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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 520 481
Rank change year-on-year +156 -39 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 550 148 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 406 91 173
10th Percentile £43,000 £48,894 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,625 £47,500
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £85,500
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 109,405 44,412 69,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 89.84% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 74,287 25,750 39,695
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% -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 10 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 10 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 +132 470 £60,000 -7.69% 234
UK excluding London +127 450 £60,000 -1.23% 184
Work from Home +54 160 £65,576 +0.89% 99
North of England +25 129 £70,000 +7.69% 56
South West +18 105 £50,000 - 14
North West +34 83 £70,000 +7.69% 39
South East +7 78 £60,000 - 35
London -13 67 £65,000 -10.34% 77
Midlands +6 59 £55,000 - 22
Wales -41 40 £50,000 +4.01% 13
East Midlands - 34 £55,000 - 11
Yorkshire -13 29 £60,000 -5.88% 11
West Midlands -33 25 £55,000 - 11
East of England -33 24 £40,000 -37.25% 21
North East -60 17 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Scotland +19 16 £55,000 -8.33% 25

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 535 (97.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 137 (24.91%) Microsoft
3 127 (23.09%) Azure
4 105 (19.09%) Windows
5 80 (14.55%) Active Directory
6 79 (14.36%) VMware
7 78 (14.18%) Windows Server
8 72 (13.09%) Microsoft 365
9 62 (11.27%) Entra ID
10 60 (10.91%) Firewall
11 59 (10.73%) VMware Infrastructure
12 58 (10.55%) Disaster Recovery
13 54 (9.82%) Linux
14 51 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (9.09%) DNS
15 50 (9.09%) VPN
15 50 (9.09%) WAN
16 45 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (8.18%) PowerShell
17 44 (8.00%) Security Cleared
18 43 (7.82%) AWS
18 43 (7.82%) DHCP
18 43 (7.82%) LAN
19 41 (7.45%) Microsoft Intune
20 40 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
21 39 (7.09%) DevOps
22 38 (6.91%) Hyper-V
22 38 (6.91%) Technical Leadership
23 37 (6.73%) ITIL
24 36 (6.55%) 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 (5.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (3.45%) AutoCAD
1 19 (3.45%) Civil 3D
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 127 (23.09%) Azure
2 72 (13.09%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (11.27%) Entra ID
4 43 (7.82%) AWS
5 21 (3.82%) SaaS
6 17 (3.09%) Power Platform
7 16 (2.91%) IaaS
8 14 (2.55%) PowerApps
9 13 (2.36%) OneDrive
10 12 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (2.18%) PaaS
11 11 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.64%) GCP
13 8 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (1.45%) Nutanix
13 8 (1.45%) OCI
14 6 (1.09%) Azure AKS
14 6 (1.09%) Datadog
15 5 (0.91%) Serverless
15 5 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (10.91%) Firewall
2 50 (9.09%) DNS
2 50 (9.09%) VPN
2 50 (9.09%) WAN
3 43 (7.82%) DHCP
3 43 (7.82%) LAN
4 33 (6.00%) TCP/IP
5 25 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (4.36%) Network Security
7 19 (3.45%) VLAN
8 16 (2.91%) WLAN
9 11 (2.00%) Internet
9 11 (2.00%) SAN
10 9 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (1.45%) SSL
12 7 (1.27%) SSH
13 6 (1.09%) BGP
13 6 (1.09%) IPsec
13 6 (1.09%) NAS
14 5 (0.91%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.73%) 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%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (1.27%) Git
1 7 (1.27%) JIRA
2 4 (0.73%) TeamCity
3 3 (0.55%) GitLab
4 2 (0.36%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
General
1 41 (7.45%) Public Sector
2 35 (6.36%) Social Skills
3 18 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (3.09%) Finance
5 15 (2.73%) Retail
6 11 (2.00%) Banking
7 10 (1.82%) Legal
7 10 (1.82%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.45%) Law
10 5 (0.91%) Back Office
10 5 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.36%) Marketing
13 2 (0.36%) Police
14 1 (0.18%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.36%) Terraform
2 4 (0.73%) ARM Templates
2 4 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (0.73%) RESTful
3 2 (0.36%) 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 (2.91%) Public Cloud
2 14 (2.55%) Low-Code
3 12 (2.18%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.18%) Driving Licence
4 11 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.00%) PKI
5 9 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.45%) Replication
7 7 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.09%) Clustering
9 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.73%) Blog
10 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.73%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 105 (19.09%) Windows
2 78 (14.18%) Windows Server
3 54 (9.82%) Linux
4 15 (2.73%) Unix
5 9 (1.64%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.73%) CentOS
6 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.36%) Android
7 2 (0.36%) 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
1 535 (97.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (10.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 51 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (7.09%) DevOps
7 38 (6.91%) Technical Leadership
8 37 (6.73%) ITIL
9 36 (6.55%) Project Delivery
10 33 (6.00%) Mentoring
11 32 (5.82%) Cybersecurity
12 31 (5.64%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (5.45%) Business Continuity
13 30 (5.45%) CI/CD
14 28 (5.09%) Migration
15 25 (4.55%) Coaching
15 25 (4.55%) Incident Management
16 22 (4.00%) Change Management
16 22 (4.00%) Problem Management
17 20 (3.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.18%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.36%) Python
3 19 (3.45%) SQL
4 11 (2.00%) Go
5 9 (1.64%) Bash
6 8 (1.45%) Bicep
6 8 (1.45%) Java
7 4 (0.73%) R
8 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.36%) C++
10 1 (0.18%) C#
10 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.18%) Perl
10 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Ruby
10 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 21 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.64%) Degree
5 13 (2.36%) CCNP
5 13 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.27%) CCNA
8 6 (1.09%) CCIE
8 6 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.09%) JNCIP
9 4 (0.73%) MCSE
10 3 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) CCA
12 1 (0.18%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.64%) SLA
3 5 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.73%) GDPR
4 4 (0.73%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.55%) COBIT
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 80 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 59 (10.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (6.91%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.45%) vSphere
5 10 (1.82%) Docker
6 6 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.55%) Lustre
9 3 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.55%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.36%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.18%) Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) GPFS
11 1 (0.18%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (7.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.45%) Ansible
4 15 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.91%) Grafana
6 4 (0.73%) Nessus
6 4 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.73%) SCCM
6 4 (0.73%) SCOM
6 4 (0.73%) vRealize
6 4 (0.73%) VxRail
6 4 (0.73%) WSUS
7 3 (0.55%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.36%) Argo
8 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.36%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.18%) Avamar
Vendors
1 137 (24.91%) Microsoft
2 79 (14.36%) VMware
3 34 (6.18%) Cisco
4 20 (3.64%) Veeam
5 16 (2.91%) Citrix
6 13 (2.36%) Oracle
7 12 (2.18%) Meraki
7 12 (2.18%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.00%) HP
8 11 (2.00%) Zscaler
9 10 (1.82%) Aruba
10 9 (1.64%) Google
10 9 (1.64%) Qualys
11 7 (1.27%) Apple
12 6 (1.09%) Dell
12 6 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.09%) Zerto
13 5 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.91%) Tenable
13 5 (0.91%) Ubiquiti