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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 537 461
Rank change year-on-year +106 -76 +133
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 390 154 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.31% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 293 101 335
10th Percentile £43,847 £46,411 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,000 £47,064
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 94,649 44,285 87,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.20% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,854 26,220 61,542
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 £71,082
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 23 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 23 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 +76 333 £60,000 -4.00% 76
UK excluding London +95 313 £60,000 - 61
Work from Home +34 101 £65,576 +7.06% 31
North of England -5 79 £65,576 +2.86% 13
South West -4 66 £52,500 +5.00% 17
London -16 59 £78,750 +5.00% 17
South East +17 54 £60,000 +2.13% 13
North West +9 43 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Midlands +2 43 £55,000 - 11
Wales -19 37 £50,000 +4.01% 1
Yorkshire -15 29 £60,000 -5.88% 5
East of England +2 24 £40,000 -36.00% 6
East Midlands -7 24 £50,000 -9.09% 7
West Midlands -18 19 £55,000 - 4
North East -52 7 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Scotland +24 5 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 383 (98.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 129 (33.08%) Azure
3 116 (29.74%) Microsoft
4 82 (21.03%) VMware
5 80 (20.51%) Windows
6 68 (17.44%) Active Directory
7 67 (17.18%) VMware Infrastructure
8 65 (16.67%) DNS
9 63 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
9 63 (16.15%) Windows Server
10 62 (15.90%) Firewall
11 61 (15.64%) WAN
12 60 (15.38%) DHCP
13 56 (14.36%) Disaster Recovery
13 56 (14.36%) VPN
14 52 (13.33%) LAN
14 52 (13.33%) PowerShell
15 51 (13.08%) Entra ID
16 43 (11.03%) ITIL
16 43 (11.03%) Project Delivery
17 39 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
18 36 (9.23%) AWS
19 35 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
19 35 (8.97%) TCP/IP
20 34 (8.72%) Cisco
20 34 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
21 33 (8.46%) Security Cleared
22 31 (7.95%) Mentoring
23 28 (7.18%) Linux
24 26 (6.67%) Ansible

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 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.05%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (3.33%) AutoCAD
1 13 (3.33%) Civil 3D
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 129 (33.08%) Azure
2 63 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (13.08%) Entra ID
4 36 (9.23%) AWS
5 12 (3.08%) Nutanix
6 11 (2.82%) IaaS
6 11 (2.82%) OneDrive
7 9 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (2.31%) GCP
8 8 (2.05%) SaaS
9 7 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.54%) PaaS
11 5 (1.28%) Datadog
11 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.03%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.03%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 65 (16.67%) DNS
2 62 (15.90%) Firewall
3 61 (15.64%) WAN
4 60 (15.38%) DHCP
5 56 (14.36%) VPN
6 52 (13.33%) LAN
7 35 (8.97%) TCP/IP
8 19 (4.87%) Network Security
8 19 (4.87%) WLAN
9 18 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (3.85%) BGP
10 15 (3.85%) SAN
10 15 (3.85%) VLAN
11 13 (3.33%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.31%) MPLS
13 8 (2.05%) SSL
14 7 (1.79%) NAS
15 6 (1.54%) IPsec
15 6 (1.54%) SSH
16 5 (1.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.59%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.82%) GitLab
2 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
2 2 (0.51%) Git
2 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.51%) JIRA
3 1 (0.26%) Chocolatey
General
1 34 (8.72%) Public Sector
2 29 (7.44%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.62%) Finance
4 10 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.05%) Retail
6 7 (1.79%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.28%) Banking
7 5 (1.28%) Legal
8 3 (0.77%) Law
8 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.26%) Automotive
10 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
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%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.51%) Kafka
4 2 (0.51%) REST
5 1 (0.26%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.26%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.26%) OAuth
5 1 (0.26%) OpenID
5 1 (0.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.90%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.82%) PKI
4 8 (2.05%) Replication
5 6 (1.54%) Clustering
5 6 (1.54%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.28%) CMDB
6 5 (1.28%) 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%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.26%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (20.51%) Windows
2 63 (16.15%) Windows Server
3 28 (7.18%) Linux
4 14 (3.59%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.08%) Android
6 6 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.28%) 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
1 383 (98.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (14.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 43 (11.03%) ITIL
3 43 (11.03%) Project Delivery
4 39 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (7.95%) Mentoring
7 26 (6.67%) Incident Management
8 25 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (6.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (6.15%) CI/CD
10 21 (5.38%) High Availability
11 20 (5.13%) Business Continuity
12 18 (4.62%) Incident Response
13 17 (4.36%) Coaching
13 17 (4.36%) Migration
14 16 (4.10%) Service Management
15 15 (3.85%) Cloud Operations
15 15 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (3.59%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 24 (6.15%) Python
3 13 (3.33%) SQL
4 10 (2.56%) Bicep
5 4 (1.03%) Bash
6 2 (0.51%) Go
7 1 (0.26%) R
7 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (8.46%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.41%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.15%) CCNP
3 24 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (6.15%) Degree
4 20 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.08%) MCSE
7 12 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (2.82%) CCIE
9 9 (2.31%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.05%) CCNA
11 6 (1.54%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.31%) GDPR
3 6 (1.54%) SLA
4 5 (1.28%) NIST
5 3 (0.77%) COBIT
5 3 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 68 (17.44%) Active Directory
2 67 (17.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (6.41%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.62%) vSphere
5 10 (2.56%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.28%) KVM
8 5 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.77%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.51%) Docker
10 2 (0.51%) ProxySG
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%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (6.67%) Ansible
3 25 (6.41%) Terraform
4 11 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.05%) VxRail
6 7 (1.79%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.54%) WSUS
8 3 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.51%) Grafana
9 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.51%) SCCM
9 2 (0.51%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.26%) Avamar
10 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.26%) Nessus
10 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 116 (29.74%) Microsoft
2 82 (21.03%) VMware
3 34 (8.72%) Cisco
4 20 (5.13%) Veeam
5 13 (3.33%) HP
5 13 (3.33%) Zerto
6 12 (3.08%) Apple
7 11 (2.82%) Meraki
8 10 (2.56%) Dell
8 10 (2.56%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.56%) Samsung
9 9 (2.31%) Citrix
9 9 (2.31%) Zscaler
10 7 (1.79%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.79%) Tenable
11 6 (1.54%) Commvault
11 6 (1.54%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.28%) EMC
12 5 (1.28%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (1.03%) Splunk