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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 532 504
Rank change year-on-year +116 -28 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 414 148 340
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.30% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.33% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 321 92 246
10th Percentile £43,250 £47,639 £43,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £71,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -

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 99,805 44,765 79,346
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.92% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 68,253 26,575 53,046
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +85 354 £60,000 -4.00% 108
UK excluding London +107 338 £57,500 -4.17% 64
Work from Home +33 112 £65,000 +1.96% 39
North of England -13 84 £67,788 +6.33% 16
South West -6 76 £52,500 +5.00% 17
South East +11 66 £60,000 - 12
London -11 61 £78,750 +5.00% 49
North West +1 47 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Midlands -15 45 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Wales -23 40 £50,000 +4.01% 2
Yorkshire -16 30 £60,000 -4.00% 4
East Midlands +2 29 £50,000 -9.09% 3
East of England -26 17 £40,000 -36.00% 4
West Midlands -29 16 £55,000 - 4
North East -56 7 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +14 5 - - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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.

1 403 (97.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 133 (32.13%) Azure
3 115 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 92 (22.22%) Windows
5 85 (20.53%) VMware
6 75 (18.12%) Active Directory
7 69 (16.67%) Windows Server
8 67 (16.18%) Firewall
8 67 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
9 64 (15.46%) VMware Infrastructure
10 63 (15.22%) WAN
11 62 (14.98%) DNS
12 61 (14.73%) Disaster Recovery
13 56 (13.53%) Entra ID
14 55 (13.29%) DHCP
14 55 (13.29%) LAN
14 55 (13.29%) VPN
15 53 (12.80%) PowerShell
16 41 (9.90%) ITIL
16 41 (9.90%) Project Delivery
17 38 (9.18%) Cisco
18 37 (8.94%) AWS
18 37 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
19 36 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
20 35 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
21 34 (8.21%) TCP/IP
22 32 (7.73%) Linux
23 30 (7.25%) Incident Management
23 30 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
24 29 (7.00%) Hyper-V

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 30 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (3.86%) AutoCAD
1 16 (3.86%) Civil 3D
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 133 (32.13%) Azure
2 67 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (13.53%) Entra ID
4 37 (8.94%) AWS
5 13 (3.14%) Nutanix
5 13 (3.14%) OneDrive
6 11 (2.66%) GCP
6 11 (2.66%) IaaS
6 11 (2.66%) SaaS
7 10 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (1.69%) Datadog
9 6 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.45%) PaaS
10 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.21%) Mimecast
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.97%) Azure AKS
11 4 (0.97%) GitHub
11 4 (0.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 67 (16.18%) Firewall
2 63 (15.22%) WAN
3 62 (14.98%) DNS
4 55 (13.29%) DHCP
4 55 (13.29%) LAN
4 55 (13.29%) VPN
5 34 (8.21%) TCP/IP
6 23 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (5.07%) Network Security
8 18 (4.35%) WLAN
9 15 (3.62%) BGP
10 14 (3.38%) SAN
10 14 (3.38%) VLAN
11 10 (2.42%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.17%) MPLS
13 8 (1.93%) SSL
14 6 (1.45%) Internet
14 6 (1.45%) IPsec
14 6 (1.45%) NAS
14 6 (1.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.42%) GitLab
2 5 (1.21%) JIRA
3 2 (0.48%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.48%) Git
3 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.24%) Chocolatey
General
1 33 (7.97%) Public Sector
2 30 (7.25%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.35%) Finance
4 10 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.17%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.93%) Legal
6 8 (1.93%) Retail
7 7 (1.69%) Banking
8 4 (0.97%) Law
9 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
11 1 (0.24%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.45%) ARM Templates
2 4 (0.97%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.72%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.48%) Kafka
4 2 (0.48%) REST
5 1 (0.24%) OAuth
5 1 (0.24%) OpenID
5 1 (0.24%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.07%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.66%) PKI
4 10 (2.42%) Replication
5 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (1.45%) Clustering
6 6 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.21%) CMDB
7 5 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.72%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.48%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.24%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.24%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.24%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (22.22%) Windows
2 69 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 32 (7.73%) Linux
4 8 (1.93%) Android
4 8 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.93%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.21%) Unix
6 3 (0.72%) VMS
7 2 (0.48%) CentOS
7 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (97.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (14.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 41 (9.90%) ITIL
3 41 (9.90%) Project Delivery
4 36 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (7.25%) Incident Management
7 28 (6.76%) Business Continuity
8 27 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (6.52%) Mentoring
9 25 (6.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 23 (5.56%) High Availability
11 22 (5.31%) CI/CD
12 21 (5.07%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (4.83%) Migration
14 17 (4.11%) Incident Response
14 17 (4.11%) SIEM
14 17 (4.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (3.86%) Change Management
16 15 (3.62%) Business Continuity Planning
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.80%) PowerShell
2 25 (6.04%) Python
3 15 (3.62%) SQL
4 10 (2.42%) Bicep
5 4 (0.97%) Bash
5 4 (0.97%) R
6 3 (0.72%) Go
7 2 (0.48%) C++
7 2 (0.48%) Java
8 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.80%) Degree
2 24 (5.80%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.56%) CCNP
3 23 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.90%) MCSE
8 11 (2.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (2.42%) CCIE
10 8 (1.93%) CCNA
11 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.45%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.17%) GDPR
3 8 (1.93%) SLA
4 5 (1.21%) NIST
5 3 (0.72%) COBIT
5 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (18.12%) Active Directory
2 64 (15.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (7.00%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.35%) vSphere
5 10 (2.42%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.21%) KVM
8 5 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.72%) Docker
9 3 (0.72%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.48%) Firmware
10 2 (0.48%) Lustre
10 2 (0.48%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.24%) GPFS
11 1 (0.24%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (6.76%) Terraform
3 25 (6.04%) Ansible
4 14 (3.38%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.45%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.45%) VxRail
7 5 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.21%) WSUS
8 3 (0.72%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.72%) Grafana
9 2 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.48%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.48%) SCCM
9 2 (0.48%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.24%) Argo
10 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.24%) Nessus
10 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 115 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 85 (20.53%) VMware
3 38 (9.18%) Cisco
4 24 (5.80%) Veeam
5 14 (3.38%) HP
6 13 (3.14%) Zerto
7 12 (2.90%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.66%) Apple
8 11 (2.66%) Meraki
8 11 (2.66%) Zscaler
9 8 (1.93%) Dell
10 7 (1.69%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.45%) Aruba
11 6 (1.45%) Citrix
11 6 (1.45%) Samsung
11 6 (1.45%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.45%) Tenable
12 5 (1.21%) Commvault
12 5 (1.21%) EMC
12 5 (1.21%) Ubiquiti