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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 563 493
Rank change year-on-year +122 -70 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 330 102 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.23% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.26% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 237 82 368
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,871 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,894 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,875 £67,968
90th Percentile £83,000 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £51,729 £57,200
% change year-on-year +25.65% -9.56% +8.95%

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 86,118 39,518 92,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.61% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,984 22,887 67,462
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £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 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%

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 20 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 20 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 +106 277 £65,000 +5.44% 72
UK excluding London +130 263 £65,000 +25.65% 75
Work from Home +76 88 £65,576 +16.58% 50
North of England +8 69 £65,576 +14.05% 26
London +7 58 £80,000 -3.03% 6
South East +25 51 £60,000 +4.35% 16
Midlands -6 37 £55,000 +10.89% 11
South West -31 37 £65,000 +25.65% 11
North West +20 35 £70,000 +32.08% 12
Wales -1 31 £55,000 +12.01% 5
Yorkshire -26 27 £65,576 +4.92% 5
West Midlands -14 25 £70,000 +55.56% 6
East of England -2 19 £60,000 +23.71% 2
Scotland - 14 - - 3
East Midlands -23 12 £48,500 -13.39% 5
North East - 7 £70,000 - 9
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 321 (97.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 112 (33.94%) Azure
3 95 (28.79%) Microsoft
4 79 (23.94%) VMware
5 74 (22.42%) Windows
6 66 (20.00%) Active Directory
7 62 (18.79%) DNS
8 57 (17.27%) VMware Infrastructure
9 55 (16.67%) DHCP
9 55 (16.67%) VPN
10 53 (16.06%) Disaster Recovery
11 52 (15.76%) Microsoft 365
11 52 (15.76%) Windows Server
12 51 (15.45%) Firewall
13 48 (14.55%) WAN
14 46 (13.94%) ITIL
15 44 (13.33%) Entra ID
16 43 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
18 39 (11.82%) PowerShell
19 34 (10.30%) LAN
19 34 (10.30%) Security Cleared
20 33 (10.00%) AWS
21 29 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
21 29 (8.79%) TCP/IP
22 28 (8.48%) Terraform
23 26 (7.88%) CI/CD
24 25 (7.58%) Degree
24 25 (7.58%) Root Cause Analysis
25 24 (7.27%) 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 22 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) AutoCAD
1 5 (1.52%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 112 (33.94%) Azure
2 52 (15.76%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 33 (10.00%) AWS
5 16 (4.85%) IaaS
6 15 (4.55%) SaaS
7 11 (3.33%) Datadog
7 11 (3.33%) Nutanix
7 11 (3.33%) OneDrive
7 11 (3.33%) PaaS
8 8 (2.42%) GCP
9 6 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.21%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.21%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.91%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 62 (18.79%) DNS
2 55 (16.67%) DHCP
2 55 (16.67%) VPN
3 51 (15.45%) Firewall
4 48 (14.55%) WAN
5 34 (10.30%) LAN
6 29 (8.79%) TCP/IP
7 18 (5.45%) SAN
7 18 (5.45%) SD-WAN
8 14 (4.24%) BGP
8 14 (4.24%) VLAN
9 13 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (3.33%) Network Security
10 11 (3.33%) WLAN
11 9 (2.73%) MPLS
12 6 (1.82%) NAS
13 5 (1.52%) OSPF
14 4 (1.21%) HSRP
14 4 (1.21%) VoIP
14 4 (1.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.64%) GitLab
2 8 (2.42%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.61%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.61%) Git
3 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 31 (9.39%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.09%) Finance
3 26 (7.88%) Public Sector
4 16 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.33%) Banking
6 8 (2.42%) Legal
7 7 (2.12%) Retail
8 6 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.30%) Law
10 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.21%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.91%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.61%) .NET
4 2 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.61%) Kafka
4 2 (0.61%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.61%) Middleware
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OpenID
5 1 (0.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (2.42%) PKI
4 7 (2.12%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (1.82%) Replication
6 5 (1.52%) CMDB
6 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.91%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.91%) Clustering
7 3 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.91%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 74 (22.42%) Windows
2 52 (15.76%) Windows Server
3 23 (6.97%) Linux
4 18 (5.45%) Apple iOS
5 10 (3.03%) Android
6 8 (2.42%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.52%) VMS
8 4 (1.21%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.21%) Unix
9 2 (0.61%) CentOS
9 2 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (97.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (16.06%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (13.94%) ITIL
4 43 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (7.88%) CI/CD
7 25 (7.58%) Root Cause Analysis
8 22 (6.67%) Mentoring
8 22 (6.67%) Migration
9 21 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (5.76%) Computer Science
10 19 (5.76%) High Availability
11 18 (5.45%) Incident Management
11 18 (5.45%) Project Delivery
12 17 (5.15%) DevOps
12 17 (5.15%) Service Delivery
13 16 (4.85%) Cloud Operations
13 16 (4.85%) Problem Management
13 16 (4.85%) Service Management
14 15 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.82%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.15%) Python
3 10 (3.03%) Bicep
3 10 (3.03%) SQL
4 4 (1.21%) Bash
5 2 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.58%) Degree
3 24 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (5.15%) CCNP
8 16 (4.85%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (3.03%) MCSE
11 9 (2.73%) CCIE
12 5 (1.52%) CCNA
13 3 (0.91%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.30%) Citrix Certification
14 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.42%) NIST
2 8 (2.42%) SLA
3 6 (1.82%) GDPR
4 2 (0.61%) COBIT
4 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 66 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 57 (17.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.76%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.33%) vSphere
5 8 (2.42%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.52%) KVM
8 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.91%) Docker
10 2 (0.61%) Firmware
10 2 (0.61%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (8.48%) Terraform
3 22 (6.67%) Ansible
4 13 (3.94%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.73%) SCCM
6 8 (2.42%) VxRail
7 6 (1.82%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.82%) WSUS
8 5 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.91%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.61%) Grafana
10 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.30%) FlexNet
11 1 (0.30%) Nessus
11 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.30%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 95 (28.79%) Microsoft
2 79 (23.94%) VMware
3 21 (6.36%) Cisco
4 17 (5.15%) Tenable
5 15 (4.55%) Veeam
6 11 (3.33%) Apple
6 11 (3.33%) Zerto
7 10 (3.03%) AppDynamics
7 10 (3.03%) Dell
7 10 (3.03%) HP
7 10 (3.03%) Palo Alto
7 10 (3.03%) Samsung
8 8 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.12%) Meraki
9 7 (2.12%) Splunk
10 6 (1.82%) Commvault
10 6 (1.82%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.52%) Citrix
11 5 (1.52%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.91%) EMC