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 26 November 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 489 449
Rank change year-on-year +20 -40 +170
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 185 272 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.40% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.43% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 128 174 247
10th Percentile £50,875 £44,956 £42,679
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,081 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,875 £85,218
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.50% +1.90% +8.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,411 63,382 48,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 94.34% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30,519 35,483 37,888
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,896 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +32 169 £65,000 +13.04% 60
UK excluding London +30 133 £65,000 +21.50% 69
Work from Home +51 57 £65,000 +7.50% 31
North of England +45 42 £65,000 +18.18% 9
London +32 38 £75,000 +7.14% 13
East of England +45 34 £75,000 +66.67% 11
North West +43 22 £65,000 +7.50% 7
Midlands +33 19 £55,000 +10.00% 7
South East +15 18 £60,000 +6.19% 21
West Midlands +44 15 £60,000 +26.32% 5
Yorkshire +12 12 £65,000 +18.18% 1
South West +5 10 £50,000 -4.76% 11
North East +19 8 £65,000 +22.64% 1
Scotland +9 8 £60,000 +20.00% 4
East Midlands +24 4 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Wales +12 3 £53,400 +8.75% 9

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

For the 6 months to 26 November 2025, 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.

1 181 (97.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 76 (41.08%) Azure
3 63 (34.05%) Windows
4 58 (31.35%) Firewall
5 50 (27.03%) VMware
5 50 (27.03%) Windows Server
6 44 (23.78%) Microsoft
7 40 (21.62%) Active Directory
8 37 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
9 34 (18.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 32 (17.30%) Cisco
10 32 (17.30%) Terraform
11 29 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (15.68%) PowerShell
12 28 (15.14%) Mentoring
13 26 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (14.05%) VMware Infrastructure
14 25 (13.51%) AWS
15 22 (11.89%) DevOps
15 22 (11.89%) Migration
15 22 (11.89%) Roadmaps
16 21 (11.35%) WAN
17 19 (10.27%) DNS
17 19 (10.27%) LAN
17 19 (10.27%) Technology Roadmap
18 18 (9.73%) Hyper-V
19 17 (9.19%) Azure Logic Apps
19 17 (9.19%) CI/CD
19 17 (9.19%) Python
20 16 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery

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 (18.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.95%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.70%) IIS
4 3 (1.62%) WinCC
5 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.54%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 76 (41.08%) Azure
2 37 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (13.51%) AWS
4 17 (9.19%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.49%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.24%) GCP
8 5 (2.70%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.70%) Route 53
9 4 (2.16%) Azure App Service
9 4 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.16%) GitHub
10 3 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.62%) IaaS
10 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.62%) PaaS
11 2 (1.08%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 58 (31.35%) Firewall
2 21 (11.35%) WAN
3 19 (10.27%) DNS
3 19 (10.27%) LAN
4 15 (8.11%) VPN
5 12 (6.49%) DHCP
5 12 (6.49%) TETRA
6 9 (4.86%) SAN
7 8 (4.32%) SD-WAN
8 6 (3.24%) Network Security
8 6 (3.24%) VLAN
9 4 (2.16%) MPLS
9 4 (2.16%) SNMP
10 3 (1.62%) Modbus
10 3 (1.62%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.62%) VSAN
11 2 (1.08%) InfiniBand
11 2 (1.08%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.08%) SMTP
11 2 (1.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.08%) JIRA
3 1 (0.54%) GitLab
General
1 28 (15.14%) Finance
2 15 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.41%) Law
4 7 (3.78%) Police
4 7 (3.78%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.24%) Retail
6 5 (2.70%) Automotive
6 5 (2.70%) Banking
6 5 (2.70%) Local Government
6 5 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.16%) Legal
7 4 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.78%) .NET
2 5 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.54%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.73%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.32%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.32%) Driving Licence
3 7 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.78%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.70%) NHS
4 5 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (2.16%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.62%) SCADA
7 2 (1.08%) Clustering
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.54%) PKI
8 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.54%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.54%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 63 (34.05%) Windows
2 50 (27.03%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.03%) Linux
4 11 (5.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.24%) VMS
7 4 (2.16%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.08%) Android
10 1 (0.54%) CentOS
10 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.54%) Unix
10 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (97.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (15.14%) Mentoring
4 26 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (11.89%) DevOps
5 22 (11.89%) Migration
5 22 (11.89%) Roadmaps
6 19 (10.27%) Technology Roadmap
7 17 (9.19%) CI/CD
8 16 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (7.03%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (5.95%) Asset Management
11 11 (5.95%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (5.41%) Observability
12 10 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (4.86%) Agile
13 9 (4.86%) Business Continuity
13 9 (4.86%) ITIL
14 8 (4.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.68%) PowerShell
2 17 (9.19%) Python
3 12 (6.49%) Bicep
3 12 (6.49%) SQL
4 4 (2.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (4.86%) Azure Certification
2 9 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (3.78%) Degree
3 7 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.70%) CCNA
4 5 (2.70%) CCNP
5 4 (2.16%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.16%) MCSE
5 4 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.62%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.08%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.54%) CISSP
8 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.62%) IEC 61131
2 3 (1.62%) IEC 61508
2 3 (1.62%) QA
3 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.08%) NIST
3 2 (1.08%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 26 (14.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (9.73%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.32%) vSphere
5 7 (3.78%) Docker
6 5 (2.70%) XenApp
7 4 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.54%) Ceph
10 1 (0.54%) Firmware
10 1 (0.54%) Lustre
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.54%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 32 (17.30%) Terraform
2 15 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (4.86%) Ansible
4 8 (4.32%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.16%) SCCM
6 3 (1.62%) FlexNet
6 3 (1.62%) SCOM
7 2 (1.08%) PaperCut
7 2 (1.08%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.08%) WSUS
8 1 (0.54%) Grafana
8 1 (0.54%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.54%) Istio
8 1 (0.54%) linkerd
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.54%) Nessus
8 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.54%) WMI
Vendors
1 50 (27.03%) VMware
2 44 (23.78%) Microsoft
3 32 (17.30%) Cisco
4 11 (5.95%) Dell
5 8 (4.32%) Veeam
6 7 (3.78%) Citrix
6 7 (3.78%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.78%) New Relic
6 7 (3.78%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.24%) Meraki
8 5 (2.70%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.16%) IBM
9 4 (2.16%) Juniper
9 4 (2.16%) SonicWALL
10 3 (1.62%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.62%) F5
10 3 (1.62%) Rockwell
10 3 (1.62%) Siemens
10 3 (1.62%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.62%) Splunk