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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 546 456
Rank change year-on-year +131 -90 +169
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 373 135 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.29% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.32% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 268 92 397
10th Percentile £43,949 £46,266 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,938 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +2.68%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +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 90,943 42,123 100,042
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 89.80% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 62,442 24,434 72,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,745 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.09% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% - -5.66%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +90 316 £65,000 - 89
UK excluding London +114 299 £60,000 - 84
Work from Home +30 95 £65,576 +9.29% 32
North of England -17 74 £65,576 +2.86% 18
London -8 58 £80,000 -3.03% 19
South East +12 54 £60,000 +2.13% 19
South West -19 52 £63,750 +27.50% 17
Midlands +7 47 £55,000 -1.79% 14
North West +8 38 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Wales -12 37 £50,000 +4.01% 13
Yorkshire -21 29 £60,000 -5.88% 4
West Midlands -5 28 £55,000 -4.01% 8
East of England -3 23 £40,000 -33.33% 5
East Midlands -6 19 £55,000 -1.79% 6
North East -47 7 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Scotland - 7 - - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 369 (98.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (33.78%) Azure
3 121 (32.44%) Microsoft
4 84 (22.52%) VMware
5 78 (20.91%) Windows
6 71 (19.03%) Active Directory
7 68 (18.23%) VMware Infrastructure
8 67 (17.96%) Microsoft 365
9 66 (17.69%) DNS
10 62 (16.62%) VPN
11 61 (16.35%) DHCP
11 61 (16.35%) Windows Server
12 59 (15.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 59 (15.82%) Firewall
12 59 (15.82%) WAN
13 52 (13.94%) Entra ID
14 49 (13.14%) PowerShell
15 47 (12.60%) LAN
16 46 (12.33%) ITIL
17 39 (10.46%) Microsoft Intune
18 38 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
19 37 (9.92%) Security Cleared
20 35 (9.38%) AWS
20 35 (9.38%) Project Delivery
21 33 (8.85%) TCP/IP
22 32 (8.58%) Infrastructure as Code
23 29 (7.77%) Cisco
24 28 (7.51%) Mentoring
25 27 (7.24%) Terraform
26 26 (6.97%) Linux

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 26 (6.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.14%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.14%) AutoCAD
1 8 (2.14%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 126 (33.78%) Azure
2 67 (17.96%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (13.94%) Entra ID
4 35 (9.38%) AWS
5 12 (3.22%) IaaS
5 12 (3.22%) Nutanix
5 12 (3.22%) OneDrive
6 8 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (2.14%) GCP
6 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (2.14%) SaaS
7 7 (1.88%) Datadog
7 7 (1.88%) PaaS
8 6 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.07%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.07%) Mimecast
10 3 (0.80%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 66 (17.69%) DNS
2 62 (16.62%) VPN
3 61 (16.35%) DHCP
4 59 (15.82%) Firewall
4 59 (15.82%) WAN
5 47 (12.60%) LAN
6 33 (8.85%) TCP/IP
7 18 (4.83%) WLAN
8 17 (4.56%) Network Security
9 16 (4.29%) SAN
10 15 (4.02%) BGP
10 15 (4.02%) SD-WAN
10 15 (4.02%) VLAN
10 15 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (2.41%) MPLS
12 6 (1.61%) IPsec
12 6 (1.61%) NAS
12 6 (1.61%) SSH
12 6 (1.61%) SSL
13 5 (1.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.22%) GitLab
2 3 (0.80%) Chocolatey
3 2 (0.54%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.54%) Git
3 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 33 (8.85%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.04%) Public Sector
3 22 (5.90%) Finance
4 11 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.14%) Legal
6 7 (1.88%) Banking
7 6 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.61%) Retail
8 5 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.54%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.27%) Automotive
10 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.27%) Law
10 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.61%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.07%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.80%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.54%) Kafka
4 2 (0.54%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) OpenID
5 1 (0.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.90%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (3.22%) PKI
4 8 (2.14%) Replication
5 5 (1.34%) CMDB
5 5 (1.34%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.07%) Clustering
6 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.80%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.54%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.54%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.27%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 78 (20.91%) Windows
2 61 (16.35%) Windows Server
3 26 (6.97%) Linux
4 17 (4.56%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.22%) Android
6 6 (1.61%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.34%) Unix
7 5 (1.34%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.80%) VMS
9 2 (0.54%) CentOS
9 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (98.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (15.82%) Disaster Recovery
3 46 (12.33%) ITIL
4 38 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (9.38%) Project Delivery
6 32 (8.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (7.51%) Mentoring
8 25 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (6.70%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (6.43%) CI/CD
10 23 (6.17%) High Availability
11 21 (5.63%) Incident Management
12 18 (4.83%) Cloud Operations
12 18 (4.83%) Incident Response
12 18 (4.83%) Problem Management
13 17 (4.56%) Service Management
14 16 (4.29%) Business Continuity
14 16 (4.29%) Coaching
15 15 (4.02%) Migration
15 15 (4.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (13.14%) PowerShell
2 22 (5.90%) Python
3 12 (3.22%) SQL
4 10 (2.68%) Bicep
5 5 (1.34%) Bash
6 2 (0.54%) Go
7 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.70%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.43%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (6.17%) CCNP
4 23 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 22 (5.90%) Degree
6 18 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.22%) CCIE
8 12 (3.22%) MCSE
8 12 (3.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (2.41%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.14%) CCNA
11 6 (1.61%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.41%) GDPR
3 6 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.61%) NIST
3 6 (1.61%) SLA
4 3 (0.80%) COBIT
5 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 71 (19.03%) Active Directory
2 68 (18.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (6.70%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.83%) vSphere
5 10 (2.68%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.80%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.54%) Docker
11 2 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) GPFS
12 1 (0.27%) Lustre
12 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (10.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (7.24%) Terraform
3 24 (6.43%) Ansible
4 11 (2.95%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.41%) VxRail
6 7 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.88%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.61%) WSUS
8 4 (1.07%) SCCM
9 3 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.80%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.27%) Nessus
11 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 121 (32.44%) Microsoft
2 84 (22.52%) VMware
3 29 (7.77%) Cisco
4 19 (5.09%) Veeam
5 12 (3.22%) HP
6 11 (2.95%) Apple
6 11 (2.95%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.95%) Zerto
7 10 (2.68%) Dell
7 10 (2.68%) Meraki
7 10 (2.68%) Samsung
7 10 (2.68%) Tenable
8 7 (1.88%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.61%) Citrix
9 6 (1.61%) Commvault
9 6 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.34%) EMC
10 5 (1.34%) Splunk
10 5 (1.34%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (1.34%) Zscaler