 14 (4.03%) WLAN
10 13 (3.75%) Network Security
10 13 (3.75%) VLAN
11 11 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (2.59%) MPLS
13 6 (1.73%) NAS
14 5 (1.44%) IPsec
14 5 (1.44%) OSPF
14 5 (1.44%) SSH
14 5 (1.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.46%) GitLab
2 6 (1.73%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.58%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.58%) Git
3 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.29%) JIRA
General
1 34 (9.80%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.07%) Finance
3 27 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.88%) Banking
6 8 (2.31%) Legal
6 8 (2.31%) Retail
7 6 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.29%) Law
9 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.44%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.15%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.86%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.58%) Kafka
4 2 (0.58%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.58%) Middleware
5 1 (0.29%) OAuth
5 1 (0.29%) OpenID
5 1 (0.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.92%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.17%) PKI
4 7 (2.02%) Replication
5 6 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.44%) CMDB
6 5 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.15%) Clustering
7 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.86%) YubiKey
9 2 (0.58%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.58%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 78 (22.48%) Windows
2 60 (17.29%) Windows Server
3 24 (6.92%) Linux
4 19 (5.48%) Apple iOS
5 11 (3.17%) Android
6 8 (2.31%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.44%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.15%) Unix
9 3 (0.86%) VMS
10 2 (0.58%) CentOS
10 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (98.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (16.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 44 (12.68%) ITIL
4 42 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (7.49%) Root Cause Analysis
7 24 (6.92%) CI/CD
7 24 (6.92%) Mentoring
8 23 (6.63%) Project Delivery
9 21 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (6.05%) High Availability
10 19 (5.48%) Cloud Operations
10 19 (5.48%) Migration
11 18 (5.19%) Computer Science
11 18 (5.19%) Incident Management
12 17 (4.90%) Problem Management
12 17 (4.90%) Service Delivery
12 17 (4.90%) Service Management
12 17 (4.90%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (4.61%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 41 (11.82%) PowerShell
2 18 (5.19%) Python
3 11 (3.17%) SQL
4 8 (2.31%) Bicep
5 4 (1.15%) Bash
6 2 (0.58%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (10.09%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.20%) Degree
3 24 (6.92%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.34%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.05%) CCNP
6 18 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.46%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (3.17%) CCIE
9 11 (3.17%) MCSE
10 7 (2.02%) CCNA
11 5 (1.44%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.31%) NIST
3 7 (2.02%) GDPR
4 6 (1.73%) SLA
5 3 (0.86%) COBIT
6 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 68 (19.60%) Active Directory
2 65 (18.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.05%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.32%) vSphere
5 9 (2.59%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.44%) KVM
8 4 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.86%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.58%) Docker
11 1 (0.29%) Firmware
11 1 (0.29%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (7.49%) Terraform
3 23 (6.63%) Ansible
4 10 (2.88%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.31%) VxRail
6 7 (2.02%) SCCM
6 7 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.02%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.73%) WSUS
8 3 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.58%) Grafana
9 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.29%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.29%) Nessus
10 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 110 (31.70%) Microsoft
2 85 (24.50%) VMware
3 24 (6.92%) Cisco
4 16 (4.61%) Veeam
5 15 (4.32%) Tenable
6 11 (3.17%) Apple
6 11 (3.17%) HP
6 11 (3.17%) Zerto
7 10 (2.88%) Dell
7 10 (2.88%) Samsung
8 9 (2.59%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.31%) Meraki
10 7 (2.02%) Splunk
11 6 (1.73%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.73%) Citrix
11 6 (1.73%) Commvault
11 6 (1.73%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.73%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.44%) EMC
12 5 (1.44%) Fortinet