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 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 531 448
Rank change year-on-year +79 -83 +253
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 248 111 478
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.27% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.30% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 183 97 411
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,650 £41,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,465 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +4.25% +5.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +6.65%

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 71,927 36,735 83,837
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 90.01% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 46,076 23,059 63,351
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £79,608 £72,466
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 28 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 28 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 +81 218 £65,288 +5.91% 52
UK excluding London +56 175 £65,000 +30.00% 54
Work from Home +21 63 £65,576 +22.00% 28
London +12 55 £81,250 -1.52% 4
Midlands -11 35 £55,000 +15.79% 8
South East -6 33 £60,000 +4.35% 13
East of England -4 29 £75,000 +54.64% 3
North of England -48 29 £65,000 +26.21% 15
West Midlands +7 26 £65,000 +44.44% 5
South West -21 23 £70,000 +33.33% 9
North West -21 15 £63,247 +26.49% 9
Scotland - 11 - - 3
Wales -16 10 £57,500 +17.10% 4
East Midlands -43 9 £55,000 -27.63% 3
Yorkshire -58 9 £62,788 +14.16% 4
North East - 5 £65,576 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 239 (96.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 105 (42.34%) Azure
3 87 (35.08%) Microsoft
4 74 (29.84%) VMware
4 74 (29.84%) Windows
5 62 (25.00%) Firewall
6 55 (22.18%) Active Directory
7 50 (20.16%) Microsoft 365
8 48 (19.35%) Windows Server
9 43 (17.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 42 (16.94%) VMware Infrastructure
11 39 (15.73%) DNS
11 39 (15.73%) Entra ID
12 38 (15.32%) Disaster Recovery
13 36 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (14.11%) DHCP
14 35 (14.11%) VPN
15 34 (13.71%) ITIL
16 33 (13.31%) WAN
17 31 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
18 30 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
19 29 (11.69%) PowerShell
20 28 (11.29%) Mentoring
20 28 (11.29%) Terraform
21 27 (10.89%) Cisco
22 26 (10.48%) AWS
23 25 (10.08%) Root Cause Analysis
24 24 (9.68%) DevOps
24 24 (9.68%) Security Cleared
25 23 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code

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 31 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.85%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.42%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.40%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 105 (42.34%) Azure
2 50 (20.16%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (15.73%) Entra ID
4 26 (10.48%) AWS
5 16 (6.45%) IaaS
6 13 (5.24%) SaaS
7 11 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.44%) OneDrive
7 11 (4.44%) PaaS
8 10 (4.03%) Datadog
9 8 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.82%) GCP
11 6 (2.42%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.61%) Mimecast
14 3 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.21%) Route 53
14 3 (1.21%) Tessian
15 2 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.81%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (25.00%) Firewall
2 39 (15.73%) DNS
3 35 (14.11%) DHCP
3 35 (14.11%) VPN
4 33 (13.31%) WAN
5 21 (8.47%) SD-WAN
6 20 (8.06%) LAN
7 16 (6.45%) TCP/IP
8 15 (6.05%) SAN
9 11 (4.44%) VLAN
9 11 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.82%) MPLS
10 7 (2.82%) Network Security
11 4 (1.61%) BGP
12 3 (1.21%) VSAN
13 2 (0.81%) HSRP
13 2 (0.81%) NAS
13 2 (0.81%) VoIP
13 2 (0.81%) VPLS
13 2 (0.81%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.66%) 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 (3.23%) 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 31 (12.50%) Finance
2 26 (10.48%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.03%) Banking
4 10 (4.03%) Law
4 10 (4.03%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.03%) Retail
5 7 (2.82%) Legal
5 7 (2.82%) Police
5 7 (2.82%) 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 (3.23%) .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
2 2 (0.81%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.65%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (2.82%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.02%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.02%) Replication
5 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.21%) YubiKey
7 2 (0.81%) Clustering
7 2 (0.81%) CMDB
7 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.81%) PKI
8 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (29.84%) Windows
2 48 (19.35%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.06%) Apple iOS
4 16 (6.45%) Linux
5 12 (4.84%) Android
6 9 (3.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (3.23%) Windows 10
8 5 (2.02%) VMS
9 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.40%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (96.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (15.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (13.71%) ITIL
5 30 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (11.29%) Mentoring
7 25 (10.08%) Root Cause Analysis
8 24 (9.68%) DevOps
9 23 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (9.27%) Migration
10 22 (8.87%) CI/CD
11 17 (6.85%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (6.05%) Incident Management
12 15 (6.05%) Performance Monitoring
13 14 (5.65%) Service Delivery
14 13 (5.24%) Cloud Operations
14 13 (5.24%) High Availability
14 13 (5.24%) Roadmaps
15 12 (4.84%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.69%) PowerShell
2 11 (4.44%) Bicep
3 9 (3.63%) Python
4 5 (2.02%) Bash
4 5 (2.02%) SQL
5 2 (0.81%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.26%) Azure Certification
3 17 (6.85%) Degree
3 17 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.24%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.63%) CCNP
7 9 (3.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (3.23%) MCSE
9 4 (1.61%) CCIE
10 2 (0.81%) CCNA
11 1 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.23%) SLA
3 6 (2.42%) NIST
4 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
5 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (22.18%) Active Directory
2 42 (16.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.65%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.42%) vSphere
5 5 (2.02%) KVM
6 4 (1.61%) Docker
6 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.61%) XenApp
7 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.40%) Ceph
9 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) Lustre
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.40%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (17.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (11.29%) Terraform
3 13 (5.24%) Ansible
3 13 (5.24%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.23%) FortiGate
4 8 (3.23%) SCCM
5 4 (1.61%) VxRail
6 3 (1.21%) FlexNet
6 3 (1.21%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.81%) Grafana
7 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.81%) WSUS
8 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.40%) Nessus
8 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (35.08%) Microsoft
2 74 (29.84%) VMware
3 27 (10.89%) Cisco
4 14 (5.65%) Tenable
4 14 (5.65%) Veeam
5 12 (4.84%) AppDynamics
5 12 (4.84%) Apple
5 12 (4.84%) Dell
5 12 (4.84%) Palo Alto
5 12 (4.84%) Samsung
6 8 (3.23%) Citrix
6 8 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.23%) Meraki
6 8 (3.23%) New Relic
7 7 (2.82%) Zerto
8 6 (2.42%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.42%) Splunk
9 5 (2.02%) Juniper
10 4 (1.61%) Qualys
10 4 (1.61%) SonicWALL