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 7 September 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 368 420
Rank change year-on-year +60 +52 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 147 50 93
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 134 27 73
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £47,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £68,750
90th Percentile £71,750 £84,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +15.91% -

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 22,237 15,011 22,838
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.58% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,800 9,074 15,400
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.04% -6.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,625 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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.

1 147 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (32.65%) Azure
3 45 (30.61%) Microsoft
4 42 (28.57%) Windows
5 32 (21.77%) Active Directory
5 32 (21.77%) DNS
6 29 (19.73%) VMware
6 29 (19.73%) Windows Server
7 27 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (17.69%) Firewall
9 25 (17.01%) DHCP
10 24 (16.33%) AWS
10 24 (16.33%) Entra ID
10 24 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (16.33%) Linux
11 23 (15.65%) WAN
12 21 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 20 (13.61%) Coaching
13 20 (13.61%) Microsoft Exchange
14 19 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (12.93%) VPN
15 18 (12.24%) LAN
15 18 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
15 18 (12.24%) PowerShell
16 17 (11.56%) ITIL
16 17 (11.56%) Unix
17 16 (10.88%) SharePoint
18 15 (10.20%) Terraform
19 14 (9.52%) Agile

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 20 (13.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.80%) AutoCAD
1 10 (6.80%) Civil 3D
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (32.65%) Azure
2 27 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (16.33%) AWS
3 24 (16.33%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (6.80%) Azure AKS
4 10 (6.80%) OneDrive
5 8 (5.44%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (4.08%) OCI
7 5 (3.40%) SaaS
8 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.72%) GCP
8 4 (2.72%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.72%) PaaS
9 3 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.04%) IaaS
9 3 (2.04%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (21.77%) DNS
2 26 (17.69%) Firewall
3 25 (17.01%) DHCP
4 23 (15.65%) WAN
5 19 (12.93%) VPN
6 18 (12.24%) LAN
7 14 (9.52%) TCP/IP
8 11 (7.48%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (6.80%) Network Security
10 8 (5.44%) BGP
11 5 (3.40%) MPLS
11 5 (3.40%) SD-WAN
12 3 (2.04%) HTTP
12 3 (2.04%) OSPF
12 3 (2.04%) SAN
13 2 (1.36%) VLAN
13 2 (1.36%) Wireless
14 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
14 1 (0.68%) SMTP
14 1 (0.68%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.72%) GitLab
1 4 (2.72%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 26 (17.69%) Public Sector
2 14 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.44%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.76%) Legal
5 6 (4.08%) Finance
5 6 (4.08%) Retail
6 2 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Automotive
7 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.20%) Terraform
2 6 (4.08%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.04%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.72%) PKI
3 4 (2.72%) Replication
4 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.04%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.36%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.68%) CMDB
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.68%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 42 (28.57%) Windows
2 29 (19.73%) Windows Server
3 24 (16.33%) Linux
4 17 (11.56%) Unix
5 2 (1.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 20 (13.61%) Coaching
6 19 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (11.56%) ITIL
8 14 (9.52%) Agile
8 14 (9.52%) Project Delivery
9 13 (8.84%) Proactive Monitoring
10 11 (7.48%) Business Continuity
10 11 (7.48%) CI/CD
10 11 (7.48%) Incident Management
10 11 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (6.80%) Change Management
11 10 (6.80%) Incident Response
12 9 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (6.12%) Migration
13 8 (5.44%) Security Hardening
13 8 (5.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.24%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.08%) Python
3 4 (2.72%) Bicep
3 4 (2.72%) R
4 3 (2.04%) SQL
5 1 (0.68%) Bash
5 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.72%) Degree
5 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.04%) CCNA
5 3 (2.04%) CCNP
5 3 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.36%) MCSE
6 2 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.40%) SLA
3 4 (2.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (21.77%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.48%) vSphere
4 8 (5.44%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.72%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.68%) Firmware
7 1 (0.68%) GPFS
7 1 (0.68%) Lustre
7 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.80%) Ansible
3 5 (3.40%) vCenter Server
4 4 (2.72%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.04%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.36%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.73%) VMware
3 12 (8.16%) Cisco
4 11 (7.48%) Veeam
5 8 (5.44%) Zscaler
6 7 (4.76%) Oracle
7 6 (4.08%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.40%) HP
9 4 (2.72%) Apple
9 4 (2.72%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.72%) Splunk
10 2 (1.36%) Acronis
10 2 (1.36%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.36%) Dell
10 2 (1.36%) EMC
10 2 (1.36%) Meraki
10 2 (1.36%) Netskope
10 2 (1.36%) Sophos
10 2 (1.36%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.68%) Citrix