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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 555 476
Rank change year-on-year +136 -79 +193
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 321 108 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.25% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.28% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 233 87 370
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,474 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,072 £48,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% +7.21% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,000 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £51,729 £57,350
% change year-on-year +25.65% -9.80% +9.24%

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 83,861 38,850 91,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 89.47% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,212 22,832 66,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +121 271 £65,000 +4.72% 55
UK excluding London +110 256 £65,000 +25.65% 48
Work from Home +64 88 £65,576 +9.29% 33
North of England +17 66 £65,576 +14.05% 22
London -3 57 £80,000 +1.59% 13
South East +28 48 £57,000 -0.87% 11
Midlands -7 38 £57,500 +21.05% 6
South West -18 37 £65,000 +25.65% 6
North West +16 34 £70,000 +32.08% 8
Wales -8 30 £55,000 +12.01% 2
West Midlands -2 26 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Yorkshire -42 25 £65,576 +4.92% 5
East of England +2 19 £60,000 +23.71%
Scotland - 13 - - 1
East Midlands -16 12 £50,000 -10.71% 3
North East - 7 £70,000 - 9
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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.

1 312 (97.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 107 (33.33%) Azure
3 89 (27.73%) Microsoft
4 77 (23.99%) VMware
5 73 (22.74%) Windows
6 62 (19.31%) Active Directory
7 61 (19.00%) DNS
8 56 (17.45%) VMware Infrastructure
9 54 (16.82%) DHCP
9 54 (16.82%) VPN
10 52 (16.20%) Disaster Recovery
10 52 (16.20%) Windows Server
11 50 (15.58%) Firewall
12 47 (14.64%) Microsoft 365
13 46 (14.33%) WAN
14 45 (14.02%) ITIL
15 44 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (12.46%) Entra ID
17 39 (12.15%) Microsoft Intune
18 37 (11.53%) PowerShell
19 34 (10.59%) Security Cleared
20 33 (10.28%) LAN
21 32 (9.97%) AWS
22 29 (9.03%) TCP/IP
23 28 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
24 27 (8.41%) Terraform
25 25 (7.79%) CI/CD
25 25 (7.79%) Degree
25 25 (7.79%) Root Cause Analysis
26 24 (7.48%) DV Cleared

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 20 (6.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.56%) AutoCAD
1 5 (1.56%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 107 (33.33%) Azure
2 47 (14.64%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (12.46%) Entra ID
4 32 (9.97%) AWS
5 15 (4.67%) IaaS
5 15 (4.67%) SaaS
6 11 (3.43%) OneDrive
7 10 (3.12%) Datadog
7 10 (3.12%) Nutanix
7 10 (3.12%) PaaS
8 8 (2.49%) GCP
9 6 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.25%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.25%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (19.00%) DNS
2 54 (16.82%) DHCP
2 54 (16.82%) VPN
3 50 (15.58%) Firewall
4 46 (14.33%) WAN
5 33 (10.28%) LAN
6 29 (9.03%) TCP/IP
7 17 (5.30%) SAN
7 17 (5.30%) SD-WAN
8 14 (4.36%) BGP
8 14 (4.36%) VLAN
9 13 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (3.43%) Network Security
11 10 (3.12%) WLAN
12 9 (2.80%) MPLS
13 6 (1.87%) NAS
14 5 (1.56%) OSPF
15 4 (1.25%) HSRP
15 4 (1.25%) VPLS
15 4 (1.25%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.74%) GitLab
2 8 (2.49%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.62%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.62%) Git
3 2 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.31%) JIRA
General
1 31 (9.66%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.35%) Finance
3 26 (8.10%) Public Sector
4 16 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.43%) Banking
6 10 (3.12%) Retail
7 7 (2.18%) Legal
8 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.31%) Law
10 1 (0.31%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.56%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.25%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.93%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.62%) .NET
4 2 (0.62%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.62%) Kafka
4 2 (0.62%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.85%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (2.49%) PKI
4 7 (2.18%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.56%) CMDB
5 5 (1.56%) Replication
6 4 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.93%) Clustering
7 3 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.93%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.62%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.62%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.62%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 73 (22.74%) Windows
2 52 (16.20%) Windows Server
3 22 (6.85%) Linux
4 18 (5.61%) Apple iOS
5 10 (3.12%) Android
6 8 (2.49%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.56%) VMS
8 4 (1.25%) Unix
9 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.62%) CentOS
10 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (97.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (16.20%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (14.02%) ITIL
4 44 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (7.79%) CI/CD
6 25 (7.79%) Root Cause Analysis
7 22 (6.85%) Mentoring
8 20 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (5.92%) Computer Science
9 19 (5.92%) Migration
10 18 (5.61%) High Availability
10 18 (5.61%) Incident Management
11 17 (5.30%) DevOps
11 17 (5.30%) Project Delivery
11 17 (5.30%) Service Delivery
12 15 (4.67%) Cloud Operations
12 15 (4.67%) Performance Monitoring
12 15 (4.67%) Service Management
12 15 (4.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 37 (11.53%) PowerShell
2 16 (4.98%) Python
3 10 (3.12%) Bicep
3 10 (3.12%) SQL
4 4 (1.25%) Bash
5 2 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.79%) Degree
3 24 (7.48%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.85%) SC Cleared
5 19 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (5.61%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (5.30%) CCNP
8 16 (4.98%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (3.12%) MCSE
11 9 (2.80%) CCIE
12 5 (1.56%) CCNA
13 3 (0.93%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.31%) Citrix Certification
14 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.49%) NIST
2 8 (2.49%) SLA
3 6 (1.87%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) COBIT
4 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 62 (19.31%) Active Directory
2 56 (17.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.92%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.12%) vSphere
5 8 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.49%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.56%) KVM
7 5 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.93%) Docker
9 2 (0.62%) Firmware
9 2 (0.62%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (12.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (8.41%) Terraform
3 22 (6.85%) Ansible
4 13 (4.05%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.80%) SCCM
6 8 (2.49%) VxRail
7 6 (1.87%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.87%) WSUS
8 3 (0.93%) FlexNet
8 3 (0.93%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.62%) Grafana
9 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.31%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.31%) Nessus
10 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 89 (27.73%) Microsoft
2 77 (23.99%) VMware
3 20 (6.23%) Cisco
4 17 (5.30%) Tenable
5 14 (4.36%) Veeam
6 11 (3.43%) Apple
6 11 (3.43%) Zerto
7 10 (3.12%) AppDynamics
7 10 (3.12%) Dell
7 10 (3.12%) HP
7 10 (3.12%) Palo Alto
7 10 (3.12%) Samsung
8 8 (2.49%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.18%) Splunk
10 6 (1.87%) Commvault
10 6 (1.87%) Meraki
10 6 (1.87%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.56%) Citrix
11 5 (1.56%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.93%) Qualys