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 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 532 504
Rank change year-on-year +156 -28 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 544 148 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.33% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 402 91 171
10th Percentile £43,000 £48,894 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,625 £47,314
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 £66,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +15.71% -

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 109,260 44,699 69,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 89.81% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,288 25,844 39,771
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 9 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 9 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 +126 467 £60,000 -7.69% 244
UK excluding London +119 444 £60,000 -1.23% 188
Work from Home +75 162 £65,576 +0.89% 101
North of England +11 130 £70,000 +7.69% 60
South West +17 104 £50,000 - 14
North West +33 83 £70,000 +7.69% 42
South East +8 75 £60,000 - 34
London -27 68 £65,387 -9.81% 81
Midlands +1 58 £55,000 - 24
Wales -40 39 £50,000 +4.01% 15
East Midlands - 33 £55,000 - 11
Yorkshire -18 29 £62,788 -1.51% 10
West Midlands -28 25 £55,000 - 13
East of England -37 24 £40,000 -37.25% 22
North East -53 18 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Scotland +19 15 £55,000 -8.33% 23

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 529 (97.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 134 (24.63%) Microsoft
3 126 (23.16%) Azure
4 105 (19.30%) Windows
5 80 (14.71%) Active Directory
6 78 (14.34%) Windows Server
7 77 (14.15%) VMware
8 72 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
9 60 (11.03%) Entra ID
9 60 (11.03%) Firewall
10 58 (10.66%) Disaster Recovery
11 57 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
12 52 (9.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 51 (9.38%) Linux
13 51 (9.38%) WAN
14 49 (9.01%) DNS
14 49 (9.01%) VPN
15 45 (8.27%) PowerShell
16 44 (8.09%) AWS
16 44 (8.09%) LAN
17 42 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (7.72%) DHCP
17 42 (7.72%) Security Cleared
18 41 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
19 39 (7.17%) Microsoft Intune
20 38 (6.99%) Hyper-V
21 37 (6.80%) DevOps
21 37 (6.80%) ITIL
21 37 (6.80%) Terraform
22 36 (6.62%) Project Delivery

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 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (3.49%) AutoCAD
1 19 (3.49%) Civil 3D
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 126 (23.16%) Azure
2 72 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (11.03%) Entra ID
4 44 (8.09%) AWS
5 21 (3.86%) SaaS
6 15 (2.76%) IaaS
6 15 (2.76%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.57%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (2.39%) OneDrive
9 12 (2.21%) PaaS
9 12 (2.21%) PowerApps
10 10 (1.84%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (1.65%) GCP
12 8 (1.47%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.47%) Nutanix
12 8 (1.47%) OCI
13 6 (1.10%) Datadog
14 5 (0.92%) Serverless
14 5 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (11.03%) Firewall
2 51 (9.38%) WAN
3 49 (9.01%) DNS
3 49 (9.01%) VPN
4 44 (8.09%) LAN
5 42 (7.72%) DHCP
6 34 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 26 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (4.60%) Network Security
9 19 (3.49%) VLAN
10 17 (3.13%) WLAN
11 11 (2.02%) Internet
11 11 (2.02%) SAN
12 9 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (1.47%) SSL
14 7 (1.29%) BGP
15 6 (1.10%) IPsec
15 6 (1.10%) NAS
15 6 (1.10%) SSH
16 5 (0.92%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.29%) Git
1 7 (1.29%) JIRA
2 5 (0.92%) GitLab
3 4 (0.74%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.37%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
General
1 43 (7.90%) Public Sector
2 35 (6.43%) Social Skills
3 18 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (3.13%) Finance
5 15 (2.76%) Retail
6 11 (2.02%) Banking
7 10 (1.84%) Legal
8 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.47%) Law
10 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.74%) Back Office
11 4 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.37%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.37%) Marketing
13 2 (0.37%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.80%) Terraform
2 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
2 4 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.74%) RESTful
3 2 (0.37%) REST
4 1 (0.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.18%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.18%) CSS
4 1 (0.18%) HTML
4 1 (0.18%) OAuth
4 1 (0.18%) OpenID
4 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (2.94%) Public Cloud
2 13 (2.39%) Data Centre
2 13 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (2.21%) Driving Licence
3 12 (2.21%) Low-Code
4 11 (2.02%) PKI
5 9 (1.65%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (1.29%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.29%) Replication
7 6 (1.10%) Clustering
7 6 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.74%) Blog
9 4 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.55%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 105 (19.30%) Windows
2 78 (14.34%) Windows Server
3 51 (9.38%) Linux
4 14 (2.57%) Unix
5 9 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.74%) CentOS
6 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.37%) Android
7 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.18%) Rocky
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (97.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (10.66%) Disaster Recovery
3 52 (9.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (6.80%) DevOps
6 37 (6.80%) ITIL
7 36 (6.62%) Project Delivery
7 36 (6.62%) Technical Leadership
8 35 (6.43%) Mentoring
9 31 (5.70%) Business Continuity
9 31 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
10 30 (5.51%) Root Cause Analysis
11 29 (5.33%) CI/CD
12 28 (5.15%) Migration
13 27 (4.96%) Coaching
14 26 (4.78%) Incident Management
15 23 (4.23%) Change Management
16 22 (4.04%) Problem Management
17 20 (3.68%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.27%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.41%) Python
3 19 (3.49%) SQL
4 11 (2.02%) Go
5 8 (1.47%) Bash
5 8 (1.47%) Java
6 7 (1.29%) Bicep
7 4 (0.74%) R
8 2 (0.37%) C++
8 2 (0.37%) 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 42 (7.72%) Security Cleared
2 21 (3.86%) DV Cleared
2 21 (3.86%) SC Cleared
3 19 (3.49%) Degree
4 14 (2.57%) CCNP
4 14 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.47%) CCNA
5 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.10%) CCIE
6 6 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.10%) JNCIP
7 4 (0.74%) MCSE
8 3 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.18%) CCA
10 1 (0.18%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.65%) SLA
3 5 (0.92%) GDPR
4 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.55%) COBIT
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 80 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 57 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (6.99%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.31%) vSphere
5 10 (1.84%) Docker
6 6 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.55%) Lustre
8 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.55%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.18%) Firmware
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 (7.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.31%) Ansible
4 15 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.92%) Grafana
6 4 (0.74%) Nessus
6 4 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.74%) SCOM
6 4 (0.74%) vRealize
6 4 (0.74%) VxRail
6 4 (0.74%) WSUS
7 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.55%) SCCM
8 2 (0.37%) Argo
8 2 (0.37%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.37%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.18%) Avamar
Vendors
1 134 (24.63%) Microsoft
2 77 (14.15%) VMware
3 33 (6.07%) Cisco
4 20 (3.68%) Veeam
5 16 (2.94%) Citrix
6 13 (2.39%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.21%) Meraki
7 12 (2.21%) Oracle
8 11 (2.02%) HP
8 11 (2.02%) Zscaler
9 10 (1.84%) Aruba
10 9 (1.65%) Google
10 9 (1.65%) Qualys
11 7 (1.29%) Apple
11 7 (1.29%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.10%) Dell
12 6 (1.10%) Zerto
13 5 (0.92%) EMC
13 5 (0.92%) Tenable
13 5 (0.92%) Ubiquiti