Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 3 months leading to 15 July 2026.

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

3 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 422 374
Rank change year-on-year +67 -48 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 218 110 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.43% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 153 67 118
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,900 £44,925
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.68% -6.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £70,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +20.00% -9.09%

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 49,995 25,415 36,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 89.63% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 35,329 14,038 24,316
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%

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 3 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 15 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 3 months to 15 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +16 180 £57,933 -3.45% 72
UK excluding London +55 175 £53,000 -11.67% 68
South West -14 46 £50,000 - 16
Work from Home -12 42 £55,000 -15.38% 34
London -12 33 £78,750 +8.62% 10
North of England -4 32 £67,500 +3.85% 16
South East +12 28 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Midlands +21 27 £55,000 - 14
Wales -21 25 £48,505 +0.90% 3
North West +8 19 £70,000 +7.69% 7
East Midlands - 14 £60,000 - 9
Yorkshire -4 13 £58,750 -9.62% 6
West Midlands -8 13 £55,000 - 5
East of England -7 12 £40,000 -34.69% 6
Scotland +37 5 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 378 (98.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (32.81%) Azure
3 117 (30.47%) Microsoft
4 82 (21.35%) VMware
5 77 (20.05%) Windows
6 68 (17.71%) Active Directory
6 68 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 64 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (16.41%) DNS
9 61 (15.89%) Firewall
9 61 (15.89%) Windows Server
10 60 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
10 60 (15.63%) WAN
11 59 (15.36%) VPN
12 58 (15.10%) DHCP
13 52 (13.54%) PowerShell
14 51 (13.28%) Entra ID
15 49 (12.76%) LAN
16 45 (11.72%) ITIL
17 39 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
18 38 (9.90%) Project Delivery
19 37 (9.64%) Microsoft Intune
20 36 (9.38%) Security Cleared
21 35 (9.11%) AWS
21 35 (9.11%) Infrastructure as Code
22 31 (8.07%) Cisco
22 31 (8.07%) TCP/IP
23 29 (7.55%) Mentoring
24 28 (7.29%) Linux
24 28 (7.29%) Terraform

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 (6.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.08%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (2.86%) AutoCAD
1 11 (2.86%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 126 (32.81%) Azure
2 64 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (13.28%) Entra ID
4 35 (9.11%) AWS
5 12 (3.13%) IaaS
5 12 (3.13%) Nutanix
6 10 (2.60%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (2.08%) GCP
7 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (2.08%) SaaS
8 7 (1.82%) PaaS
9 6 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (1.56%) Datadog
10 4 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.04%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.04%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 63 (16.41%) DNS
2 61 (15.89%) Firewall
3 60 (15.63%) WAN
4 59 (15.36%) VPN
5 58 (15.10%) DHCP
6 49 (12.76%) LAN
7 31 (8.07%) TCP/IP
8 18 (4.69%) WLAN
9 17 (4.43%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (3.91%) BGP
10 15 (3.91%) Network Security
10 15 (3.91%) SAN
11 14 (3.65%) SD-WAN
11 14 (3.65%) VLAN
12 9 (2.34%) MPLS
13 6 (1.56%) IPsec
13 6 (1.56%) NAS
13 6 (1.56%) SSH
13 6 (1.56%) SSL
14 5 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.13%) GitLab
2 2 (0.52%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.52%) CircleCI
2 2 (0.52%) Git
2 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.26%) JIRA
General
1 33 (8.59%) Public Sector
2 31 (8.07%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.95%) Finance
4 12 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (1.82%) Legal
5 7 (1.82%) Retail
6 6 (1.56%) Banking
6 6 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.30%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.26%) Automotive
10 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.56%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.04%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.78%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.52%) Kafka
4 2 (0.52%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.26%) OAuth
5 1 (0.26%) OpenID
5 1 (0.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.13%) PKI
4 8 (2.08%) Replication
5 6 (1.56%) Clustering
5 6 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.30%) CMDB
6 5 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.30%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.78%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.26%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.26%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 77 (20.05%) Windows
2 61 (15.89%) Windows Server
3 28 (7.29%) Linux
4 15 (3.91%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.13%) Android
6 6 (1.56%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.30%) Unix
8 3 (0.78%) VMS
8 3 (0.78%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.52%) CentOS
9 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (98.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (11.72%) ITIL
4 39 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (9.90%) Project Delivery
6 35 (9.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (7.55%) Mentoring
8 27 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (6.51%) CI/CD
9 25 (6.51%) High Availability
10 24 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
11 23 (5.99%) Incident Management
12 20 (5.21%) Business Continuity
13 18 (4.69%) Cloud Operations
14 17 (4.43%) Coaching
14 17 (4.43%) Incident Response
15 16 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (3.91%) Migration
16 15 (3.91%) Service Management
16 15 (3.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.54%) PowerShell
2 22 (5.73%) Python
3 14 (3.65%) SQL
4 10 (2.60%) Bicep
5 5 (1.30%) Bash
6 2 (0.52%) Go
7 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.51%) Degree
2 25 (6.51%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (5.99%) CCNP
5 22 (5.73%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.13%) CCIE
8 12 (3.13%) MCSE
8 12 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (2.34%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.08%) CCNA
11 6 (1.56%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.34%) GDPR
1 9 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.30%) NIST
3 5 (1.30%) SLA
4 3 (0.78%) COBIT
5 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 68 (17.71%) Active Directory
1 68 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (6.77%) Hyper-V
3 18 (4.69%) vSphere
4 10 (2.60%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.30%) KVM
9 3 (0.78%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.52%) Docker
10 2 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.26%) Firmware
11 1 (0.26%) GPFS
11 1 (0.26%) Lustre
11 1 (0.26%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (9.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (7.29%) Terraform
3 24 (6.25%) Ansible
4 12 (3.13%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.34%) VxRail
6 7 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.82%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.56%) WSUS
8 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.78%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.78%) SCCM
9 2 (0.52%) Grafana
9 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.52%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.26%) Nessus
10 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 117 (30.47%) Microsoft
2 82 (21.35%) VMware
3 31 (8.07%) Cisco
4 20 (5.21%) Veeam
5 12 (3.13%) Apple
5 12 (3.13%) HP
5 12 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 12 (3.13%) Zerto
6 10 (2.60%) Dell
6 10 (2.60%) Meraki
6 10 (2.60%) Samsung
7 8 (2.08%) Citrix
7 8 (2.08%) Tenable
8 7 (1.82%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.56%) Commvault
9 6 (1.56%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.30%) EMC
10 5 (1.30%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (1.30%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.04%) Splunk