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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 546 497
Rank change year-on-year +111 -49 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 411 148 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.30% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.33% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 316 93 252
10th Percentile £42,875 £47,779 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -

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 99,002 44,694 78,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 90.02% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 67,676 26,534 53,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,450
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -6.79%

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 8 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 8 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 +68 352 £60,000 -4.00% 104
UK excluding London +91 333 £57,500 -4.17% 61
Work from Home +28 110 £65,000 +4.00% 38
North of England -14 82 £65,576 +2.86% 17
South West -5 75 £50,000 - 17
South East +12 66 £60,000 - 13
London -16 60 £77,500 +3.33% 46
North West +10 45 £70,000 +12.00% 13
Midlands +3 43 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Wales -24 39 £50,000 +4.01% 1
Yorkshire -20 30 £60,000 -4.00% 3
East Midlands +3 28 £50,000 -9.09% 1
East of England -21 18 £40,000 -36.00% 4
West Midlands -17 15 £55,000 - 4
North East -50 7 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland +16 5 - - 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 400 (97.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 134 (32.60%) Azure
3 117 (28.47%) Microsoft
4 91 (22.14%) Windows
5 86 (20.92%) VMware
6 73 (17.76%) Active Directory
7 69 (16.79%) Windows Server
8 68 (16.55%) Firewall
9 66 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
9 66 (16.06%) VMware Infrastructure
10 64 (15.57%) WAN
11 63 (15.33%) DNS
12 61 (14.84%) Disaster Recovery
13 58 (14.11%) Entra ID
14 56 (13.63%) DHCP
14 56 (13.63%) LAN
14 56 (13.63%) VPN
15 53 (12.90%) PowerShell
16 44 (10.71%) ITIL
17 41 (9.98%) Project Delivery
18 40 (9.73%) AWS
18 40 (9.73%) Microsoft Intune
19 39 (9.49%) Cisco
19 39 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
20 36 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
21 34 (8.27%) TCP/IP
22 33 (8.03%) Incident Management
23 31 (7.54%) Linux
24 30 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
24 30 (7.30%) Security 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 30 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (5.35%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (3.89%) AutoCAD
1 16 (3.89%) Civil 3D
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 134 (32.60%) Azure
2 66 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (14.11%) Entra ID
4 40 (9.73%) AWS
5 13 (3.16%) OneDrive
6 12 (2.92%) Nutanix
7 11 (2.68%) GCP
7 11 (2.68%) IaaS
7 11 (2.68%) SaaS
8 10 (2.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (1.70%) Datadog
10 6 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.46%) PaaS
11 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.22%) Mimecast
12 4 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.97%) Azure AKS
12 4 (0.97%) GitHub
12 4 (0.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 68 (16.55%) Firewall
2 64 (15.57%) WAN
3 63 (15.33%) DNS
4 56 (13.63%) DHCP
4 56 (13.63%) LAN
4 56 (13.63%) VPN
5 34 (8.27%) TCP/IP
6 23 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (5.11%) Network Security
8 19 (4.62%) WLAN
9 15 (3.65%) BGP
9 15 (3.65%) VLAN
10 14 (3.41%) SAN
11 11 (2.68%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.19%) MPLS
13 8 (1.95%) SSL
14 6 (1.46%) Internet
14 6 (1.46%) IPsec
14 6 (1.46%) NAS
14 6 (1.46%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.68%) GitLab
2 5 (1.22%) JIRA
3 2 (0.49%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.49%) Git
3 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.24%) Chocolatey
General
1 35 (8.52%) Public Sector
2 31 (7.54%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.62%) Finance
4 10 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.19%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.95%) Legal
6 8 (1.95%) Retail
7 7 (1.70%) Banking
8 4 (0.97%) Law
9 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.24%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.46%) ARM Templates
2 4 (0.97%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.73%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.49%) Kafka
4 2 (0.49%) REST
5 1 (0.24%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.24%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.24%) OAuth
5 1 (0.24%) OpenID
5 1 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.35%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.68%) PKI
4 10 (2.43%) Replication
5 7 (1.70%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (1.46%) Clustering
6 6 (1.46%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.22%) CMDB
7 5 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.73%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.49%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.49%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.49%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.24%) Fat Client
11 1 (0.24%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (22.14%) Windows
2 69 (16.79%) Windows Server
3 31 (7.54%) Linux
4 11 (2.68%) Android
4 11 (2.68%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.95%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.22%) Unix
7 3 (0.73%) VMS
8 2 (0.49%) CentOS
8 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (97.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (14.84%) Disaster Recovery
3 44 (10.71%) ITIL
4 41 (9.98%) Project Delivery
5 39 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (8.03%) Incident Management
8 29 (7.06%) Mentoring
9 28 (6.81%) Business Continuity
9 28 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (6.81%) Root Cause Analysis
10 25 (6.08%) CI/CD
11 24 (5.84%) High Availability
12 20 (4.87%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (4.87%) Migration
13 17 (4.14%) Incident Response
13 17 (4.14%) SIEM
13 17 (4.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (3.89%) Change Management
14 16 (3.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 26 (6.33%) Python
3 15 (3.65%) SQL
4 10 (2.43%) Bicep
5 4 (0.97%) Bash
5 4 (0.97%) R
6 3 (0.73%) Go
7 2 (0.49%) C++
7 2 (0.49%) Java
8 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (7.30%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.08%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.84%) CCNP
3 24 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (5.60%) Degree
5 17 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.92%) MCSE
8 12 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (2.68%) CCIE
10 8 (1.95%) CCNA
11 7 (1.70%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.46%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.19%) GDPR
3 8 (1.95%) SLA
4 5 (1.22%) NIST
5 3 (0.73%) COBIT
5 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (17.76%) Active Directory
2 66 (16.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (7.06%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.62%) vSphere
5 10 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.43%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.22%) KVM
7 5 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.73%) Docker
8 3 (0.73%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.49%) Firmware
9 2 (0.49%) Lustre
9 2 (0.49%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.24%) GPFS
10 1 (0.24%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (9.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (7.06%) Terraform
3 26 (6.33%) Ansible
4 15 (3.65%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.70%) vCenter Server
5 7 (1.70%) VxRail
6 5 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.22%) WSUS
7 3 (0.73%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.73%) Grafana
8 2 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.49%) SCCM
8 2 (0.49%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.24%) Nessus
9 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 117 (28.47%) Microsoft
2 86 (20.92%) VMware
3 39 (9.49%) Cisco
4 24 (5.84%) Veeam
5 14 (3.41%) Apple
5 14 (3.41%) HP
6 13 (3.16%) Palo Alto
6 13 (3.16%) Zerto
7 11 (2.68%) Meraki
7 11 (2.68%) Zscaler
8 9 (2.19%) Dell
8 9 (2.19%) Samsung
9 8 (1.95%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.46%) Aruba
10 6 (1.46%) Citrix
10 6 (1.46%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.46%) Tenable
11 5 (1.22%) Commvault
11 5 (1.22%) EMC
11 5 (1.22%) Ubiquiti