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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 548 456
Rank change year-on-year +121 -92 +165
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 371 123 515
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.27% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.30% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 266 83 402
10th Percentile £44,126 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,625 £47,032
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% +4.76%

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 89,296 40,583 101,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.54% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,271 23,147 73,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 25 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 17 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 25 June 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 +100 317 £65,000 - 65
UK excluding London +116 297 £60,000 +2.13% 61
Work from Home +39 92 £65,576 +9.29% 27
North of England -3 73 £65,576 +4.92% 11
London -20 58 £80,000 -3.03% 16
South East +9 53 £60,000 +14.29% 15
South West -13 53 £65,000 +31.01% 16
Midlands +17 50 £55,000 -1.79% 5
North West +7 37 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Wales -17 34 £50,000 +4.01% 11
West Midlands +8 32 £55,000 -4.01% 2
Yorkshire -12 29 £60,000 -4.00% 2
East of England +3 22 £40,000 -33.33% 6
East Midlands -18 18 £52,500 -6.25% 3
North East -40 7 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Scotland - 7 - -
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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.

1 367 (98.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (33.96%) Azure
3 122 (32.88%) Microsoft
4 87 (23.45%) VMware
5 84 (22.64%) Windows
6 74 (19.95%) Active Directory
7 71 (19.14%) VMware Infrastructure
8 67 (18.06%) DNS
9 66 (17.79%) Microsoft 365
9 66 (17.79%) Windows Server
10 63 (16.98%) VPN
11 62 (16.71%) DHCP
11 62 (16.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 59 (15.90%) Firewall
13 57 (15.36%) WAN
14 52 (14.02%) Entra ID
15 50 (13.48%) PowerShell
16 46 (12.40%) ITIL
17 44 (11.86%) LAN
18 41 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
19 40 (10.78%) Microsoft Intune
20 38 (10.24%) Security Cleared
21 35 (9.43%) AWS
22 33 (8.89%) Project Delivery
22 33 (8.89%) TCP/IP
23 31 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
24 29 (7.82%) Cisco
25 28 (7.55%) Mentoring
26 27 (7.28%) Hyper-V
26 27 (7.28%) Terraform

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 26 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.16%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.89%) AutoCAD
1 7 (1.89%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 126 (33.96%) Azure
2 66 (17.79%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (14.02%) Entra ID
4 35 (9.43%) AWS
5 13 (3.50%) IaaS
6 12 (3.23%) Nutanix
6 12 (3.23%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.70%) SaaS
8 8 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.16%) Datadog
8 8 (2.16%) GCP
8 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.16%) PaaS
9 6 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.08%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.81%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 67 (18.06%) DNS
2 63 (16.98%) VPN
3 62 (16.71%) DHCP
4 59 (15.90%) Firewall
5 57 (15.36%) WAN
6 44 (11.86%) LAN
7 33 (8.89%) TCP/IP
8 17 (4.58%) Network Security
8 17 (4.58%) WLAN
9 16 (4.31%) SAN
9 16 (4.31%) SD-WAN
9 16 (4.31%) VLAN
10 15 (4.04%) BGP
11 14 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (2.43%) MPLS
13 6 (1.62%) IPsec
13 6 (1.62%) NAS
13 6 (1.62%) SSH
13 6 (1.62%) SSL
14 5 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.23%) GitLab
2 4 (1.08%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.54%) Git
3 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 36 (9.70%) Social Skills
2 29 (7.82%) Public Sector
3 25 (6.74%) Finance
4 12 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.16%) Banking
5 8 (2.16%) Legal
5 8 (2.16%) Retail
6 6 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.54%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.27%) Automotive
9 1 (0.27%) Law
9 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.62%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.08%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.81%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.54%) Kafka
4 2 (0.54%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.27%) Middleware
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) OpenID
5 1 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.74%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.23%) PKI
4 8 (2.16%) Replication
5 5 (1.35%) CMDB
5 5 (1.35%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.08%) Clustering
6 4 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.81%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.54%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.54%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (22.64%) Windows
2 66 (17.79%) Windows Server
3 25 (6.74%) Linux
4 18 (4.85%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.23%) Android
6 6 (1.62%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.62%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.35%) Unix
8 3 (0.81%) VMS
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (98.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (16.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (12.40%) ITIL
4 41 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (8.89%) Project Delivery
6 31 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (7.55%) Mentoring
8 25 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (6.74%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (6.47%) CI/CD
10 23 (6.20%) High Availability
11 20 (5.39%) Incident Management
12 19 (5.12%) Cloud Operations
13 18 (4.85%) Incident Response
13 18 (4.85%) Problem Management
13 18 (4.85%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (4.58%) Business Continuity
14 17 (4.58%) Service Management
15 16 (4.31%) Computer Science
15 16 (4.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.48%) PowerShell
2 22 (5.93%) Python
3 12 (3.23%) SQL
4 10 (2.70%) Bicep
5 5 (1.35%) Bash
6 2 (0.54%) Go
7 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (10.24%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.74%) DV Cleared
3 24 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.20%) CCNP
4 23 (6.20%) Degree
5 17 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.23%) CCIE
7 12 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (2.96%) MCSE
9 10 (2.70%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.16%) CCNA
11 6 (1.62%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.43%) GDPR
3 8 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (2.16%) NIST
4 5 (1.35%) SLA
5 3 (0.81%) COBIT
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 74 (19.95%) Active Directory
2 71 (19.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.28%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.85%) vSphere
5 10 (2.70%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.35%) KVM
9 3 (0.81%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.54%) Docker
10 2 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.27%) Firmware
11 1 (0.27%) GPFS
11 1 (0.27%) Lustre
11 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (10.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (7.28%) Terraform
3 24 (6.47%) Ansible
4 11 (2.96%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.43%) VxRail
6 7 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.89%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.62%) WSUS
8 5 (1.35%) SCCM
9 3 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.27%) Nessus
11 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 122 (32.88%) Microsoft
2 87 (23.45%) VMware
3 29 (7.82%) Cisco
4 19 (5.12%) Veeam
5 13 (3.50%) Tenable
6 12 (3.23%) HP
7 11 (2.96%) Apple
7 11 (2.96%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.96%) Zerto
8 10 (2.70%) Dell
8 10 (2.70%) Meraki
8 10 (2.70%) Samsung
9 7 (1.89%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.89%) Splunk
10 6 (1.62%) Citrix
10 6 (1.62%) Commvault
10 6 (1.62%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.35%) EMC
11 5 (1.35%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (1.08%) Dynatrace