Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 523 432
Rank change year-on-year +72 -91 +257
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 229 159 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.32% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.35% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 162 103 366
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,848 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +2.56% +1.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,059 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +5.70%

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 61,931 45,044 70,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 91.56% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 38,987 23,380 55,351
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +90 202 £65,576 +9.29% 60
UK excluding London +69 161 £65,000 +23.81% 49
Work from Home +45 63 £65,576 +14.04% 18
London +26 51 £75,000 -1.64% 15
Midlands +32 36 £55,000 +15.79% 6
East of England +35 34 £75,000 +25.00% 10
West Midlands +33 27 £65,000 +44.44% 4
North of England -15 26 £65,000 +26.21% 9
South East +22 25 £60,000 +2.13% 21
Scotland +7 16 - - 1
South West +2 16 £67,500 +12.50% 2
North West +7 13 £65,000 +30.00% 3
East Midlands -12 9 £55,000 -27.63% 2
Yorkshire -28 8 £62,788 +14.16% 5
Wales +1 6 £55,000 +12.01%
North East - 5 £65,576 - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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.

1 221 (96.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 104 (45.41%) Azure
3 85 (37.12%) Microsoft
4 78 (34.06%) Windows
5 69 (30.13%) VMware
6 64 (27.95%) Firewall
7 61 (26.64%) Active Directory
8 54 (23.58%) Windows Server
9 52 (22.71%) Microsoft 365
10 42 (18.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 39 (17.03%) Entra ID
12 37 (16.16%) Microsoft Exchange
13 36 (15.72%) Disaster Recovery
13 36 (15.72%) DNS
13 36 (15.72%) VMware Infrastructure
14 33 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (13.97%) DHCP
16 30 (13.10%) ITIL
16 30 (13.10%) VPN
17 28 (12.23%) PowerShell
17 28 (12.23%) WAN
18 27 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 26 (11.35%) Mentoring
19 26 (11.35%) Migration
19 26 (11.35%) Terraform
20 25 (10.92%) Root Cause Analysis
21 23 (10.04%) Cisco
21 23 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
22 22 (9.61%) CI/CD
22 22 (9.61%) DevOps

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 37 (16.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.99%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.62%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 104 (45.41%) Azure
2 52 (22.71%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (17.03%) Entra ID
4 20 (8.73%) AWS
5 16 (6.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.24%) IaaS
7 12 (5.24%) SaaS
8 11 (4.80%) OneDrive
9 10 (4.37%) PaaS
10 8 (3.49%) Datadog
11 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.31%) Azure App Service
12 3 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.31%) GCP
12 3 (1.31%) GitHub
12 3 (1.31%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.31%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.31%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 64 (27.95%) Firewall
2 36 (15.72%) DNS
3 32 (13.97%) DHCP
4 30 (13.10%) VPN
5 28 (12.23%) WAN
6 18 (7.86%) SD-WAN
7 15 (6.55%) LAN
7 15 (6.55%) SAN
8 14 (6.11%) TCP/IP
9 11 (4.80%) VLAN
10 10 (4.37%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (3.06%) Network Security
12 4 (1.75%) MPLS
13 3 (1.31%) VSAN
14 2 (0.87%) NAS
15 1 (0.44%) InfiniBand
15 1 (0.44%) Modbus
15 1 (0.44%) NetScaler
15 1 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
15 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (3.49%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (13.97%) Finance
2 25 (10.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.80%) Law
4 10 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.37%) Banking
4 10 (4.37%) Retail
5 9 (3.93%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.06%) Police
6 7 (3.06%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.62%) Legal
8 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.49%) .NET
2 2 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (0.87%) Keycloak
2 2 (0.87%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.11%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.93%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (3.49%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.18%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.31%) YubiKey
7 2 (0.87%) Clustering
7 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.87%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) Replication
8 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.44%) PKI
8 1 (0.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 78 (34.06%) Windows
2 54 (23.58%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.73%) Apple iOS
4 12 (5.24%) Android
4 12 (5.24%) Linux
5 9 (3.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.49%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.06%) VMS
8 5 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (96.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (15.72%) Disaster Recovery
3 33 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (13.10%) ITIL
5 27 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (11.35%) Mentoring
6 26 (11.35%) Migration
7 25 (10.92%) Root Cause Analysis
8 23 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (9.61%) CI/CD
9 22 (9.61%) DevOps
9 22 (9.61%) Roadmaps
10 16 (6.99%) Cloud Operations
10 16 (6.99%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (6.99%) Technology Roadmap
11 14 (6.11%) Service Delivery
12 13 (5.68%) Coaching
12 13 (5.68%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (5.24%) Incident Management
13 12 (5.24%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.23%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.68%) Bicep
3 8 (3.49%) Python
4 5 (2.18%) SQL
5 2 (0.87%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (7.86%) Azure Certification
2 16 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.55%) Degree
4 13 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.37%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.18%) CCNP
7 5 (2.18%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.75%) MCSE
9 3 (1.31%) CCNA
10 2 (0.87%) CCIE
10 2 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.44%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (3.49%) SLA
2 6 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.75%) NIST
4 1 (0.44%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.44%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 61 (26.64%) Active Directory
2 36 (15.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.55%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.18%) Docker
5 5 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.18%) vSphere
6 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.75%) XenApp
7 2 (0.87%) KVM
8 1 (0.44%) Ceph
8 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) Lustre
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (18.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (11.35%) Terraform
3 13 (5.68%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.49%) FortiGate
4 8 (3.49%) SCCM
5 5 (2.18%) Ansible
6 4 (1.75%) VxRail
7 3 (1.31%) FlexNet
8 2 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.87%) WSUS
9 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (37.12%) Microsoft
2 69 (30.13%) VMware
3 23 (10.04%) Cisco
4 14 (6.11%) Tenable
5 12 (5.24%) AppDynamics
5 12 (5.24%) Apple
5 12 (5.24%) Dell
5 12 (5.24%) Palo Alto
5 12 (5.24%) Samsung
6 10 (4.37%) Veeam
7 9 (3.93%) Citrix
7 9 (3.93%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.49%) Meraki
8 8 (3.49%) New Relic
9 7 (3.06%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.18%) Splunk
11 4 (1.75%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.75%) Qualys
11 4 (1.75%) SonicWALL
11 4 (1.75%) Zerto