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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 515 446
Rank change year-on-year +76 -69 +243
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 275 112 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.27% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.30% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 202 96 409
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,625 £42,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £49,500
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 £90,000 £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 74,250 36,762 86,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 89.83% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,841 23,292 64,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.79% -8.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 4 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 4 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 +78 240 £65,576 +6.38% 52
UK excluding London +55 200 £65,000 +30.00% 54
Work from Home +39 76 £65,576 +19.23% 28
London -1 56 £81,250 -1.52% 4
North of England -43 43 £65,576 +23.73% 15
South East -2 37 £60,000 +4.35% 13
Midlands -26 36 £55,000 +15.79% 8
East of England -1 28 £75,000 +54.64% 3
West Midlands +1 26 £65,000 +44.44% 5
South West -13 26 £67,500 +28.57% 9
North West -18 23 £65,000 +30.00% 9
Wales -17 14 £65,000 +32.37% 4
Yorkshire -49 14 £65,576 +19.23% 4
Scotland - 11 - - 3
East Midlands -41 10 £55,000 -27.63% 3
North East - 6 £65,576 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 266 (96.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 111 (40.36%) Azure
3 92 (33.45%) Microsoft
4 81 (29.45%) VMware
5 78 (28.36%) Windows
6 68 (24.73%) Firewall
7 60 (21.82%) Active Directory
8 53 (19.27%) Windows Server
9 51 (18.55%) Microsoft 365
10 49 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
11 47 (17.09%) DNS
12 42 (15.27%) DHCP
12 42 (15.27%) Microsoft Intune
13 41 (14.91%) Disaster Recovery
13 41 (14.91%) VPN
14 39 (14.18%) Entra ID
14 39 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (14.18%) WAN
15 38 (13.82%) ITIL
16 33 (12.00%) PowerShell
17 32 (11.64%) Cisco
18 31 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 30 (10.91%) Mentoring
19 30 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
19 30 (10.91%) Security Cleared
19 30 (10.91%) Terraform
20 28 (10.18%) AWS
21 27 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
22 26 (9.45%) Infrastructure as Code
23 25 (9.09%) 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 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.82%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.55%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.36%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 111 (40.36%) Azure
2 51 (18.55%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (14.18%) Entra ID
4 28 (10.18%) AWS
5 16 (5.82%) IaaS
6 14 (5.09%) SaaS
7 11 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.00%) OneDrive
7 11 (4.00%) PaaS
8 10 (3.64%) Datadog
9 8 (2.91%) GCP
10 7 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.55%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.45%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.45%) Route 53
12 3 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.09%) Tessian
13 2 (0.73%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (24.73%) Firewall
2 47 (17.09%) DNS
3 42 (15.27%) DHCP
4 41 (14.91%) VPN
5 39 (14.18%) WAN
6 25 (9.09%) LAN
7 23 (8.36%) SD-WAN
8 19 (6.91%) TCP/IP
9 17 (6.18%) SAN
10 13 (4.73%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (4.36%) VLAN
12 10 (3.64%) MPLS
13 9 (3.27%) BGP
14 7 (2.55%) Network Security
15 3 (1.09%) HSRP
15 3 (1.09%) NAS
15 3 (1.09%) OSPF
15 3 (1.09%) VPLS
15 3 (1.09%) VRRP
15 3 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.91%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.18%) GitLab
3 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.36%) Git
5 1 (0.36%) JIRA
General
1 32 (11.64%) Finance
2 28 (10.18%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.64%) Banking
5 10 (3.64%) Law
5 10 (3.64%) Retail
6 7 (2.55%) Legal
6 7 (2.55%) Police
6 7 (2.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.91%) .NET
2 3 (1.09%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.73%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.73%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.73%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.73%) Kafka
3 2 (0.73%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.55%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.91%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.55%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.82%) Replication
6 4 (1.45%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.09%) CMDB
7 3 (1.09%) PKI
7 3 (1.09%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.73%) Clustering
8 2 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 78 (28.36%) Windows
2 53 (19.27%) Windows Server
3 20 (7.27%) Apple iOS
4 19 (6.91%) Linux
5 12 (4.36%) Android
6 9 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (2.91%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.18%) VMS
9 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.73%) Unix
11 1 (0.36%) CentOS
11 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (96.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (14.91%) Disaster Recovery
3 39 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (13.82%) ITIL
5 31 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (10.91%) Mentoring
7 27 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
8 26 (9.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (8.73%) DevOps
9 24 (8.73%) Migration
10 23 (8.36%) CI/CD
11 18 (6.55%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (6.18%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (5.82%) Incident Management
13 16 (5.82%) Service Delivery
14 15 (5.45%) Performance Monitoring
14 15 (5.45%) Project Delivery
15 14 (5.09%) High Availability
16 13 (4.73%) Computer Science
16 13 (4.73%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (5.09%) Bicep
3 12 (4.36%) Python
4 7 (2.55%) SQL
5 5 (1.82%) Bash
6 2 (0.73%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.91%) Azure Certification
2 19 (6.91%) Degree
2 19 (6.91%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) DV Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.64%) CCNP
7 9 (3.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (2.91%) MCSE
9 5 (1.82%) CCIE
10 2 (0.73%) CCNA
11 1 (0.36%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (2.91%) SLA
2 7 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.18%) NIST
4 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.73%) GDPR
5 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (21.82%) Active Directory
2 49 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (6.18%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.55%) vSphere
5 6 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.82%) KVM
6 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.45%) Docker
7 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.45%) XenApp
8 2 (0.73%) Firmware
8 2 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.36%) Ceph
9 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.36%) Lustre
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.36%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (15.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (10.91%) Terraform
3 16 (5.82%) Ansible
4 14 (5.09%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.91%) FortiGate
5 8 (2.91%) SCCM
6 5 (1.82%) VxRail
7 4 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.09%) FlexNet
8 3 (1.09%) WSUS
9 2 (0.73%) Grafana
9 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.36%) Nessus
10 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (33.45%) Microsoft
2 81 (29.45%) VMware
3 32 (11.64%) Cisco
4 15 (5.45%) Palo Alto
4 15 (5.45%) Veeam
5 14 (5.09%) Tenable
6 13 (4.73%) Dell
7 12 (4.36%) AppDynamics
7 12 (4.36%) Apple
7 12 (4.36%) Samsung
8 8 (2.91%) Citrix
8 8 (2.91%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.91%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.91%) Meraki
8 8 (2.91%) New Relic
8 8 (2.91%) Zerto
9 6 (2.18%) Splunk
10 5 (1.82%) HP
10 5 (1.82%) Juniper
11 4 (1.45%) IBM