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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 534 458
Rank change year-on-year +113 -76 +153
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 373 123 519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.27% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.30% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 266 83 407
10th Percentile £44,126 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,625 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +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 89,394 40,455 102,187
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.45% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,374 23,051 73,787
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +102 319 £65,000 - 59
UK excluding London +134 300 £60,000 +2.13% 62
Work from Home +55 92 £65,576 +9.29% 23
North of England 0 75 £70,000 +12.00% 12
London -3 57 £80,000 -3.03% 16
South East +15 53 £60,000 +14.29% 15
South West -19 53 £65,000 +31.01% 12
Midlands +18 51 £55,000 -1.79% 5
North West +9 39 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Wales -18 33 £50,000 +4.01% 15
West Midlands +14 32 £55,000 -4.01% 2
Yorkshire -24 29 £60,000 -4.00% 2
East of England -3 22 £40,000 -33.33% 5
East Midlands -13 19 £52,500 -6.25% 3
Scotland - 8 - -
North East -36 7 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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.

1 368 (98.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 125 (33.51%) Azure
3 121 (32.44%) Microsoft
4 86 (23.06%) VMware
5 83 (22.25%) Windows
6 74 (19.84%) Active Directory
7 70 (18.77%) VMware Infrastructure
8 67 (17.96%) DNS
9 65 (17.43%) Microsoft 365
9 65 (17.43%) Windows Server
10 62 (16.62%) DHCP
10 62 (16.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 62 (16.62%) VPN
11 59 (15.82%) Firewall
12 56 (15.01%) WAN
13 53 (14.21%) Entra ID
14 50 (13.40%) PowerShell
15 45 (12.06%) ITIL
16 43 (11.53%) LAN
17 41 (10.99%) Microsoft Intune
17 41 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
18 38 (10.19%) Security Cleared
19 34 (9.12%) AWS
19 34 (9.12%) Project Delivery
20 32 (8.58%) TCP/IP
21 30 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
22 29 (7.77%) Cisco
23 28 (7.51%) Mentoring
24 27 (7.24%) Microsoft Exchange
25 26 (6.97%) Hyper-V

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 27 (7.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.14%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.88%) AutoCAD
1 7 (1.88%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 125 (33.51%) Azure
2 65 (17.43%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (14.21%) Entra ID
4 34 (9.12%) AWS
5 13 (3.49%) IaaS
5 13 (3.49%) OneDrive
6 12 (3.22%) Nutanix
7 11 (2.95%) SaaS
8 8 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.14%) Datadog
8 8 (2.14%) GCP
8 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.14%) PaaS
9 6 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.07%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.07%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.80%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 67 (17.96%) DNS
2 62 (16.62%) DHCP
2 62 (16.62%) VPN
3 59 (15.82%) Firewall
4 56 (15.01%) WAN
5 43 (11.53%) LAN
6 32 (8.58%) TCP/IP
7 17 (4.56%) Network Security
7 17 (4.56%) WLAN
8 16 (4.29%) SAN
8 16 (4.29%) SD-WAN
8 16 (4.29%) VLAN
9 15 (4.02%) BGP
10 14 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (2.41%) MPLS
12 6 (1.61%) IPsec
12 6 (1.61%) NAS
12 6 (1.61%) SSH
12 6 (1.61%) SSL
13 5 (1.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.22%) GitLab
2 4 (1.07%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.54%) Git
3 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 35 (9.38%) Social Skills
2 29 (7.77%) Public Sector
3 25 (6.70%) Finance
4 12 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.14%) Banking
5 8 (2.14%) Legal
5 8 (2.14%) Retail
6 6 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.54%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.27%) Automotive
9 1 (0.27%) Law
9 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.34%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.07%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.80%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.54%) Kafka
4 2 (0.54%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.54%) Middleware
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) OpenID
5 1 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.70%) Data Centre
2 18 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.22%) PKI
4 7 (1.88%) Replication
5 5 (1.34%) CMDB
5 5 (1.34%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.07%) Clustering
6 4 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.80%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.54%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.54%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (22.25%) Windows
2 65 (17.43%) Windows Server
3 25 (6.70%) Linux
4 18 (4.83%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.22%) Android
6 6 (1.61%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.61%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.34%) Unix
8 3 (0.80%) VMS
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (98.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (16.62%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (12.06%) ITIL
4 41 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (9.12%) Project Delivery
6 30 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (7.51%) Mentoring
8 25 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (6.43%) CI/CD
9 24 (6.43%) Root Cause Analysis
10 22 (5.90%) High Availability
11 19 (5.09%) Cloud Operations
12 18 (4.83%) Incident Management
12 18 (4.83%) Incident Response
12 18 (4.83%) Problem Management
12 18 (4.83%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (4.56%) Business Continuity
13 17 (4.56%) Migration
13 17 (4.56%) Service Management
14 16 (4.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.40%) PowerShell
2 21 (5.63%) Python
3 12 (3.22%) SQL
4 10 (2.68%) Bicep
5 5 (1.34%) Bash
6 2 (0.54%) Go
7 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (10.19%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.70%) DV Cleared
3 24 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (6.17%) Degree
5 22 (5.90%) CCNP
6 17 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.22%) CCIE
8 12 (3.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (2.95%) MCSE
10 10 (2.68%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.88%) CCNA
12 6 (1.61%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.14%) GDPR
2 8 (2.14%) NIST
3 4 (1.07%) SLA
4 3 (0.80%) COBIT
5 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 74 (19.84%) Active Directory
2 70 (18.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.97%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.83%) vSphere
5 10 (2.68%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.80%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.54%) Docker
11 2 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) GPFS
12 1 (0.27%) Lustre
12 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (10.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (6.97%) Terraform
3 24 (6.43%) Ansible
4 11 (2.95%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.41%) VxRail
6 7 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.88%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.61%) WSUS
8 5 (1.34%) SCCM
9 3 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.27%) Nessus
11 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 121 (32.44%) Microsoft
2 86 (23.06%) VMware
3 29 (7.77%) Cisco
4 18 (4.83%) Veeam
5 13 (3.49%) Tenable
6 12 (3.22%) HP
7 11 (2.95%) Apple
7 11 (2.95%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.95%) Zerto
8 10 (2.68%) Dell
8 10 (2.68%) Meraki
8 10 (2.68%) Samsung
9 7 (1.88%) Splunk
10 6 (1.61%) Citrix
10 6 (1.61%) Commvault
10 6 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.61%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.34%) EMC
11 5 (1.34%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (1.07%) Dynatrace