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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 508 492
Rank change year-on-year +148 -16 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 564 149 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.34% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 410 93 172
10th Percentile £43,000 £48,925 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,617
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +15.71% -

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 109,883 44,162 67,664
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 89.77% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,751 25,776 38,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

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 October 2026.

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 15 October 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 +126 481 £60,000 -7.69% 186
UK excluding London +99 462 £60,000 -1.23% 153
Work from Home +61 166 £65,576 +0.89% 266
North of England +21 135 £67,788 +4.29% 47
South West +19 105 £50,000 - 15
North West +29 83 £65,576 +0.89% 30
South East +7 77 £60,000 - 25
London -39 68 £65,000 -10.34% 56
Midlands +5 61 £55,000 - 19
Wales -29 41 £50,000 +4.01% 12
Yorkshire -12 35 £65,576 +2.86% 11
East Midlands - 34 £55,000 - 9
West Midlands -31 27 £55,000 - 10
East of England -39 27 £45,000 -30.77% 16
Scotland +24 17 £55,000 -8.33% 20
North East -52 17 £70,000 +7.69% 6

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 548 (97.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 146 (25.89%) Microsoft
3 130 (23.05%) Azure
4 107 (18.97%) Windows
5 85 (15.07%) Active Directory
6 80 (14.18%) VMware
6 80 (14.18%) Windows Server
7 78 (13.83%) Microsoft 365
8 68 (12.06%) Entra ID
9 61 (10.82%) Firewall
10 60 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 60 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
11 57 (10.11%) Linux
12 53 (9.40%) VPN
13 52 (9.22%) DNS
14 51 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (8.87%) WAN
16 49 (8.69%) PowerShell
17 48 (8.51%) Security Cleared
18 47 (8.33%) AWS
18 47 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 45 (7.98%) Microsoft Intune
20 44 (7.80%) DHCP
21 43 (7.62%) LAN
22 42 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
23 40 (7.09%) DevOps
23 40 (7.09%) Hyper-V
23 40 (7.09%) Technical Leadership
24 38 (6.74%) ITIL
24 38 (6.74%) Terraform

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 33 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.71%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (3.55%) AutoCAD
2 19 (3.37%) Civil 3D
3 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (23.05%) Azure
2 78 (13.83%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (12.06%) Entra ID
4 47 (8.33%) AWS
5 22 (3.90%) SaaS
6 17 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 16 (2.84%) IaaS
8 15 (2.66%) OneDrive
9 14 (2.48%) PowerApps
10 13 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (2.13%) PaaS
12 10 (1.77%) GCP
13 9 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (1.42%) Nutanix
14 8 (1.42%) OCI
15 6 (1.06%) Azure AKS
15 6 (1.06%) Datadog
15 6 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.89%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 61 (10.82%) Firewall
2 53 (9.40%) VPN
3 52 (9.22%) DNS
4 50 (8.87%) WAN
5 44 (7.80%) DHCP
6 43 (7.62%) LAN
7 35 (6.21%) TCP/IP
8 25 (4.43%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (4.26%) Network Security
10 20 (3.55%) VLAN
11 16 (2.84%) WLAN
12 12 (2.13%) SAN
13 11 (1.95%) Internet
14 9 (1.60%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (1.42%) SSL
16 7 (1.24%) BGP
16 7 (1.24%) SSH
17 6 (1.06%) IPsec
17 6 (1.06%) NAS
18 5 (0.89%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.24%) Git
1 7 (1.24%) JIRA
2 5 (0.89%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.35%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.35%) GitLab
4 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
General
1 45 (7.98%) Public Sector
2 38 (6.74%) Social Skills
3 20 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (3.19%) Finance
5 16 (2.84%) Retail
6 12 (2.13%) Banking
7 10 (1.77%) Legal
7 10 (1.77%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (1.60%) Law
9 6 (1.06%) Back Office
10 5 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.35%) Local Government
12 2 (0.35%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.35%) Marketing
12 2 (0.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.74%) Terraform
2 5 (0.89%) ARM Templates
2 5 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (0.89%) RESTful
3 3 (0.53%) REST
4 1 (0.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.18%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.18%) CSS
4 1 (0.18%) HTML
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.18%) OAuth
4 1 (0.18%) OpenID
4 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (2.84%) Public Cloud
2 14 (2.48%) Low-Code
3 13 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 12 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 11 (1.95%) PKI
6 10 (1.77%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.42%) Replication
8 7 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (1.24%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.06%) Clustering
9 6 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.89%) Blog
10 5 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.89%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.53%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.35%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 107 (18.97%) Windows
2 80 (14.18%) Windows Server
3 57 (10.11%) Linux
4 15 (2.66%) Unix
5 9 (1.60%) macOS
6 4 (0.71%) CentOS
6 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.35%) Android
7 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.18%) Rocky
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (97.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
3 51 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (7.09%) DevOps
6 40 (7.09%) Technical Leadership
7 38 (6.74%) ITIL
8 37 (6.56%) Project Delivery
9 36 (6.38%) Mentoring
10 35 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
11 33 (5.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 30 (5.32%) Business Continuity
12 30 (5.32%) CI/CD
13 29 (5.14%) Migration
14 27 (4.79%) Coaching
15 25 (4.43%) Incident Management
16 23 (4.08%) Change Management
17 22 (3.90%) Problem Management
18 21 (3.72%) AI
Programming Languages
1 49 (8.69%) PowerShell
2 26 (4.61%) Python
3 20 (3.55%) SQL
4 12 (2.13%) Bash
4 12 (2.13%) Go
5 9 (1.60%) Bicep
5 9 (1.60%) Java
6 4 (0.71%) R
7 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.35%) C++
9 1 (0.18%) C#
9 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.18%) Perl
9 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) Ruby
9 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 23 (4.08%) DV Cleared
2 23 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 21 (3.72%) Degree
4 13 (2.30%) CCNP
4 13 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.24%) CCNA
8 6 (1.06%) CCIE
8 6 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.06%) JNCIP
9 4 (0.71%) MCSE
10 3 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) CCA
12 1 (0.18%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.60%) SLA
3 6 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.89%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.71%) GDPR
6 3 (0.53%) COBIT
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 85 (15.07%) Active Directory
2 60 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (7.09%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.37%) vSphere
5 11 (1.95%) Docker
6 6 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.53%) Lustre
9 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.53%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.35%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.18%) Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) GPFS
11 1 (0.18%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (7.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.55%) Ansible
4 17 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.06%) Grafana
5 6 (1.06%) SCCM
6 5 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.71%) Nessus
7 4 (0.71%) SCOM
7 4 (0.71%) vRealize
7 4 (0.71%) VxRail
7 4 (0.71%) WSUS
8 3 (0.53%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.35%) Argo
9 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.35%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 146 (25.89%) Microsoft
2 80 (14.18%) VMware
3 34 (6.03%) Cisco
4 20 (3.55%) Veeam
5 17 (3.01%) Citrix
6 13 (2.30%) Oracle
7 12 (2.13%) Meraki
7 12 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.95%) HP
8 11 (1.95%) Zscaler
9 10 (1.77%) Aruba
9 10 (1.77%) Google
10 9 (1.60%) Qualys
11 7 (1.24%) Apple
12 6 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.06%) Dell
12 6 (1.06%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.06%) Zerto
13 5 (0.89%) Tenable
13 5 (0.89%) Ubiquiti