Hybrid/Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 346 367
Rank change year-on-year +39 +21 +178
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 90 44 230
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.33% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.36% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 80 36 210
10th Percentile £54,950 £44,353 £41,700
25th Percentile £61,761 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £55,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,935 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,750 £66,386 £68,750
UK median annual salary £65,576 £60,232 £58,000
% change year-on-year +8.87% +3.85% +5.45%

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 16,430 12,262 31,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 92.94% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,808 9,000 24,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,125 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +6.40% -9.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,525 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

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

Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

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

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (55.56%) Azure
3 39 (43.33%) Microsoft
4 32 (35.56%) Windows
5 31 (34.44%) VMware
6 27 (30.00%) DNS
7 26 (28.89%) Firewall
8 25 (27.78%) VPN
8 25 (27.78%) WAN
8 25 (27.78%) Windows Server
9 24 (26.67%) Entra ID
10 22 (24.44%) Active Directory
11 20 (22.22%) DHCP
11 20 (22.22%) ITIL
11 20 (22.22%) Mentoring
11 20 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
12 19 (21.11%) AWS
12 19 (21.11%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (20.00%) Apple iOS
13 18 (20.00%) CI/CD
13 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (20.00%) Terraform
14 17 (18.89%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (18.89%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (17.78%) TCP/IP
16 15 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
17 14 (15.56%) Coaching
18 13 (14.44%) LAN

Senior 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 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.22%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 50 (55.56%) Azure
2 24 (26.67%) Entra ID
3 19 (21.11%) AWS
4 17 (18.89%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (10.00%) OneDrive
6 6 (6.67%) GCP
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (30.00%) DNS
2 26 (28.89%) Firewall
3 25 (27.78%) VPN
3 25 (27.78%) WAN
4 20 (22.22%) DHCP
5 16 (17.78%) TCP/IP
6 13 (14.44%) LAN
7 11 (12.22%) SD-WAN
8 7 (7.78%) BGP
9 5 (5.56%) MPLS
10 4 (4.44%) SAN
11 2 (2.22%) HTTP
11 2 (2.22%) OSPF
11 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (1.11%) InfiniBand
12 1 (1.11%) Network Security
12 1 (1.11%) SMTP
12 1 (1.11%) VLAN
12 1 (1.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.44%) GitLab
2 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Public Sector
3 13 (14.44%) Finance
4 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) .NET
2 3 (3.33%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.22%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.78%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) PKI
5 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Clustering
6 2 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (35.56%) Windows
2 25 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 18 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 10 (11.11%) Android
5 8 (8.89%) Windows 10
6 7 (7.78%) Linux
7 4 (4.44%) Unix
7 4 (4.44%) VMS
8 1 (1.11%) CentOS
8 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (22.22%) ITIL
2 20 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 18 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 17 (18.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (15.56%) Coaching
7 11 (12.22%) Incident Management
8 9 (10.00%) DevOps
8 9 (10.00%) Service Management
9 8 (8.89%) Benchmarking
9 8 (8.89%) Cloud Operations
9 8 (8.89%) Investment Management
9 8 (8.89%) Observability
9 8 (8.89%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (8.89%) Problem Management
9 8 (8.89%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.11%) Bicep
2 9 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.33%) Python
4 2 (2.22%) Bash
5 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.89%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.67%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.22%) MCSE
7 1 (1.11%) CCNA
7 1 (1.11%) CCNP
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) GDPR
1 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.11%) NIST
2 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (24.44%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (5.56%) vSphere
5 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.22%) Docker
6 2 (2.22%) Firmware
7 1 (1.11%) Ceph
7 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.11%) Lustre
7 1 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (20.00%) Terraform
3 11 (12.22%) Ansible
4 9 (10.00%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.56%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.33%) FlexNet
7 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.11%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (34.44%) VMware
3 10 (11.11%) Apple
3 10 (11.11%) Samsung
4 8 (8.89%) Cisco
4 8 (8.89%) New Relic
5 6 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.56%) Juniper
6 5 (5.56%) Splunk
7 4 (4.44%) AppDynamics
7 4 (4.44%) Citrix
8 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.22%) Dell
9 2 (2.22%) Veeam
10 1 (1.11%) HP
10 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow