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 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 542 454
Rank change year-on-year +119 -88 +172
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 360 124 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.28% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.31% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 253 85 417
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +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 88,240 40,152 103,220
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.52% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,505 22,772 74,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,869 £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 19 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 19 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 +89 307 £65,000 - 48
UK excluding London +118 290 £60,000 +4.35% 60
Work from Home +45 87 £65,576 +9.29% 21
North of England +5 73 £70,000 +14.29% 10
London -13 57 £80,000 -3.03% 11
South East +15 53 £60,000 +14.29% 11
South West -14 50 £65,000 +31.01% 11
Midlands +18 48 £56,250 +0.45% 6
North West +12 38 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Wales -19 32 £50,000 +4.01% 20
West Midlands +11 30 £57,500 +0.35% 3
Yorkshire -22 28 £62,788 +0.46% 2
East of England -4 20 £40,000 -33.33% 3
East Midlands -12 18 £55,000 -1.79% 3
Scotland - 9 - -
North East -36 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 354 (98.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 120 (33.33%) Azure
3 115 (31.94%) Microsoft
4 85 (23.61%) VMware
5 81 (22.50%) Windows
6 71 (19.72%) Active Directory
7 68 (18.89%) VMware Infrastructure
8 65 (18.06%) DNS
9 64 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
10 63 (17.50%) Windows Server
11 61 (16.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 61 (16.94%) VPN
12 58 (16.11%) DHCP
13 54 (15.00%) Firewall
13 54 (15.00%) WAN
14 50 (13.89%) Entra ID
15 45 (12.50%) PowerShell
16 44 (12.22%) ITIL
17 41 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (11.11%) LAN
18 40 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
19 35 (9.72%) Security Cleared
20 34 (9.44%) AWS
21 32 (8.89%) TCP/IP
22 29 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
23 28 (7.78%) Project Delivery
24 27 (7.50%) Mentoring
25 26 (7.22%) Terraform
26 25 (6.94%) Cisco
26 25 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange

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 25 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.67%) AutoCAD
1 6 (1.67%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 120 (33.33%) Azure
2 64 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (13.89%) Entra ID
4 34 (9.44%) AWS
5 14 (3.89%) IaaS
6 12 (3.33%) Nutanix
6 12 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 12 (3.33%) SaaS
7 9 (2.50%) Datadog
7 9 (2.50%) PaaS
8 8 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.22%) GCP
8 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.11%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.11%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.83%) GitHub
12 3 (0.83%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 65 (18.06%) DNS
2 61 (16.94%) VPN
3 58 (16.11%) DHCP
4 54 (15.00%) Firewall
4 54 (15.00%) WAN
5 40 (11.11%) LAN
6 32 (8.89%) TCP/IP
7 17 (4.72%) SAN
7 17 (4.72%) SD-WAN
8 16 (4.44%) WLAN
9 15 (4.17%) Network Security
9 15 (4.17%) VLAN
10 14 (3.89%) BGP
11 11 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (2.50%) MPLS
13 6 (1.67%) IPsec
13 6 (1.67%) NAS
13 6 (1.67%) SSH
13 6 (1.67%) SSL
14 5 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.61%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.33%) GitLab
2 5 (1.39%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.56%) Git
3 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 35 (9.72%) Social Skills
2 28 (7.78%) Public Sector
3 26 (7.22%) Finance
4 13 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.50%) Banking
6 8 (2.22%) Legal
6 8 (2.22%) Retail
7 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.28%) Law
9 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.39%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.11%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.83%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.56%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.56%) Kafka
4 2 (0.56%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.56%) Middleware
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth
5 1 (0.28%) OpenID
5 1 (0.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.33%) PKI
4 7 (1.94%) Replication
5 5 (1.39%) CMDB
5 5 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.11%) Clustering
6 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.83%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.83%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.56%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.56%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (22.50%) Windows
2 63 (17.50%) Windows Server
3 22 (6.11%) Linux
4 19 (5.28%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.33%) Android
6 7 (1.94%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.67%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.11%) Unix
9 3 (0.83%) VMS
10 2 (0.56%) CentOS
10 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (98.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (16.94%) Disaster Recovery
3 44 (12.22%) ITIL
4 41 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (7.78%) Project Delivery
7 27 (7.50%) Mentoring
8 25 (6.94%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (6.67%) CI/CD
10 22 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (5.83%) High Availability
12 20 (5.56%) Cloud Operations
13 18 (5.00%) Incident Management
13 18 (5.00%) Migration
14 17 (4.72%) Business Continuity
14 17 (4.72%) Computer Science
14 17 (4.72%) Problem Management
14 17 (4.72%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (4.44%) Incident Response
15 16 (4.44%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 18 (5.00%) Python
3 11 (3.06%) SQL
4 8 (2.22%) Bicep
5 4 (1.11%) Bash
6 2 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 24 (6.67%) Degree
2 24 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 23 (6.39%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.11%) CCNP
4 22 (6.11%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.33%) CCIE
6 12 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.06%) MCSE
8 7 (1.94%) CCNA
9 6 (1.67%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.22%) GDPR
2 8 (2.22%) NIST
3 5 (1.39%) SLA
4 3 (0.83%) COBIT
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 71 (19.72%) Active Directory
2 68 (18.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 17 (4.72%) vSphere
5 9 (2.50%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.39%) KVM
9 3 (0.83%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.56%) Docker
11 1 (0.28%) Firmware
11 1 (0.28%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (7.22%) Terraform
3 23 (6.39%) Ansible
4 10 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.22%) VxRail
6 7 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.94%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.67%) SCCM
7 6 (1.67%) WSUS
8 3 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.56%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.56%) Grafana
9 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.28%) Nessus
10 1 (0.28%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 115 (31.94%) Microsoft
2 85 (23.61%) VMware
3 25 (6.94%) Cisco
4 17 (4.72%) Veeam
5 14 (3.89%) Tenable
6 11 (3.06%) Apple
6 11 (3.06%) HP
6 11 (3.06%) Zerto
7 10 (2.78%) Dell
7 10 (2.78%) Samsung
8 9 (2.50%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.22%) Meraki
10 7 (1.94%) Splunk
11 6 (1.67%) Citrix
11 6 (1.67%) Commvault
11 6 (1.67%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.67%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.39%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.39%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.39%) EMC