Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 532 433
Rank change year-on-year +84 -99 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 220 161 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.32% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.35% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 150 105 362
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,500 £42,550
25th Percentile £58,891 £47,500 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +3.90% +0.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,119 £67,968
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.22% -4.09% +6.84%

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 60,248 45,561 70,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 91.75% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 37,639 23,782 55,054
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,390
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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 11 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 11 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 +71 193 £70,000 +16.67% 55
UK excluding London +67 153 £65,000 +23.22% 48
Work from Home +60 56 £70,000 +21.74% 22
London +34 51 £75,000 -1.64% 12
East of England +34 34 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Midlands +33 33 £65,000 +36.84% 12
West Midlands +32 26 £67,500 +50.00% 7
South East +18 26 £60,000 +2.13% 13
North of England -13 21 £65,000 +22.64% 13
Scotland +4 17 - - 1
South West -11 16 £67,500 +12.50% 1
North West +18 11 £65,000 +30.00% 4
East Midlands -12 7 £55,000 -27.63% 5
Wales +6 6 £55,000 +12.01%
Yorkshire -29 6 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East - 4 £65,288 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 212 (96.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 96 (43.64%) Azure
3 78 (35.45%) Microsoft
3 78 (35.45%) Windows
4 65 (29.55%) Firewall
4 65 (29.55%) VMware
5 62 (28.18%) Active Directory
6 54 (24.55%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (24.55%) Windows Server
7 38 (17.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 38 (17.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (15.91%) DNS
9 34 (15.45%) Entra ID
10 33 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 33 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 31 (14.09%) DHCP
12 29 (13.18%) PowerShell
12 29 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (13.18%) VPN
13 27 (12.27%) Migration
13 27 (12.27%) Terraform
14 26 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (11.82%) WAN
15 24 (10.91%) ITIL
16 23 (10.45%) DevOps
16 23 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 22 (10.00%) Cisco
17 22 (10.00%) Mentoring
17 22 (10.00%) Roadmaps
18 19 (8.64%) 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 38 (17.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (7.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 96 (43.64%) Azure
2 54 (24.55%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (15.45%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 15 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.91%) AWS
7 12 (5.45%) SaaS
8 11 (5.00%) OneDrive
9 10 (4.55%) IaaS
9 10 (4.55%) PaaS
10 8 (3.64%) Datadog
11 4 (1.82%) Azure App Service
11 4 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.82%) GitHub
11 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.36%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.36%) Route 53
13 2 (0.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (29.55%) Firewall
2 35 (15.91%) DNS
3 31 (14.09%) DHCP
4 29 (13.18%) VPN
5 26 (11.82%) WAN
6 18 (8.18%) SD-WAN
7 14 (6.36%) SAN
8 13 (5.91%) LAN
8 13 (5.91%) TCP/IP
9 12 (5.45%) VLAN
10 10 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (3.18%) Network Security
12 4 (1.82%) MPLS
13 3 (1.36%) VSAN
14 2 (0.91%) InfiniBand
14 2 (0.91%) SNMP
15 1 (0.45%) PSTN
15 1 (0.45%) RTP
15 1 (0.45%) SMTP
15 1 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.91%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (15.45%) Finance
2 26 (11.82%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.00%) Law
4 10 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.55%) Banking
4 10 (4.55%) Retail
5 7 (3.18%) Police
5 7 (3.18%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.73%) Legal
7 4 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.64%) .NET
2 2 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (0.91%) Keycloak
2 2 (0.91%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.82%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.09%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.36%) YubiKey
7 2 (0.91%) Clustering
7 2 (0.91%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.91%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.45%) PKI
8 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 78 (35.45%) Windows
2 54 (24.55%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.82%) Apple iOS
4 12 (5.45%) Linux
5 9 (4.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.64%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.18%) VMS
8 6 (2.73%) Android
9 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (96.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (12.27%) Migration
5 26 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (10.91%) ITIL
7 23 (10.45%) DevOps
7 23 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 22 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 19 (8.64%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (7.73%) Cloud Operations
10 17 (7.73%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (7.73%) Technology Roadmap
11 16 (7.27%) CI/CD
12 13 (5.91%) Identity Access Management
12 13 (5.91%) Service Delivery
13 12 (5.45%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (5.45%) Problem Management
14 11 (5.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.18%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.36%) Bicep
3 10 (4.55%) Python
4 7 (3.18%) SQL
5 3 (1.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (8.64%) Azure Certification
2 16 (7.27%) Degree
3 15 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.82%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.36%) CCNA
9 3 (1.36%) CCNP
10 2 (0.91%) CCIE
10 2 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.45%) MCSE
11 1 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.09%) SLA
2 8 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.27%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.45%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 62 (28.18%) Active Directory
2 33 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.36%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.73%) Docker
4 6 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.27%) vSphere
6 4 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.82%) XenApp
7 2 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Ceph
8 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.45%) Firmware
8 1 (0.45%) Lustre
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.45%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (17.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (12.27%) Terraform
3 14 (6.36%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.64%) FortiGate
4 8 (3.64%) SCCM
5 6 (2.73%) Ansible
6 3 (1.36%) FlexNet
6 3 (1.36%) VxRail
7 2 (0.91%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.45%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (35.45%) Microsoft
2 65 (29.55%) VMware
3 22 (10.00%) Cisco
4 13 (5.91%) Tenable
5 12 (5.45%) AppDynamics
5 12 (5.45%) Dell
5 12 (5.45%) Palo Alto
6 10 (4.55%) Citrix
7 9 (4.09%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.64%) New Relic
9 7 (3.18%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.18%) Meraki
9 7 (3.18%) Veeam
10 6 (2.73%) Apple
10 6 (2.73%) Samsung
11 5 (2.27%) Splunk
12 4 (1.82%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.82%) Juniper
12 4 (1.82%) Qualys
12 4 (1.82%) SonicWALL