Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,288 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 525 464
Rank change year-on-year +109 -61 +215
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 311 115 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.27% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.31% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 232 97 391
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £48,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,288 £60,465 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +3.36% +4.46%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £51,729 £57,500
% change year-on-year +25.65% -10.04% +9.52%

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 81,353 37,364 89,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 89.32% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 51,978 23,468 66,062
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +87 270 £65,576 +6.38% 62
UK excluding London +86 234 £65,000 +25.65% 53
Work from Home +48 93 £65,576 +16.58% 32
North of England -26 61 £65,576 +19.23% 22
London +5 59 £81,250 -1.52% 14
South East -8 42 £57,000 -0.87% 15
Midlands -14 36 £55,000 +10.00% 8
North West -16 31 £65,576 +31.15% 12
South West -30 31 £65,000 +23.81% 1
East of England -11 27 £75,000 +54.64% 3
West Midlands -11 25 £67,500 +50.00% 7
Wales -14 21 £65,000 +32.37% 4
Yorkshire -47 21 £65,576 +13.59% 5
East Midlands -53 11 £52,500 -7.89% 1
Scotland - 11 - - 1
North East - 9 £65,576 - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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.

1 302 (97.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 117 (37.62%) Azure
3 96 (30.87%) Microsoft
4 84 (27.01%) VMware
5 83 (26.69%) Windows
6 71 (22.83%) Firewall
7 65 (20.90%) Active Directory
8 59 (18.97%) DNS
9 56 (18.01%) Windows Server
10 55 (17.68%) VMware Infrastructure
11 53 (17.04%) DHCP
11 53 (17.04%) Microsoft 365
12 50 (16.08%) VPN
13 47 (15.11%) Disaster Recovery
13 47 (15.11%) WAN
14 45 (14.47%) ITIL
14 45 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (13.50%) Microsoft Intune
16 41 (13.18%) Entra ID
17 38 (12.22%) PowerShell
18 36 (11.58%) Security Cleared
19 34 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
19 34 (10.93%) Terraform
20 32 (10.29%) AWS
20 32 (10.29%) LAN
20 32 (10.29%) Mentoring
21 31 (9.97%) Cisco
22 29 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
23 28 (9.00%) CI/CD
23 28 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis

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 (8.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.64%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 117 (37.62%) Azure
2 53 (17.04%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (13.18%) Entra ID
4 32 (10.29%) AWS
5 16 (5.14%) IaaS
6 14 (4.50%) SaaS
7 11 (3.54%) OneDrive
7 11 (3.54%) PaaS
8 10 (3.22%) Datadog
9 9 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.89%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.57%) GCP
11 6 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.61%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.29%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 71 (22.83%) Firewall
2 59 (18.97%) DNS
3 53 (17.04%) DHCP
4 50 (16.08%) VPN
5 47 (15.11%) WAN
6 32 (10.29%) LAN
7 26 (8.36%) TCP/IP
8 22 (7.07%) SD-WAN
9 19 (6.11%) SAN
10 15 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (4.50%) BGP
11 14 (4.50%) VLAN
12 11 (3.54%) MPLS
13 10 (3.22%) Network Security
14 5 (1.61%) OSPF
14 5 (1.61%) WLAN
15 4 (1.29%) NAS
15 4 (1.29%) VoIP
15 4 (1.29%) VPLS
15 4 (1.29%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.54%) GitLab
2 8 (2.57%) Chocolatey
3 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.64%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.32%) Git
5 1 (0.32%) JIRA
General
1 31 (9.97%) Finance
1 31 (9.97%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.07%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (3.22%) Banking
4 10 (3.22%) Retail
5 8 (2.57%) Law
6 7 (2.25%) Legal
7 6 (1.93%) Police
7 6 (1.93%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.25%) .NET
2 5 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.29%) ModSecurity
4 3 (0.96%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.64%) Kafka
5 2 (0.64%) Keycloak
5 2 (0.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.75%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.25%) PKI
4 7 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.61%) Replication
6 4 (1.29%) CMDB
6 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.29%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.96%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.96%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.64%) Clustering
8 2 (0.64%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.64%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (26.69%) Windows
2 56 (18.01%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.75%) Linux
4 20 (6.43%) Apple iOS
5 12 (3.86%) Android
6 8 (2.57%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.93%) VMS
9 4 (1.29%) Unix
10 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.64%) CentOS
11 2 (0.64%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (97.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (15.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (14.47%) ITIL
3 45 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (10.29%) Mentoring
6 29 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (9.00%) CI/CD
7 28 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 24 (7.72%) DevOps
9 23 (7.40%) Migration
10 19 (6.11%) Incident Management
11 17 (5.47%) Computer Science
11 17 (5.47%) High Availability
11 17 (5.47%) Service Delivery
12 16 (5.14%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (5.14%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (4.82%) Agile
13 15 (4.82%) Performance Monitoring
13 15 (4.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.22%) PowerShell
2 15 (4.82%) Bicep
2 15 (4.82%) Python
3 9 (2.89%) SQL
4 4 (1.29%) Bash
5 2 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 36 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.04%) Degree
2 25 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.40%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.43%) Azure Certification
4 20 (6.43%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (4.82%) CCNP
7 9 (2.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (2.57%) CCIE
8 8 (2.57%) MCSE
9 4 (1.29%) CCNA
10 2 (0.64%) JNCIP
10 2 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.32%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (2.57%) NIST
3 8 (2.57%) SLA
4 6 (1.93%) GDPR
5 3 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 65 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 55 (17.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (6.11%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.54%) vSphere
5 8 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.57%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.61%) KVM
8 4 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.96%) Docker
10 2 (0.64%) Firmware
10 2 (0.64%) XenApp
11 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.32%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (13.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (10.93%) Terraform
3 21 (6.75%) Ansible
4 17 (5.47%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.89%) FortiGate
5 9 (2.89%) SCCM
6 6 (1.93%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.93%) VxRail
7 4 (1.29%) WSUS
8 3 (0.96%) FlexNet
9 2 (0.64%) Grafana
9 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.32%) Nessus
10 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (30.87%) Microsoft
2 84 (27.01%) VMware
3 31 (9.97%) Cisco
4 15 (4.82%) Palo Alto
4 15 (4.82%) Tenable
4 15 (4.82%) Veeam
5 14 (4.50%) Dell
6 12 (3.86%) AppDynamics
6 12 (3.86%) Apple
6 12 (3.86%) Samsung
7 9 (2.89%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.89%) Zerto
8 8 (2.57%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.57%) Splunk
9 7 (2.25%) Citrix
9 7 (2.25%) Meraki
9 7 (2.25%) New Relic
10 6 (1.93%) HP
10 6 (1.93%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.61%) Juniper