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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 555 465
Rank change year-on-year +126 -90 +194
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 333 95 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.22% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.25% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 240 71 377
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,956 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,972 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £71,563 £80,625 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £51,729 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.24% -5.95% +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 86,685 38,020 93,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 89.33% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,629 21,313 68,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,620 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%

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 26 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 26 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 +100 277 £65,000 +6.87% 60
UK excluding London +137 265 £63,750 +23.24% 57
Work from Home +53 86 £65,576 +24.91% 25
North of England +10 70 £65,576 +14.05% 19
London +2 58 £80,000 -3.03% 10
South East +27 50 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Midlands -10 38 £52,500 -4.55% 8
South West -31 37 £65,000 +25.65% 8
North West +12 36 £70,000 +40.00% 10
Wales -5 33 £52,794 +8.65% 2
Yorkshire -30 27 £65,576 +4.92% 4
West Midlands -21 26 £70,000 +41.13% 4
East of England -11 18 £60,000 +23.71% 2
Scotland - 14 - - 4
East Midlands -25 12 £48,500 -13.39% 4
North East - 7 £70,000 - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 325 (97.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 115 (34.53%) Azure
3 100 (30.03%) Microsoft
4 87 (26.13%) VMware
5 80 (24.02%) Windows
6 71 (21.32%) Active Directory
7 64 (19.22%) DNS
7 64 (19.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 59 (17.72%) VPN
8 59 (17.72%) Windows Server
9 57 (17.12%) DHCP
9 57 (17.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 55 (16.52%) Microsoft 365
11 54 (16.22%) Firewall
12 50 (15.02%) WAN
13 48 (14.41%) ITIL
14 46 (13.81%) Entra ID
15 45 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (12.61%) PowerShell
17 41 (12.31%) Microsoft Intune
18 36 (10.81%) LAN
19 35 (10.51%) Security Cleared
20 34 (10.21%) AWS
21 31 (9.31%) TCP/IP
22 29 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
23 28 (8.41%) Terraform
24 27 (8.11%) Degree
25 25 (7.51%) CI/CD
25 25 (7.51%) Root Cause Analysis
26 24 (7.21%) 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 23 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (5.11%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) AutoCAD
1 5 (1.50%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 115 (34.53%) Azure
2 55 (16.52%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (13.81%) Entra ID
4 34 (10.21%) AWS
5 16 (4.80%) IaaS
6 15 (4.50%) SaaS
7 12 (3.60%) OneDrive
8 11 (3.30%) Datadog
8 11 (3.30%) Nutanix
8 11 (3.30%) PaaS
9 8 (2.40%) GCP
10 6 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.20%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.20%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (19.22%) DNS
2 59 (17.72%) VPN
3 57 (17.12%) DHCP
4 54 (16.22%) Firewall
5 50 (15.02%) WAN
6 36 (10.81%) LAN
7 31 (9.31%) TCP/IP
8 19 (5.71%) SAN
9 18 (5.41%) SD-WAN
10 15 (4.50%) VLAN
11 14 (4.20%) BGP
12 13 (3.90%) Network Security
12 13 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (3.90%) WLAN
13 9 (2.70%) MPLS
14 6 (1.80%) NAS
15 5 (1.50%) IPsec
15 5 (1.50%) OSPF
15 5 (1.50%) SSH
15 5 (1.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.60%) GitLab
2 8 (2.40%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.60%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.60%) Git
3 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 33 (9.91%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.01%) Finance
3 26 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.60%) Banking
6 8 (2.40%) Legal
6 8 (2.40%) Retail
7 6 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.30%) Law
9 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.50%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.20%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.90%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.60%) Kafka
4 2 (0.60%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.60%) Middleware
5 1 (0.30%) .NET
5 1 (0.30%) OAuth
5 1 (0.30%) OpenID
5 1 (0.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.21%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.30%) PKI
4 8 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (1.80%) Replication
6 5 (1.50%) Clustering
6 5 (1.50%) CMDB
6 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.90%) YubiKey
9 2 (0.60%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (24.02%) Windows
2 59 (17.72%) Windows Server
3 24 (7.21%) Linux
4 19 (5.71%) Apple iOS
5 11 (3.30%) Android
6 8 (2.40%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.50%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.20%) Unix
8 4 (1.20%) VMS
9 2 (0.60%) CentOS
9 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (97.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (17.12%) Disaster Recovery
3 48 (14.41%) ITIL
4 45 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (8.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (7.51%) CI/CD
6 25 (7.51%) Root Cause Analysis
7 23 (6.91%) Mentoring
8 22 (6.61%) Migration
9 21 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (6.31%) High Availability
9 21 (6.31%) Project Delivery
10 20 (6.01%) Computer Science
11 18 (5.41%) Incident Management
12 17 (5.11%) Problem Management
12 17 (5.11%) Service Delivery
12 17 (5.11%) Service Management
13 16 (4.80%) Cloud Operations
13 16 (4.80%) DevOps
13 16 (4.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (12.61%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.11%) Python
3 12 (3.60%) SQL
4 9 (2.70%) Bicep
5 4 (1.20%) Bash
6 2 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (10.51%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.11%) Degree
3 24 (7.21%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.61%) SC Cleared
5 21 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (6.01%) CCNP
6 20 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (4.80%) Azure Certification
9 12 (3.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (3.30%) CCIE
10 11 (3.30%) MCSE
11 6 (1.80%) CCNA
12 5 (1.50%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.30%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (2.40%) NIST
2 8 (2.40%) SLA
3 7 (2.10%) GDPR
4 3 (0.90%) COBIT
5 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 71 (21.32%) Active Directory
2 64 (19.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.31%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.20%) vSphere
5 9 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.70%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.50%) KVM
7 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.90%) Docker
8 3 (0.90%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.60%) Firmware
9 2 (0.60%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.30%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (12.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (8.41%) Terraform
3 23 (6.91%) Ansible
4 12 (3.60%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.70%) SCCM
6 8 (2.40%) VxRail
7 7 (2.10%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.80%) WSUS
9 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.90%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.60%) Grafana
10 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.30%) Nessus
11 1 (0.30%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.30%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 100 (30.03%) Microsoft
2 87 (26.13%) VMware
3 21 (6.31%) Cisco
4 17 (5.11%) Tenable
5 15 (4.50%) Veeam
6 11 (3.30%) Apple
6 11 (3.30%) HP
6 11 (3.30%) Zerto
7 10 (3.00%) Dell
7 10 (3.00%) Palo Alto
7 10 (3.00%) Samsung
8 9 (2.70%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.40%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.10%) Citrix
10 7 (2.10%) Meraki
10 7 (2.10%) Splunk
11 6 (1.80%) Commvault
11 6 (1.80%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.50%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.20%) EMC