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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 523 445
Rank change year-on-year +100 -78 +247
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 292 113 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.28% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 216 96 409
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,625 £42,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,465 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +3.36% +6.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -10.71% +8.74%

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 76,620 36,654 87,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 89.66% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49,282 23,303 65,248
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +85 254 £65,576 +6.38% 52
UK excluding London +74 215 £65,000 +30.00% 54
Work from Home +53 84 £65,576 +19.23% 28
London +3 57 £82,500 - 4
North of England -47 50 £65,576 +21.44% 15
South East +4 41 £60,000 +4.35% 13
Midlands -21 36 £55,000 +10.00% 8
East of England -2 29 £75,000 +54.64% 3
South West -12 26 £67,500 +28.57% 9
North West -20 26 £65,288 +30.58% 9
West Midlands -5 25 £65,000 +44.44% 5
Wales -16 17 £65,000 +32.37% 4
Yorkshire -52 17 £65,576 +19.23% 4
East Midlands -50 11 £52,500 -7.89% 3
Scotland - 11 - - 3
North East - 7 £65,576 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 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.

1 283 (96.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 116 (39.73%) Azure
3 97 (33.22%) Microsoft
4 86 (29.45%) VMware
5 83 (28.42%) Windows
6 71 (24.32%) Firewall
7 65 (22.26%) Active Directory
8 57 (19.52%) Windows Server
9 54 (18.49%) DNS
10 53 (18.15%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (18.15%) VMware Infrastructure
11 47 (16.10%) DHCP
12 46 (15.75%) VPN
13 44 (15.07%) Disaster Recovery
13 44 (15.07%) WAN
14 43 (14.73%) ITIL
14 43 (14.73%) Microsoft Intune
14 43 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (14.04%) Entra ID
16 37 (12.67%) PowerShell
17 33 (11.30%) Security Cleared
18 32 (10.96%) Cisco
18 32 (10.96%) Mentoring
19 31 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
19 31 (10.62%) Terraform
20 30 (10.27%) Microsoft Exchange
21 29 (9.93%) AWS
22 28 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
22 28 (9.59%) Root Cause Analysis
23 27 (9.25%) LAN

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 30 (10.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.40%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 116 (39.73%) Azure
2 53 (18.15%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (14.04%) Entra ID
4 29 (9.93%) AWS
5 17 (5.82%) IaaS
6 14 (4.79%) SaaS
7 12 (4.11%) PaaS
8 11 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.77%) OneDrive
9 10 (3.42%) Datadog
10 9 (3.08%) GCP
11 7 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.40%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.37%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.37%) Route 53
13 3 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (24.32%) Firewall
2 54 (18.49%) DNS
3 47 (16.10%) DHCP
4 46 (15.75%) VPN
5 44 (15.07%) WAN
6 27 (9.25%) LAN
7 23 (7.88%) SD-WAN
8 19 (6.51%) TCP/IP
9 18 (6.16%) SAN
10 13 (4.45%) VLAN
10 13 (4.45%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (4.11%) BGP
11 12 (4.11%) MPLS
12 7 (2.40%) Network Security
13 4 (1.37%) HSRP
13 4 (1.37%) VoIP
13 4 (1.37%) VPLS
13 4 (1.37%) VRRP
14 3 (1.03%) OSPF
14 3 (1.03%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.85%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.74%) Chocolatey
2 7 (2.40%) GitLab
3 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.34%) Git
5 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 33 (11.30%) Finance
2 29 (9.93%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.51%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.42%) Banking
5 10 (3.42%) Law
5 10 (3.42%) Retail
6 7 (2.40%) Legal
6 7 (2.40%) Police
6 7 (2.40%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.74%) .NET
2 4 (1.37%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.68%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.68%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.68%) Kafka
3 2 (0.68%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.85%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.74%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.71%) PKI
5 5 (1.71%) Replication
6 4 (1.37%) CMDB
6 4 (1.37%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.03%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.68%) Clustering
8 2 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (28.42%) Windows
2 57 (19.52%) Windows Server
3 22 (7.53%) Linux
4 20 (6.85%) Apple iOS
5 12 (4.11%) Android
6 8 (2.74%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.05%) VMS
8 4 (1.37%) Unix
8 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (96.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (15.07%) Disaster Recovery
3 43 (14.73%) ITIL
3 43 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (10.96%) Mentoring
5 31 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (9.59%) Root Cause Analysis
7 24 (8.22%) CI/CD
7 24 (8.22%) DevOps
7 24 (8.22%) Migration
8 19 (6.51%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (5.82%) Computer Science
9 17 (5.82%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (5.48%) High Availability
10 16 (5.48%) Incident Management
10 16 (5.48%) Service Delivery
11 15 (5.14%) Agile
11 15 (5.14%) Performance Monitoring
11 15 (5.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.67%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.14%) Bicep
3 14 (4.79%) Python
4 8 (2.74%) SQL
5 5 (1.71%) Bash
6 2 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.88%) Degree
3 22 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.19%) Azure Certification
4 21 (7.19%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.77%) CCNP
9 10 (3.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (3.08%) MCSE
11 6 (2.05%) CCIE
12 2 (0.68%) CCNA
12 2 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.34%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.74%) NIST
2 8 (2.74%) SLA
3 4 (1.37%) GDPR
4 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 65 (22.26%) Active Directory
2 53 (18.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.82%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.42%) vSphere
5 9 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.74%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.71%) KVM
8 5 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.37%) Docker
10 3 (1.03%) XenApp
11 2 (0.68%) Firmware
11 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.34%) Ceph
12 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.34%) Lustre
12 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.34%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (14.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (10.62%) Terraform
3 20 (6.85%) Ansible
4 15 (5.14%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.08%) SCCM
6 8 (2.74%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.40%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.71%) VxRail
9 3 (1.03%) FlexNet
9 3 (1.03%) WSUS
10 2 (0.68%) Grafana
10 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.34%) Nessus
11 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (33.22%) Microsoft
2 86 (29.45%) VMware
3 32 (10.96%) Cisco
4 15 (5.14%) Palo Alto
4 15 (5.14%) Veeam
5 14 (4.79%) Dell
5 14 (4.79%) Tenable
6 12 (4.11%) AppDynamics
6 12 (4.11%) Apple
6 12 (4.11%) Samsung
7 8 (2.74%) Citrix
7 8 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.74%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.74%) New Relic
7 8 (2.74%) Splunk
7 8 (2.74%) Zerto
8 7 (2.40%) Meraki
9 5 (1.71%) HP
9 5 (1.71%) Juniper
10 3 (1.03%) IBM