Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £60,232 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 468 694
Rank change year-on-year -108 +226 +127
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 116 489 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.50% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.52% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 96 384 240
10th Percentile £43,625 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,825 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,232 £58,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +4.93% +1.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,968 £69,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,729 £57,350 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.80% +9.24% +5.00%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 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 1 May 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 -108 105 £61,644 +2.74% 72
UK excluding London -74 69 £51,729 -9.80% 56
Work from Home +22 47 £60,000 - 36
London +69 43 £82,500 +26.92% 22
North of England +9 28 £55,000 -12.40% 25
North West -11 19 £50,000 -20.36% 12
Midlands +42 17 £47,500 -8.65% 7
West Midlands +27 10 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Yorkshire +61 9 £60,465 -3.69% 10
Wales +37 7 £49,104 +19.57% 1
East Midlands +33 7 £57,000 +20.00% 2
South East +21 7 £57,500 -4.17% 12
South West +45 6 £52,115 -2.13% 6
East of England +26 4 £48,500 -3.00% 3

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (99.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 71 (61.21%) Azure
3 58 (50.00%) Windows
4 55 (47.41%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (46.55%) Active Directory
6 52 (44.83%) Firewall
7 43 (37.07%) Microsoft
8 38 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (31.03%) Cisco
10 33 (28.45%) Finance
11 32 (27.59%) Network Security
11 32 (27.59%) Windows Server
12 31 (26.72%) VMware
13 29 (25.00%) VPN
14 25 (21.55%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (21.55%) Microsoft Intune
15 23 (19.83%) VMware Infrastructure
16 22 (18.97%) PowerShell
16 22 (18.97%) CCNA
16 22 (18.97%) Wi-Fi
17 20 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
17 20 (17.24%) DNS
18 19 (16.38%) ITIL
19 18 (15.52%) CCNP
19 18 (15.52%) Degree
19 18 (15.52%) AWS
19 18 (15.52%) Meraki
19 18 (15.52%) Social Skills
20 17 (14.66%) Windows 10
20 17 (14.66%) Linux

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (13.79%) SharePoint
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (6.03%) IIS
4 3 (2.59%) Apache
4 3 (2.59%) nginx
5 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 71 (61.21%) Azure
2 55 (47.41%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (15.52%) AWS
4 13 (11.21%) Entra ID
5 11 (9.48%) PaaS
6 9 (7.76%) IaaS
6 9 (7.76%) SaaS
7 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (3.45%) GCP
9 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.59%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.59%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.72%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.72%) Serverless
11 1 (0.86%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.86%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.86%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.86%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 52 (44.83%) Firewall
2 32 (27.59%) Network Security
3 29 (25.00%) VPN
4 22 (18.97%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (17.24%) DNS
6 13 (11.21%) WAN
7 12 (10.34%) LAN
7 12 (10.34%) VLAN
8 10 (8.62%) DHCP
8 10 (8.62%) TCP/IP
9 6 (5.17%) BGP
9 6 (5.17%) SAN
10 4 (3.45%) 4G
10 4 (3.45%) Internet
10 4 (3.45%) SD-WAN
10 4 (3.45%) TETRA
11 3 (2.59%) HSRP
11 3 (2.59%) NetScaler
11 3 (2.59%) OSPF
12 2 (1.72%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.86%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
1 2 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.86%) JIRA
2 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (28.45%) Finance
2 18 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.17%) Local Government
5 4 (3.45%) Legal
5 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.59%) Games
6 3 (2.59%) Law
7 2 (1.72%) Banking
7 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Aviation
8 1 (0.86%) Back Office
8 1 (0.86%) Front Office
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.45%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.59%) Web Services
3 1 (0.86%) .NET
3 1 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.21%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.45%) Clustering
4 4 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.59%) NHS
5 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) BYOD
7 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 58 (50.00%) Windows
2 32 (27.59%) Windows Server
3 17 (14.66%) Linux
3 17 (14.66%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (5.17%) VMS
6 4 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.59%) CentOS
7 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.72%) Android
8 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.86%) AIX
9 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (99.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (16.38%) ITIL
5 16 (13.79%) Mentoring
5 16 (13.79%) Network Management
6 14 (12.07%) High Availability
7 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure Management
8 12 (10.34%) Business Continuity
8 12 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (10.34%) DevOps
9 10 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (8.62%) Project Management
10 9 (7.76%) Agile
10 9 (7.76%) Configuration Management
11 8 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (6.90%) Migration
11 8 (6.90%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.97%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.76%) Python
3 6 (5.17%) SQL
4 3 (2.59%) Bash
5 1 (0.86%) Bicep
5 1 (0.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (21.55%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (18.97%) CCNA
3 18 (15.52%) CCNP
3 18 (15.52%) Degree
4 9 (7.76%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.59%) MCSA
7 3 (2.59%) MCSE
7 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.72%) MCITP
9 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.59%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 54 (46.55%) Active Directory
2 23 (19.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (12.07%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (3.45%) VMware NSX
8 3 (2.59%) Squid
9 1 (0.86%) Docker
9 1 (0.86%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.86%) Firmware
9 1 (0.86%) KVM
9 1 (0.86%) NFS
9 1 (0.86%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.86%) vSphere
9 1 (0.86%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (21.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.90%) Ansible
2 8 (6.90%) Terraform
3 7 (6.03%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.17%) SCCM
5 5 (4.31%) SCOM
6 3 (2.59%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.59%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.72%) WSUS
8 1 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.86%) Packer
8 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.86%) Puppet
8 1 (0.86%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 43 (37.07%) Microsoft
2 36 (31.03%) Cisco
3 31 (26.72%) VMware
4 18 (15.52%) Meraki
5 8 (6.90%) Acronis
6 7 (6.03%) Citrix
7 6 (5.17%) Dell
7 6 (5.17%) Veeam
8 5 (4.31%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.31%) WatchGuard
9 4 (3.45%) HP
9 4 (3.45%) IBM
9 4 (3.45%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.59%) NetApp
10 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.72%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.72%) FactSet
11 2 (1.72%) Mitel
11 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.72%) Sophos