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 18 January 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 528 445
Rank change year-on-year +58 -83 +175
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 181 168 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.34% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 123 109 276
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,665 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £48,250 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +3.20%

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 55,394 49,384 56,534
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 92.65% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 34,260 25,568 43,737
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,508 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.25%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +65 153 £70,000 +16.67% 97
UK excluding London +71 126 £65,000 +18.18% 87
Work from Home +56 47 £70,000 +16.67% 30
London +45 41 £75,250 +15.77% 20
Midlands +45 29 £55,000 +22.22% 14
East of England +38 25 £75,000 +36.36% 14
West Midlands +42 24 £65,000 +44.44% 5
South East +40 22 £60,000 - 29
Scotland +11 17 - - 2
North of England +1 16 £65,000 +18.18% 13
South West 0 12 £70,000 +16.67% 13
North West +3 8 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Wales +8 6 £55,000 +12.01% 3
Yorkshire -9 6 £65,750 +19.55% 6
East Midlands -7 5 £55,000 -42.11% 9
North East +2 2 £57,500 +15.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 January 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.

1 173 (95.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 79 (43.65%) Azure
3 75 (41.44%) Windows
4 60 (33.15%) Firewall
5 59 (32.60%) Microsoft
5 59 (32.60%) VMware
6 53 (29.28%) Windows Server
7 51 (28.18%) Active Directory
8 44 (24.31%) Microsoft 365
9 34 (18.78%) Microsoft Exchange
10 29 (16.02%) VMware Infrastructure
11 28 (15.47%) PowerShell
12 27 (14.92%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (13.81%) DNS
13 25 (13.81%) Migration
13 25 (13.81%) Terraform
14 23 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (12.71%) Roadmaps
15 22 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (12.15%) Entra ID
16 21 (11.60%) DevOps
16 21 (11.60%) DHCP
16 21 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (11.60%) VPN
16 21 (11.60%) WAN
17 20 (11.05%) Cisco
18 19 (10.50%) Technology Roadmap
19 17 (9.39%) Azure Logic Apps
19 17 (9.39%) Mentoring

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 34 (18.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.21%) IIS
4 3 (1.66%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.55%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 79 (43.65%) Azure
2 44 (24.31%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (12.15%) Entra ID
4 17 (9.39%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.52%) AWS
7 9 (4.97%) IaaS
7 9 (4.97%) OneDrive
7 9 (4.97%) PaaS
8 8 (4.42%) SaaS
9 6 (3.31%) Datadog
10 4 (2.21%) Azure App Service
10 4 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.21%) GitHub
11 3 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.66%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.66%) Route 53
12 2 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.10%) GCP
12 2 (1.10%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (33.15%) Firewall
2 25 (13.81%) DNS
3 21 (11.60%) DHCP
3 21 (11.60%) VPN
3 21 (11.60%) WAN
4 15 (8.29%) SD-WAN
5 12 (6.63%) SAN
6 11 (6.08%) LAN
7 9 (4.97%) VLAN
8 8 (4.42%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (3.87%) Network Security
9 7 (3.87%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.21%) MPLS
11 3 (1.66%) Modbus
11 3 (1.66%) VSAN
12 2 (1.10%) InfiniBand
12 2 (1.10%) SMTP
12 2 (1.10%) SNMP
13 1 (0.55%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.55%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Chocolatey
2 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (15.47%) Finance
2 23 (12.71%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.52%) Law
4 8 (4.42%) Banking
4 8 (4.42%) Retail
5 7 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.87%) Police
5 7 (3.87%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.10%) Legal
7 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.42%) .NET
2 2 (1.10%) Middleware
3 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.73%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.08%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.42%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.87%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.21%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.66%) SCADA
8 3 (1.66%) YubiKey
9 2 (1.10%) Clustering
9 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (41.44%) Windows
2 53 (29.28%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.18%) Linux
4 10 (5.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (4.97%) Apple iOS
6 7 (3.87%) VMS
6 7 (3.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.31%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (95.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (13.81%) Migration
3 23 (12.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (12.71%) Roadmaps
4 22 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (11.60%) DevOps
5 21 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (10.50%) Technology Roadmap
7 17 (9.39%) Mentoring
8 15 (8.29%) ITIL
9 13 (7.18%) CI/CD
10 12 (6.63%) Cloud Operations
11 11 (6.08%) Asset Management
11 11 (6.08%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (6.08%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (5.52%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (5.52%) Problem Management
13 9 (4.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.47%) PowerShell
2 13 (7.18%) Bicep
3 10 (5.52%) Python
4 8 (4.42%) SQL
5 4 (2.21%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (8.84%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.08%) Degree
3 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (3.87%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.66%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) CCNA
7 2 (1.10%) CCNP
7 2 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.55%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.42%) SLA
2 7 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.76%) NIST
4 3 (1.66%) IEC 61131
4 3 (1.66%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.66%) QA
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (28.18%) Active Directory
2 29 (16.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.18%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.87%) Docker
5 5 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.76%) vSphere
6 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.21%) XenApp
7 3 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.55%) Ceph
9 1 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.55%) Firmware
9 1 (0.55%) Lustre
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.55%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (14.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (13.81%) Terraform
3 13 (7.18%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.42%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.87%) Ansible
5 7 (3.87%) SCCM
6 3 (1.66%) FlexNet
7 2 (1.10%) PaperCut
7 2 (1.10%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (32.60%) Microsoft
1 59 (32.60%) VMware
2 20 (11.05%) Cisco
3 10 (5.52%) AppDynamics
3 10 (5.52%) Dell
3 10 (5.52%) Tenable
4 9 (4.97%) Palo Alto
5 8 (4.42%) New Relic
6 7 (3.87%) Citrix
6 7 (3.87%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.31%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.31%) Meraki
8 5 (2.76%) Splunk
8 5 (2.76%) Veeam
9 4 (2.21%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.21%) IBM
9 4 (2.21%) Juniper
9 4 (2.21%) Qualys
9 4 (2.21%) SonicWALL
10 3 (1.66%) Siemens