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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 523 503
Rank change year-on-year +147 -20 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 544 151 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.34% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 410 90 171
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,034 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,563 £46,189
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,575 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +18.10% -

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 109,655 44,258 71,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 89.76% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,828 25,506 41,262
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +139 469 £60,000 -7.69% 214
UK excluding London +116 449 £60,000 -3.23% 152
Work from Home +61 163 £65,576 +0.89% 95
North of England +22 136 £70,000 +7.69% 48
South West +15 101 £51,250 +2.50% 21
North West +26 84 £70,000 +7.69% 32
South East +13 82 £60,000 -4.00% 30
London -35 67 £65,387 -9.81% 68
Midlands -18 52 £52,500 -4.55% 20
Wales -36 43 £50,000 +4.01% 4
Yorkshire -14 35 £65,576 +2.86% 9
East Midlands -8 32 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England -32 22 £40,000 -36.00% 19
West Midlands -37 20 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East -54 17 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Scotland +24 13 £55,000 -8.33% 15

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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
2 135 (24.82%) Microsoft
3 134 (24.63%) Azure
4 108 (19.85%) Windows
5 84 (15.44%) Active Directory
6 83 (15.26%) VMware
7 80 (14.71%) Windows Server
8 73 (13.42%) Microsoft 365
9 69 (12.68%) Firewall
10 61 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
11 60 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
12 59 (10.85%) WAN
13 58 (10.66%) DNS
13 58 (10.66%) Entra ID
14 54 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
15 52 (9.56%) PowerShell
15 52 (9.56%) VPN
16 51 (9.38%) DHCP
16 51 (9.38%) Linux
17 50 (9.19%) LAN
18 44 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
19 43 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
19 43 (7.90%) ITIL
20 42 (7.72%) AWS
21 39 (7.17%) Mentoring
21 39 (7.17%) Project Delivery
21 39 (7.17%) Security Cleared
22 38 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
23 37 (6.80%) Cisco
23 37 (6.80%) Hyper-V

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 22 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.92%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (3.31%) AutoCAD
1 18 (3.31%) Civil 3D
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 134 (24.63%) Azure
2 73 (13.42%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (10.66%) Entra ID
4 42 (7.72%) AWS
5 17 (3.13%) SaaS
6 15 (2.76%) IaaS
7 14 (2.57%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (2.39%) OneDrive
8 13 (2.39%) PaaS
9 11 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (1.84%) Azure AKS
10 10 (1.84%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (1.65%) Nutanix
12 8 (1.47%) GCP
13 7 (1.29%) OCI
14 6 (1.10%) Datadog
14 6 (1.10%) GitHub
15 5 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (12.68%) Firewall
2 59 (10.85%) WAN
3 58 (10.66%) DNS
4 52 (9.56%) VPN
5 51 (9.38%) DHCP
6 50 (9.19%) LAN
7 33 (6.07%) TCP/IP
8 27 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (4.78%) Network Security
10 18 (3.31%) WLAN
11 17 (3.13%) VLAN
12 14 (2.57%) SAN
13 11 (2.02%) Internet
14 10 (1.84%) BGP
15 9 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
16 8 (1.47%) SSL
17 6 (1.10%) IPsec
17 6 (1.10%) NAS
17 6 (1.10%) SD-WAN
17 6 (1.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.74%) 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%) GitLab
1 7 (1.29%) JIRA
2 6 (1.10%) Git
3 2 (0.37%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (9.19%) Public Sector
2 34 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 16 (2.94%) Finance
4 13 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.02%) Retail
6 10 (1.84%) Legal
7 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.47%) Banking
9 5 (0.92%) Law
9 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.37%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.37%) Marketing
11 2 (0.37%) Police
12 1 (0.18%) Automotive
12 1 (0.18%) Back Office
12 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.43%) Terraform
2 5 (0.92%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.37%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.37%) REST
4 1 (0.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.18%) CSS
4 1 (0.18%) HTML
4 1 (0.18%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.18%) OAuth
4 1 (0.18%) OpenID
4 1 (0.18%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.18%) RESTful
4 1 (0.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.31%) Data Centre
2 17 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.21%) PKI
5 10 (1.84%) Driving Licence
5 10 (1.84%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.10%) Clustering
7 6 (1.10%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.10%) Replication
8 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.55%) CMDB
9 3 (0.55%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.37%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 108 (19.85%) Windows
2 80 (14.71%) Windows Server
3 51 (9.38%) Linux
4 15 (2.76%) Unix
5 10 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.74%) CentOS
7 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.37%) Android
8 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.37%) VMS
8 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) Rocky
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (97.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 60 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
3 54 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (7.90%) ITIL
6 39 (7.17%) Mentoring
6 39 (7.17%) Project Delivery
7 32 (5.88%) Business Continuity
7 32 (5.88%) DevOps
7 32 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
9 29 (5.33%) Coaching
10 28 (5.15%) Migration
10 28 (5.15%) Root Cause Analysis
11 27 (4.96%) CI/CD
11 27 (4.96%) Incident Management
12 23 (4.23%) Change Management
13 22 (4.04%) Agile
14 21 (3.86%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 52 (9.56%) PowerShell
2 25 (4.60%) Python
3 19 (3.49%) SQL
4 10 (1.84%) Bicep
5 7 (1.29%) Go
6 5 (0.92%) Bash
6 5 (0.92%) Java
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 39 (7.17%) Security Cleared
2 22 (4.04%) Degree
2 22 (4.04%) DV Cleared
2 22 (4.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (2.76%) CCNP
3 15 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 10 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.47%) CCNA
7 7 (1.29%) CCIE
8 6 (1.10%) JNCIP
9 5 (0.92%) MCSE
10 4 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CCA
12 1 (0.18%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.65%) SLA
3 7 (1.29%) GDPR
4 3 (0.55%) COBIT
5 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (15.44%) Active Directory
2 61 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (6.80%) Hyper-V
4 20 (3.68%) vSphere
5 8 (1.47%) Docker
6 7 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.55%) Lustre
8 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.55%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.37%) Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
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 38 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.86%) Ansible
3 20 (3.68%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.92%) VxRail
5 5 (0.92%) WSUS
6 4 (0.74%) SCCM
6 4 (0.74%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.55%) Nessus
7 3 (0.55%) SCOM
7 3 (0.55%) vRealize
8 2 (0.37%) Argo
8 2 (0.37%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.37%) Grafana
8 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.37%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.37%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 135 (24.82%) Microsoft
2 83 (15.26%) VMware
3 37 (6.80%) Cisco
4 21 (3.86%) Veeam
5 16 (2.94%) Palo Alto
6 13 (2.39%) Citrix
7 12 (2.21%) HP
8 11 (2.02%) Meraki
8 11 (2.02%) Oracle
8 11 (2.02%) Zscaler
9 10 (1.84%) Aruba
10 9 (1.65%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.65%) Qualys
11 7 (1.29%) Apple
11 7 (1.29%) Dell
11 7 (1.29%) Zerto
12 6 (1.10%) Google
12 6 (1.10%) Tenable
13 5 (0.92%) EMC
13 5 (0.92%) Ubiquiti