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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 370 394
Rank change year-on-year +68 +24 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 161 51 96
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.30% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.33% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 140 28 71
10th Percentile £44,762 £50,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +13.04% +7.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £73,125 £83,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -

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 23,358 15,599 21,120
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.05% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 16,151 8,737 13,136
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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.

1 161 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (32.30%) Azure
3 50 (31.06%) Microsoft
4 42 (26.09%) Windows
5 38 (23.60%) Active Directory
6 31 (19.25%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (18.63%) VMware
7 30 (18.63%) Windows Server
8 29 (18.01%) Entra ID
9 28 (17.39%) DNS
10 27 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (14.91%) AWS
11 24 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (14.29%) Linux
12 23 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
13 22 (13.66%) Firewall
13 22 (13.66%) Mentoring
14 21 (13.04%) Coaching
14 21 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
15 20 (12.42%) DHCP
16 19 (11.80%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (11.80%) VPN
16 19 (11.80%) WAN
17 18 (11.18%) ITIL
17 18 (11.18%) PowerShell
18 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (10.56%) SharePoint
18 17 (10.56%) Terraform
18 17 (10.56%) VMware Infrastructure
19 16 (9.94%) Agile

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 21 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (10.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.83%) AutoCAD
1 11 (6.83%) Civil 3D
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.30%) Azure
2 31 (19.25%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (18.01%) Entra ID
4 24 (14.91%) AWS
5 11 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (6.21%) OneDrive
7 9 (5.59%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (4.35%) SaaS
9 6 (3.73%) OCI
9 6 (3.73%) PaaS
10 5 (3.11%) IaaS
11 4 (2.48%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.86%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.86%) GCP
12 3 (1.86%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.39%) DNS
2 22 (13.66%) Firewall
3 20 (12.42%) DHCP
4 19 (11.80%) VPN
4 19 (11.80%) WAN
5 13 (8.07%) LAN
5 13 (8.07%) Network Security
5 13 (8.07%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (3.11%) BGP
8 4 (2.48%) VLAN
9 3 (1.86%) SAN
9 3 (1.86%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.24%) MPLS
10 2 (1.24%) Wireless
11 1 (0.62%) HTTP
11 1 (0.62%) OSPF
11 1 (0.62%) SMTP
11 1 (0.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.73%) JIRA
2 4 (2.48%) Git
3 3 (1.86%) GitLab
4 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
General
1 28 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 17 (10.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.59%) Retail
4 8 (4.97%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.35%) Legal
6 6 (3.73%) Finance
7 5 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Back Office
9 2 (1.24%) Banking
9 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.24%) Law
9 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.24%) Police
10 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Automotive
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.56%) Terraform
2 4 (2.48%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.24%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.24%) RESTful
4 1 (0.62%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.11%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.48%) PKI
4 4 (2.48%) Replication
5 3 (1.86%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.24%) Blog
6 2 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.62%) CMDB
7 1 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.62%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 42 (26.09%) Windows
2 30 (18.63%) Windows Server
3 23 (14.29%) Linux
4 15 (9.32%) Unix
5 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
6 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (13.66%) Mentoring
5 21 (13.04%) Coaching
6 19 (11.80%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (11.18%) ITIL
8 17 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (9.94%) Agile
10 14 (8.70%) Migration
11 13 (8.07%) Change Management
11 13 (8.07%) CI/CD
11 13 (8.07%) Incident Management
11 13 (8.07%) Proactive Monitoring
11 13 (8.07%) Project Delivery
11 13 (8.07%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (6.83%) Business Continuity
12 11 (6.83%) Incident Response
13 10 (6.21%) Security Hardening
14 9 (5.59%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.18%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.97%) SQL
3 7 (4.35%) Python
4 4 (2.48%) R
5 2 (1.24%) Bash
5 2 (1.24%) Bicep
5 2 (1.24%) Go
5 2 (1.24%) Java
6 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.73%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.86%) CCNA
5 3 (1.86%) CCNP
5 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.86%) Degree
6 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.62%) MCSE
7 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.11%) SLA
3 4 (2.48%) GDPR
4 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.24%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (23.60%) Active Directory
2 17 (10.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 10 (6.21%) vSphere
5 5 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.62%) GPFS
7 1 (0.62%) Lustre
7 1 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.97%) Ansible
3 6 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.86%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.86%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.24%) Grafana
5 2 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.24%) SCCM
5 2 (1.24%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.62%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (31.06%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.63%) VMware
3 12 (7.45%) Veeam
4 9 (5.59%) Cisco
4 9 (5.59%) Oracle
5 8 (4.97%) Zscaler
6 5 (3.11%) Citrix
7 4 (2.48%) Apple
7 4 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.48%) HP
7 4 (2.48%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.86%) YouTube
9 2 (1.24%) Acronis
9 2 (1.24%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.24%) EMC
9 2 (1.24%) Meraki
9 2 (1.24%) Netskope
9 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.24%) Splunk
9 2 (1.24%) Ubiquiti