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 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 375 366
Rank change year-on-year +43 -9 +154
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 85 46 227
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 0.30% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.33% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 73 27 200
10th Percentile £45,350 £45,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £61,761 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,000 £68,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +2.68%

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 18,682 14,102 33,200
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.10% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13,628 8,606 25,946
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 85 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (49.41%) Azure
3 36 (42.35%) Microsoft
4 31 (36.47%) DNS
5 26 (30.59%) VMware
5 26 (30.59%) Windows
6 25 (29.41%) AWS
7 24 (28.24%) DHCP
7 24 (28.24%) VPN
8 23 (27.06%) Entra ID
9 22 (25.88%) WAN
10 21 (24.71%) Active Directory
11 20 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 20 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
11 20 (23.53%) Windows Server
12 18 (21.18%) Firewall
13 17 (20.00%) ITIL
13 17 (20.00%) Mentoring
14 16 (18.82%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (18.82%) Microsoft Intune
14 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (18.82%) TCP/IP
15 15 (17.65%) Apple iOS
15 15 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
16 13 (15.29%) CI/CD
16 13 (15.29%) Coaching
17 12 (14.12%) SD-WAN
17 12 (14.12%) Terraform
18 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
18 11 (12.94%) LAN

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 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) AutoCAD
1 3 (3.53%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 42 (49.41%) Azure
2 25 (29.41%) AWS
3 23 (27.06%) Entra ID
4 16 (18.82%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.24%) OneDrive
6 6 (7.06%) GCP
7 5 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.71%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.35%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.35%) Datadog
10 2 (2.35%) IaaS
10 2 (2.35%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.35%) PaaS
11 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (36.47%) DNS
2 24 (28.24%) DHCP
2 24 (28.24%) VPN
3 22 (25.88%) WAN
4 18 (21.18%) Firewall
5 16 (18.82%) TCP/IP
6 12 (14.12%) SD-WAN
7 11 (12.94%) LAN
8 8 (9.41%) BGP
9 5 (5.88%) MPLS
10 3 (3.53%) HTTP
10 3 (3.53%) OSPF
10 3 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (2.35%) SAN
11 2 (2.35%) Wireless
12 1 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (1.18%) SMTP
12 1 (1.18%) VLAN
12 1 (1.18%) VSAN
12 1 (1.18%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) GitLab
General
1 18 (21.18%) Public Sector
2 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Finance
4 2 (2.35%) Legal
4 2 (2.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.53%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.71%) PKI
3 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Replication
4 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.18%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.59%) Windows
2 20 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 15 (17.65%) Apple iOS
4 9 (10.59%) Linux
5 8 (9.41%) Android
6 7 (8.24%) Windows 10
7 4 (4.71%) Unix
8 1 (1.18%) CentOS
8 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (20.00%) ITIL
3 17 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (15.29%) CI/CD
6 13 (15.29%) Coaching
7 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (11.76%) Incident Management
9 8 (9.41%) Cloud Operations
9 8 (9.41%) Service Management
10 7 (8.24%) Cost Management
10 7 (8.24%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (8.24%) Investment Management
10 7 (8.24%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (8.24%) Proactive Management
10 7 (8.24%) Problem Management
10 7 (8.24%) Service Delivery
11 6 (7.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.53%) Bicep
2 3 (3.53%) Python
3 1 (1.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Degree
3 6 (7.06%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.35%) CCNA
7 2 (2.35%) CCNP
7 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) GDPR
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (24.71%) Active Directory
2 20 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.59%) vSphere
4 5 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.71%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (14.12%) Terraform
3 10 (11.76%) Ansible
4 5 (5.88%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.71%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.35%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.35%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (1.18%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (42.35%) Microsoft
2 26 (30.59%) VMware
3 8 (9.41%) Apple
3 8 (9.41%) Cisco
3 8 (9.41%) Samsung
4 5 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 5 (5.88%) Veeam
5 4 (4.71%) Citrix
5 4 (4.71%) Splunk
6 2 (2.35%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.35%) Dell
6 2 (2.35%) EMC
6 2 (2.35%) Meraki
6 2 (2.35%) Sophos
6 2 (2.35%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.18%) HP
7 1 (1.18%) Juniper
7 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow