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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 378 356
Rank change year-on-year +21 -22 +101
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 98 51 174
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.34% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 88 32 148
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,188 £47,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -2.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,750 £68,625 £75,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -0.90%

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 20,553 15,207 26,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.12% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,860 9,444 19,581
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £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 £75,750
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 27 July 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 27 July 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 98 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (46.94%) Azure
3 41 (41.84%) Microsoft
4 33 (33.67%) DNS
5 26 (26.53%) AWS
5 26 (26.53%) DHCP
5 26 (26.53%) Windows
6 25 (25.51%) Active Directory
6 25 (25.51%) Entra ID
6 25 (25.51%) Firewall
7 23 (23.47%) WAN
8 22 (22.45%) VMware
9 21 (21.43%) ITIL
9 21 (21.43%) VPN
10 20 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (19.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (19.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (19.39%) Windows Server
12 18 (18.37%) LAN
13 17 (17.35%) Mentoring
14 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (15.31%) Coaching
16 14 (14.29%) Incident Management
16 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
16 14 (14.29%) Terraform
16 14 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
17 13 (13.27%) CI/CD
17 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
17 13 (13.27%) TCP/IP
18 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange

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 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (10.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) AutoCAD
1 7 (7.14%) Civil 3D
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.94%) Azure
2 26 (26.53%) AWS
3 25 (25.51%) Entra ID
4 20 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (7.14%) OneDrive
6 6 (6.12%) GCP
7 4 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.08%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.04%) Datadog
9 2 (2.04%) IaaS
9 2 (2.04%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.04%) PaaS
10 1 (1.02%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (33.67%) DNS
2 26 (26.53%) DHCP
3 25 (25.51%) Firewall
4 23 (23.47%) WAN
5 21 (21.43%) VPN
6 18 (18.37%) LAN
7 13 (13.27%) TCP/IP
8 9 (9.18%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (8.16%) BGP
10 6 (6.12%) Network Security
10 6 (6.12%) SD-WAN
11 5 (5.10%) MPLS
12 3 (3.06%) HTTP
12 3 (3.06%) OSPF
12 3 (3.06%) SAN
13 2 (2.04%) VLAN
13 2 (2.04%) Wireless
14 1 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
14 1 (1.02%) SMTP
14 1 (1.02%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 19 (19.39%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.14%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.06%) Legal
5 3 (3.06%) Retail
6 1 (1.02%) Automotive
6 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.06%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.08%) PKI
3 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Replication
4 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.02%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.02%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.53%) Windows
2 19 (19.39%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.20%) Linux
4 9 (9.18%) Apple iOS
5 8 (8.16%) Android
6 5 (5.10%) Unix
7 1 (1.02%) CentOS
7 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.02%) VMS
7 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (21.43%) ITIL
3 19 (19.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (17.35%) Mentoring
5 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.31%) Coaching
7 14 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 13 (13.27%) CI/CD
8 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (11.22%) Project Delivery
9 11 (11.22%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (10.20%) Incident Response
11 9 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.18%) Proactive Monitoring
12 7 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
13 6 (6.12%) Migration
13 6 (6.12%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (6.12%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.08%) Bicep
2 4 (4.08%) Python
3 1 (1.02%) Bash
3 1 (1.02%) R
3 1 (1.02%) SQL
3 1 (1.02%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) Degree
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.06%) CCNA
6 3 (3.06%) CCNP
6 3 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.06%) MCSE
6 3 (3.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) GDPR
1 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.06%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (25.51%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.20%) vSphere
4 6 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.08%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.02%) Firmware
7 1 (1.02%) GPFS
7 1 (1.02%) Lustre
7 1 (1.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (19.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (14.29%) Terraform
3 10 (10.20%) Ansible
4 5 (5.10%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.06%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.04%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (1.02%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.02%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 22 (22.45%) VMware
3 10 (10.20%) Cisco
4 8 (8.16%) Apple
4 8 (8.16%) Samsung
5 6 (6.12%) SolarWinds
5 6 (6.12%) Veeam
5 6 (6.12%) Zscaler
6 4 (4.08%) Splunk
7 3 (3.06%) Citrix
7 3 (3.06%) HP
8 2 (2.04%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.04%) Dell
8 2 (2.04%) EMC
8 2 (2.04%) Meraki
8 2 (2.04%) Sophos
8 2 (2.04%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.02%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow