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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 514 440
Rank change year-on-year +75 -74 +250
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 289 112 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.27% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.30% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 213 96 408
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,625 £42,275
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,465 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +3.36% +6.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £89,000 £95,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -10.71% +8.74%

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 76,515 36,725 86,098
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 89.80% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49,212 23,272 64,527
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +80 252 £65,288 +5.91% 52
UK excluding London +79 213 £65,000 +30.00% 54
Work from Home +38 81 £65,576 +19.23% 28
London +5 57 £82,500 - 4
North of England -28 50 £65,576 +23.73% 15
South East -3 40 £60,000 +4.35% 13
Midlands -23 36 £55,000 +15.79% 8
East of England -13 29 £75,000 +54.64% 3
North West -22 27 £65,000 +30.00% 9
South West -20 26 £67,500 +28.57% 9
West Midlands +11 25 £65,000 +44.44% 5
Wales -14 16 £65,000 +32.37% 4
Yorkshire -46 16 £65,576 +19.23% 4
East Midlands -52 11 £52,500 -30.92% 3
Scotland - 11 - - 3
North East - 7 £65,576 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 April 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.

1 280 (96.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 115 (39.79%) Azure
3 95 (32.87%) Microsoft
4 84 (29.07%) VMware
5 81 (28.03%) Windows
6 70 (24.22%) Firewall
7 64 (22.15%) Active Directory
8 55 (19.03%) Windows Server
9 53 (18.34%) Microsoft 365
10 52 (17.99%) DNS
10 52 (17.99%) VMware Infrastructure
11 46 (15.92%) DHCP
12 44 (15.22%) VPN
13 43 (14.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 43 (14.88%) Microsoft Intune
14 42 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (14.53%) WAN
15 41 (14.19%) Entra ID
15 41 (14.19%) ITIL
16 36 (12.46%) PowerShell
17 32 (11.07%) Cisco
17 32 (11.07%) Security Cleared
18 31 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (10.73%) Mentoring
19 30 (10.38%) Microsoft Exchange
19 30 (10.38%) Terraform
20 28 (9.69%) AWS
20 28 (9.69%) Root Cause Analysis
21 27 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
22 26 (9.00%) LAN

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 30 (10.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.42%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 115 (39.79%) Azure
2 53 (18.34%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (14.19%) Entra ID
4 28 (9.69%) AWS
5 17 (5.88%) IaaS
6 14 (4.84%) SaaS
7 12 (4.15%) PaaS
8 11 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.81%) OneDrive
9 10 (3.46%) Datadog
10 8 (2.77%) GCP
11 7 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.42%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.38%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.38%) Route 53
13 3 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.04%) Tessian
14 2 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (24.22%) Firewall
2 52 (17.99%) DNS
3 46 (15.92%) DHCP
4 44 (15.22%) VPN
5 42 (14.53%) WAN
6 26 (9.00%) LAN
7 23 (7.96%) SD-WAN
8 19 (6.57%) TCP/IP
9 18 (6.23%) SAN
10 13 (4.50%) VLAN
10 13 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (3.81%) BGP
11 11 (3.81%) MPLS
12 7 (2.42%) Network Security
13 4 (1.38%) HSRP
13 4 (1.38%) VoIP
13 4 (1.38%) VPLS
13 4 (1.38%) VRRP
14 3 (1.04%) NAS
14 3 (1.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.08%) GitLab
3 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.35%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) JIRA
General
1 32 (11.07%) Finance
2 28 (9.69%) Social Skills
3 17 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.46%) Banking
5 10 (3.46%) Law
5 10 (3.46%) Retail
6 7 (2.42%) Legal
6 7 (2.42%) Police
6 7 (2.42%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.77%) .NET
2 4 (1.38%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.69%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.69%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.69%) Kafka
3 2 (0.69%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.92%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.77%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.73%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.73%) Replication
6 4 (1.38%) CMDB
6 4 (1.38%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.38%) PKI
7 3 (1.04%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.69%) Clustering
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (28.03%) Windows
2 55 (19.03%) Windows Server
3 21 (7.27%) Linux
4 20 (6.92%) Apple iOS
5 12 (4.15%) Android
6 8 (2.77%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.08%) VMS
8 4 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.04%) Unix
10 2 (0.69%) CentOS
10 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (96.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (14.88%) Disaster Recovery
3 42 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.19%) ITIL
5 31 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (10.73%) Mentoring
6 28 (9.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 27 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (8.30%) DevOps
8 24 (8.30%) Migration
9 23 (7.96%) CI/CD
10 18 (6.23%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (5.54%) Computer Science
12 16 (5.54%) High Availability
12 16 (5.54%) Incident Management
12 16 (5.54%) Service Delivery
13 15 (5.19%) Performance Monitoring
13 15 (5.19%) Project Delivery
14 14 (4.84%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.46%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.19%) Bicep
3 14 (4.84%) Python
4 8 (2.77%) SQL
5 5 (1.73%) Bash
6 2 (0.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 32 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.61%) Degree
3 21 (7.27%) Azure Certification
3 21 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.92%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.81%) CCNP
8 10 (3.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (3.11%) MCSE
10 6 (2.08%) CCIE
11 2 (0.69%) CCNA
11 2 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.35%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.77%) NIST
2 8 (2.77%) SLA
3 4 (1.38%) GDPR
4 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (22.15%) Active Directory
2 52 (17.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.11%) vSphere
5 8 (2.77%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.42%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.73%) KVM
8 5 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.38%) Docker
10 3 (1.04%) XenApp
11 2 (0.69%) Firmware
11 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.35%) Ceph
12 1 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.35%) Lustre
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.35%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (14.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (10.38%) Terraform
3 18 (6.23%) Ansible
4 14 (4.84%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.11%) SCCM
6 8 (2.77%) FortiGate
7 6 (2.08%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.73%) VxRail
9 3 (1.04%) FlexNet
9 3 (1.04%) WSUS
10 2 (0.69%) Grafana
10 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.35%) Nessus
11 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (32.87%) Microsoft
2 84 (29.07%) VMware
3 32 (11.07%) Cisco
4 15 (5.19%) Palo Alto
4 15 (5.19%) Veeam
5 14 (4.84%) Dell
5 14 (4.84%) Tenable
6 12 (4.15%) AppDynamics
6 12 (4.15%) Apple
6 12 (4.15%) Samsung
7 8 (2.77%) Citrix
7 8 (2.77%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.77%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.77%) New Relic
7 8 (2.77%) Zerto
8 7 (2.42%) Meraki
8 7 (2.42%) Splunk
9 5 (1.73%) HP
9 5 (1.73%) Juniper
10 3 (1.04%) IBM