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 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 481 458
Rank change year-on-year -16 -23 +184
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 167 268 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.40% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.42% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 111 165 244
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +0.92% +4.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,968 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,419
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £53,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.37% +1.43% +9.38%

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 45,096 64,445 50,460
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 95.05% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27,937 36,459 39,152
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,094 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 5 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 5 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 +22 154 £65,000 +17.65% 112
UK excluding London +6 120 £62,500 +17.37% 93
Work from Home +23 51 £65,000 +4.00% 52
North of England +14 43 £65,000 +18.18% 13
London +21 35 £75,000 -11.76% 49
East of England +37 29 £65,000 +44.44% 11
North West +31 24 £65,000 +3.53% 8
South East +5 19 £60,000 +9.09% 45
Midlands +38 15 £55,000 - 8
West Midlands +37 13 £52,500 +5.00% 3
Yorkshire +3 12 £65,000 +18.18% 1
South West +20 7 £48,750 -7.14% 13
North East +8 7 £59,500 +12.26% 4
Scotland -4 7 £60,000 +20.00% 2
East Midlands +15 2 £55,000 -4.35% 5
Wales - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 164 (98.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (41.32%) Azure
3 57 (34.13%) Windows
4 49 (29.34%) Firewall
5 46 (27.54%) Windows Server
6 45 (26.95%) VMware
7 42 (25.15%) Microsoft
8 37 (22.16%) Active Directory
9 36 (21.56%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (20.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 32 (19.16%) Mentoring
12 30 (17.96%) Terraform
13 29 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (17.37%) PowerShell
14 28 (16.77%) AWS
15 27 (16.17%) Cisco
16 25 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (14.97%) VMware Infrastructure
17 22 (13.17%) DevOps
17 22 (13.17%) Migration
18 20 (11.98%) Roadmaps
19 19 (11.38%) DNS
19 19 (11.38%) Technology Roadmap
20 18 (10.78%) Python
21 17 (10.18%) Azure Logic Apps
21 17 (10.18%) CI/CD
21 17 (10.18%) Disaster Recovery
21 17 (10.18%) Hyper-V
21 17 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
21 17 (10.18%) WAN

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 (20.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.99%) IIS
4 3 (1.80%) WinCC
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.60%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.32%) Azure
2 36 (21.56%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (16.77%) AWS
4 17 (10.18%) Azure Logic Apps
5 13 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.78%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.19%) Route 53
8 6 (3.59%) GCP
9 5 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.40%) Azure App Service
10 4 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.40%) GitHub
10 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.80%) IaaS
11 3 (1.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (29.34%) Firewall
2 19 (11.38%) DNS
3 17 (10.18%) WAN
4 15 (8.98%) LAN
4 15 (8.98%) VPN
5 12 (7.19%) TETRA
6 11 (6.59%) DHCP
7 7 (4.19%) Network Security
7 7 (4.19%) SD-WAN
8 6 (3.59%) SAN
8 6 (3.59%) VLAN
9 4 (2.40%) SNMP
9 4 (2.40%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.80%) Modbus
10 3 (1.80%) MPLS
11 2 (1.20%) InfiniBand
11 2 (1.20%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.20%) SMTP
11 2 (1.20%) VoIP
11 2 (1.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.20%) JIRA
3 1 (0.60%) GitLab
General
1 32 (19.16%) Finance
2 18 (10.78%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.59%) Local Government
4 8 (4.79%) Law
4 8 (4.79%) Legal
4 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.19%) Automotive
6 5 (2.99%) Banking
6 5 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.99%) Police
6 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.40%) Retail
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.40%) .NET
3 1 (0.60%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.60%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.39%) NHS
3 7 (4.19%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.40%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.80%) SCADA
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Clustering
8 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.60%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (34.13%) Windows
2 46 (27.54%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.38%) Linux
4 9 (5.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.40%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.40%) VMS
7 3 (1.80%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.20%) Android
8 2 (1.20%) Unix
9 1 (0.60%) CentOS
9 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (98.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (19.16%) Mentoring
3 29 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (13.17%) DevOps
5 22 (13.17%) Migration
6 20 (11.98%) Roadmaps
7 19 (11.38%) Technology Roadmap
8 17 (10.18%) CI/CD
8 17 (10.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (7.19%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (6.59%) Project Management
13 10 (5.99%) Business Continuity
13 10 (5.99%) ITIL
13 10 (5.99%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (5.99%) Project Delivery
14 9 (5.39%) Asset Management
14 9 (5.39%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.37%) PowerShell
2 18 (10.78%) Python
3 12 (7.19%) SQL
4 9 (5.39%) Bicep
5 4 (2.40%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (4.19%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.59%) Degree
4 5 (2.99%) CCNA
4 5 (2.99%) CCNP
4 5 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.40%) MCSE
5 4 (2.40%) Postgraduate
5 4 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.20%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.80%) IEC 61131
3 3 (1.80%) IEC 61508
3 3 (1.80%) NIST
3 3 (1.80%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (22.16%) Active Directory
2 25 (14.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.18%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.19%) Docker
4 7 (4.19%) vSphere
5 5 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.40%) XenApp
7 2 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.60%) Ceph
8 1 (0.60%) Firmware
8 1 (0.60%) Lustre
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.60%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 30 (17.96%) Terraform
2 17 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (8.98%) Kubernetes
4 11 (6.59%) Ansible
5 6 (3.59%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.40%) SCCM
7 3 (1.80%) SCOM
8 2 (1.20%) PaperCut
8 2 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.20%) WSUS
9 1 (0.60%) Grafana
9 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.60%) Istio
9 1 (0.60%) linkerd
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.60%) Nessus
9 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.60%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.60%) WMI
Vendors
1 45 (26.95%) VMware
2 42 (25.15%) Microsoft
3 27 (16.17%) Cisco
4 9 (5.39%) Dell
5 7 (4.19%) Palo Alto
5 7 (4.19%) Veeam
6 6 (3.59%) Citrix
7 5 (2.99%) Meraki
8 4 (2.40%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.40%) New Relic
9 3 (1.80%) Acronis
9 3 (1.80%) EMC
9 3 (1.80%) F5
9 3 (1.80%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.80%) IBM
9 3 (1.80%) Rockwell
9 3 (1.80%) Siemens
9 3 (1.80%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.80%) SonicWALL
9 3 (1.80%) Splunk