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 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 484 480
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 +167
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 148 277 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.42% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 93 170 236
10th Percentile £48,925 £45,000 £42,649
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - +6.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,851 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,375 £87,419
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.10% - +10.53%

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 43,882 66,228 53,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 95.36% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25,880 37,894 41,616
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 19 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 15 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 19 October 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 -20 136 £65,000 +18.18% 46
UK excluding London -15 114 £62,000 +18.10% 41
Work from Home +11 49 £65,000 +10.64% 22
North of England +16 42 £65,000 +18.18% 5
London +45 32 £72,500 -14.71% 11
North West +13 25 £65,000 +18.18% 2
East of England +11 23 £70,000 +55.56% 7
South East -15 18 £60,000 +10.60% 15
West Midlands +39 13 £53,750 +2.38% 3
Midlands +17 13 £53,750 -2.27% 6
Yorkshire +10 11 £65,000 +20.37% 2
South West +19 9 £48,750 -7.14% 7
Scotland +1 7 £60,000 +20.00%
North East +7 6 £65,000 +22.64% 1
Wales - 3 £48,073 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 19 October 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.

1 145 (97.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (41.22%) Azure
3 53 (35.81%) Windows
4 47 (31.76%) Windows Server
5 39 (26.35%) VMware
6 37 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 36 (24.32%) Active Directory
7 36 (24.32%) Firewall
8 35 (23.65%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
10 27 (18.24%) Mentoring
11 26 (17.57%) AWS
12 25 (16.89%) Terraform
12 25 (16.89%) VMware Infrastructure
13 24 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (16.22%) PowerShell
14 22 (14.86%) Cisco
15 21 (14.19%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (14.19%) DNS
16 18 (12.16%) Microsoft Intune
16 18 (12.16%) Python
17 17 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (11.49%) DevOps
17 17 (11.49%) Hyper-V
17 17 (11.49%) Migration
18 16 (10.81%) Roadmaps
19 15 (10.14%) Technology Roadmap
19 15 (10.14%) VPN
20 14 (9.46%) CI/CD
20 14 (9.46%) Kubernetes

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 32 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.78%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.38%) IIS
4 3 (2.03%) WinCC
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (41.22%) Azure
2 35 (23.65%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (17.57%) AWS
4 13 (8.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (8.11%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.05%) GCP
8 5 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.38%) GitHub
8 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (3.38%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.70%) Azure App Service
9 4 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.70%) Route 53
9 4 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (24.32%) Firewall
2 21 (14.19%) DNS
3 15 (10.14%) VPN
4 14 (9.46%) LAN
5 13 (8.78%) WAN
6 12 (8.11%) TETRA
7 11 (7.43%) DHCP
7 11 (7.43%) Network Security
8 7 (4.73%) TCP/IP
8 7 (4.73%) VLAN
9 6 (4.05%) SAN
10 4 (2.70%) SNMP
11 3 (2.03%) Modbus
12 2 (1.35%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.35%) MPLS
12 2 (1.35%) OSPF
12 2 (1.35%) SMTP
12 2 (1.35%) VoIP
12 2 (1.35%) Wireshark
12 2 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.35%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
General
1 34 (22.97%) Finance
2 14 (9.46%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.78%) Local Government
4 10 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.41%) Legal
6 7 (4.73%) Automotive
6 7 (4.73%) Banking
7 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Games
9 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.35%) Law
9 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.41%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.68%) .NET
2 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.68%) Node.js
2 1 (0.68%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.78%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.76%) NHS
4 4 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.03%) Clustering
5 3 (2.03%) SCADA
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.68%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) PKI
7 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 53 (35.81%) Windows
2 47 (31.76%) Windows Server
3 14 (9.46%) Linux
4 10 (6.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.70%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.70%) VMS
7 3 (2.03%) CentOS
8 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.35%) Unix
9 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (97.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (18.24%) Mentoring
3 24 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (14.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (11.49%) DevOps
5 17 (11.49%) Migration
6 16 (10.81%) Roadmaps
7 15 (10.14%) Technology Roadmap
8 14 (9.46%) CI/CD
8 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (8.78%) Business Continuity
9 13 (8.78%) Project Management
9 13 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (7.43%) ITIL
12 9 (6.08%) AI
12 9 (6.08%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (6.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.22%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.16%) Python
3 12 (8.11%) SQL
4 5 (3.38%) Bicep
5 4 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.05%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (4.05%) Degree
3 6 (4.05%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.70%) CCNA
4 4 (2.70%) CCNP
4 4 (2.70%) MCSE
4 4 (2.70%) Postgraduate
4 4 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.35%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.03%) IEC 61131
3 3 (2.03%) IEC 61508
3 3 (2.03%) NIST
3 3 (2.03%) QA
4 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 25 (16.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.49%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.73%) Docker
5 6 (4.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.38%) vSphere
7 3 (2.03%) XenApp
8 1 (0.68%) Firmware
8 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (16.89%) Terraform
2 18 (12.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (9.46%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.43%) Ansible
5 6 (4.05%) SCCM
5 6 (4.05%) SCOM
6 4 (2.70%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.35%) PaperCut
7 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.35%) SmoothWall
7 2 (1.35%) WSUS
8 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.68%) Grafana
8 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.68%) Istio
8 1 (0.68%) linkerd
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (26.35%) VMware
2 37 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 22 (14.86%) Cisco
4 7 (4.73%) Citrix
4 7 (4.73%) Veeam
5 5 (3.38%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.70%) Acronis
6 4 (2.70%) Dell
7 3 (2.03%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.03%) Meraki
7 3 (2.03%) NetApp
7 3 (2.03%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.03%) Rockwell
7 3 (2.03%) Siemens
7 3 (2.03%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.03%) Splunk
8 2 (1.35%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.35%) IBM
8 2 (1.35%) Oracle
8 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto