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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 523 516
Rank change year-on-year +125 -7 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 493 150 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 381 88 181
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,003 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +15.91% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +1.94%

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 105,685 44,574 74,714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 89.72% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72,853 26,277 45,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
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 10 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 10 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 +108 425 £60,000 -7.69% 114
UK excluding London +107 406 £60,000 - 93
Work from Home +54 150 £65,576 +0.89% 46
North of England +16 121 £70,000 +7.69% 22
South West +5 95 £55,000 +10.00% 14
South East +38 76 £60,000 - 19
North West +28 70 £70,000 +7.69% 14
London -30 65 £77,500 +6.90% 36
Wales -36 44 £50,000 +4.01% 2
Midlands -12 43 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Yorkshire -23 36 £65,576 +2.86% 6
East Midlands +3 28 £49,250 -10.45% 7
East of England -27 19 £40,000 -36.00% 12
West Midlands -23 15 £55,000 - 5
North East -50 15 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Scotland +8 8 £55,000 -8.33% 14

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 476 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 130 (26.37%) Azure
3 115 (23.33%) Microsoft
4 106 (21.50%) Windows
5 83 (16.84%) VMware
6 77 (15.62%) Windows Server
7 75 (15.21%) Active Directory
8 73 (14.81%) Firewall
9 68 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
10 66 (13.39%) WAN
11 61 (12.37%) DNS
12 60 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
13 58 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
14 56 (11.36%) LAN
14 56 (11.36%) VPN
15 55 (11.16%) DHCP
15 55 (11.16%) PowerShell
16 50 (10.14%) Entra ID
17 49 (9.94%) Linux
18 48 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (8.52%) Cisco
19 42 (8.52%) ITIL
20 41 (8.32%) Project Delivery
21 40 (8.11%) AWS
22 39 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
23 36 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
24 35 (7.10%) Mentoring
25 33 (6.69%) TCP/IP
26 32 (6.49%) Business Continuity
26 32 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune

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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.01%) IIS
4 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.45%) AutoCAD
1 17 (3.45%) Civil 3D
2 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 130 (26.37%) Azure
2 68 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (10.14%) Entra ID
4 40 (8.11%) AWS
5 13 (2.64%) OneDrive
6 11 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (2.23%) GCP
6 11 (2.23%) IaaS
6 11 (2.23%) SaaS
7 10 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (2.03%) Azure AKS
8 9 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (1.83%) Nutanix
8 9 (1.83%) PaaS
9 7 (1.42%) Datadog
9 7 (1.42%) OCI
10 6 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.81%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 73 (14.81%) Firewall
2 66 (13.39%) WAN
3 61 (12.37%) DNS
4 56 (11.36%) LAN
4 56 (11.36%) VPN
5 55 (11.16%) DHCP
6 33 (6.69%) TCP/IP
7 27 (5.48%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (4.87%) Network Security
9 18 (3.65%) WLAN
10 15 (3.04%) BGP
11 14 (2.84%) VLAN
12 13 (2.64%) SAN
13 11 (2.23%) Internet
14 10 (2.03%) SD-WAN
15 9 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (1.83%) MPLS
16 8 (1.62%) SSL
17 6 (1.22%) IPsec
17 6 (1.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (2.03%) GitLab
2 5 (1.01%) JIRA
3 4 (0.81%) Git
4 2 (0.41%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
General
1 46 (9.33%) Public Sector
2 31 (6.29%) Social Skills
3 19 (3.85%) Finance
4 13 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.83%) Retail
6 9 (1.83%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.62%) Banking
7 8 (1.62%) Legal
8 4 (0.81%) Law
8 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.41%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.20%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.29%) Terraform
2 6 (1.22%) ARM Templates
3 4 (0.81%) ModSecurity
4 3 (0.61%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.41%) Kafka
5 2 (0.41%) REST
6 1 (0.20%) OAuth
6 1 (0.20%) OpenID
6 1 (0.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.06%) Data Centre
2 16 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (3.25%) Public Cloud
3 12 (2.43%) PKI
4 7 (1.42%) Driving Licence
4 7 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (1.22%) Clustering
5 6 (1.22%) CMDB
5 6 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.22%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.01%) Replication
7 4 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.61%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.61%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.61%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 106 (21.50%) Windows
2 77 (15.62%) Windows Server
3 49 (9.94%) Linux
4 17 (3.45%) Unix
5 8 (1.62%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.81%) CentOS
7 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Android
8 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.41%) VMS
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) Rocky
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (96.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
3 48 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (8.52%) ITIL
5 41 (8.32%) Project Delivery
6 39 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (7.10%) Mentoring
9 32 (6.49%) Business Continuity
10 30 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (5.68%) Incident Management
12 25 (5.07%) CI/CD
13 23 (4.67%) Root Cause Analysis
14 22 (4.46%) Change Management
14 22 (4.46%) Coaching
14 22 (4.46%) High Availability
14 22 (4.46%) Migration
15 21 (4.26%) DevOps
15 21 (4.26%) SIEM
16 20 (4.06%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.16%) PowerShell
2 27 (5.48%) Python
3 18 (3.65%) SQL
4 11 (2.23%) Bicep
5 6 (1.22%) Go
6 5 (1.01%) Bash
7 4 (0.81%) R
8 3 (0.61%) Java
9 2 (0.41%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (6.29%) Security Cleared
2 24 (4.87%) Degree
3 22 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.06%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.65%) CCNP
5 18 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.03%) CCIE
7 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.62%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.62%) CCNA
9 6 (1.22%) JNCIP
9 6 (1.22%) MCSE
10 5 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.83%) GDPR
3 8 (1.62%) SLA
4 5 (1.01%) NIST
5 3 (0.61%) COBIT
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (15.21%) Active Directory
2 60 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (6.09%) Hyper-V
4 21 (4.26%) vSphere
5 10 (2.03%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.22%) Docker
7 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.61%) Lustre
9 3 (0.61%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.41%) Firmware
10 2 (0.41%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.20%) GPFS
11 1 (0.20%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (5.68%) Ansible
3 17 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.22%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.01%) VxRail
7 4 (0.81%) WSUS
8 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.61%) Grafana
8 3 (0.61%) Nessus
8 3 (0.61%) SCOM
8 3 (0.61%) vRealize
9 2 (0.41%) Argo
9 2 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.41%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.41%) SCCM
9 2 (0.41%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 115 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 83 (16.84%) VMware
3 42 (8.52%) Cisco
4 18 (3.65%) Veeam
5 16 (3.25%) Palo Alto
6 13 (2.64%) HP
7 11 (2.23%) Zscaler
8 10 (2.03%) Aruba
8 10 (2.03%) Meraki
8 10 (2.03%) Oracle
9 9 (1.83%) Citrix
9 9 (1.83%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.83%) Qualys
10 7 (1.42%) Apple
10 7 (1.42%) Dell
10 7 (1.42%) Zerto
11 6 (1.22%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.01%) EMC
12 5 (1.01%) Google
12 5 (1.01%) Ubiquiti