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 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 518 466
Rank change year-on-year +89 -52 +127
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 384 155 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.31% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 287 102 359
10th Percentile £43,935 £46,519 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,813 £47,314
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,188 £67,968
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +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 93,983 44,278 92,243
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 89.92% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 64,514 26,221 65,394
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,596
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +85 327 £60,000 -4.00% 57
UK excluding London +85 308 £60,000 - 51
Work from Home +40 97 £65,576 +9.29% 20
North of England -8 78 £65,576 +4.92% 12
South West -12 63 £53,000 +6.00% 12
London -25 58 £80,000 +6.67% 8
South East +7 54 £60,000 +2.13% 11
North West -1 42 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Midlands 0 41 £55,000 - 11
Wales -22 37 £50,000 +4.01%
Yorkshire -18 29 £60,000 -5.88% 5
East of England -7 25 £40,000 -36.00% 3
East Midlands +2 22 £50,000 -10.71% 6
West Midlands -5 19 £55,000 - 5
North East -46 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland +23 5 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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.

1 378 (98.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (33.33%) Azure
3 118 (30.73%) Microsoft
4 82 (21.35%) VMware
5 78 (20.31%) Windows
6 69 (17.97%) Active Directory
7 68 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
8 64 (16.67%) DNS
8 64 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
9 63 (16.41%) Firewall
10 62 (16.15%) Windows Server
11 60 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
11 60 (15.63%) WAN
12 59 (15.36%) DHCP
12 59 (15.36%) VPN
13 52 (13.54%) PowerShell
14 51 (13.28%) Entra ID
15 50 (13.02%) LAN
16 45 (11.72%) ITIL
17 41 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (10.42%) Project Delivery
19 36 (9.38%) AWS
19 36 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
20 35 (9.11%) Infrastructure as Code
20 35 (9.11%) Security Cleared
21 32 (8.33%) Cisco
21 32 (8.33%) TCP/IP
22 30 (7.81%) Mentoring
23 28 (7.29%) Linux
23 28 (7.29%) 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 24 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.08%) IIS
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (2.86%) AutoCAD
1 11 (2.86%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 128 (33.33%) Azure
2 64 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (13.28%) Entra ID
4 36 (9.38%) AWS
5 12 (3.13%) IaaS
5 12 (3.13%) Nutanix
6 9 (2.34%) GCP
6 9 (2.34%) OneDrive
6 9 (2.34%) SaaS
7 8 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (1.82%) PaaS
9 6 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (1.56%) Datadog
10 4 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.04%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.04%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.67%) DNS
2 63 (16.41%) Firewall
3 60 (15.63%) WAN
4 59 (15.36%) DHCP
4 59 (15.36%) VPN
5 50 (13.02%) LAN
6 32 (8.33%) TCP/IP
7 19 (4.95%) WLAN
8 17 (4.43%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (4.17%) Network Security
9 16 (4.17%) SAN
9 16 (4.17%) VLAN
10 15 (3.91%) BGP
11 13 (3.39%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.34%) MPLS
13 7 (1.82%) NAS
13 7 (1.82%) SSL
14 6 (1.56%) IPsec
14 6 (1.56%) SSH
15 5 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.13%) GitLab
2 2 (0.52%) Chocolatey
2 2 (0.52%) CircleCI
2 2 (0.52%) Git
2 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.26%) JIRA
General
1 33 (8.59%) Public Sector
2 30 (7.81%) Social Skills
3 18 (4.69%) Finance
4 12 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (1.82%) Legal
5 7 (1.82%) Retail
6 6 (1.56%) Banking
7 5 (1.30%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.52%) Law
9 2 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.26%) Automotive
10 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.56%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.04%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.78%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.52%) Kafka
4 2 (0.52%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.26%) OAuth
5 1 (0.26%) OpenID
5 1 (0.26%) REST
5 1 (0.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.99%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.13%) PKI
4 8 (2.08%) Replication
5 6 (1.56%) Clustering
5 6 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.30%) CMDB
6 5 (1.30%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.26%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (20.31%) Windows
2 62 (16.15%) Windows Server
3 28 (7.29%) Linux
4 14 (3.65%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.13%) Android
6 6 (1.56%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.30%) Unix
8 3 (0.78%) VMS
9 2 (0.52%) CentOS
9 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (98.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (11.72%) ITIL
4 41 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (10.42%) Project Delivery
6 35 (9.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (7.81%) Mentoring
8 27 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (6.51%) High Availability
10 24 (6.25%) CI/CD
11 23 (5.99%) Incident Management
11 23 (5.99%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (5.21%) Business Continuity
13 17 (4.43%) Coaching
14 16 (4.17%) Cloud Operations
14 16 (4.17%) Incident Response
15 15 (3.91%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (3.91%) Migration
16 14 (3.65%) Computer Science
16 14 (3.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.54%) PowerShell
2 23 (5.99%) Python
3 13 (3.39%) SQL
4 10 (2.60%) Bicep
5 4 (1.04%) Bash
6 2 (0.52%) Go
7 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (9.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (6.51%) Degree
2 25 (6.51%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.25%) CCNP
4 22 (5.73%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.13%) CCIE
7 12 (3.13%) MCSE
7 12 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.34%) CCNA
9 6 (1.56%) JNCIP
10 2 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.34%) GDPR
1 9 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.30%) NIST
3 5 (1.30%) SLA
4 3 (0.78%) COBIT
5 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 69 (17.97%) Active Directory
2 68 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.03%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.69%) vSphere
5 10 (2.60%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.30%) KVM
10 3 (0.78%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.52%) Docker
11 2 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.26%) Firmware
12 1 (0.26%) GPFS
12 1 (0.26%) Lustre
12 1 (0.26%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.26%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (7.29%) Terraform
3 25 (6.51%) Ansible
4 12 (3.13%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.34%) VxRail
6 8 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.82%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.56%) WSUS
9 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.78%) SCCM
10 2 (0.52%) Grafana
10 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.52%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.26%) Avamar
11 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.26%) Nessus
11 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 118 (30.73%) Microsoft
2 82 (21.35%) VMware
3 32 (8.33%) Cisco
4 21 (5.47%) Veeam
5 13 (3.39%) Zerto
6 12 (3.13%) Apple
6 12 (3.13%) HP
7 11 (2.86%) Dell
7 11 (2.86%) Meraki
7 11 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.60%) Samsung
9 9 (2.34%) Citrix
10 8 (2.08%) Tenable
11 7 (1.82%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.82%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.56%) Commvault
12 6 (1.56%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.30%) EMC
13 5 (1.30%) Ubiquiti
14 4 (1.04%) Splunk