Infrastructure Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 113 208
Rank change year-on-year -24 +95 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 524 801 549
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.49% 2.53% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 2.63% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 194 660 461
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,918 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,666 £67,968 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.35% -2.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 19,293 30,513 33,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 96.22% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,649 22,675 24,833
10th Percentile £25,267 £33,125 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Infrastructure Engineer.

Infrastructure Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Infrastructure Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 523 (99.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 358 (68.32%) Windows
3 318 (60.69%) PowerShell
4 307 (58.59%) Linux
5 297 (56.68%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (56.49%) Hyper-V
7 293 (55.92%) Cisco
8 287 (54.77%) VPN
8 287 (54.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 287 (54.77%) DevOps
9 281 (53.63%) Terraform
10 279 (53.24%) Ansible
11 278 (53.05%) Python
12 273 (52.10%) Line Management
13 272 (51.91%) Analytical Skills
14 270 (51.53%) VMware NSX
15 269 (51.34%) Risk Management
15 269 (51.34%) vSphere
16 268 (51.15%) Bash
17 266 (50.76%) Docker
18 264 (50.38%) Elastic Stack
18 264 (50.38%) 3PAR
18 264 (50.38%) Splunk
19 263 (50.19%) Android
19 263 (50.19%) Cisco IOS
19 263 (50.19%) Juniper
19 263 (50.19%) Task Automation
19 263 (50.19%) Storage Management
20 262 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
20 262 (50.00%) Cyberattack

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 40 (7.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.63%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.10%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.67%) AutoCAD
2 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 98 (18.70%) Azure
2 59 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (7.06%) Entra ID
4 36 (6.87%) AWS
5 11 (2.10%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (2.10%) OneDrive
6 9 (1.72%) IaaS
7 8 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.53%) Azure Stack
7 8 (1.53%) SaaS
8 7 (1.34%) GCP
8 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (1.34%) Nutanix
9 5 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.76%) Route 53
11 3 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.57%) GitHub
11 3 (0.57%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 287 (54.77%) VPN
2 263 (50.19%) Cisco IOS
3 54 (10.31%) Firewall
4 42 (8.02%) WAN
5 41 (7.82%) DNS
6 36 (6.87%) DHCP
7 28 (5.34%) LAN
7 28 (5.34%) SD-WAN
8 27 (5.15%) SAN
9 16 (3.05%) NAS
9 16 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (2.29%) TCP/IP
10 12 (2.29%) VLAN
11 9 (1.72%) Network Security
12 8 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (1.53%) WLAN
13 7 (1.34%) BGP
13 7 (1.34%) NX-OS
14 6 (1.15%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.15%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.19%) MySQL
4 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.19%) Power BI
4 1 (0.19%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (0.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.19%) Git
General
1 287 (54.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 272 (51.91%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (12.21%) Finance
4 53 (10.11%) Social Skills
5 40 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 33 (6.30%) Local Government
7 19 (3.63%) Legal
8 8 (1.53%) Banking
8 8 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.34%) Games
9 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.15%) Retail
11 5 (0.95%) Law
12 2 (0.38%) Advertising
12 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (50.38%) Elastic Stack
2 39 (7.44%) OLE
3 5 (0.95%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.57%) Middleware
5 2 (0.38%) .NET
5 2 (0.38%) SAML
6 1 (0.19%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.19%) FreeSWITCH
6 1 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 262 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 31 (5.92%) NHS
3 18 (3.44%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.10%) Clustering
5 10 (1.91%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (0.38%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.38%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.38%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.19%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 358 (68.32%) Windows
2 307 (58.59%) Linux
3 263 (50.19%) Android
4 61 (11.64%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.34%) CentOS
9 6 (1.15%) Rocky
9 6 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.95%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.76%) Debian
12 2 (0.38%) SUSE
12 2 (0.38%) VMS
12 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.19%) Unix
13 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (99.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 297 (56.68%) Problem-Solving
3 287 (54.77%) DevOps
4 273 (52.10%) Line Management
5 269 (51.34%) Risk Management
6 263 (50.19%) Storage Management
6 263 (50.19%) Task Automation
7 262 (50.00%) Mathematics
7 262 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
8 50 (9.54%) Mentoring
9 39 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (6.68%) Project Delivery
11 34 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
12 30 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (4.96%) Project Management
14 24 (4.58%) High Availability
15 23 (4.39%) Due Diligence
15 23 (4.39%) Migration
15 23 (4.39%) Strategic Planning
16 22 (4.20%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 318 (60.69%) PowerShell
2 278 (53.05%) Python
3 268 (51.15%) Bash
4 18 (3.44%) SQL
5 2 (0.38%) Perl
6 1 (0.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 46 (8.78%) Security Cleared
2 42 (8.02%) DV Cleared
3 38 (7.25%) Degree
4 25 (4.77%) Azure Certification
5 16 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (2.86%) Postgraduate
7 12 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.91%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (0.95%) CCNA
11 5 (0.95%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.57%) MCSA
12 3 (0.57%) RHCE
13 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.77%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.91%) GDPR
4 6 (1.15%) QA
5 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.76%) NIST
7 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 296 (56.49%) Hyper-V
2 270 (51.53%) VMware NSX
3 269 (51.34%) vSphere
4 266 (50.76%) Docker
5 92 (17.56%) Active Directory
6 37 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
7 14 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.72%) Firmware
8 9 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.57%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.57%) Postfix
11 2 (0.38%) NFS
11 2 (0.38%) XenApp
12 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.19%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 281 (53.63%) Terraform
2 279 (53.24%) Ansible
3 27 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (3.63%) Kubernetes
5 14 (2.67%) SCCM
6 9 (1.72%) SCOM
7 7 (1.34%) WSUS
8 6 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 4 (0.76%) Nessus
10 4 (0.76%) ZENworks
11 3 (0.57%) Puppet
11 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.38%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.38%) SmoothWall
13 1 (0.19%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.19%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.19%) SCSM
Vendors
1 293 (55.92%) Cisco
2 264 (50.38%) 3PAR
2 264 (50.38%) Splunk
3 263 (50.19%) Juniper
4 98 (18.70%) Microsoft
5 66 (12.60%) VMware
6 14 (2.67%) Meraki
7 12 (2.29%) Dell
7 12 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.29%) SolarWinds
8 11 (2.10%) CheckPoint
9 10 (1.91%) Citrix
10 9 (1.72%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.72%) Oracle
11 6 (1.15%) Autodesk
11 6 (1.15%) Google
11 6 (1.15%) Infoblox
11 6 (1.15%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.95%) Veeam