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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 539 503
Rank change year-on-year +115 -36 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 413 149 339
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 319 93 245
10th Percentile £43,100 £47,779 £43,600
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 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £72,000
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 99,712 44,763 79,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.90% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 68,207 26,557 53,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
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 12 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 12 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 +100 353 £60,000 -4.00% 130
UK excluding London +89 336 £57,500 -4.17% 67
Work from Home +42 112 £65,000 +1.96% 52
North of England -22 82 £70,000 +9.80% 15
South West +3 76 £52,500 +5.00% 21
South East +18 67 £60,000 +2.13% 11
London -23 61 £78,750 +5.00% 70
North West -5 46 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Midlands +14 45 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Wales -19 41 £50,000 +4.01% 1
East Midlands +7 29 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Yorkshire -13 29 £60,000 -4.00% 3
East of England -28 17 £40,000 -36.00% 5
West Midlands -14 16 £55,000 - 3
North East -54 7 £70,000 +7.69%
Scotland +17 5 - - 8
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 402 (97.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 129 (31.23%) Azure
3 114 (27.60%) Microsoft
4 92 (22.28%) Windows
5 84 (20.34%) VMware
6 75 (18.16%) Active Directory
7 69 (16.71%) Windows Server
8 68 (16.46%) Microsoft 365
9 67 (16.22%) Firewall
10 63 (15.25%) WAN
11 62 (15.01%) DNS
11 62 (15.01%) VMware Infrastructure
12 59 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 55 (13.32%) DHCP
13 55 (13.32%) LAN
13 55 (13.32%) VPN
14 54 (13.08%) Entra ID
15 53 (12.83%) PowerShell
16 41 (9.93%) Project Delivery
17 40 (9.69%) ITIL
18 38 (9.20%) Cisco
19 36 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
20 35 (8.47%) AWS
20 35 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
20 35 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
21 34 (8.23%) TCP/IP
22 33 (7.99%) Linux
23 30 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
24 29 (7.02%) Hyper-V
25 28 (6.78%) Business Continuity

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 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (3.87%) AutoCAD
1 16 (3.87%) 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
1 129 (31.23%) Azure
2 68 (16.46%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (13.08%) Entra ID
4 35 (8.47%) AWS
5 13 (3.15%) OneDrive
6 11 (2.66%) GCP
6 11 (2.66%) Nutanix
6 11 (2.66%) SaaS
7 10 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (2.18%) IaaS
9 7 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (1.69%) Datadog
10 6 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.45%) PaaS
11 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.21%) Mimecast
12 4 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.97%) Azure AKS
12 4 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 67 (16.22%) Firewall
2 63 (15.25%) WAN
3 62 (15.01%) DNS
4 55 (13.32%) DHCP
4 55 (13.32%) LAN
4 55 (13.32%) VPN
5 34 (8.23%) TCP/IP
6 23 (5.57%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (5.33%) Network Security
8 18 (4.36%) WLAN
9 15 (3.63%) BGP
10 14 (3.39%) SAN
10 14 (3.39%) VLAN
11 10 (2.42%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.18%) MPLS
13 8 (1.94%) 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 (3.87%) 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 31 (7.51%) Public Sector
2 30 (7.26%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.36%) Finance
4 11 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.18%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.94%) Legal
7 8 (1.94%) Retail
8 7 (1.69%) Banking
9 4 (0.97%) Law
10 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.48%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.45%) ARM Templates
2 4 (0.97%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.73%) 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 (5.08%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.66%) PKI
4 8 (1.94%) 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 (0.73%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.48%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.24%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.24%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.24%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 92 (22.28%) Windows
2 69 (16.71%) Windows Server
3 33 (7.99%) Linux
4 8 (1.94%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.45%) Android
5 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.21%) Unix
7 3 (0.73%) VMS
8 2 (0.48%) CentOS
8 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (97.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 41 (9.93%) Project Delivery
4 40 (9.69%) ITIL
5 36 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (6.78%) Business Continuity
7 28 (6.78%) Incident Management
8 25 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (6.05%) Mentoring
9 23 (5.57%) High Availability
9 23 (5.57%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (5.08%) Cybersecurity
11 20 (4.84%) CI/CD
11 20 (4.84%) Migration
12 17 (4.12%) Incident Response
12 17 (4.12%) SIEM
12 17 (4.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (3.87%) Change Management
14 15 (3.63%) Business Continuity Planning
Programming Languages
1 53 (12.83%) PowerShell
2 25 (6.05%) Python
3 15 (3.63%) SQL
4 10 (2.42%) Bicep
5 4 (0.97%) Bash
5 4 (0.97%) R
6 3 (0.73%) Go
7 2 (0.48%) C++
7 2 (0.48%) Java
8 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.81%) Degree
2 24 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.08%) CCNP
3 21 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (3.63%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.42%) CCIE
6 10 (2.42%) MCSE
7 9 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.94%) CCNA
9 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.45%) JNCIP
11 2 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.18%) GDPR
3 8 (1.94%) SLA
4 5 (1.21%) NIST
5 3 (0.73%) COBIT
5 3 (0.73%) 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 (18.16%) Active Directory
2 62 (15.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.36%) vSphere
5 10 (2.42%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.73%) Docker
9 3 (0.73%) KVM
9 3 (0.73%) 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 35 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (6.78%) Terraform
3 25 (6.05%) Ansible
4 14 (3.39%) 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 (0.73%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.73%) 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
1 114 (27.60%) Microsoft
2 84 (20.34%) VMware
3 38 (9.20%) Cisco
4 22 (5.33%) Veeam
5 14 (3.39%) HP
6 12 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.66%) Meraki
7 11 (2.66%) Zerto
7 11 (2.66%) Zscaler
8 10 (2.42%) Apple
9 8 (1.94%) Dell
10 7 (1.69%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.45%) Aruba
11 6 (1.45%) Citrix
11 6 (1.45%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.45%) Tenable
12 5 (1.21%) Commvault
12 5 (1.21%) EMC
12 5 (1.21%) Qualys
12 5 (1.21%) Ubiquiti