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 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 541 455
Rank change year-on-year +90 -86 +197
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 209 163 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.31% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.34% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 143 104 327
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,956 £42,800
25th Percentile £58,891 £47,500 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,250 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +7.98%

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 58,000 47,786 67,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36,092 24,542 52,929
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% +8.88% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +92 181 £70,000 +15.77% 66
UK excluding London +52 144 £65,000 +18.18% 57
Work from Home +44 54 £75,000 +25.00% 33
London +50 51 £75,000 -9.09% 15
East of England +38 32 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Midlands +31 31 £65,000 +36.84% 8
South East +34 25 £60,000 +2.13% 12
West Midlands +46 24 £65,000 +44.44% 6
North of England -11 18 £65,000 +20.37% 21
Scotland +11 17 - - 1
South West +2 15 £67,500 +12.50% 7
North West +17 9 £65,000 +30.00% 8
East Midlands -5 7 £55,000 -27.63% 2
Yorkshire -14 7 £60,750 +10.45% 8
Wales +4 6 £55,000 +12.01%
North East 0 2 £57,500 +15.00% 5

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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.

1 201 (96.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 93 (44.50%) Azure
3 78 (37.32%) Windows
4 73 (34.93%) Microsoft
5 64 (30.62%) Firewall
5 64 (30.62%) VMware
6 63 (30.14%) Active Directory
7 55 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (25.84%) Windows Server
9 39 (18.66%) Microsoft Exchange
10 35 (16.75%) Microsoft Intune
11 34 (16.27%) DNS
12 32 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
12 32 (15.31%) VMware Infrastructure
13 31 (14.83%) Entra ID
14 30 (14.35%) DHCP
15 29 (13.88%) PowerShell
16 28 (13.40%) VPN
17 27 (12.92%) Migration
17 27 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (12.92%) Terraform
18 25 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (11.96%) WAN
19 22 (10.53%) DevOps
19 22 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
20 21 (10.05%) Cisco
20 21 (10.05%) ITIL
20 21 (10.05%) Roadmaps
21 20 (9.57%) Mentoring
22 19 (9.09%) Azure Certification

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 39 (18.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (7.66%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.39%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.48%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 93 (44.50%) Azure
2 55 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (14.83%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.66%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.74%) SaaS
7 11 (5.26%) IaaS
7 11 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 11 (5.26%) PaaS
8 10 (4.78%) AWS
9 8 (3.83%) Datadog
10 4 (1.91%) Azure App Service
10 4 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.91%) GitHub
10 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.44%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.44%) Route 53
12 2 (0.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 64 (30.62%) Firewall
2 34 (16.27%) DNS
3 30 (14.35%) DHCP
4 28 (13.40%) VPN
5 25 (11.96%) WAN
6 17 (8.13%) SD-WAN
7 14 (6.70%) SAN
8 13 (6.22%) TCP/IP
9 12 (5.74%) LAN
10 11 (5.26%) VLAN
11 10 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (3.35%) Network Security
13 4 (1.91%) MPLS
14 3 (1.44%) VSAN
15 2 (0.96%) InfiniBand
15 2 (0.96%) SMTP
15 2 (0.96%) SNMP
16 1 (0.48%) ISDN
16 1 (0.48%) PSTN
16 1 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (3.83%) Chocolatey
2 1 (0.48%) GitLab
2 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (15.79%) Finance
2 25 (11.96%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.78%) Banking
3 10 (4.78%) Law
3 10 (4.78%) Retail
4 7 (3.35%) Police
4 7 (3.35%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.39%) Legal
6 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) .NET
2 2 (0.96%) Middleware
3 1 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.48%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.70%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.31%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (3.83%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.39%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.44%) YubiKey
7 2 (0.96%) Clustering
7 2 (0.96%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) PKI
8 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 78 (37.32%) Windows
2 54 (25.84%) Windows Server
3 13 (6.22%) Linux
4 12 (5.74%) Apple iOS
5 9 (4.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.83%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.35%) VMS
8 5 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (96.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
3 27 (12.92%) Migration
3 27 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (10.53%) DevOps
5 22 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (10.05%) ITIL
6 21 (10.05%) Roadmaps
7 20 (9.57%) Mentoring
8 17 (8.13%) Technology Roadmap
9 16 (7.66%) Cloud Operations
9 16 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (6.70%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (6.22%) CI/CD
11 13 (6.22%) Identity Access Management
12 12 (5.74%) Problem Management
12 12 (5.74%) Service Delivery
13 11 (5.26%) Asset Management
14 10 (4.78%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.88%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.70%) Bicep
3 10 (4.78%) Python
4 7 (3.35%) SQL
5 4 (1.91%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 16 (7.66%) Degree
3 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.44%) CCNA
6 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) CCNP
7 2 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.48%) CCIE
8 1 (0.48%) CISSP
8 1 (0.48%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.48%) MCSE
8 1 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.78%) SLA
2 8 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.48%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 63 (30.14%) Active Directory
2 32 (15.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.70%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.35%) Docker
5 6 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.91%) vSphere
6 4 (1.91%) XenApp
7 2 (0.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.48%) Ceph
8 1 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.48%) Firmware
8 1 (0.48%) Lustre
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.48%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (16.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (12.92%) Terraform
3 14 (6.70%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.83%) FortiGate
4 8 (3.83%) SCCM
5 6 (2.87%) Ansible
6 3 (1.44%) FlexNet
7 2 (0.96%) PaperCut
7 2 (0.96%) VxRail
8 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 73 (34.93%) Microsoft
2 64 (30.62%) VMware
3 21 (10.05%) Cisco
4 13 (6.22%) Tenable
5 12 (5.74%) AppDynamics
5 12 (5.74%) Dell
6 11 (5.26%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.78%) Citrix
8 9 (4.31%) Dynatrace
9 8 (3.83%) New Relic
10 7 (3.35%) Meraki
10 7 (3.35%) Veeam
11 6 (2.87%) Fortinet
12 5 (2.39%) Splunk
13 4 (1.91%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.91%) IBM
13 4 (1.91%) Juniper
13 4 (1.91%) Qualys
13 4 (1.91%) SonicWALL
14 3 (1.44%) Apple