Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 516 517
Rank change year-on-year +126 +1 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 502 147 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 388 85 179
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,956 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +2.94%

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 106,119 44,341 74,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,014 26,036 45,320
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 16 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 14 September 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 +142 430 £60,000 -7.69% 241
UK excluding London +124 413 £60,000 - 173
Work from Home +60 149 £65,576 +0.89% 104
North of England +13 123 £70,000 +7.69% 38
South West +6 95 £53,000 +6.00% 16
South East +24 77 £60,000 - 39
North West +27 72 £70,000 +7.69% 27
London -22 63 £77,500 +6.90% 87
Midlands -13 44 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Wales -33 44 £50,000 +4.01% 6
Yorkshire -8 36 £65,576 +2.86% 6
East Midlands -3 29 £50,000 -9.09% 8
East of England -24 20 £40,000 -36.00% 36
West Midlands -30 15 £55,000 - 9
North East -52 15 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Scotland +10 10 £55,000 -8.33% 25

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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.

1 486 (96.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 129 (25.70%) Azure
3 118 (23.51%) Microsoft
4 103 (20.52%) Windows
5 81 (16.14%) VMware
6 76 (15.14%) Windows Server
7 75 (14.94%) Active Directory
8 70 (13.94%) Firewall
9 68 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (12.75%) WAN
11 58 (11.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 58 (11.55%) DNS
11 58 (11.55%) VMware Infrastructure
12 54 (10.76%) LAN
13 53 (10.56%) DHCP
13 53 (10.56%) VPN
14 52 (10.36%) PowerShell
15 51 (10.16%) Entra ID
16 48 (9.56%) Linux
17 47 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 42 (8.37%) ITIL
19 41 (8.17%) Project Delivery
20 39 (7.77%) AWS
20 39 (7.77%) Cisco
21 38 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
21 38 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
22 35 (6.97%) Mentoring
23 32 (6.37%) Business Continuity
23 32 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
23 32 (6.37%) TCP/IP

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 28 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.00%) IIS
4 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.39%) AutoCAD
1 17 (3.39%) Civil 3D
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 129 (25.70%) Azure
2 68 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (10.16%) Entra ID
4 39 (7.77%) AWS
5 13 (2.59%) OneDrive
6 11 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (2.19%) IaaS
6 11 (2.19%) SaaS
7 10 (1.99%) Azure AKS
8 9 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (1.79%) GCP
8 9 (1.79%) Nutanix
8 9 (1.79%) PaaS
9 7 (1.39%) OCI
9 7 (1.39%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.20%) Datadog
11 5 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.00%) GitHub
12 4 (0.80%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 70 (13.94%) Firewall
2 64 (12.75%) WAN
3 58 (11.55%) DNS
4 54 (10.76%) LAN
5 53 (10.56%) DHCP
5 53 (10.56%) VPN
6 32 (6.37%) TCP/IP
7 27 (5.38%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (4.78%) Network Security
9 18 (3.59%) WLAN
10 14 (2.79%) BGP
10 14 (2.79%) VLAN
11 13 (2.59%) SAN
12 11 (2.19%) Internet
13 9 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (1.79%) SD-WAN
14 8 (1.59%) MPLS
14 8 (1.59%) SSL
15 6 (1.20%) IPsec
15 6 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.39%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (1.59%) GitLab
2 5 (1.00%) JIRA
3 4 (0.80%) Git
4 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (9.36%) Public Sector
2 31 (6.18%) Social Skills
3 18 (3.59%) Finance
4 12 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.79%) Retail
6 9 (1.79%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.59%) Legal
8 7 (1.39%) Banking
9 4 (0.80%) Law
9 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.40%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.40%) Marketing
12 1 (0.20%) Automotive
12 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.18%) Terraform
2 6 (1.20%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.60%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.60%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.40%) REST
5 1 (0.20%) .NET
5 1 (0.20%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.20%) CSS
5 1 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.20%) HTML
5 1 (0.20%) Kafka
5 1 (0.20%) OAuth
5 1 (0.20%) OpenID
5 1 (0.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.78%) Data Centre
2 16 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (3.19%) Public Cloud
3 12 (2.39%) PKI
4 7 (1.39%) Driving Licence
4 7 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (1.39%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.20%) Clustering
5 6 (1.20%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.00%) CMDB
6 5 (1.00%) Replication
7 4 (0.80%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.60%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.60%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.60%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 103 (20.52%) Windows
2 76 (15.14%) Windows Server
3 48 (9.56%) Linux
4 17 (3.39%) Unix
5 8 (1.59%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.80%) CentOS
7 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.40%) Android
8 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) Rocky
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (96.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (11.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 47 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (8.37%) ITIL
5 41 (8.17%) Project Delivery
6 38 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (6.97%) Mentoring
8 32 (6.37%) Business Continuity
9 30 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (5.38%) Incident Management
11 25 (4.98%) CI/CD
12 24 (4.78%) Coaching
12 24 (4.78%) Root Cause Analysis
13 22 (4.38%) Change Management
13 22 (4.38%) DevOps
13 22 (4.38%) Migration
14 20 (3.98%) Agile
14 20 (3.98%) High Availability
14 20 (3.98%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 52 (10.36%) PowerShell
2 26 (5.18%) Python
3 17 (3.39%) SQL
4 11 (2.19%) Bicep
5 6 (1.20%) Go
6 4 (0.80%) Bash
6 4 (0.80%) Java
6 4 (0.80%) R
7 2 (0.40%) C++
8 1 (0.20%) C#
8 1 (0.20%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.20%) Ruby
8 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (6.18%) Security Cleared
2 24 (4.78%) Degree
3 20 (3.98%) DV Cleared
3 20 (3.98%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.39%) CCNP
4 17 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.79%) CCIE
6 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.59%) CCNA
8 6 (1.20%) JNCIP
9 5 (1.00%) MCSE
10 4 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.59%) GDPR
2 8 (1.59%) SLA
3 4 (0.80%) NIST
4 3 (0.60%) COBIT
5 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (14.94%) Active Directory
2 58 (11.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (5.98%) Hyper-V
4 21 (4.18%) vSphere
5 9 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.39%) Docker
7 6 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.60%) Lustre
9 3 (0.60%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.40%) Firmware
10 2 (0.40%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.20%) GPFS
11 1 (0.20%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (4.98%) Ansible
3 17 (3.39%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.20%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.00%) VxRail
7 4 (0.80%) WSUS
8 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.60%) Nessus
8 3 (0.60%) SCOM
8 3 (0.60%) vRealize
9 2 (0.40%) Argo
9 2 (0.40%) Grafana
9 2 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.40%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.40%) SCCM
9 2 (0.40%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.20%) Avamar
10 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 118 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 81 (16.14%) VMware
3 39 (7.77%) Cisco
4 18 (3.59%) Veeam
5 16 (3.19%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.39%) HP
7 11 (2.19%) Zscaler
8 10 (1.99%) Aruba
8 10 (1.99%) Meraki
8 10 (1.99%) Oracle
9 9 (1.79%) Citrix
9 9 (1.79%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.79%) Qualys
10 7 (1.39%) Apple
10 7 (1.39%) Zerto
11 6 (1.20%) Dell
11 6 (1.20%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.00%) EMC
12 5 (1.00%) Google
12 5 (1.00%) Ubiquiti