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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 537 458
Rank change year-on-year +126 -79 +140
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 389 153 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.31% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.35% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 292 100 334
10th Percentile £43,847 £46,394 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,938 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £79,875 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

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 94,464 44,263 88,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.01% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 64,822 26,191 62,318
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,183
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +90 332 £60,000 -4.00% 73
UK excluding London +86 312 £60,000 - 61
Work from Home +40 99 £65,576 +9.29% 26
North of England -4 79 £65,576 +2.86% 13
South West -13 67 £52,500 +5.00% 17
London -9 59 £80,000 +6.67% 16
South East +9 53 £60,000 +2.13% 11
North West +5 43 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Midlands +8 42 £55,000 - 12
Wales -25 37 £50,000 +4.01% 2
Yorkshire -24 29 £60,000 -5.88% 5
East of England +4 24 £40,000 -36.00% 6
East Midlands -6 23 £50,000 -9.09% 6
West Midlands -3 19 £55,000 - 6
North East -50 7 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland +20 5 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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.

1 382 (98.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (32.90%) Azure
3 117 (30.08%) Microsoft
4 82 (21.08%) VMware
5 79 (20.31%) Windows
6 68 (17.48%) Active Directory
6 68 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
7 64 (16.45%) DNS
8 63 (16.20%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (16.20%) Windows Server
9 61 (15.68%) Firewall
10 60 (15.42%) WAN
11 59 (15.17%) DHCP
12 58 (14.91%) Disaster Recovery
13 57 (14.65%) VPN
14 52 (13.37%) PowerShell
15 51 (13.11%) Entra ID
15 51 (13.11%) LAN
16 43 (11.05%) ITIL
17 41 (10.54%) Project Delivery
18 39 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
19 36 (9.25%) AWS
20 35 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
20 35 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
21 34 (8.74%) Security Cleared
21 34 (8.74%) TCP/IP
22 33 (8.48%) Cisco
23 30 (7.71%) Mentoring
24 28 (7.20%) Linux
25 27 (6.94%) 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 23 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.06%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (3.34%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.34%) Civil 3D
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 128 (32.90%) Azure
2 63 (16.20%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (13.11%) Entra ID
4 36 (9.25%) AWS
5 12 (3.08%) Nutanix
6 11 (2.83%) IaaS
7 10 (2.57%) OneDrive
8 9 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (2.31%) GCP
9 8 (2.06%) SaaS
10 7 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.54%) PaaS
12 5 (1.29%) Datadog
13 4 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.03%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.03%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.77%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.45%) DNS
2 61 (15.68%) Firewall
3 60 (15.42%) WAN
4 59 (15.17%) DHCP
5 57 (14.65%) VPN
6 51 (13.11%) LAN
7 34 (8.74%) TCP/IP
8 19 (4.88%) WLAN
9 17 (4.37%) Network Security
9 17 (4.37%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (3.86%) BGP
10 15 (3.86%) SAN
11 14 (3.60%) VLAN
12 13 (3.34%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.31%) MPLS
14 7 (1.80%) NAS
14 7 (1.80%) SSL
15 6 (1.54%) IPsec
15 6 (1.54%) SSH
16 5 (1.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.34%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.08%) GitLab
2 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
2 2 (0.51%) Git
2 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.26%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.26%) JIRA
General
1 34 (8.74%) Public Sector
2 30 (7.71%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.63%) Finance
4 10 (2.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.06%) Retail
6 7 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.54%) Legal
7 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.29%) Banking
9 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.51%) Law
10 2 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.26%) Automotive
11 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.54%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.03%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.77%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.51%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.51%) Kafka
4 2 (0.51%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.26%) OAuth
5 1 (0.26%) OpenID
5 1 (0.26%) REST
5 1 (0.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.91%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.83%) PKI
4 8 (2.06%) Replication
5 6 (1.54%) Clustering
5 6 (1.54%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.29%) CMDB
6 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.77%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.51%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.26%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.26%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (20.31%) Windows
2 63 (16.20%) Windows Server
3 28 (7.20%) Linux
4 14 (3.60%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.08%) Android
6 6 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.29%) Unix
8 3 (0.77%) VMS
9 2 (0.51%) CentOS
9 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (98.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (14.91%) Disaster Recovery
3 43 (11.05%) ITIL
4 41 (10.54%) Project Delivery
5 39 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (7.71%) Mentoring
8 26 (6.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (6.17%) CI/CD
9 24 (6.17%) High Availability
9 24 (6.17%) Incident Management
9 24 (6.17%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (5.40%) Business Continuity
11 17 (4.37%) Coaching
11 17 (4.37%) Incident Response
12 16 (4.11%) Cloud Operations
13 15 (3.86%) Migration
13 15 (3.86%) Service Management
14 14 (3.60%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (3.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.37%) PowerShell
2 23 (5.91%) Python
3 13 (3.34%) SQL
4 10 (2.57%) Bicep
5 4 (1.03%) Bash
6 2 (0.51%) Go
7 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (8.74%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.43%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.17%) CCNP
3 24 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (6.17%) Degree
4 21 (5.40%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.08%) MCSE
7 12 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (2.83%) CCIE
9 9 (2.31%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.06%) CCNA
11 6 (1.54%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.31%) GDPR
1 9 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.29%) NIST
2 5 (1.29%) SLA
3 3 (0.77%) COBIT
4 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 68 (17.48%) Active Directory
1 68 (17.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (6.68%) Hyper-V
3 18 (4.63%) vSphere
4 10 (2.57%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.29%) KVM
9 3 (0.77%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.51%) Docker
10 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.26%) Firmware
11 1 (0.26%) GPFS
11 1 (0.26%) Lustre
11 1 (0.26%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (6.94%) Terraform
3 25 (6.43%) Ansible
4 12 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.31%) VxRail
6 8 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.80%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.54%) WSUS
9 3 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.51%) Grafana
10 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.51%) SCCM
10 2 (0.51%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.26%) Avamar
11 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.26%) Nessus
11 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 117 (30.08%) Microsoft
2 82 (21.08%) VMware
3 33 (8.48%) Cisco
4 20 (5.14%) Veeam
5 13 (3.34%) Zerto
6 12 (3.08%) Apple
6 12 (3.08%) HP
7 11 (2.83%) Dell
7 11 (2.83%) Meraki
8 10 (2.57%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.57%) Samsung
9 9 (2.31%) Citrix
10 7 (1.80%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.80%) Tenable
10 7 (1.80%) Zscaler
11 6 (1.54%) Commvault
11 6 (1.54%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.29%) EMC
12 5 (1.29%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (1.03%) Splunk