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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 366 355
Rank change year-on-year +45 -11 +153
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 46 70 155
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.43% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.44% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 35 52 147
10th Percentile £49,102 £44,956 £42,679
25th Percentile £60,173 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £75,225 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 14,558 15,740 23,366
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 96.01% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9,497 9,472 19,288
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,713 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 23 January 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 23 January 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 46 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (67.39%) Azure
3 19 (41.30%) Firewall
4 18 (39.13%) Windows
5 16 (34.78%) Terraform
6 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
6 15 (32.61%) VMware
7 14 (30.43%) VPN
8 13 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (28.26%) DevOps
8 13 (28.26%) DNS
8 13 (28.26%) WAN
8 13 (28.26%) Windows Server
9 12 (26.09%) Bicep
10 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
10 11 (23.91%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (21.74%) Cloud Operations
11 10 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
11 10 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
12 9 (19.57%) Entra ID
12 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (19.57%) SQL Server
12 9 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
13 8 (17.39%) .NET
13 8 (17.39%) Apple iOS
13 8 (17.39%) Benchmarking

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 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Civil 3D
1 1 (2.17%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) Azure
2 13 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (23.91%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (19.57%) Entra ID
5 7 (15.22%) OneDrive
6 4 (8.70%) AWS
6 4 (8.70%) Azure App Service
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (8.70%) GitHub
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (41.30%) Firewall
2 14 (30.43%) VPN
3 13 (28.26%) DNS
3 13 (28.26%) WAN
4 8 (17.39%) DHCP
5 7 (15.22%) SD-WAN
5 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (13.04%) LAN
7 4 (8.70%) SAN
8 2 (4.35%) InfiniBand
9 1 (2.17%) ISDN
9 1 (2.17%) Network Security
9 1 (2.17%) PSTN
9 1 (2.17%) RTP
9 1 (2.17%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
9 1 (2.17%) VLAN
9 1 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.17%) Banking
3 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.17%) Law
3 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Cloud Native
1 8 (17.39%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (39.13%) Windows
2 13 (28.26%) Windows Server
3 8 (17.39%) Apple iOS
4 7 (15.22%) VMS
5 6 (13.04%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.35%) Android
6 2 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (28.26%) DevOps
4 10 (21.74%) Cloud Operations
4 10 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.39%) Benchmarking
6 8 (17.39%) Migration
6 8 (17.39%) Observability
6 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.04%) Coaching
8 6 (13.04%) Investment Management
8 6 (13.04%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (13.04%) Proactive Management
8 6 (13.04%) Problem Management
8 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
8 6 (13.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Bicep
2 8 (17.39%) Python
3 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.87%) SQL
5 3 (6.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
1 5 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.17%) CCNA
3 1 (2.17%) CCNP
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) MCSE
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 9 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (15.22%) Docker
4 2 (4.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.17%) Ceph
5 1 (2.17%) Firmware
5 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.17%) Lustre
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (10.87%) Ansible
5 3 (6.52%) FlexNet
6 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
1 15 (32.61%) VMware
2 8 (17.39%) New Relic
3 6 (13.04%) Fortinet
4 5 (10.87%) Cisco
5 4 (8.70%) AppDynamics
5 4 (8.70%) Juniper
6 2 (4.35%) Apple
6 2 (4.35%) Samsung
7 1 (2.17%) Aruba
7 1 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.17%) Splunk