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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 510 519
Rank change year-on-year +104 +9 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 449 151 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.34% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 344 91 221
10th Percentile £42,725 £48,894 £44,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,625 £83,750 £75,000
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 102,340 44,909 79,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 89.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70,155 26,648 51,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,775 £72,429
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +106 384 £60,000 -4.00% 65
UK excluding London +97 368 £60,000 - 59
Work from Home +74 134 £65,576 +0.89% 21
North of England +2 102 £70,000 +7.69% 18
South West +2 86 £53,000 +6.00% 17
South East +20 71 £60,000 - 11
London -29 61 £80,000 +8.47% 15
North West +21 60 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Wales -21 43 £50,000 +4.01% 1
Midlands -3 42 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Yorkshire -21 31 £60,000 -4.00% 5
East Midlands +7 28 £49,250 -10.45% 3
East of England -22 17 £40,000 -36.00% 3
West Midlands -24 14 £55,000 - 1
North East -57 11 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Scotland +6 6 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 434 (96.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (28.06%) Azure
3 114 (25.39%) Microsoft
4 101 (22.49%) Windows
5 82 (18.26%) VMware
6 75 (16.70%) Active Directory
6 75 (16.70%) Windows Server
7 69 (15.37%) Firewall
8 68 (15.14%) Microsoft 365
9 64 (14.25%) WAN
10 61 (13.59%) DNS
11 59 (13.14%) VMware Infrastructure
12 57 (12.69%) Disaster Recovery
13 55 (12.25%) DHCP
13 55 (12.25%) LAN
14 54 (12.03%) VPN
15 52 (11.58%) PowerShell
16 48 (10.69%) Entra ID
17 45 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 43 (9.58%) Linux
19 42 (9.35%) Project Delivery
20 39 (8.69%) Cisco
20 39 (8.69%) ITIL
21 36 (8.02%) AWS
21 36 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
22 33 (7.35%) TCP/IP
23 32 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
23 32 (7.13%) Mentoring
24 31 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
25 30 (6.68%) Business Continuity

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 29 (6.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.68%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.79%) AutoCAD
1 17 (3.79%) Civil 3D
2 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 126 (28.06%) Azure
2 68 (15.14%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (10.69%) Entra ID
4 36 (8.02%) AWS
5 13 (2.90%) OneDrive
6 12 (2.67%) GCP
7 11 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (2.45%) SaaS
8 10 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (2.23%) Azure AKS
8 10 (2.23%) Nutanix
9 9 (2.00%) IaaS
10 8 (1.78%) PaaS
11 7 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.56%) Datadog
12 6 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.89%) GitHub
13 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.89%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 69 (15.37%) Firewall
2 64 (14.25%) WAN
3 61 (13.59%) DNS
4 55 (12.25%) DHCP
4 55 (12.25%) LAN
5 54 (12.03%) VPN
6 33 (7.35%) TCP/IP
7 25 (5.57%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (5.12%) Network Security
9 18 (4.01%) WLAN
10 15 (3.34%) BGP
11 14 (3.12%) VLAN
12 13 (2.90%) SAN
13 10 (2.23%) SD-WAN
14 9 (2.00%) Internet
14 9 (2.00%) MPLS
15 8 (1.78%) SSL
16 7 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
17 6 (1.34%) IPsec
17 6 (1.34%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.23%) GitLab
2 5 (1.11%) JIRA
3 3 (0.67%) Git
4 2 (0.45%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Chocolatey
General
1 38 (8.46%) Public Sector
2 30 (6.68%) Social Skills
3 20 (4.45%) Finance
4 12 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.00%) Retail
6 9 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.78%) Banking
7 8 (1.78%) Legal
8 4 (0.89%) Law
9 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.22%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.46%) Terraform
2 6 (1.34%) ARM Templates
3 4 (0.89%) ModSecurity
4 3 (0.67%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.45%) Kafka
5 2 (0.45%) REST
6 1 (0.22%) OAuth
6 1 (0.22%) OpenID
6 1 (0.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.45%) Data Centre
2 15 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (2.67%) PKI
4 11 (2.45%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (1.34%) Clustering
6 6 (1.34%) CMDB
6 6 (1.34%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.34%) Replication
7 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.67%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.67%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.45%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.22%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 101 (22.49%) Windows
2 75 (16.70%) Windows Server
3 43 (9.58%) Linux
4 14 (3.12%) Unix
5 8 (1.78%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.45%) Android
6 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.45%) CentOS
6 2 (0.45%) VMS
6 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Rocky
7 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (96.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (12.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 45 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (9.35%) Project Delivery
5 39 (8.69%) ITIL
6 36 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (7.13%) Mentoring
8 30 (6.68%) Business Continuity
9 26 (5.79%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (5.57%) Incident Management
11 22 (4.90%) High Availability
12 21 (4.68%) CI/CD
13 20 (4.45%) Migration
13 20 (4.45%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (4.23%) Coaching
14 19 (4.23%) SIEM
15 18 (4.01%) Change Management
16 17 (3.79%) Business Continuity Planning
16 17 (3.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (11.58%) PowerShell
2 27 (6.01%) Python
3 16 (3.56%) SQL
4 10 (2.23%) Bicep
5 4 (0.89%) Bash
5 4 (0.89%) R
6 3 (0.67%) Go
6 3 (0.67%) Java
7 2 (0.45%) C++
8 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (6.01%) Security Cleared
2 24 (5.35%) Degree
3 22 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.23%) CCNP
4 19 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.23%) CCIE
9 8 (1.78%) CCNA
10 7 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.56%) MCSE
11 6 (1.34%) JNCIP
11 6 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.00%) GDPR
3 8 (1.78%) SLA
4 5 (1.11%) NIST
5 3 (0.67%) COBIT
6 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (16.70%) Active Directory
2 59 (13.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (6.68%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.23%) vSphere
5 10 (2.23%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.67%) Docker
9 3 (0.67%) Lustre
9 3 (0.67%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.45%) Firmware
10 2 (0.45%) ProxySG
10 2 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.22%) GPFS
11 1 (0.22%) KVM
11 1 (0.22%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (5.79%) Ansible
3 14 (3.12%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.34%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.11%) VxRail
7 4 (0.89%) WSUS
8 3 (0.67%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.67%) Grafana
9 2 (0.45%) Argo
9 2 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.45%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.45%) SCCM
9 2 (0.45%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.22%) Nessus
10 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 114 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 82 (18.26%) VMware
3 39 (8.69%) Cisco
4 19 (4.23%) Veeam
5 14 (3.12%) Palo Alto
6 13 (2.90%) HP
7 11 (2.45%) Zscaler
8 10 (2.23%) Meraki
9 8 (1.78%) Aruba
9 8 (1.78%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.78%) Zerto
10 7 (1.56%) Apple
10 7 (1.56%) Citrix
10 7 (1.56%) Dell
10 7 (1.56%) Qualys
11 6 (1.34%) Oracle
11 6 (1.34%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.11%) EMC
12 5 (1.11%) Tenable
12 5 (1.11%) Ubiquiti