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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 558 469
Rank change year-on-year +139 -89 +205
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 336 95 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.22% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.25% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 243 69 384
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £41,975
25th Percentile £50,625 £49,050 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,875 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 - £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £52,115 £56,000
% change year-on-year +17.53% -6.94% +6.67%

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 87,062 38,144 94,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 89.31% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,930 21,418 69,018
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +103 280 £65,000 +8.33% 68
UK excluding London +129 267 £61,250 +17.53% 66
Work from Home +57 87 £65,576 +24.91% 25
North of England +5 70 £65,576 +14.05% 19
London -13 59 £80,000 -3.03% 10
South East +18 50 £60,000 +14.29% 16
Midlands -2 40 £55,000 - 8
South West -27 37 £65,000 +25.65% 14
North West +13 36 £70,000 +40.00% 10
Wales -10 33 £52,794 +9.82% 4
Yorkshire -31 27 £65,576 +4.92% 4
West Midlands -10 26 £70,000 +41.13% 4
East of England -14 18 £60,000 +9.09% 2
East Midlands -18 14 £50,000 -10.71% 4
Scotland - 14 - - 4
North East - 7 £70,000 - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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.

1 328 (97.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 117 (34.82%) Azure
3 102 (30.36%) Microsoft
4 89 (26.49%) VMware
5 81 (24.11%) Windows
6 72 (21.43%) Active Directory
7 66 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
8 65 (19.35%) DNS
9 60 (17.86%) VPN
9 60 (17.86%) Windows Server
10 59 (17.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 58 (17.26%) DHCP
12 56 (16.67%) Firewall
12 56 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
13 51 (15.18%) WAN
14 48 (14.29%) ITIL
15 47 (13.99%) Entra ID
16 45 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (12.50%) PowerShell
18 41 (12.20%) Microsoft Intune
19 36 (10.71%) LAN
20 35 (10.42%) Security Cleared
21 34 (10.12%) AWS
22 31 (9.23%) TCP/IP
23 29 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
24 28 (8.33%) Terraform
25 27 (8.04%) Degree
26 25 (7.44%) CI/CD
26 25 (7.44%) Root Cause Analysis
27 24 (7.14%) DV 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 24 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.49%) AutoCAD
1 5 (1.49%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 117 (34.82%) Azure
2 56 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (13.99%) Entra ID
4 34 (10.12%) AWS
5 17 (5.06%) IaaS
6 15 (4.46%) SaaS
7 12 (3.57%) Datadog
7 12 (3.57%) OneDrive
7 12 (3.57%) PaaS
8 11 (3.27%) Nutanix
9 8 (2.38%) GCP
10 7 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.19%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.19%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 65 (19.35%) DNS
2 60 (17.86%) VPN
3 58 (17.26%) DHCP
4 56 (16.67%) Firewall
5 51 (15.18%) WAN
6 36 (10.71%) LAN
7 31 (9.23%) TCP/IP
8 20 (5.95%) SAN
9 19 (5.65%) SD-WAN
10 16 (4.76%) VLAN
11 14 (4.17%) BGP
11 14 (4.17%) Network Security
12 13 (3.87%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (3.87%) WLAN
13 9 (2.68%) MPLS
14 6 (1.79%) NAS
15 5 (1.49%) IPsec
15 5 (1.49%) OSPF
15 5 (1.49%) SSL
15 5 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.57%) GitLab
2 8 (2.38%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.60%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.60%) Git
3 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 35 (10.42%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.93%) Finance
3 26 (7.74%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.57%) Banking
6 9 (2.68%) Legal
7 8 (2.38%) Retail
8 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.30%) Law
10 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.49%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.19%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.89%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.60%) Kafka
4 2 (0.60%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.60%) Middleware
5 1 (0.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OpenID
5 1 (0.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.27%) PKI
4 8 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.08%) Replication
6 6 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.49%) Clustering
7 5 (1.49%) CMDB
7 5 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.89%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.89%) YubiKey
10 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 81 (24.11%) Windows
2 60 (17.86%) Windows Server
3 24 (7.14%) Linux
4 19 (5.65%) Apple iOS
5 11 (3.27%) Android
6 8 (2.38%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.49%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.19%) Unix
8 4 (1.19%) VMS
9 2 (0.60%) CentOS
9 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (97.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (17.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 48 (14.29%) ITIL
4 45 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (7.44%) CI/CD
6 25 (7.44%) Root Cause Analysis
7 23 (6.85%) Mentoring
7 23 (6.85%) Migration
8 21 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (6.25%) High Availability
8 21 (6.25%) Project Delivery
9 20 (5.95%) Computer Science
10 18 (5.36%) Incident Management
11 17 (5.06%) Problem Management
11 17 (5.06%) Service Delivery
11 17 (5.06%) Service Management
12 16 (4.76%) Business Continuity
12 16 (4.76%) Cloud Operations
12 16 (4.76%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.06%) Python
3 12 (3.57%) SQL
4 9 (2.68%) Bicep
5 4 (1.19%) Bash
6 2 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.04%) Degree
3 24 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.55%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.55%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.25%) CCNP
6 20 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (4.76%) Azure Certification
9 12 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (3.27%) CCIE
10 11 (3.27%) MCSE
11 7 (2.08%) CCNA
12 5 (1.49%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.30%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.38%) NIST
2 8 (2.38%) SLA
3 7 (2.08%) GDPR
4 3 (0.89%) COBIT
5 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 72 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 66 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.55%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.46%) vSphere
5 9 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.68%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.49%) KVM
7 5 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.89%) Docker
8 3 (0.89%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.60%) Firmware
9 2 (0.60%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.30%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (12.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (8.33%) Terraform
3 23 (6.85%) Ansible
4 12 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.68%) SCCM
6 8 (2.38%) VxRail
7 7 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.08%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.79%) WSUS
9 3 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.89%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.60%) Grafana
10 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.30%) Nessus
11 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 102 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 89 (26.49%) VMware
3 23 (6.85%) Cisco
4 17 (5.06%) Tenable
5 16 (4.76%) Veeam
6 11 (3.27%) Apple
6 11 (3.27%) HP
6 11 (3.27%) Zerto
7 10 (2.98%) Dell
7 10 (2.98%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.98%) Samsung
8 9 (2.68%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.38%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.38%) Meraki
10 7 (2.08%) Citrix
10 7 (2.08%) Splunk
11 6 (1.79%) Commvault
11 6 (1.79%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.79%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.49%) EMC