Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £63,247 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 534 457
Rank change year-on-year +53 -77 +131
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 168 196 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.34% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.37% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 121 127 221
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,956 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,676 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,247 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.99% +6.48% +4.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,968 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 52,771 53,172 46,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 93.59% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 28,551 36,094
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +50 144 £65,000 +8.33% 42
UK excluding London +69 118 £62,000 +12.73% 47
Work from Home +33 46 £65,000 +8.33% 23
London +42 36 £75,000 +15.38% 12
East of England +48 32 £75,000 +36.36% 4
North of England +20 27 £62,373 +13.41% 7
South East +30 17 £60,000 +4.35% 19
Midlands +18 16 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Scotland +15 13 £60,000 +41.18% 6
West Midlands +35 12 £55,000 +10.00% 4
North West +19 11 £59,123 +2.41% 6
Yorkshire -10 9 £63,250 +15.00% 1
South West +6 8 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North East +7 7 £59,500 +19.00%
Wales +3 6 £55,000 +12.01% 4
East Midlands -8 4 £55,000 -27.87% 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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.

1 161 (95.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (45.83%) Azure
3 65 (38.69%) Windows
4 61 (36.31%) Firewall
5 53 (31.55%) VMware
6 49 (29.17%) Microsoft
7 47 (27.98%) Windows Server
8 39 (23.21%) Active Directory
9 37 (22.02%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
11 30 (17.86%) Terraform
12 29 (17.26%) PowerShell
13 27 (16.07%) Cisco
14 26 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (15.48%) VMware Infrastructure
15 24 (14.29%) Migration
16 23 (13.69%) Roadmaps
17 22 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
18 20 (11.90%) DevOps
19 19 (11.31%) DNS
19 19 (11.31%) Technology Roadmap
19 19 (11.31%) WAN
20 18 (10.71%) Mentoring
21 17 (10.12%) Azure Logic Apps
21 17 (10.12%) Microsoft Intune
21 17 (10.12%) VPN
22 16 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
22 16 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
23 15 (8.93%) Entra ID
23 15 (8.93%) Hyper-V

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 32 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.38%) IIS
4 3 (1.79%) WinCC
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Civil 3D
1 1 (0.60%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 77 (45.83%) Azure
2 37 (22.02%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (10.12%) Azure Logic Apps
4 16 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.93%) Entra ID
6 14 (8.33%) AWS
7 6 (3.57%) IaaS
7 6 (3.57%) PaaS
8 5 (2.98%) GCP
8 5 (2.98%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.38%) Azure App Service
9 4 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.38%) GitHub
10 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.79%) Datadog
10 3 (1.79%) Route 53
10 3 (1.79%) SaaS
11 2 (1.19%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 61 (36.31%) Firewall
2 19 (11.31%) DNS
2 19 (11.31%) WAN
3 17 (10.12%) VPN
4 14 (8.33%) LAN
5 13 (7.74%) DHCP
6 10 (5.95%) SAN
6 10 (5.95%) SD-WAN
7 8 (4.76%) VLAN
8 6 (3.57%) TETRA
9 5 (2.98%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.38%) MPLS
10 4 (2.38%) Network Security
11 3 (1.79%) Modbus
11 3 (1.79%) SNMP
11 3 (1.79%) VSAN
12 2 (1.19%) InfiniBand
12 2 (1.19%) SMTP
12 2 (1.19%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.60%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Chocolatey
2 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (14.88%) Finance
2 16 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.95%) Law
4 7 (4.17%) Police
4 7 (4.17%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.57%) Banking
6 5 (2.98%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.98%) Retail
7 4 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.60%) Automotive
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.76%) .NET
2 5 (2.98%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.12%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.38%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.79%) SCADA
7 2 (1.19%) Clustering
7 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (38.69%) Windows
2 47 (27.98%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.55%) Linux
4 10 (5.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.17%) VMS
5 7 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.19%) Android
8 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (95.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (14.29%) Migration
4 23 (13.69%) Roadmaps
5 22 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (11.90%) DevOps
7 19 (11.31%) Technology Roadmap
8 18 (10.71%) Mentoring
9 16 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.33%) CI/CD
12 13 (7.74%) ITIL
12 13 (7.74%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (6.55%) Asset Management
14 10 (5.95%) Observability
15 9 (5.36%) Agile
15 9 (5.36%) Storage Management
16 8 (4.76%) Benchmarking
16 8 (4.76%) SEO
16 8 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.26%) PowerShell
2 15 (8.93%) Python
3 13 (7.74%) Bicep
4 11 (6.55%) SQL
5 4 (2.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 10 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (5.36%) Degree
4 6 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) CCNP
6 4 (2.38%) CCNA
7 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.79%) MCSE
7 3 (1.79%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.60%) CISSP
9 1 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.98%) SLA
2 3 (1.79%) IEC 61131
2 3 (1.79%) IEC 61508
2 3 (1.79%) QA
3 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 26 (15.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.93%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.76%) Docker
5 5 (2.98%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.98%) vSphere
6 4 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.38%) XenApp
7 2 (1.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.60%) Ceph
8 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.60%) Firmware
8 1 (0.60%) Lustre
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.60%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.60%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (17.86%) Terraform
2 17 (10.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.76%) FortiGate
5 7 (4.17%) Ansible
6 4 (2.38%) SCCM
7 3 (1.79%) FlexNet
8 2 (1.19%) PaperCut
8 2 (1.19%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.60%) Grafana
9 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.60%) Istio
9 1 (0.60%) linkerd
9 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 53 (31.55%) VMware
2 49 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 27 (16.07%) Cisco
4 10 (5.95%) Dell
5 8 (4.76%) New Relic
5 8 (4.76%) Palo Alto
6 7 (4.17%) AppDynamics
6 7 (4.17%) Citrix
6 7 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.57%) Meraki
7 6 (3.57%) Veeam
8 4 (2.38%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.38%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.38%) IBM
8 4 (2.38%) Juniper
8 4 (2.38%) SonicWALL
8 4 (2.38%) Tenable
9 3 (1.79%) F5
9 3 (1.79%) Rockwell
9 3 (1.79%) Siemens