Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 529 448
Rank change year-on-year +103 -81 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 297 112 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.27% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.30% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 221 95 409
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,600 £42,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £48,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,465 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% +4.25% +5.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.91% +7.77%

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 77,261 36,752 87,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 89.59% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 49,774 23,301 65,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
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 11 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 11 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 +66 258 £65,576 +6.38% 52
UK excluding London +79 219 £65,000 +30.00% 54
Work from Home +51 87 £65,576 +19.23% 28
London +6 58 £81,250 -1.52% 4
North of England -34 53 £65,576 +21.44% 15
South East -7 41 £60,000 +4.35% 13
Midlands -26 36 £55,000 +10.00% 8
East of England -8 28 £75,000 +54.64% 3
North West -18 27 £65,576 +31.15% 9
South West -28 27 £65,000 +23.81% 9
West Midlands +1 25 £65,000 +44.44% 5
Wales -17 18 £65,000 +32.37% 4
Yorkshire -46 18 £65,576 +19.23% 4
East Midlands -47 11 £52,500 -7.89% 3
Scotland - 11 - - 3
North East - 8 £65,576 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 288 (96.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 115 (38.72%) Azure
3 95 (31.99%) Microsoft
4 83 (27.95%) VMware
5 82 (27.61%) Windows
6 70 (23.57%) Firewall
7 64 (21.55%) Active Directory
8 55 (18.52%) Windows Server
9 54 (18.18%) DNS
10 53 (17.85%) VMware Infrastructure
11 52 (17.51%) Microsoft 365
12 48 (16.16%) DHCP
13 46 (15.49%) VPN
14 45 (15.15%) ITIL
14 45 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (15.15%) WAN
15 44 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
16 43 (14.48%) Microsoft Intune
17 41 (13.80%) Entra ID
18 38 (12.79%) PowerShell
19 35 (11.78%) Mentoring
20 34 (11.45%) Security Cleared
20 34 (11.45%) Terraform
21 32 (10.77%) Cisco
21 32 (10.77%) Infrastructure as Code
22 30 (10.10%) AWS
22 30 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
23 29 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
24 28 (9.43%) LAN
24 28 (9.43%) Microsoft Exchange

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 28 (9.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.36%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 115 (38.72%) Azure
2 52 (17.51%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (13.80%) Entra ID
4 30 (10.10%) AWS
5 17 (5.72%) IaaS
6 14 (4.71%) SaaS
7 12 (4.04%) PaaS
8 11 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.70%) OneDrive
9 10 (3.37%) Datadog
10 8 (2.69%) GCP
11 7 (2.36%) Nutanix
12 6 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.68%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.68%) Route 53
14 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.35%) Mimecast
15 3 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (23.57%) Firewall
2 54 (18.18%) DNS
3 48 (16.16%) DHCP
4 46 (15.49%) VPN
5 45 (15.15%) WAN
6 28 (9.43%) LAN
7 23 (7.74%) SD-WAN
8 21 (7.07%) TCP/IP
9 18 (6.06%) SAN
10 14 (4.71%) VLAN
10 14 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (4.38%) BGP
12 12 (4.04%) MPLS
13 8 (2.69%) Network Security
14 4 (1.35%) HSRP
14 4 (1.35%) OSPF
14 4 (1.35%) VoIP
14 4 (1.35%) VPLS
14 4 (1.35%) VRRP
15 3 (1.01%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.37%) GitLab
2 8 (2.69%) Chocolatey
3 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.34%) Git
5 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 33 (11.11%) Finance
2 31 (10.44%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.07%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.37%) Banking
5 10 (3.37%) Law
5 10 (3.37%) Retail
6 7 (2.36%) Legal
6 7 (2.36%) Police
6 7 (2.36%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.69%) .NET
2 4 (1.35%) ModSecurity
3 3 (1.01%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.67%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.67%) Kafka
4 2 (0.67%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.69%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.36%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (1.68%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.68%) PKI
5 5 (1.68%) Replication
6 4 (1.35%) CMDB
6 4 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.01%) YubiKey
8 2 (0.67%) Clustering
8 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (27.61%) Windows
2 55 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 22 (7.41%) Linux
4 20 (6.73%) Apple iOS
5 12 (4.04%) Android
6 8 (2.69%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.02%) VMS
8 4 (1.35%) Unix
8 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.67%) CentOS
9 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (96.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (15.15%) ITIL
2 45 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 35 (11.78%) Mentoring
5 32 (10.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 27 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 25 (8.42%) DevOps
9 25 (8.42%) Migration
10 18 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (5.72%) Agile
11 17 (5.72%) Computer Science
11 17 (5.72%) High Availability
11 17 (5.72%) Incident Management
11 17 (5.72%) Service Delivery
12 16 (5.39%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (5.05%) Performance Monitoring
13 15 (5.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.79%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.05%) Bicep
2 15 (5.05%) Python
3 8 (2.69%) SQL
4 5 (1.68%) Bash
5 2 (0.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (11.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.74%) Degree
2 23 (7.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 21 (7.07%) Azure Certification
5 18 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (5.72%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.04%) CCNP
8 9 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (2.69%) MCSE
10 6 (2.02%) CCIE
11 3 (1.01%) CCNA
12 2 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.34%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (2.69%) NIST
3 8 (2.69%) SLA
4 5 (1.68%) GDPR
5 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (21.55%) Active Directory
2 53 (17.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.72%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.37%) vSphere
5 9 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.69%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.68%) KVM
8 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.35%) Docker
10 3 (1.01%) XenApp
11 2 (0.67%) Firmware
11 2 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.34%) Ceph
12 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.34%) Lustre
12 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.34%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (14.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (11.45%) Terraform
3 22 (7.41%) Ansible
4 17 (5.72%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.03%) FortiGate
5 9 (3.03%) SCCM
6 7 (2.36%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.68%) VxRail
8 3 (1.01%) FlexNet
8 3 (1.01%) WSUS
9 2 (0.67%) Grafana
9 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.34%) Nessus
10 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (31.99%) Microsoft
2 83 (27.95%) VMware
3 32 (10.77%) Cisco
4 16 (5.39%) Palo Alto
5 15 (5.05%) Veeam
6 14 (4.71%) Dell
6 14 (4.71%) Tenable
7 12 (4.04%) AppDynamics
7 12 (4.04%) Apple
7 12 (4.04%) Samsung
8 9 (3.03%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.69%) Citrix
9 8 (2.69%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.69%) New Relic
9 8 (2.69%) Splunk
9 8 (2.69%) Zerto
10 7 (2.36%) Meraki
11 5 (1.68%) HP
11 5 (1.68%) Juniper
12 4 (1.35%) SolarWinds