Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

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 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 616 472 683
Rank change year-on-year -144 +211 +150
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 95 504 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.52% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 69 384 235
10th Percentile £45,750 £41,975 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,050 £47,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +0.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile - £70,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,115 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.94% +6.67% +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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Top 14 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 28 May 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 -155 90 £60,000 - 150
UK excluding London -100 60 £52,115 -6.94% 136
Work from Home -60 35 £52,500 -16.00% 74
London +72 34 £82,500 +26.92% 31
North of England -42 24 £57,500 -8.41% 58
North West -45 17 £50,000 -20.36% 44
South East +4 12 £52,500 -12.50% 22
Midlands +6 9 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South West +49 7 £51,729 +3.46% 17
Yorkshire +45 7 £62,500 -0.45% 8
East Midlands +21 5 £56,000 +17.89% 5
Wales +37 4 £48,073 +17.06% 7
West Midlands +28 4 £49,600 -8.99% 10
East of England +12 4 £55,000 +19.57% 11

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 94 (98.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (52.63%) Azure
3 46 (48.42%) Windows
4 44 (46.32%) Active Directory
5 39 (41.05%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (33.68%) Finance
8 31 (32.63%) Firewall
9 30 (31.58%) Microsoft
9 30 (31.58%) Cisco
10 28 (29.47%) Network Security
11 23 (24.21%) VPN
12 22 (23.16%) VMware
13 21 (22.11%) Mentoring
14 20 (21.05%) Windows Server
15 18 (18.95%) CCNA
15 18 (18.95%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (17.89%) ITIL
17 16 (16.84%) Wi-Fi
17 16 (16.84%) Windows 10
17 16 (16.84%) DevOps
17 16 (16.84%) Meraki
17 16 (16.84%) Network Management
17 16 (16.84%) PowerShell
18 15 (15.79%) AWS
18 15 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
18 15 (15.79%) DNS
18 15 (15.79%) CCNP
18 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
19 14 (14.74%) VMware Infrastructure

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (13.68%) SharePoint
2 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.26%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.63%) Azure
2 39 (41.05%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (15.79%) AWS
4 10 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.21%) IaaS
6 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.21%) PaaS
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.16%) Route 53
7 3 (3.16%) SaaS
7 3 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.11%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.11%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.05%) Datadog
9 1 (1.05%) GCP
9 1 (1.05%) Serverless
9 1 (1.05%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (32.63%) Firewall
2 28 (29.47%) Network Security
3 23 (24.21%) VPN
4 16 (16.84%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (15.79%) DNS
6 10 (10.53%) LAN
7 9 (9.47%) DHCP
7 9 (9.47%) WAN
8 7 (7.37%) TCP/IP
9 6 (6.32%) SAN
10 4 (4.21%) TETRA
10 4 (4.21%) VLAN
11 3 (3.16%) NetScaler
12 2 (2.11%) BGP
12 2 (2.11%) NAS
12 2 (2.11%) OSPF
12 2 (2.11%) SD-WAN
12 2 (2.11%) SNMP
13 1 (1.05%) Internet
13 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.05%) DB2
3 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (33.68%) Finance
2 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Local Government
4 8 (8.42%) Legal
4 8 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Automotive
6 3 (3.16%) Games
7 2 (2.11%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Aviation
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.05%) .NET
2 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.05%) Node.js
2 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.37%) NHS
3 5 (5.26%) Clustering
3 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.05%) BYOD
5 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (48.42%) Windows
2 20 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.84%) Windows 10
4 13 (13.68%) Linux
5 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.21%) CentOS
7 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.11%) Android
8 2 (2.11%) Unix
8 2 (2.11%) VMS
9 1 (1.05%) AIX
9 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (98.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (22.11%) Mentoring
4 17 (17.89%) ITIL
5 16 (16.84%) DevOps
5 16 (16.84%) Network Management
6 15 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (13.68%) Project Management
8 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Management
9 10 (10.53%) Configuration Management
10 9 (9.47%) Business Continuity
10 9 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.47%) High Availability
10 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (9.47%) Migration
11 8 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (6.32%) CI/CD
13 6 (6.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.84%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.37%) Python
3 6 (6.32%) SQL
4 2 (2.11%) Bash
5 1 (1.05%) Bicep
5 1 (1.05%) Java
5 1 (1.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) CCNA
1 18 (18.95%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (15.79%) CCNP
3 13 (13.68%) Degree
4 9 (9.47%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.16%) MCSA
6 3 (3.16%) MCSE
6 3 (3.16%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.11%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.11%) MCITP
7 2 (2.11%) Postgraduate
8 1 (1.05%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (46.32%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.58%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (9.47%) Hyper-V
5 6 (6.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.11%) Docker
8 2 (2.11%) vSphere
8 2 (2.11%) XenApp
9 1 (1.05%) Firmware
9 1 (1.05%) KVM
9 1 (1.05%) NFS
9 1 (1.05%) Squid
Systems Management
1 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (12.63%) Terraform
3 10 (10.53%) Ansible
3 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.32%) SCCM
5 4 (4.21%) SCOM
5 4 (4.21%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.11%) SmoothWall
7 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) Packer
7 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.05%) Puppet
7 1 (1.05%) SCVMM
7 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) Cisco
1 30 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 22 (23.16%) VMware
3 16 (16.84%) Meraki
4 7 (7.37%) Citrix
5 5 (5.26%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.21%) Acronis
6 4 (4.21%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.16%) EMC
7 3 (3.16%) NetApp
7 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.16%) Veeam
8 2 (2.11%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.11%) Dell
8 2 (2.11%) FactSet
8 2 (2.11%) HP
8 2 (2.11%) Mitel
8 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.11%) Refinitiv
8 2 (2.11%) SolarWinds