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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 521 497
Rank change year-on-year +148 -24 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 549 151 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.34% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 411 90 171
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,034 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,563 £46,189
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,575 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +18.10% -

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 109,576 44,426 71,253
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 89.79% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,908 25,599 41,366
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 1 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 1 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 +139 472 £60,000 -7.69% 216
UK excluding London +125 453 £60,000 -3.23% 157
Work from Home +62 165 £65,576 +0.89% 98
North of England +13 136 £70,000 +7.69% 50
South West +13 103 £51,250 +2.50% 19
North West +26 84 £70,000 +7.69% 35
South East +7 82 £60,000 -4.00% 33
London -25 67 £65,387 -9.81% 66
Midlands -5 53 £52,500 -4.55% 20
Wales -34 43 £50,000 +4.01% 5
Yorkshire -12 35 £65,576 +2.86% 8
East Midlands -3 32 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England -26 22 £40,000 -36.00% 21
West Midlands -37 21 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East -55 17 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Scotland +21 14 £55,000 -8.33% 14

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 534 (97.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 135 (24.59%) Microsoft
3 134 (24.41%) Azure
4 109 (19.85%) Windows
5 85 (15.48%) Active Directory
6 84 (15.30%) VMware
7 81 (14.75%) Windows Server
8 73 (13.30%) Microsoft 365
9 69 (12.57%) Firewall
10 62 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
11 61 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 60 (10.93%) Entra ID
13 59 (10.75%) DNS
13 59 (10.75%) WAN
14 54 (9.84%) VPN
15 53 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
16 52 (9.47%) Linux
17 51 (9.29%) DHCP
17 51 (9.29%) PowerShell
18 50 (9.11%) LAN
19 45 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
20 43 (7.83%) AWS
20 43 (7.83%) ITIL
21 42 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
22 39 (7.10%) Hyper-V
22 39 (7.10%) Mentoring
22 39 (7.10%) Microsoft Intune
22 39 (7.10%) Security Cleared
23 38 (6.92%) Project Delivery
24 37 (6.74%) Cisco

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 29 (5.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.01%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.91%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (3.28%) AutoCAD
1 18 (3.28%) Civil 3D
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 134 (24.41%) Azure
2 73 (13.30%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (10.93%) Entra ID
4 43 (7.83%) AWS
5 18 (3.28%) SaaS
6 15 (2.73%) IaaS
7 14 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.37%) OneDrive
8 13 (2.37%) PaaS
9 11 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (1.82%) Azure AKS
10 10 (1.82%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (1.64%) GCP
11 9 (1.64%) Nutanix
12 7 (1.28%) OCI
13 6 (1.09%) Datadog
13 6 (1.09%) GitHub
14 5 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (12.57%) Firewall
2 59 (10.75%) DNS
2 59 (10.75%) WAN
3 54 (9.84%) VPN
4 51 (9.29%) DHCP
5 50 (9.11%) LAN
6 35 (6.38%) TCP/IP
7 27 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (4.74%) Network Security
9 19 (3.46%) VLAN
10 18 (3.28%) WLAN
11 14 (2.55%) SAN
12 11 (2.00%) BGP
12 11 (2.00%) Internet
13 9 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (1.46%) SSL
15 7 (1.28%) NAS
16 6 (1.09%) IPsec
16 6 (1.09%) SD-WAN
16 6 (1.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.28%) GitLab
1 7 (1.28%) JIRA
2 6 (1.09%) Git
3 2 (0.36%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
General
1 50 (9.11%) Public Sector
2 35 (6.38%) Social Skills
3 17 (3.10%) Finance
4 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (2.19%) Retail
6 11 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (1.82%) Legal
8 9 (1.64%) Banking
8 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.09%) Law
10 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.36%) Back Office
12 2 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.36%) Marketing
12 2 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.18%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.56%) Terraform
2 5 (0.91%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.36%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.36%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (0.36%) REST
3 2 (0.36%) RESTful
4 1 (0.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.18%) CSS
4 1 (0.18%) HTML
4 1 (0.18%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.18%) OAuth
4 1 (0.18%) OpenID
4 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.28%) Data Centre
2 17 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (2.91%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.19%) PKI
5 11 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 10 (1.82%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.28%) Replication
8 6 (1.09%) Clustering
8 6 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 5 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.55%) CMDB
10 3 (0.55%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.36%) Blog
11 2 (0.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 109 (19.85%) Windows
2 81 (14.75%) Windows Server
3 52 (9.47%) Linux
4 15 (2.73%) Unix
5 10 (1.82%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.73%) CentOS
7 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.36%) Android
8 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.36%) VMS
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Rocky
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (97.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 53 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (7.83%) ITIL
6 42 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (7.10%) Mentoring
8 38 (6.92%) Project Delivery
9 32 (5.83%) Business Continuity
9 32 (5.83%) DevOps
9 32 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
10 31 (5.65%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (5.28%) Coaching
11 29 (5.28%) Migration
11 29 (5.28%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (5.10%) CI/CD
13 27 (4.92%) Incident Management
14 23 (4.19%) Change Management
15 22 (4.01%) Agile
16 21 (3.83%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 51 (9.29%) PowerShell
2 25 (4.55%) Python
3 20 (3.64%) SQL
4 9 (1.64%) Bicep
5 8 (1.46%) Go
6 6 (1.09%) Bash
6 6 (1.09%) Java
7 4 (0.73%) R
8 2 (0.36%) C++
8 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.18%) C#
9 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) Ruby
9 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (7.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (4.01%) Degree
2 22 (4.01%) DV Cleared
2 22 (4.01%) SC Cleared
3 15 (2.73%) CCNP
3 15 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (1.82%) Azure Certification
4 10 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.46%) CCNA
7 7 (1.28%) CCIE
8 6 (1.09%) JNCIP
9 5 (0.91%) MCSE
10 4 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CCA
12 1 (0.18%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.64%) SLA
3 7 (1.28%) GDPR
4 3 (0.55%) COBIT
5 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.36%) NIST
5 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 85 (15.48%) Active Directory
2 62 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (7.10%) Hyper-V
4 20 (3.64%) vSphere
5 8 (1.46%) Docker
6 7 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.55%) Lustre
8 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.55%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.36%) Firmware
9 2 (0.36%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.18%) GPFS
10 1 (0.18%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (7.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.83%) Ansible
2 21 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.91%) VxRail
4 5 (0.91%) WSUS
5 4 (0.73%) SCCM
5 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.55%) Grafana
6 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.55%) Nessus
6 3 (0.55%) SCOM
6 3 (0.55%) vRealize
7 2 (0.36%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.36%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.36%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 135 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 84 (15.30%) VMware
3 37 (6.74%) Cisco
4 22 (4.01%) Veeam
5 15 (2.73%) Palo Alto
6 14 (2.55%) Citrix
7 12 (2.19%) HP
7 12 (2.19%) Meraki
8 11 (2.00%) Oracle
8 11 (2.00%) Zscaler
9 10 (1.82%) Aruba
10 9 (1.64%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.64%) Qualys
11 8 (1.46%) Dell
12 7 (1.28%) Apple
12 7 (1.28%) Google
12 7 (1.28%) Zerto
13 6 (1.09%) Tenable
14 5 (0.91%) SolarWinds
14 5 (0.91%) Ubiquiti