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 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 345 342
Rank change year-on-year +34 -3 +216
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 74 43 234
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.34% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.36% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 64 38 216
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,594 £41,750
25th Percentile £60,596 £47,500 £51,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £64,306 £67,968
90th Percentile £92,500 £67,686 £68,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,465 £58,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% +4.25% +5.45%

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 15,809 12,076 29,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 94.11% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,321 8,912 24,562
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £32,754
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.10% -8.34%

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 April 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 April 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 74 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (64.86%) Azure
3 35 (47.30%) Microsoft
4 28 (37.84%) VMware
4 28 (37.84%) Windows
5 25 (33.78%) Firewall
6 23 (31.08%) DNS
6 23 (31.08%) Entra ID
7 22 (29.73%) VPN
7 22 (29.73%) Windows Server
8 21 (28.38%) WAN
9 19 (25.68%) Microsoft Intune
10 18 (24.32%) Active Directory
10 18 (24.32%) Apple iOS
10 18 (24.32%) AWS
10 18 (24.32%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (22.97%) DHCP
11 17 (22.97%) VMware Infrastructure
12 16 (21.62%) Mentoring
13 15 (20.27%) CI/CD
13 15 (20.27%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (20.27%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (20.27%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (20.27%) TCP/IP
14 14 (18.92%) ITIL
14 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (18.92%) Terraform
15 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (16.22%) LAN
17 11 (14.86%) Coaching

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 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (12.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 48 (64.86%) Azure
2 23 (31.08%) Entra ID
3 18 (24.32%) AWS
4 15 (20.27%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.16%) OneDrive
6 6 (8.11%) GCP
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.78%) Firewall
2 23 (31.08%) DNS
3 22 (29.73%) VPN
4 21 (28.38%) WAN
5 17 (22.97%) DHCP
6 15 (20.27%) TCP/IP
7 12 (16.22%) LAN
8 11 (14.86%) SD-WAN
9 5 (6.76%) BGP
10 4 (5.41%) SAN
11 3 (4.05%) MPLS
12 2 (2.70%) HTTP
12 2 (2.70%) OSPF
12 2 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (1.35%) InfiniBand
13 1 (1.35%) Network Security
13 1 (1.35%) VLAN
13 1 (1.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) GitLab
1 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.86%) Finance
2 11 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) .NET
2 2 (2.70%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.70%) Clustering
4 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.70%) PKI
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (37.84%) Windows
2 22 (29.73%) Windows Server
3 18 (24.32%) Apple iOS
4 10 (13.51%) Android
5 8 (10.81%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.41%) Linux
6 4 (5.41%) VMS
7 2 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (24.32%) Root Cause Analysis
3 16 (21.62%) Mentoring
4 15 (20.27%) CI/CD
4 15 (20.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (20.27%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (18.92%) ITIL
5 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (14.86%) Coaching
8 10 (13.51%) Incident Management
9 9 (12.16%) DevOps
10 8 (10.81%) Cloud Operations
10 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.81%) Cost Management
10 8 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (10.81%) Observability
10 8 (10.81%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (10.81%) Proactive Management
10 8 (10.81%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.51%) Bicep
2 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.70%) Bash
3 2 (2.70%) Python
4 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (9.46%) Azure Certification
2 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.41%) Degree
3 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) MCSE
4 3 (4.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 17 (22.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.70%) Docker
4 2 (2.70%) Firmware
4 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.70%) vSphere
5 1 (1.35%) Ceph
5 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.35%) Lustre
5 1 (1.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (25.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (18.92%) Terraform
3 6 (8.11%) Ansible
3 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.05%) FlexNet
5 2 (2.70%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.35%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 35 (47.30%) Microsoft
2 28 (37.84%) VMware
3 10 (13.51%) Apple
3 10 (13.51%) Samsung
4 8 (10.81%) Cisco
4 8 (10.81%) New Relic
5 6 (8.11%) Fortinet
6 5 (6.76%) Juniper
7 4 (5.41%) AppDynamics
8 3 (4.05%) Citrix
8 3 (4.05%) Splunk
9 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.35%) Dell
10 1 (1.35%) HP
10 1 (1.35%) Veeam