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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 381 398
Rank change year-on-year +43 +17 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 125 51 113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.31% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.33% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 113 30 91
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,500 £55,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £67,968
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -

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 21,706 15,346 23,850
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.45% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,496 9,341 16,922
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,523
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,045
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 24 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 24 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.

1 125 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 42 (33.60%) Azure
4 37 (29.60%) Windows
5 33 (26.40%) DNS
6 32 (25.60%) Active Directory
7 30 (24.00%) Windows Server
8 29 (23.20%) VMware
9 27 (21.60%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (20.80%) Firewall
11 25 (20.00%) DHCP
12 23 (18.40%) Entra ID
12 23 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (18.40%) WAN
13 20 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
14 19 (15.20%) AWS
14 19 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (15.20%) LAN
14 19 (15.20%) VPN
15 18 (14.40%) Linux
16 17 (13.60%) ITIL
16 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (13.60%) PowerShell
17 16 (12.80%) SharePoint
18 15 (12.00%) Mentoring
19 14 (11.20%) Coaching
19 14 (11.20%) Project Delivery
19 14 (11.20%) TCP/IP
19 14 (11.20%) Terraform

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 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (12.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.00%) AutoCAD
1 10 (8.00%) Civil 3D
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.60%) Azure
2 27 (21.60%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (18.40%) Entra ID
4 19 (15.20%) AWS
5 10 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 10 (8.00%) OneDrive
6 7 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.00%) GCP
7 5 (4.00%) SaaS
8 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.20%) Mimecast
8 4 (3.20%) PaaS
9 3 (2.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.40%) IaaS
9 3 (2.40%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 33 (26.40%) DNS
2 26 (20.80%) Firewall
3 25 (20.00%) DHCP
4 23 (18.40%) WAN
5 19 (15.20%) LAN
5 19 (15.20%) VPN
6 14 (11.20%) TCP/IP
7 11 (8.80%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (8.00%) Network Security
9 8 (6.40%) BGP
10 5 (4.00%) MPLS
10 5 (4.00%) SD-WAN
11 3 (2.40%) HTTP
11 3 (2.40%) OSPF
11 3 (2.40%) SAN
12 2 (1.60%) VLAN
12 2 (1.60%) Wireless
13 1 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (0.80%) SMTP
13 1 (0.80%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) GitLab
1 4 (3.20%) JIRA
2 1 (0.80%) Git
General
1 20 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (10.40%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.40%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.60%) Legal
5 6 (4.80%) Finance
5 6 (4.80%) Retail
6 2 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Automotive
7 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) Terraform
2 6 (4.80%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.40%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (4.80%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.20%) PKI
3 4 (3.20%) Replication
4 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.60%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.80%) CMDB
6 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.80%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.80%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.60%) Windows
2 30 (24.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (14.40%) Linux
4 11 (8.80%) Unix
5 2 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.80%) CentOS
6 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (13.60%) ITIL
6 15 (12.00%) Mentoring
7 14 (11.20%) Coaching
7 14 (11.20%) Project Delivery
8 13 (10.40%) Proactive Monitoring
9 11 (8.80%) Business Continuity
9 11 (8.80%) Incident Management
10 10 (8.00%) Change Management
10 10 (8.00%) Incident Response
10 10 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (7.20%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (7.20%) Migration
11 9 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (6.40%) Agile
12 8 (6.40%) Asset Management
12 8 (6.40%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.60%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.80%) Python
3 4 (3.20%) Bicep
3 4 (3.20%) R
4 2 (1.60%) SQL
5 1 (0.80%) Bash
5 1 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.20%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.80%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.20%) Degree
5 3 (2.40%) CCNA
5 3 (2.40%) CCNP
5 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.60%) MCSE
6 2 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.00%) SLA
3 4 (3.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (25.60%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.80%) vSphere
4 8 (6.40%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.60%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.80%) Firmware
7 1 (0.80%) GPFS
7 1 (0.80%) Lustre
7 1 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (8.00%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.40%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.60%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.80%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (23.20%) VMware
3 12 (9.60%) Cisco
4 11 (8.80%) Veeam
5 8 (6.40%) Zscaler
6 6 (4.80%) SolarWinds
7 5 (4.00%) HP
8 4 (3.20%) Apple
8 4 (3.20%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (3.20%) Splunk
9 2 (1.60%) Acronis
9 2 (1.60%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.60%) Dell
9 2 (1.60%) EMC
9 2 (1.60%) Meraki
9 2 (1.60%) Netskope
9 2 (1.60%) Sophos
9 2 (1.60%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.80%) Citrix
10 1 (0.80%) Juniper