Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 534 424
Rank change year-on-year +83 -110 +292
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 247 120 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.28% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.31% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 183 100 410
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +5.70%

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 69,320 38,229 80,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 90.36% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 44,176 23,016 61,754
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,419 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +73 218 £65,576 +8.45% 43
UK excluding London +71 171 £65,000 +30.00% 43
Work from Home +33 62 £65,576 +19.23% 21
London +8 58 £80,000 -3.03% 4
Midlands -8 35 £55,000 +15.79% 7
South East +1 31 £60,000 +4.35% 14
East of England +12 30 £75,000 +54.64% 2
North of England -37 28 £65,000 +30.00% 7
West Midlands +22 26 £65,000 +44.44% 4
South West -14 22 £67,500 +28.57% 7
North West -18 15 £63,247 +26.49% 4
Scotland - 11 - - 2
Wales -15 9 £55,000 +12.01% 4
East Midlands -49 9 £55,000 -27.63% 3
Yorkshire -44 8 £62,788 +14.16% 2
North East - 5 £65,576 - 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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.

1 237 (95.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (43.72%) Azure
3 90 (36.44%) Microsoft
4 77 (31.17%) Windows
5 76 (30.77%) VMware
6 64 (25.91%) Firewall
7 59 (23.89%) Active Directory
8 54 (21.86%) Microsoft 365
9 51 (20.65%) Windows Server
10 43 (17.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 41 (16.60%) VMware Infrastructure
12 39 (15.79%) Entra ID
13 38 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
14 37 (14.98%) DNS
15 36 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (14.17%) Microsoft Exchange
17 34 (13.77%) DHCP
18 33 (13.36%) ITIL
18 33 (13.36%) VPN
19 31 (12.55%) WAN
20 30 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
21 29 (11.74%) PowerShell
22 28 (11.34%) Mentoring
22 28 (11.34%) Terraform
23 26 (10.53%) Cisco
24 25 (10.12%) AWS
24 25 (10.12%) Root Cause Analysis
25 24 (9.72%) DevOps
26 23 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
26 23 (9.31%) Migration

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 35 (14.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.88%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.43%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 108 (43.72%) Azure
2 54 (21.86%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 25 (10.12%) AWS
5 16 (6.48%) IaaS
6 13 (5.26%) SaaS
7 12 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (4.45%) OneDrive
8 11 (4.45%) PaaS
9 10 (4.05%) Datadog
10 6 (2.43%) GCP
10 6 (2.43%) Nutanix
11 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.62%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.21%) Route 53
13 3 (1.21%) Tessian
14 2 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 64 (25.91%) Firewall
2 37 (14.98%) DNS
3 34 (13.77%) DHCP
4 33 (13.36%) VPN
5 31 (12.55%) WAN
6 20 (8.10%) SD-WAN
7 18 (7.29%) LAN
8 16 (6.48%) TCP/IP
9 15 (6.07%) SAN
10 11 (4.45%) VLAN
10 11 (4.45%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.83%) Network Security
12 6 (2.43%) MPLS
13 3 (1.21%) BGP
13 3 (1.21%) VSAN
14 2 (0.81%) NAS
15 1 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
15 1 (0.40%) HSRP
15 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
15 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.24%) Chocolatey
2 5 (2.02%) GitLab
3 3 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.40%) Git
5 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 32 (12.96%) Finance
2 27 (10.93%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (4.45%) Banking
4 10 (4.05%) Law
4 10 (4.05%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.05%) Retail
5 7 (2.83%) Legal
5 7 (2.83%) Police
5 7 (2.83%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.24%) .NET
2 2 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.81%) Kafka
2 2 (0.81%) Keycloak
2 2 (0.81%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.40%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.24%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.83%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (2.83%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.02%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.02%) Replication
5 4 (1.62%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.21%) YubiKey
7 2 (0.81%) Clustering
7 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.81%) PKI
8 1 (0.40%) CMDB
8 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (31.17%) Windows
2 51 (20.65%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.10%) Apple iOS
4 16 (6.48%) Linux
5 12 (4.86%) Android
6 9 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (3.24%) Windows 10
8 5 (2.02%) VMS
9 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.40%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (95.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (13.36%) ITIL
5 30 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (11.34%) Mentoring
7 25 (10.12%) Root Cause Analysis
8 24 (9.72%) DevOps
9 23 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (9.31%) Migration
10 22 (8.91%) CI/CD
11 17 (6.88%) Roadmaps
11 17 (6.88%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (6.48%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (6.07%) Incident Management
13 15 (6.07%) Performance Monitoring
14 14 (5.67%) Service Delivery
15 13 (5.26%) Cloud Operations
15 13 (5.26%) High Availability
16 12 (4.86%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.74%) PowerShell
2 11 (4.45%) Bicep
3 8 (3.24%) Python
4 5 (2.02%) Bash
4 5 (2.02%) SQL
5 2 (0.81%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (9.31%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.29%) Azure Certification
3 17 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (6.48%) Degree
5 13 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.86%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.24%) CCNP
9 8 (3.24%) MCSE
10 3 (1.21%) CCIE
11 2 (0.81%) CCNA
12 1 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (3.24%) SLA
3 7 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.02%) NIST
5 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.81%) GDPR
6 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (23.89%) Active Directory
2 41 (16.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.67%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.43%) vSphere
5 5 (2.02%) KVM
6 4 (1.62%) Docker
6 4 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.62%) XenApp
7 2 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.40%) Ceph
8 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.40%) Firmware
8 1 (0.40%) Lustre
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (17.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (11.34%) Terraform
3 13 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.86%) Ansible
5 8 (3.24%) FortiGate
5 8 (3.24%) SCCM
6 4 (1.62%) VxRail
7 3 (1.21%) FlexNet
7 3 (1.21%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.81%) Grafana
8 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.81%) WSUS
9 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.40%) Nessus
9 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (36.44%) Microsoft
2 76 (30.77%) VMware
3 26 (10.53%) Cisco
4 14 (5.67%) Tenable
4 14 (5.67%) Veeam
5 13 (5.26%) Dell
6 12 (4.86%) AppDynamics
6 12 (4.86%) Apple
6 12 (4.86%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.86%) Samsung
7 8 (3.24%) Citrix
7 8 (3.24%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.24%) Meraki
7 8 (3.24%) New Relic
8 7 (2.83%) Zerto
9 6 (2.43%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.43%) Splunk
10 5 (2.02%) Juniper
11 4 (1.62%) Qualys
11 4 (1.62%) SonicWALL