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 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 522 477
Rank change year-on-year +93 -45 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 396 154 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.35% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 300 99 291
10th Percentile £43,175 £46,378 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,875 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% +2.86%

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 96,591 44,419 82,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.03% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 66,030 26,374 56,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +75 339 £60,000 -4.00% 63
UK excluding London +83 318 £57,500 -4.17% 54
Work from Home +16 102 £65,288 +6.59% 29
North of England -10 78 £65,576 +2.86% 15
South West -6 71 £50,000 - 12
London -14 60 £78,750 +5.00% 10
South East +10 59 £60,000 +2.13% 10
Midlands -3 43 £50,000 -9.09% 10
North West +7 42 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Wales -27 37 £50,000 +4.01% 2
Yorkshire -14 29 £60,000 -5.88% 5
East Midlands +1 26 £50,000 -9.09% 5
East of England -22 20 £40,000 -36.00% 6
West Midlands -16 17 £55,000 - 5
North East -50 7 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland +18 5 - -
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 July 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.

1 388 (97.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 130 (32.83%) Azure
3 115 (29.04%) Microsoft
4 85 (21.46%) Windows
5 81 (20.45%) VMware
6 69 (17.42%) Active Directory
7 66 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 66 (16.67%) Windows Server
8 64 (16.16%) Firewall
9 63 (15.91%) DNS
9 63 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
10 62 (15.66%) WAN
11 58 (14.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 57 (14.39%) DHCP
13 56 (14.14%) VPN
14 54 (13.64%) Entra ID
15 53 (13.38%) LAN
16 52 (13.13%) PowerShell
17 43 (10.86%) ITIL
18 42 (10.61%) Project Delivery
19 38 (9.60%) AWS
19 38 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
20 36 (9.09%) Cisco
20 36 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
21 35 (8.84%) Infrastructure as Code
22 34 (8.59%) TCP/IP
23 31 (7.83%) Security Cleared
24 30 (7.58%) Mentoring
25 29 (7.32%) Linux
26 28 (7.07%) Incident Management

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 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.77%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (3.79%) AutoCAD
1 15 (3.79%) Civil 3D
2 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.25%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 130 (32.83%) Azure
2 63 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (13.64%) Entra ID
4 38 (9.60%) AWS
5 12 (3.03%) Nutanix
5 12 (3.03%) OneDrive
6 11 (2.78%) IaaS
7 10 (2.53%) GCP
8 9 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (2.27%) SaaS
9 7 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.52%) Datadog
10 6 (1.52%) PaaS
11 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.01%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.01%) GitHub
12 4 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.16%) Firewall
2 63 (15.91%) DNS
3 62 (15.66%) WAN
4 57 (14.39%) DHCP
5 56 (14.14%) VPN
6 53 (13.38%) LAN
7 34 (8.59%) TCP/IP
8 20 (5.05%) Network Security
8 20 (5.05%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (4.80%) WLAN
10 15 (3.79%) BGP
10 15 (3.79%) VLAN
11 14 (3.54%) SAN
12 12 (3.03%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.27%) MPLS
14 8 (2.02%) SSL
15 6 (1.52%) IPsec
15 6 (1.52%) NAS
15 6 (1.52%) SSH
16 5 (1.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.78%) GitLab
2 3 (0.76%) JIRA
3 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.51%) Git
3 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Chocolatey
General
1 34 (8.59%) Public Sector
2 30 (7.58%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.80%) Finance
4 10 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.02%) Retail
6 8 (2.02%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.77%) Legal
8 6 (1.52%) Banking
9 4 (1.01%) Law
10 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.01%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.76%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.51%) Kafka
4 2 (0.51%) REST
5 1 (0.25%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.25%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.25%) OAuth
5 1 (0.25%) OpenID
5 1 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 19 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.78%) PKI
4 9 (2.27%) Replication
5 7 (1.77%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (1.52%) Clustering
6 6 (1.52%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.26%) CMDB
7 5 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.51%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.51%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.25%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.25%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 85 (21.46%) Windows
2 66 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 29 (7.32%) Linux
4 12 (3.03%) Apple iOS
5 11 (2.78%) Android
6 7 (1.77%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.26%) Unix
8 3 (0.76%) VMS
9 2 (0.51%) CentOS
9 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (97.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (14.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 43 (10.86%) ITIL
4 42 (10.61%) Project Delivery
5 38 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (8.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (7.58%) Mentoring
8 28 (7.07%) Incident Management
9 27 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
10 24 (6.06%) Business Continuity
10 24 (6.06%) CI/CD
11 23 (5.81%) High Availability
12 19 (4.80%) Migration
13 17 (4.29%) Incident Response
14 16 (4.04%) Coaching
14 16 (4.04%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (4.04%) Service Management
14 16 (4.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (3.79%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.13%) PowerShell
2 25 (6.31%) Python
3 14 (3.54%) SQL
4 10 (2.53%) Bicep
5 4 (1.01%) Bash
6 3 (0.76%) Go
7 2 (0.51%) R
8 1 (0.25%) C++
8 1 (0.25%) Java
8 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.31%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.06%) CCNP
3 24 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (5.81%) Degree
5 18 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.03%) MCSE
8 12 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (2.78%) CCIE
10 8 (2.02%) CCNA
11 7 (1.77%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.52%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.27%) GDPR
3 7 (1.77%) SLA
4 5 (1.26%) NIST
5 3 (0.76%) COBIT
5 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 69 (17.42%) Active Directory
2 66 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (6.82%) Hyper-V
4 19 (4.80%) vSphere
5 10 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.53%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.26%) KVM
7 5 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.76%) Docker
8 3 (0.76%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.51%) Firmware
9 2 (0.51%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.25%) GPFS
10 1 (0.25%) Lustre
10 1 (0.25%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (6.82%) Terraform
3 26 (6.57%) Ansible
4 13 (3.28%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.77%) vCenter Server
6 7 (1.77%) VxRail
7 5 (1.26%) WSUS
8 4 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.76%) Grafana
10 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.51%) SCCM
10 2 (0.51%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.25%) Avamar
11 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.25%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 115 (29.04%) Microsoft
2 81 (20.45%) VMware
3 36 (9.09%) Cisco
4 22 (5.56%) Veeam
5 13 (3.28%) Apple
5 13 (3.28%) HP
5 13 (3.28%) Zerto
6 11 (2.78%) Meraki
6 11 (2.78%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.53%) Zscaler
8 9 (2.27%) Dell
8 9 (2.27%) Samsung
9 8 (2.02%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.77%) Citrix
11 6 (1.52%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.52%) Tenable
12 5 (1.26%) Commvault
12 5 (1.26%) EMC
12 5 (1.26%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (1.01%) Aruba