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 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 352 347
Rank change year-on-year +21 -5 +137
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 45 80 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.50% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36 62 120
10th Percentile £49,252 £44,956 £42,768
25th Percentile £60,385 £47,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,232 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% +11.54% -1.82%
75th Percentile £86,875 £68,081 £63,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,150 £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 14,199 16,000 20,145
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 96.14% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,188 9,719 16,436
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,344 £46,250 £45,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +2.01% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,288 £97,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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 7 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 7 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 45 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (66.67%) Azure
3 19 (42.22%) Firewall
4 17 (37.78%) Terraform
5 16 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (35.56%) Windows
6 14 (31.11%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (31.11%) DevOps
7 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
7 13 (28.89%) VMware
8 12 (26.67%) Bicep
8 12 (26.67%) VPN
9 11 (24.44%) DNS
9 11 (24.44%) WAN
9 11 (24.44%) Windows Server
10 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
10 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
10 10 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
11 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
11 9 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (20.00%) Observability
11 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
12 8 (17.78%) .NET
12 8 (17.78%) Benchmarking
12 8 (17.78%) Cloud Operations
12 8 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (17.78%) Migration
12 8 (17.78%) New Relic
12 8 (17.78%) Python

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 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Civil 3D
1 1 (2.22%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 30 (66.67%) Azure
2 14 (31.11%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.56%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.11%) AWS
5 5 (11.11%) OneDrive
6 4 (8.89%) Azure App Service
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (8.89%) GitHub
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.22%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) IaaS
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (42.22%) Firewall
2 12 (26.67%) VPN
3 11 (24.44%) DNS
3 11 (24.44%) WAN
4 6 (13.33%) DHCP
4 6 (13.33%) LAN
5 5 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 4 (8.89%) SAN
7 2 (4.44%) InfiniBand
7 2 (4.44%) Network Security
8 1 (2.22%) ISDN
8 1 (2.22%) PSTN
8 1 (2.22%) RTP
8 1 (2.22%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (2.22%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.22%) VLAN
8 1 (2.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Banking
3 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.22%) Law
3 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
1 8 (17.78%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (8.89%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.44%) Clustering
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (35.56%) Windows
2 11 (24.44%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.56%) VMS
4 6 (13.33%) Apple iOS
5 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.44%) Android
6 2 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (31.11%) DevOps
4 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 10 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (20.00%) Observability
6 8 (17.78%) Benchmarking
6 8 (17.78%) Cloud Operations
6 8 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (17.78%) Migration
7 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.33%) Coaching
8 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 6 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (8.89%) High Availability
10 4 (8.89%) Investment Management
10 4 (8.89%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (8.89%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Bicep
2 8 (17.78%) Python
3 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 5 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) CCNA
3 1 (2.22%) CCNP
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) MCSE
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.56%) Docker
2 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.22%) Ceph
4 1 (2.22%) Firmware
4 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.22%) Lustre
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Terraform
2 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (11.11%) Ansible
5 3 (6.67%) FlexNet
6 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
1 13 (28.89%) VMware
2 8 (17.78%) New Relic
3 6 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 5 (11.11%) Cisco
5 4 (8.89%) AppDynamics
5 4 (8.89%) Juniper
6 2 (4.44%) Apple
6 2 (4.44%) Samsung
6 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.22%) Aruba
7 1 (2.22%) Citrix
7 1 (2.22%) Splunk