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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 523 498
Rank change year-on-year +148 -25 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 553 149 279
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 403 93 171
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 £67,500
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 109,200 44,128 68,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 89.77% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,173 25,691 39,257
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £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 £45,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -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 12 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 12 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 +122 472 £60,000 -7.69% 204
UK excluding London +122 452 £60,000 -1.23% 170
Work from Home +58 161 £65,576 +0.89% 90
North of England +28 129 £70,000 +7.69% 50
South West +18 105 £50,000 - 14
North West +28 82 £70,000 +7.69% 32
South East +13 78 £60,000 - 29
London -30 68 £65,000 -10.34% 62
Midlands +3 59 £55,000 - 22
Wales -32 40 £50,000 +4.01% 13
East Midlands - 34 £55,000 - 11
Yorkshire -23 30 £60,000 -5.88% 11
West Midlands -27 25 £55,000 - 11
East of England -35 25 £40,000 -38.46% 20
Scotland +14 17 £55,000 -8.33% 23
North East -56 17 £70,000 +7.69% 7

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 538 (97.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 143 (25.86%) Microsoft
3 129 (23.33%) Azure
4 106 (19.17%) Windows
5 83 (15.01%) Active Directory
6 79 (14.29%) VMware
6 79 (14.29%) Windows Server
7 75 (13.56%) Microsoft 365
8 66 (11.93%) Entra ID
9 61 (11.03%) Firewall
10 59 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 59 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
11 56 (10.13%) Linux
12 51 (9.22%) DNS
12 51 (9.22%) VPN
13 50 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (9.04%) WAN
14 48 (8.68%) PowerShell
15 47 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (8.32%) AWS
16 46 (8.32%) Security Cleared
17 44 (7.96%) DHCP
17 44 (7.96%) Microsoft Intune
18 43 (7.78%) LAN
19 40 (7.23%) DevOps
19 40 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
19 40 (7.23%) Technical Leadership
20 39 (7.05%) Hyper-V
21 38 (6.87%) ITIL
22 37 (6.69%) 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 31 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.16%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (3.25%) AutoCAD
1 18 (3.25%) Civil 3D
2 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 129 (23.33%) Azure
2 75 (13.56%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (11.93%) Entra ID
4 46 (8.32%) AWS
5 21 (3.80%) SaaS
6 17 (3.07%) Power Platform
7 16 (2.89%) IaaS
8 14 (2.53%) OneDrive
8 14 (2.53%) PowerApps
9 12 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (2.17%) PaaS
10 9 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (1.63%) GCP
11 8 (1.45%) Nutanix
11 8 (1.45%) OCI
12 6 (1.08%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.08%) Datadog
13 5 (0.90%) Mimecast
13 5 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (11.03%) Firewall
2 51 (9.22%) DNS
2 51 (9.22%) VPN
3 50 (9.04%) WAN
4 44 (7.96%) DHCP
5 43 (7.78%) LAN
6 34 (6.15%) TCP/IP
7 25 (4.52%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (4.34%) Network Security
9 19 (3.44%) VLAN
10 16 (2.89%) WLAN
11 12 (2.17%) SAN
12 11 (1.99%) Internet
13 9 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (1.45%) SSL
15 7 (1.27%) SSH
16 6 (1.08%) BGP
16 6 (1.08%) IPsec
16 6 (1.08%) NAS
17 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.52%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.27%) Git
1 7 (1.27%) JIRA
2 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.36%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
General
1 43 (7.78%) Public Sector
2 35 (6.33%) Social Skills
3 19 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (3.07%) Finance
5 15 (2.71%) Retail
6 11 (1.99%) Banking
7 10 (1.81%) Legal
7 10 (1.81%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.45%) Law
10 5 (0.90%) Back Office
10 5 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.36%) Marketing
13 2 (0.36%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.69%) Terraform
2 5 (0.90%) ARM Templates
3 4 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (0.72%) RESTful
4 2 (0.36%) REST
5 1 (0.18%) .NET
5 1 (0.18%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.18%) CSS
5 1 (0.18%) HTML
5 1 (0.18%) OAuth
5 1 (0.18%) OpenID
5 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (2.89%) Public Cloud
2 14 (2.53%) Low-Code
3 12 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.17%) Driving Licence
4 11 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (1.99%) PKI
5 9 (1.63%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.45%) Replication
7 7 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.08%) Clustering
9 5 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 5 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.72%) Blog
10 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.54%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 106 (19.17%) Windows
2 79 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 56 (10.13%) Linux
4 15 (2.71%) Unix
5 9 (1.63%) macOS
6 4 (0.72%) CentOS
6 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.36%) Android
7 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.36%) 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
1 538 (97.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 50 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (7.23%) DevOps
5 40 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (7.23%) Technical Leadership
6 38 (6.87%) ITIL
7 36 (6.51%) Project Delivery
8 35 (6.33%) Mentoring
9 34 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (5.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 30 (5.42%) Business Continuity
12 29 (5.24%) CI/CD
12 29 (5.24%) Migration
13 26 (4.70%) Coaching
14 25 (4.52%) Incident Management
15 23 (4.16%) Change Management
16 22 (3.98%) Problem Management
17 21 (3.80%) AI
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.68%) PowerShell
2 25 (4.52%) Python
3 19 (3.44%) SQL
4 11 (1.99%) Bash
4 11 (1.99%) Go
5 9 (1.63%) Bicep
6 8 (1.45%) Java
7 4 (0.72%) R
8 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.36%) C++
10 1 (0.18%) C#
10 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.18%) Perl
10 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Ruby
10 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.32%) Security Cleared
2 22 (3.98%) DV Cleared
2 22 (3.98%) SC Cleared
3 19 (3.44%) Degree
4 13 (2.35%) CCNP
4 13 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.27%) CCNA
7 6 (1.08%) CCIE
7 6 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.08%) JNCIP
8 4 (0.72%) MCSE
9 3 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.18%) CCA
11 1 (0.18%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.63%) SLA
3 5 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.72%) GDPR
4 4 (0.72%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.54%) COBIT
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 83 (15.01%) Active Directory
2 59 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (7.05%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.44%) vSphere
5 11 (1.99%) Docker
6 6 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.54%) Lustre
9 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.54%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.36%) 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 44 (7.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.62%) Ansible
2 20 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.08%) SCCM
5 5 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.90%) Grafana
6 4 (0.72%) Nessus
6 4 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.72%) SCOM
6 4 (0.72%) vRealize
6 4 (0.72%) VxRail
6 4 (0.72%) WSUS
7 3 (0.54%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.36%) Argo
8 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.36%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.18%) Avamar
Vendors
1 143 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 79 (14.29%) VMware
3 34 (6.15%) Cisco
4 20 (3.62%) Veeam
5 16 (2.89%) Citrix
6 13 (2.35%) Oracle
7 12 (2.17%) Meraki
7 12 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.99%) HP
8 11 (1.99%) Zscaler
9 10 (1.81%) Aruba
10 9 (1.63%) Google
10 9 (1.63%) Qualys
11 7 (1.27%) Apple
12 6 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.08%) Dell
12 6 (1.08%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.08%) Zerto
13 5 (0.90%) Tenable
13 5 (0.90%) Ubiquiti