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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 384 371
Rank change year-on-year +35 -13 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 100 50 144
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.30% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.33% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 91 31 119
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,650
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £77,450
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 20,985 15,293 24,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.09% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,133 9,495 17,912
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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.

1 100 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (46.00%) Azure
3 42 (42.00%) Microsoft
4 32 (32.00%) DNS
5 29 (29.00%) Windows
6 28 (28.00%) Active Directory
7 27 (27.00%) Entra ID
8 26 (26.00%) AWS
9 25 (25.00%) Firewall
10 24 (24.00%) DHCP
11 23 (23.00%) VMware
11 23 (23.00%) WAN
12 22 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (22.00%) Windows Server
13 21 (21.00%) ITIL
13 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Intune
14 20 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (20.00%) VPN
15 19 (19.00%) LAN
16 16 (16.00%) Incident Management
16 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
16 16 (16.00%) PowerShell
17 15 (15.00%) Mentoring
17 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (14.00%) Coaching
18 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
18 14 (14.00%) Terraform
19 13 (13.00%) SharePoint
19 13 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
20 12 (12.00%) CI/CD

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 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (13.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) AutoCAD
1 8 (8.00%) Civil 3D
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.00%) Azure
2 27 (27.00%) Entra ID
3 26 (26.00%) AWS
4 22 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.00%) OneDrive
6 7 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.00%) GCP
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.00%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (3.00%) Mimecast
9 3 (3.00%) SaaS
10 2 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.00%) Datadog
10 2 (2.00%) IaaS
10 2 (2.00%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (32.00%) DNS
2 25 (25.00%) Firewall
3 24 (24.00%) DHCP
4 23 (23.00%) WAN
5 20 (20.00%) VPN
6 19 (19.00%) LAN
7 12 (12.00%) TCP/IP
8 10 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (8.00%) BGP
10 7 (7.00%) Network Security
11 5 (5.00%) MPLS
11 5 (5.00%) SD-WAN
12 3 (3.00%) HTTP
12 3 (3.00%) OSPF
12 3 (3.00%) SAN
13 2 (2.00%) VLAN
13 2 (2.00%) Wireless
14 1 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
14 1 (1.00%) SMTP
14 1 (1.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) GitLab
2 3 (3.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (19.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.00%) Finance
5 5 (5.00%) Legal
6 4 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Automotive
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.00%) PKI
3 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.00%) Replication
4 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.00%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 29 (29.00%) Windows
2 22 (22.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.00%) Linux
4 7 (7.00%) Android
4 7 (7.00%) Apple iOS
5 5 (5.00%) Unix
6 1 (1.00%) CentOS
6 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (21.00%) ITIL
3 20 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (16.00%) Incident Management
5 15 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (14.00%) Coaching
6 14 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 12 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 12 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 11 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
10 9 (9.00%) Business Continuity
10 9 (9.00%) Incident Response
11 8 (8.00%) Migration
11 8 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (7.00%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (7.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.00%) Python
3 4 (4.00%) Bicep
4 3 (3.00%) R
5 1 (1.00%) Bash
5 1 (1.00%) SQL
5 1 (1.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.00%) Degree
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.00%) CCNA
5 3 (3.00%) CCNP
5 3 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.00%) MCSE
5 3 (3.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.00%) GDPR
2 4 (4.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.00%) vSphere
4 7 (7.00%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (4.00%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.00%) Firmware
7 1 (1.00%) GPFS
7 1 (1.00%) Lustre
7 1 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (14.00%) Terraform
3 10 (10.00%) Ansible
4 5 (5.00%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.00%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.00%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.00%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (23.00%) VMware
3 11 (11.00%) Cisco
4 9 (9.00%) Veeam
5 8 (8.00%) Apple
6 7 (7.00%) Samsung
6 7 (7.00%) Zscaler
7 6 (6.00%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.00%) HP
8 4 (4.00%) Splunk
9 3 (3.00%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (2.00%) Broadcom
10 2 (2.00%) Dell
10 2 (2.00%) EMC
10 2 (2.00%) Meraki
10 2 (2.00%) Sophos
10 2 (2.00%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (1.00%) Juniper
11 1 (1.00%) NetApp
11 1 (1.00%) Red Hat