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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 526 444
Rank change year-on-year +52 -82 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 178 187 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.36% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 122 122 238
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,956 £42,438
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,463 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,081 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £75,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,247 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.99% +4.76% +5.00%

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 53,514 51,440 48,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.14% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,905 27,168 37,760
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +58 151 £65,000 +8.33% 57
UK excluding London +62 121 £63,247 +14.99% 50
Work from Home +37 45 £70,000 +15.77% 16
London +15 43 £75,000 +15.38% 12
East of England +38 29 £75,000 +36.36% 4
North of England +11 23 £64,123 +16.59% 11
Midlands +28 21 £55,000 +15.79% 11
West Midlands +23 16 £55,000 +22.22% 8
Scotland +20 16 £60,000 +41.18% 3
South East +18 15 £57,500 - 14
South West -1 12 £67,500 +12.50% 8
North West +14 11 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Yorkshire -7 7 £61,500 +11.82% 3
Wales +8 6 £55,000 +12.01%
North East +10 5 £57,500 +15.00% 2
East Midlands -5 5 £55,000 -42.11% 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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.

1 170 (95.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 81 (45.51%) Azure
3 74 (41.57%) Windows
4 63 (35.39%) Firewall
5 57 (32.02%) Microsoft
5 57 (32.02%) VMware
6 54 (30.34%) Windows Server
7 47 (26.40%) Active Directory
8 44 (24.72%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (19.66%) Microsoft Exchange
10 30 (16.85%) PowerShell
11 29 (16.29%) Terraform
11 29 (16.29%) VMware Infrastructure
12 27 (15.17%) Migration
13 25 (14.04%) Cisco
13 25 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (13.48%) DNS
15 23 (12.92%) Microsoft Intune
15 23 (12.92%) Roadmaps
16 22 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (12.36%) DevOps
17 20 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery
18 19 (10.67%) DHCP
18 19 (10.67%) Entra ID
18 19 (10.67%) Technology Roadmap
18 19 (10.67%) VPN
19 18 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
19 18 (10.11%) WAN
20 17 (9.55%) Azure Logic Apps
20 17 (9.55%) Mentoring

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 (19.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.25%) IIS
4 3 (1.69%) WinCC
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.51%) Azure
2 44 (24.72%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (10.67%) Entra ID
4 17 (9.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.74%) AWS
7 8 (4.49%) IaaS
7 8 (4.49%) PaaS
8 7 (3.93%) SaaS
9 6 (3.37%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.81%) Datadog
11 4 (2.25%) Azure App Service
11 4 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.25%) GitHub
11 4 (2.25%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.69%) GCP
12 3 (1.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 63 (35.39%) Firewall
2 24 (13.48%) DNS
3 19 (10.67%) DHCP
3 19 (10.67%) VPN
4 18 (10.11%) WAN
5 12 (6.74%) SAN
5 12 (6.74%) SD-WAN
6 11 (6.18%) LAN
7 10 (5.62%) VLAN
8 7 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (3.37%) Network Security
10 4 (2.25%) MPLS
10 4 (2.25%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.25%) TETRA
11 3 (1.69%) Modbus
11 3 (1.69%) SNMP
11 3 (1.69%) VSAN
12 2 (1.12%) InfiniBand
12 2 (1.12%) SMTP
13 1 (0.56%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Chocolatey
2 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (16.29%) Finance
2 19 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.62%) Law
4 8 (4.49%) Banking
5 7 (3.93%) Police
5 7 (3.93%) Retail
5 7 (3.93%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.49%) .NET
2 4 (2.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.12%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.11%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.62%) Renewable Energy
3 9 (5.06%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.49%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.93%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.25%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) SCADA
9 2 (1.12%) Clustering
9 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.12%) YubiKey
10 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (41.57%) Windows
2 54 (30.34%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.74%) Linux
4 10 (5.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.93%) VMS
5 7 (3.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.37%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.69%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (95.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (15.17%) Migration
3 25 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (12.92%) Roadmaps
5 22 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (12.36%) DevOps
6 20 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (10.67%) Technology Roadmap
8 18 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (9.55%) Mentoring
10 14 (7.87%) ITIL
11 13 (7.30%) CI/CD
12 11 (6.18%) Asset Management
12 11 (6.18%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (5.62%) Observability
14 9 (5.06%) Agile
14 9 (5.06%) Cloud Operations
14 9 (5.06%) Root Cause Analysis
14 9 (5.06%) Storage Management
14 9 (5.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.85%) PowerShell
2 14 (7.87%) Python
3 13 (7.30%) Bicep
4 10 (5.62%) SQL
5 4 (2.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (8.99%) Azure Certification
2 10 (5.62%) Degree
3 8 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.93%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) CCNA
7 3 (1.69%) CCNP
7 3 (1.69%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) MCSE
9 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.93%) SLA
2 6 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.25%) NIST
4 3 (1.69%) IEC 61131
4 3 (1.69%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.69%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (26.40%) Active Directory
2 29 (16.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.99%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.49%) Docker
5 5 (2.81%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.81%) vSphere
6 4 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.25%) XenApp
7 2 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.56%) Ceph
8 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.56%) Firmware
8 1 (0.56%) Lustre
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.56%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (16.29%) Terraform
2 23 (12.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (7.87%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.49%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.93%) Ansible
6 6 (3.37%) SCCM
7 3 (1.69%) FlexNet
8 2 (1.12%) PaperCut
8 2 (1.12%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.56%) Grafana
9 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.56%) Istio
9 1 (0.56%) linkerd
9 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 57 (32.02%) Microsoft
1 57 (32.02%) VMware
2 25 (14.04%) Cisco
3 10 (5.62%) Dell
4 9 (5.06%) AppDynamics
5 8 (4.49%) New Relic
5 8 (4.49%) Palo Alto
5 8 (4.49%) Tenable
6 7 (3.93%) Citrix
6 7 (3.93%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.37%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.37%) Meraki
7 6 (3.37%) Veeam
8 5 (2.81%) Splunk
9 4 (2.25%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.25%) IBM
9 4 (2.25%) Juniper
9 4 (2.25%) SonicWALL
10 3 (1.69%) Qualys
10 3 (1.69%) Siemens