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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 534 504
Rank change year-on-year +144 -30 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 518 150 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.34% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 394 87 177
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,987 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +15.71% +2.94%

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 108,283 44,200 74,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.65% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 74,199 25,992 44,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +110 445 £60,000 -7.69% 231
UK excluding London +102 428 £60,000 -1.23% 165
Work from Home +61 156 £65,576 +0.89% 88
North of England +3 127 £70,000 +7.69% 40
South West +9 95 £52,500 +5.00% 16
South East +18 80 £60,000 -4.00% 42
North West +21 75 £70,000 +7.69% 31
London -38 63 £65,773 -9.28% 81
Midlands -11 49 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Wales -30 43 £50,000 +4.01% 5
Yorkshire -15 37 £65,576 +2.86% 4
East Midlands -5 31 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England -30 22 £40,000 -36.00% 30
West Midlands -40 18 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North East -52 15 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Scotland +18 12 £55,000 -8.33% 18

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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.

1 503 (97.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 132 (25.48%) Azure
3 127 (24.52%) Microsoft
4 108 (20.85%) Windows
5 85 (16.41%) VMware
6 82 (15.83%) Active Directory
7 80 (15.44%) Windows Server
8 72 (13.90%) Firewall
9 71 (13.71%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (12.36%) WAN
11 62 (11.97%) VMware Infrastructure
12 60 (11.58%) Disaster Recovery
12 60 (11.58%) DNS
13 56 (10.81%) Entra ID
14 54 (10.42%) DHCP
14 54 (10.42%) PowerShell
14 54 (10.42%) VPN
15 53 (10.23%) LAN
16 49 (9.46%) Linux
17 47 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
18 44 (8.49%) ITIL
19 41 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
20 40 (7.72%) AWS
20 40 (7.72%) Problem-Solving
20 40 (7.72%) Project Delivery
21 39 (7.53%) Cisco
22 36 (6.95%) Mentoring
22 36 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
23 34 (6.56%) Hyper-V
23 34 (6.56%) Security 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 29 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.97%) IIS
4 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (3.47%) AutoCAD
1 18 (3.47%) Civil 3D
2 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 132 (25.48%) Azure
2 71 (13.71%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (10.81%) Entra ID
4 40 (7.72%) AWS
5 14 (2.70%) IaaS
6 13 (2.51%) OneDrive
6 13 (2.51%) SaaS
7 12 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (2.32%) PaaS
8 11 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (1.93%) Azure AKS
9 10 (1.93%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (1.74%) Nutanix
11 8 (1.54%) GCP
12 7 (1.35%) OCI
13 6 (1.16%) Datadog
13 6 (1.16%) GitHub
13 6 (1.16%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.90%) Firewall
2 64 (12.36%) WAN
3 60 (11.58%) DNS
4 54 (10.42%) DHCP
4 54 (10.42%) VPN
5 53 (10.23%) LAN
6 32 (6.18%) TCP/IP
7 27 (5.21%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (4.83%) Network Security
9 18 (3.47%) WLAN
10 16 (3.09%) VLAN
11 14 (2.70%) SAN
12 12 (2.32%) BGP
13 11 (2.12%) Internet
14 9 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (1.54%) SD-WAN
15 8 (1.54%) SSL
16 7 (1.35%) MPLS
17 6 (1.16%) IPsec
17 6 (1.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.35%) GitLab
2 6 (1.16%) JIRA
3 5 (0.97%) Git
4 2 (0.39%) Chocolatey
General
1 49 (9.46%) Public Sector
2 32 (6.18%) Social Skills
3 16 (3.09%) Finance
4 13 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (1.93%) Retail
7 9 (1.74%) Legal
7 9 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.35%) Banking
9 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.77%) Law
11 3 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.39%) Marketing
13 1 (0.19%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.19%) Automotive
13 1 (0.19%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (6.18%) Terraform
2 5 (0.97%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.58%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.39%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.39%) REST
5 1 (0.19%) .NET
5 1 (0.19%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.19%) CSS
5 1 (0.19%) HTML
5 1 (0.19%) OAuth
5 1 (0.19%) OpenID
5 1 (0.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.67%) Data Centre
2 17 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (3.09%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.32%) PKI
5 10 (1.93%) Driving Licence
6 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.16%) Clustering
7 6 (1.16%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.16%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.16%) Replication
8 5 (0.97%) CMDB
8 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.77%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.58%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 108 (20.85%) Windows
2 80 (15.44%) Windows Server
3 49 (9.46%) Linux
4 16 (3.09%) Unix
5 9 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.77%) CentOS
7 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.39%) Android
8 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.39%) VMS
8 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) Rocky
9 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (97.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (11.58%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (8.49%) ITIL
5 41 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (7.72%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (7.72%) Project Delivery
7 36 (6.95%) Mentoring
8 32 (6.18%) Business Continuity
9 31 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (5.21%) Incident Management
11 26 (5.02%) Coaching
11 26 (5.02%) Migration
11 26 (5.02%) Root Cause Analysis
12 25 (4.83%) CI/CD
12 25 (4.83%) DevOps
13 24 (4.63%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (4.25%) Change Management
15 21 (4.05%) Agile
15 21 (4.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 54 (10.42%) PowerShell
2 26 (5.02%) Python
3 18 (3.47%) SQL
4 10 (1.93%) Bicep
5 5 (0.97%) Go
6 4 (0.77%) Bash
6 4 (0.77%) Java
6 4 (0.77%) R
7 2 (0.39%) C++
7 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.19%) C#
8 1 (0.19%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.19%) Ruby
8 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 25 (4.83%) Degree
3 22 (4.25%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.67%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.28%) CCNP
5 17 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.74%) CCIE
8 9 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.54%) CCNA
10 6 (1.16%) JNCIP
11 5 (0.97%) MCSE
12 4 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.39%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.19%) CCA
14 1 (0.19%) CESG Certified Professional
14 1 (0.19%) Chartered Engineer
14 1 (0.19%) Citrix Certification
14 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.74%) SLA
3 7 (1.35%) GDPR
4 4 (0.77%) NIST
5 3 (0.58%) COBIT
6 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 82 (15.83%) Active Directory
2 62 (11.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (6.56%) Hyper-V
4 21 (4.05%) vSphere
5 8 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.35%) Docker
6 7 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.58%) Lustre
8 3 (0.58%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.39%) Firmware
9 2 (0.39%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.19%) GPFS
10 1 (0.19%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (4.44%) Ansible
3 16 (3.09%) Kubernetes
4 10 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.97%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.97%) VxRail
5 5 (0.97%) WSUS
6 4 (0.77%) SCCM
7 3 (0.58%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.58%) Nessus
7 3 (0.58%) SCOM
7 3 (0.58%) vRealize
8 2 (0.39%) Argo
8 2 (0.39%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.39%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.39%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.19%) Avamar
Vendors
1 127 (24.52%) Microsoft
2 85 (16.41%) VMware
3 39 (7.53%) Cisco
4 21 (4.05%) Veeam
5 16 (3.09%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.32%) HP
7 11 (2.12%) Citrix
7 11 (2.12%) Meraki
7 11 (2.12%) Oracle
7 11 (2.12%) Zscaler
8 10 (1.93%) Aruba
9 9 (1.74%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.74%) Qualys
10 7 (1.35%) Apple
10 7 (1.35%) Dell
10 7 (1.35%) Zerto
11 6 (1.16%) Tenable
12 5 (0.97%) EMC
12 5 (0.97%) Google
12 5 (0.97%) Ubiquiti