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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 555 476
Rank change year-on-year +123 -79 +195
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 338 96 478
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.22% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.25% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 241 69 384
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £41,975
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,050 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 - £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,115 £55,500
% change year-on-year +19.93% -6.10% +5.71%

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 87,064 38,294 94,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.31% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57,954 21,519 69,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +101 282 £65,000 +8.33% 68
UK excluding London +126 268 £62,500 +19.93% 67
Work from Home +73 88 £65,576 +24.91% 25
North of England -2 70 £65,576 +14.05% 23
London +3 59 £80,000 -3.03% 8
South East +7 49 £60,000 +14.29% 16
Midlands +2 41 £55,000 - 7
South West -24 39 £65,000 +25.65% 12
North West +15 36 £70,000 +40.00% 10
Wales -7 32 £51,397 +6.91% 4
West Midlands -11 27 £63,750 +28.53% 4
Yorkshire -35 27 £65,576 +4.92% 4
East of England -6 18 £60,000 +9.09% 2
East Midlands -25 14 £50,000 -10.71% 3
Scotland - 14 - - 4
North East - 7 £70,000 - 9
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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.

1 330 (97.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 118 (34.91%) Azure
3 104 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 88 (26.04%) VMware
5 79 (23.37%) Windows
6 71 (21.01%) Active Directory
7 66 (19.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 64 (18.93%) DNS
9 60 (17.75%) Disaster Recovery
9 60 (17.75%) VPN
9 60 (17.75%) Windows Server
10 58 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
11 57 (16.86%) DHCP
12 55 (16.27%) Firewall
13 52 (15.38%) WAN
14 48 (14.20%) Entra ID
15 47 (13.91%) ITIL
16 45 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (12.72%) PowerShell
18 40 (11.83%) Microsoft Intune
19 36 (10.65%) LAN
20 35 (10.36%) Security Cleared
21 34 (10.06%) AWS
22 31 (9.17%) TCP/IP
23 29 (8.58%) Infrastructure as Code
24 28 (8.28%) Terraform
25 26 (7.69%) Degree
25 26 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
26 25 (7.40%) CI/CD
26 25 (7.40%) Mentoring

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 24 (7.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.48%) AutoCAD
1 5 (1.48%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 118 (34.91%) Azure
2 58 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (14.20%) Entra ID
4 34 (10.06%) AWS
5 16 (4.73%) IaaS
6 14 (4.14%) SaaS
7 12 (3.55%) OneDrive
8 11 (3.25%) Datadog
8 11 (3.25%) Nutanix
8 11 (3.25%) PaaS
9 8 (2.37%) GCP
10 7 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.18%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.18%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (18.93%) DNS
2 60 (17.75%) VPN
3 57 (16.86%) DHCP
4 55 (16.27%) Firewall
5 52 (15.38%) WAN
6 36 (10.65%) LAN
7 31 (9.17%) TCP/IP
8 19 (5.62%) SAN
8 19 (5.62%) SD-WAN
9 15 (4.44%) VLAN
10 14 (4.14%) BGP
10 14 (4.14%) Network Security
11 13 (3.85%) WLAN
12 12 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (2.66%) MPLS
14 6 (1.78%) NAS
15 5 (1.48%) IPsec
15 5 (1.48%) OSPF
15 5 (1.48%) SSL
15 5 (1.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.55%) GitLab
2 7 (2.07%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.59%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.59%) Git
3 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 36 (10.65%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.88%) Finance
3 26 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 16 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.25%) Banking
6 9 (2.66%) Legal
7 8 (2.37%) Retail
8 7 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.30%) Law
10 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.48%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.18%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.89%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.59%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.59%) Kafka
4 2 (0.59%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.59%) Middleware
5 1 (0.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OpenID
5 1 (0.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.10%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.25%) PKI
4 7 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.07%) Replication
5 6 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (1.48%) Clustering
6 5 (1.48%) CMDB
6 5 (1.48%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.89%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.89%) YubiKey
9 2 (0.59%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.59%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 79 (23.37%) Windows
2 60 (17.75%) Windows Server
3 24 (7.10%) Linux
4 19 (5.62%) Apple iOS
5 11 (3.25%) Android
6 8 (2.37%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.48%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.18%) Unix
8 4 (1.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.59%) CentOS
9 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (97.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (17.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (13.91%) ITIL
4 45 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (8.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 25 (7.40%) CI/CD
7 25 (7.40%) Mentoring
8 22 (6.51%) Migration
8 22 (6.51%) Project Delivery
9 21 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (6.21%) High Availability
10 19 (5.62%) Computer Science
11 18 (5.33%) Cloud Operations
11 18 (5.33%) Incident Management
12 17 (5.03%) Problem Management
12 17 (5.03%) Service Delivery
12 17 (5.03%) Service Management
12 17 (5.03%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (4.73%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 43 (12.72%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.03%) Python
3 12 (3.55%) SQL
4 9 (2.66%) Bicep
5 4 (1.18%) Bash
6 2 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (10.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.69%) Degree
3 24 (7.10%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.51%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.21%) CCNP
6 19 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (4.44%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (3.25%) CCIE
9 11 (3.25%) MCSE
10 7 (2.07%) CCNA
11 5 (1.48%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.30%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.37%) NIST
3 7 (2.07%) GDPR
3 7 (2.07%) SLA
4 3 (0.89%) COBIT
5 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 71 (21.01%) Active Directory
2 66 (19.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.51%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.44%) vSphere
5 9 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.66%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.48%) KVM
7 5 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.89%) Docker
8 3 (0.89%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.59%) Firmware
9 2 (0.59%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.30%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (11.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (8.28%) Terraform
3 23 (6.80%) Ansible
4 12 (3.55%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.37%) SCCM
5 8 (2.37%) VxRail
6 7 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.07%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.78%) WSUS
8 3 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.89%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.59%) Grafana
9 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.59%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.30%) Nessus
10 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 104 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 88 (26.04%) VMware
3 23 (6.80%) Cisco
4 16 (4.73%) Tenable
4 16 (4.73%) Veeam
5 11 (3.25%) Apple
5 11 (3.25%) HP
5 11 (3.25%) Zerto
6 10 (2.96%) Dell
6 10 (2.96%) Palo Alto
6 10 (2.96%) Samsung
7 8 (2.37%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.37%) Meraki
8 7 (2.07%) Citrix
8 7 (2.07%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.07%) Splunk
9 6 (1.78%) Commvault
9 6 (1.78%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.78%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.48%) EMC