Hybrid/Remote IT Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

IT Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 January 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 386 430
Rank change year-on-year +26 +44 +215
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 16 53 55
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.33% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15 43 53
10th Percentile £39,700 £40,150 £36,400
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £69,375 - £56,662
90th Percentile £80,000 - £63,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 14,133 15,962 20,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 96.14% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,132 9,688 16,315
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +2.01% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,713 £97,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -2.50%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IT Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

IT Infrastructure Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 6 January 2026, IT 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (93.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Azure
3 8 (50.00%) VPN
4 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
4 7 (43.75%) Firewall
4 7 (43.75%) Hyper-V
5 6 (37.50%) AWS
5 6 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (37.50%) Incident Response
5 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 6 (37.50%) Windows
6 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity
6 5 (31.25%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
6 5 (31.25%) GCP
6 5 (31.25%) Information Security
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
6 5 (31.25%) Network Security
6 5 (31.25%) Security Operations
6 5 (31.25%) SIEM
6 5 (31.25%) Situational Awareness
6 5 (31.25%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
7 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
7 4 (25.00%) Azure Stack
7 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (25.00%) Dell
7 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
4 5 (31.25%) GCP
5 4 (25.00%) Azure Stack
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
7 1 (6.25%) IaaS
7 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) VPN
2 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 5 (31.25%) Network Security
4 4 (25.00%) WAN
5 3 (18.75%) DHCP
5 3 (18.75%) DNS
5 3 (18.75%) LAN
5 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (12.50%) VLAN
7 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (6.25%) Telnet
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Legal
3 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Signage
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Rocky
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (31.25%) Business Continuity
3 5 (31.25%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
3 5 (31.25%) Information Security
3 5 (31.25%) Security Operations
3 5 (31.25%) SIEM
3 5 (31.25%) Situational Awareness
3 5 (31.25%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 2 (12.50%) ITIL
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (18.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Hyper-V
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Dell
3 3 (18.75%) Meraki
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) Google