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 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 533 446
Rank change year-on-year +58 -87 +143
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 171 183 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.34% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.36% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 119 119 241
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,956 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,676 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +5.00%

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 53,448 50,590 50,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.97% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,896 26,513 38,772
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,738 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,261
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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +68 143 £67,500 +12.50% 45
UK excluding London +62 116 £65,000 +18.18% 40
Work from Home +46 45 £70,000 +16.67% 17
London +44 41 £75,000 +15.38% 10
East of England +36 27 £75,000 +36.36% 3
Midlands +29 23 £55,000 +15.79% 9
West Midlands +37 18 £65,000 +44.44% 6
Scotland +11 17 £60,000 +41.18% 3
South East +16 16 £56,250 -4.26% 16
North of England +3 16 £65,000 +18.18% 7
South West +1 12 £70,000 +16.67% 3
North West +16 8 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Wales +10 6 £55,000 +12.01%
East Midlands +2 5 £55,000 -42.11% 3
Yorkshire -10 5 £61,500 +11.82% 2
North East +7 3 £57,500 +15.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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.

1 163 (95.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 79 (46.20%) Azure
3 73 (42.69%) Windows
4 60 (35.09%) Firewall
5 57 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 56 (32.75%) VMware
7 53 (30.99%) Windows Server
8 48 (28.07%) Active Directory
9 43 (25.15%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (19.88%) Microsoft Exchange
11 29 (16.96%) PowerShell
12 28 (16.37%) VMware Infrastructure
13 27 (15.79%) Terraform
14 25 (14.62%) Migration
15 24 (14.04%) Microsoft Intune
16 23 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (13.45%) Roadmaps
17 22 (12.87%) Cisco
17 22 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (12.87%) DNS
18 21 (12.28%) DevOps
19 20 (11.70%) Disaster Recovery
19 20 (11.70%) Entra ID
20 19 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
20 19 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
20 19 (11.11%) WAN
21 18 (10.53%) DHCP
21 18 (10.53%) VPN
22 17 (9.94%) Azure Logic Apps
22 17 (9.94%) Mentoring

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 34 (19.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.34%) IIS
4 3 (1.75%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.58%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 79 (46.20%) Azure
2 43 (25.15%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (11.70%) Entra ID
4 17 (9.94%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.43%) AWS
7 8 (4.68%) IaaS
7 8 (4.68%) PaaS
8 7 (4.09%) OneDrive
8 7 (4.09%) SaaS
9 5 (2.92%) Datadog
10 4 (2.34%) Azure App Service
10 4 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.34%) GitHub
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.75%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.75%) Route 53
12 2 (1.17%) GCP
12 2 (1.17%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (35.09%) Firewall
2 22 (12.87%) DNS
3 19 (11.11%) WAN
4 18 (10.53%) DHCP
4 18 (10.53%) VPN
5 13 (7.60%) SD-WAN
6 11 (6.43%) LAN
6 11 (6.43%) SAN
7 8 (4.68%) VLAN
8 7 (4.09%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.51%) Network Security
10 5 (2.92%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.34%) MPLS
12 3 (1.75%) Modbus
12 3 (1.75%) VSAN
13 2 (1.17%) InfiniBand
13 2 (1.17%) SMTP
13 2 (1.17%) SNMP
14 1 (0.58%) PSTN
14 1 (0.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Chocolatey
2 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (15.20%) Finance
2 21 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.85%) Law
4 7 (4.09%) Banking
4 7 (4.09%) Police
4 7 (4.09%) Retail
4 7 (4.09%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.58%) Legal
8 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.68%) .NET
2 3 (1.75%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.77%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.43%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (4.68%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.68%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.09%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.92%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.34%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.75%) SCADA
7 3 (1.75%) YubiKey
8 2 (1.17%) Clustering
8 2 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (42.69%) Windows
2 53 (30.99%) Windows Server
3 12 (7.02%) Linux
4 10 (5.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.09%) Apple iOS
5 7 (4.09%) VMS
5 7 (4.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.34%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (95.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (14.62%) Migration
3 23 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (13.45%) Roadmaps
4 22 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (12.28%) DevOps
6 20 (11.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
8 17 (9.94%) Mentoring
9 14 (8.19%) ITIL
10 12 (7.02%) CI/CD
11 11 (6.43%) Asset Management
12 10 (5.85%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (5.26%) Cloud Operations
13 9 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
13 9 (5.26%) Observability
13 9 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (5.26%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.96%) PowerShell
2 13 (7.60%) Bicep
3 12 (7.02%) Python
4 9 (5.26%) SQL
5 3 (1.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (9.36%) Azure Certification
2 10 (5.85%) Degree
3 8 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.09%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.75%) CCNA
7 3 (1.75%) CCNP
7 3 (1.75%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.58%) CISSP
9 1 (0.58%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.58%) MCSE
9 1 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.09%) SLA
2 5 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.92%) NIST
3 3 (1.75%) IEC 61131
3 3 (1.75%) IEC 61508
3 3 (1.75%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (28.07%) Active Directory
2 28 (16.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.19%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.09%) Docker
5 5 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.92%) vSphere
6 4 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.34%) XenApp
7 3 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.58%) Ceph
9 1 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.58%) Firmware
9 1 (0.58%) Lustre
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.58%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.58%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (15.79%) Terraform
2 24 (14.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (7.60%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.68%) FortiGate
5 7 (4.09%) Ansible
6 6 (3.51%) SCCM
7 3 (1.75%) FlexNet
8 2 (1.17%) PaperCut
8 2 (1.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.58%) SCOM
Vendors
1 57 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 56 (32.75%) VMware
3 22 (12.87%) Cisco
4 10 (5.85%) Dell
5 9 (5.26%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.26%) Tenable
6 8 (4.68%) New Relic
6 8 (4.68%) Palo Alto
7 7 (4.09%) Citrix
7 7 (4.09%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.51%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.51%) Meraki
9 5 (2.92%) Splunk
9 5 (2.92%) Veeam
10 4 (2.34%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.34%) IBM
10 4 (2.34%) Juniper
10 4 (2.34%) Qualys
10 4 (2.34%) SonicWALL
11 3 (1.75%) Siemens