Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

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 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 457 647
Rank change year-on-year -130 +190 +191
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 135 537 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.50% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.52% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 92 397 251
10th Percentile £46,266 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,938 £47,128 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +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 52,512 102,387 81,388
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 94.81% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,421 72,229 54,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -141 129 £65,000 +11.11% 226
UK excluding London -80 97 £60,000 +9.09% 113
Work from Home -44 50 £60,000 -4.00% 85
North of England -10 45 £63,750 +1.54% 24
London +33 37 £82,500 +26.92% 112
North West -5 30 £60,000 -4.43% 13
South East -2 17 £58,750 +2.17% 26
Yorkshire +42 12 £63,750 +1.54% 6
Midlands +11 11 £56,000 +3.70% 17
South West +52 10 £50,000 +2.01% 15
East of England +10 9 £60,000 +30.43% 25
West Midlands +24 6 £57,300 +4.18% 8
Wales +36 5 £48,073 +17.06% 1
East Midlands +28 5 £56,000 +17.89% 9
North East +27 3 £65,000 +3.53% 5

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 133 (98.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (40.00%) Azure
3 47 (34.81%) Windows
4 45 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 39 (28.89%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (25.93%) Finance
7 34 (25.19%) Cisco
8 33 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (22.96%) Firewall
10 30 (22.22%) Microsoft
10 30 (22.22%) Mentoring
11 28 (20.74%) VMware
12 27 (20.00%) Network Security
13 26 (19.26%) AWS
14 25 (18.52%) VPN
14 25 (18.52%) Windows Server
15 21 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (14.07%) DevOps
17 18 (13.33%) PowerShell
17 18 (13.33%) DNS
17 18 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
18 17 (12.59%) CCNA
18 17 (12.59%) LAN
19 16 (11.85%) VMware Infrastructure
19 16 (11.85%) WAN
19 16 (11.85%) SharePoint
19 16 (11.85%) ITIL
19 16 (11.85%) Linux
19 16 (11.85%) Project Management
20 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange

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 (11.85%) SharePoint
2 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 54 (40.00%) Azure
2 39 (28.89%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (19.26%) AWS
4 10 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.96%) GCP
8 4 (2.96%) Route 53
8 4 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.48%) IaaS
9 2 (1.48%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.48%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.48%) PaaS
9 2 (1.48%) SaaS
10 1 (0.74%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.74%) Datadog
10 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (22.96%) Firewall
2 27 (20.00%) Network Security
3 25 (18.52%) VPN
4 18 (13.33%) DNS
5 17 (12.59%) LAN
6 16 (11.85%) WAN
7 13 (9.63%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (8.89%) DHCP
8 12 (8.89%) TETRA
9 10 (7.41%) TCP/IP
10 6 (4.44%) SAN
10 6 (4.44%) VLAN
11 3 (2.22%) NetScaler
11 3 (2.22%) OSPF
11 3 (2.22%) SNMP
12 2 (1.48%) BGP
12 2 (1.48%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.48%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.48%) Wireshark
12 2 (1.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.74%) DB2
3 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.22%) JIRA
2 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (25.93%) Finance
2 15 (11.11%) Local Government
2 15 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.89%) Legal
4 11 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.19%) Automotive
6 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.96%) Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Games
7 3 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Aviation
9 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.44%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.74%) .NET
2 1 (0.74%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.74%) Node.js
2 1 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (8.89%) NHS
3 6 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.70%) Clustering
5 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.48%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.48%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.74%) BYOD
6 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.74%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.74%) PKI
6 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.74%) Smartcard
6 1 (0.74%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (34.81%) Windows
2 25 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 16 (11.85%) Linux
4 14 (10.37%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.70%) CentOS
7 4 (2.96%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.48%) Android
8 2 (1.48%) Unix
8 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.74%) AIX
9 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (98.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 21 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (14.07%) DevOps
6 16 (11.85%) ITIL
6 16 (11.85%) Project Management
7 14 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (9.63%) Network Management
8 13 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (8.89%) Business Continuity
9 12 (8.89%) Migration
9 12 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (7.41%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.41%) Configuration Management
10 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
11 9 (6.67%) Project Delivery
12 8 (5.93%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.41%) Python
3 7 (5.19%) SQL
4 2 (1.48%) Bash
5 1 (0.74%) Java
5 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (12.59%) CCNA
3 14 (10.37%) CCNP
4 12 (8.89%) Degree
5 9 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.44%) MCSE
7 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
8 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.96%) Postgraduate
8 4 (2.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.22%) MCSA
10 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.48%) MCITP
11 1 (0.74%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.74%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (11.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (8.89%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (5.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.96%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.22%) vSphere
8 2 (1.48%) Docker
8 2 (1.48%) Firmware
8 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.48%) XenApp
9 1 (0.74%) KVM
9 1 (0.74%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (11.11%) Terraform
2 12 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.15%) Ansible
4 8 (5.93%) SCCM
5 6 (4.44%) SCOM
6 3 (2.22%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.48%) SmoothWall
7 2 (1.48%) WSUS
8 1 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.74%) Nessus
8 1 (0.74%) Packer
8 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.74%) Puppet
8 1 (0.74%) WMI
Vendors
1 34 (25.19%) Cisco
2 30 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 28 (20.74%) VMware
4 13 (9.63%) Meraki
5 6 (4.44%) Acronis
5 6 (4.44%) Citrix
5 6 (4.44%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.96%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.96%) Veeam
7 3 (2.22%) NetApp
7 3 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.48%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.48%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.48%) Dell
8 2 (1.48%) EMC
8 2 (1.48%) FactSet
8 2 (1.48%) Mitel
8 2 (1.48%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds