Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 October 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 500 488
Rank change year-on-year +133 -12 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 588 152 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.31% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.34% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 422 96 169
10th Percentile £43,000 £48,972 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,125 £86,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -4.00% +18.48% +0.48%

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.

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 110,883 44,071 65,836
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 89.76% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 75,047 25,988 37,616
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +124 499 £60,000 -7.69% 177
UK excluding London +124 487 £60,000 -4.00% 122
Work from Home +53 173 £65,576 +0.89% 73
North of England +32 148 £70,000 +7.69% 32
South West +21 104 £53,000 +8.72% 10
North West +16 94 £67,788 +4.29% 23
South East -1 77 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Midlands +4 66 £55,000 +2.33% 21
London -32 66 £65,000 -10.34% 67
Wales -28 43 £50,000 +4.01% 7
East Midlands - 36 £55,000 - 4
Yorkshire -5 34 £65,576 +0.89% 5
East of England -35 31 £50,000 -28.57% 12
West Midlands -37 30 £55,000 +2.33% 17
Scotland +23 20 £55,000 -8.33% 18
North East -57 20 £70,000 +7.69% 4

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Infrastructure Engineering97.1%571
2Microsoft25.5%150
3Azure21.9%129
4Windows17.7%104
5Active Directory14.6%86
6Microsoft 36513.6%80
7VMware13.4%79
8Windows Server13.3%78
9Entra ID11.9%70
10Linux10.4%61
11Firewall10.2%60
12VMware Infrastructure10.0%59
13Disaster Recovery9.9%58
14Security Cleared9.5%56
15VPN9.0%53
16Continuous Improvement8.5%50
16Infrastructure as Code8.5%50
18DNS8.3%49
18PowerShell8.3%49
18WAN8.3%49
21AWS8.2%48
22Microsoft Intune8.0%47
23Problem-Solving7.3%43
24Technical Leadership7.1%42
25DHCP7.0%41
26LAN6.8%40
27DevOps6.6%39
27Hyper-V6.6%39
27Mentoring6.6%39
27Terraform6.6%39

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Cloud Infrastructure Engineer8.3%49
1Senior Cloud Engineer8.3%49
3Network Infrastructure Engineer7.0%41
4Network Engineer6.6%39
5Senior Network Engineer6.1%36
6IT Infrastructure Engineer4.6%27
6Senior IT Engineer4.6%27
83rd Line Infrastructure Engineer3.4%20
9Applications Engineer2.7%16
9Power Apps Engineer2.7%16
11Linux Infrastructure Engineer2.2%13
11Senior Linux Engineer2.2%13
11Senior Server Engineer2.2%13
14Infrastructure Security Engineer2.0%12
14Senior Security Engineer2.0%12
16Cybersecurity Engineer1.9%11
16Senior Network Security Engineer1.9%11
18Lead Infrastructure Engineer1.7%10
19Civil Engineer1.5%9
19Infrastructure Operations Engineer1.5%9
224 Senior Infrastructure Engineer jobs Nationwide