Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 529 471
Rank change year-on-year +96 -58 +203
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 310 116 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.28% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.31% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 234 97 385
10th Percentile £48,221 £43,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £48,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,465 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% +3.36% +4.46%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £51,729 £57,500
% change year-on-year +25.65% -10.04% +9.52%

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 81,853 37,403 89,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 89.35% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 52,380 23,534 66,447
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +81 270 £65,576 +6.38% 48
UK excluding London +92 239 £65,000 +25.65% 45
Work from Home +37 95 £65,576 +16.58% 30
North of England -20 65 £65,576 +19.23% 19
London +7 59 £82,500 - 11
South East -3 42 £57,000 -0.87% 14
Midlands -19 36 £55,000 +10.00% 3
North West -8 35 £67,788 +35.58% 11
South West -30 32 £65,000 +23.81%
East of England -17 26 £75,000 +54.64% 3
West Midlands -1 25 £67,500 +50.00% 2
Wales -11 22 £65,000 +32.37% 6
Yorkshire -51 21 £65,576 +13.59% 2
East Midlands -55 11 £52,500 -7.89% 1
Scotland - 11 - - 1
North East - 9 £65,576 - 6
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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.

1 301 (97.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 115 (37.10%) Azure
3 97 (31.29%) Microsoft
4 82 (26.45%) VMware
5 80 (25.81%) Windows
6 66 (21.29%) Firewall
7 65 (20.97%) Active Directory
8 58 (18.71%) DNS
8 58 (18.71%) Windows Server
9 54 (17.42%) Microsoft 365
9 54 (17.42%) VMware Infrastructure
10 52 (16.77%) DHCP
11 51 (16.45%) VPN
12 48 (15.48%) Disaster Recovery
13 47 (15.16%) WAN
14 46 (14.84%) ITIL
15 43 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (13.55%) Microsoft Intune
17 41 (13.23%) Entra ID
18 37 (11.94%) PowerShell
19 36 (11.61%) Security Cleared
20 33 (10.65%) LAN
21 32 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
22 31 (10.00%) Terraform
23 30 (9.68%) AWS
24 28 (9.03%) CI/CD
24 28 (9.03%) Cisco
25 26 (8.39%) Mentoring
25 26 (8.39%) Root Cause Analysis
25 26 (8.39%) TCP/IP

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 24 (7.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) AutoCAD
1 3 (0.97%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 115 (37.10%) Azure
2 54 (17.42%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (13.23%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.68%) AWS
5 16 (5.16%) IaaS
6 15 (4.84%) SaaS
7 11 (3.55%) OneDrive
7 11 (3.55%) PaaS
8 10 (3.23%) Datadog
9 9 (2.90%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.58%) GCP
11 6 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.61%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.29%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 66 (21.29%) Firewall
2 58 (18.71%) DNS
3 52 (16.77%) DHCP
4 51 (16.45%) VPN
5 47 (15.16%) WAN
6 33 (10.65%) LAN
7 26 (8.39%) TCP/IP
8 21 (6.77%) SD-WAN
9 19 (6.13%) SAN
10 15 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (4.52%) BGP
11 14 (4.52%) VLAN
12 11 (3.55%) MPLS
13 10 (3.23%) Network Security
14 6 (1.94%) WLAN
15 5 (1.61%) OSPF
16 4 (1.29%) HSRP
16 4 (1.29%) NAS
16 4 (1.29%) VPLS
16 4 (1.29%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.55%) GitLab
2 8 (2.58%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) Git
4 1 (0.32%) JIRA
General
1 31 (10.00%) Finance
1 31 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.42%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.55%) Banking
4 11 (3.55%) Retail
5 7 (2.26%) Legal
6 4 (1.29%) Law
7 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.65%) Police
8 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.94%) .NET
2 5 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.29%) ModSecurity
4 3 (0.97%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.65%) Kafka
5 2 (0.65%) Keycloak
5 2 (0.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.26%) PKI
4 7 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.61%) Replication
7 4 (1.29%) CMDB
7 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.97%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.97%) YubiKey
9 2 (0.65%) Clustering
9 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.65%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.32%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (25.81%) Windows
2 58 (18.71%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.45%) Apple iOS
4 19 (6.13%) Linux
5 12 (3.87%) Android
6 8 (2.58%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.94%) VMS
8 5 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.29%) Unix
10 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.65%) CentOS
11 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (97.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (15.48%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (14.84%) ITIL
4 43 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (9.03%) CI/CD
7 26 (8.39%) Mentoring
7 26 (8.39%) Root Cause Analysis
8 25 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (6.77%) DevOps
10 20 (6.45%) Migration
11 19 (6.13%) Incident Management
12 18 (5.81%) Computer Science
13 16 (5.16%) High Availability
13 16 (5.16%) Project Delivery
14 15 (4.84%) Performance Monitoring
14 15 (4.84%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (4.84%) Service Delivery
14 15 (4.84%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (4.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 37 (11.94%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.16%) Python
3 15 (4.84%) Bicep
4 9 (2.90%) SQL
5 4 (1.29%) Bash
6 2 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 36 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.06%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.74%) Degree
4 23 (7.42%) DV Cleared
5 21 (6.77%) Azure Certification
5 21 (6.77%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (5.16%) CCNP
9 10 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (2.90%) MCSE
11 8 (2.58%) CCIE
12 5 (1.61%) CCNA
13 2 (0.65%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.32%) Citrix Certification
14 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.58%) NIST
2 8 (2.58%) SLA
3 6 (1.94%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.32%) COBIT
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 65 (20.97%) Active Directory
2 54 (17.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.48%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.90%) vSphere
5 8 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.58%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.61%) KVM
8 4 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.97%) Docker
10 2 (0.65%) Firmware
10 2 (0.65%) XenApp
11 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.32%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (13.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (10.00%) Terraform
3 20 (6.45%) Ansible
4 16 (5.16%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.90%) SCCM
6 6 (1.94%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.94%) VxRail
7 5 (1.61%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.29%) WSUS
9 3 (0.97%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.65%) Grafana
10 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.32%) Nessus
11 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (31.29%) Microsoft
2 82 (26.45%) VMware
3 28 (9.03%) Cisco
4 15 (4.84%) Tenable
4 15 (4.84%) Veeam
5 14 (4.52%) Palo Alto
6 12 (3.87%) AppDynamics
6 12 (3.87%) Apple
6 12 (3.87%) Samsung
7 10 (3.23%) Dell
8 9 (2.90%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.90%) Zerto
9 8 (2.58%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.26%) Citrix
10 7 (2.26%) HP
10 7 (2.26%) Meraki
10 7 (2.26%) Splunk
11 6 (1.94%) New Relic
11 6 (1.94%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.61%) Juniper