Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £58,967 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 3 months leading to 28 June 2026.

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

3 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 432 410
Rank change year-on-year +74 -22 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 243 91 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.37% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 172 53 112
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,282 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,967 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +30.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,875 £77,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -8.47%

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 51,605 24,333 39,746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 89.55% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 35,704 12,826 26,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%

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 3 months to 28 June 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 3 months to 28 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +93 200 £55,000 -8.33% 61
England +60 200 £60,000 -7.69% 72
Work from Home +18 65 £65,576 +0.89% 29
North of England +8 57 £70,000 +7.69% 14
South West -22 37 £50,000 +5.26% 15
London -14 33 £78,750 +8.62% 19
South East +16 31 £62,500 - 17
North West +13 31 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Wales -18 31 £50,000 +4.01% 6
Midlands +17 28 £55,000 - 6
Yorkshire 0 22 £60,000 -7.69% 3
East Midlands +6 15 £60,000 +9.09% 4
West Midlands -10 13 £55,000 -4.01% 2
East of England -5 11 £40,000 -33.33% 5
Scotland - 5 - -
North East -41 4 £70,000 +7.69% 3

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 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.

1 366 (98.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (34.59%) Azure
3 122 (32.97%) Microsoft
4 85 (22.97%) VMware
5 79 (21.35%) Windows
6 73 (19.73%) Active Directory
7 68 (18.38%) DNS
7 68 (18.38%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (18.38%) VMware Infrastructure
8 63 (17.03%) DHCP
9 62 (16.76%) VPN
10 61 (16.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 61 (16.49%) Firewall
10 61 (16.49%) Windows Server
11 58 (15.68%) WAN
12 53 (14.32%) Entra ID
13 50 (13.51%) PowerShell
14 47 (12.70%) ITIL
15 46 (12.43%) LAN
16 41 (11.08%) Microsoft Intune
17 39 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
18 37 (10.00%) Security Cleared
19 35 (9.46%) AWS
19 35 (9.46%) Project Delivery
20 33 (8.92%) TCP/IP
21 32 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
22 29 (7.84%) Cisco
23 28 (7.57%) Mentoring
24 27 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
24 27 (7.30%) 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 27 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.16%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.89%) AutoCAD
1 7 (1.89%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 128 (34.59%) Azure
2 68 (18.38%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (14.32%) Entra ID
4 35 (9.46%) AWS
5 13 (3.51%) IaaS
5 13 (3.51%) OneDrive
6 12 (3.24%) Nutanix
7 10 (2.70%) SaaS
8 8 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.16%) Datadog
8 8 (2.16%) GCP
8 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.16%) PaaS
9 6 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.08%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.81%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 68 (18.38%) DNS
2 63 (17.03%) DHCP
3 62 (16.76%) VPN
4 61 (16.49%) Firewall
5 58 (15.68%) WAN
6 46 (12.43%) LAN
7 33 (8.92%) TCP/IP
8 17 (4.59%) Network Security
8 17 (4.59%) SAN
8 17 (4.59%) WLAN
9 16 (4.32%) VLAN
9 16 (4.32%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (4.05%) BGP
10 15 (4.05%) SD-WAN
11 9 (2.43%) MPLS
12 6 (1.62%) IPsec
12 6 (1.62%) NAS
12 6 (1.62%) SSH
12 6 (1.62%) SSL
13 5 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.24%) GitLab
2 4 (1.08%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.54%) Git
3 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 33 (8.92%) Social Skills
2 29 (7.84%) Public Sector
3 23 (6.22%) Finance
4 12 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.16%) Banking
5 8 (2.16%) Legal
6 7 (1.89%) Retail
7 6 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.54%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.27%) Automotive
10 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Law
10 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.62%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.08%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.81%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.54%) Kafka
4 2 (0.54%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.27%) Middleware
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) OpenID
5 1 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.95%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.24%) PKI
4 8 (2.16%) Replication
5 5 (1.35%) CMDB
5 5 (1.35%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.08%) Clustering
6 4 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.54%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.54%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.27%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 79 (21.35%) Windows
2 61 (16.49%) Windows Server
3 26 (7.03%) Linux
4 17 (4.59%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.24%) Android
6 6 (1.62%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.35%) Unix
7 5 (1.35%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.81%) VMS
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (98.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (16.49%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (12.70%) ITIL
4 39 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (9.46%) Project Delivery
6 32 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (7.57%) Mentoring
8 25 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (6.76%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (6.49%) CI/CD
10 23 (6.22%) High Availability
11 21 (5.68%) Incident Management
12 18 (4.86%) Cloud Operations
12 18 (4.86%) Incident Response
12 18 (4.86%) Problem Management
13 17 (4.59%) Business Continuity
13 17 (4.59%) Migration
13 17 (4.59%) Service Management
14 16 (4.32%) Coaching
14 16 (4.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 22 (5.95%) Python
3 12 (3.24%) SQL
4 10 (2.70%) Bicep
5 5 (1.35%) Bash
6 2 (0.54%) Go
7 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.76%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.49%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (6.22%) CCNP
4 23 (6.22%) Degree
4 23 (6.22%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.24%) CCIE
7 12 (3.24%) MCSE
7 12 (3.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.16%) CCNA
10 6 (1.62%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.43%) GDPR
3 7 (1.89%) SLA
4 6 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.62%) NIST
5 3 (0.81%) COBIT
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (19.73%) Active Directory
2 68 (18.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (6.76%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.86%) vSphere
5 10 (2.70%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.35%) KVM
9 3 (0.81%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.54%) Docker
10 2 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.27%) Firmware
11 1 (0.27%) GPFS
11 1 (0.27%) Lustre
11 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (11.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (7.30%) Terraform
3 24 (6.49%) Ansible
4 11 (2.97%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.43%) VxRail
6 7 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.89%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.62%) WSUS
8 5 (1.35%) SCCM
9 3 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.27%) Nessus
11 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 122 (32.97%) Microsoft
2 85 (22.97%) VMware
3 29 (7.84%) Cisco
4 19 (5.14%) Veeam
5 12 (3.24%) HP
6 11 (2.97%) Apple
6 11 (2.97%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.97%) Tenable
6 11 (2.97%) Zerto
7 10 (2.70%) Dell
7 10 (2.70%) Meraki
7 10 (2.70%) Samsung
8 7 (1.89%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.62%) Citrix
9 6 (1.62%) Commvault
9 6 (1.62%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.35%) EMC
10 5 (1.35%) Splunk
10 5 (1.35%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (1.35%) Zscaler