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 £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 380 335
Rank change year-on-year +68 -45 +193
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 55 63 199
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.40% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.41% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 42 46 187
10th Percentile £50,500 £44,956 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,887 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £93,750 £75,125 £74,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

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 14,975 15,297 26,268
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.94% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,823 9,254 21,909
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,516
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £81,188 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 February 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 February 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 55 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (70.91%) Azure
3 22 (40.00%) Firewall
4 21 (38.18%) Microsoft
5 20 (36.36%) VMware
5 20 (36.36%) Windows
6 18 (32.73%) DNS
7 16 (29.09%) Active Directory
7 16 (29.09%) Terraform
7 16 (29.09%) VPN
8 15 (27.27%) Entra ID
8 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (27.27%) WAN
8 15 (27.27%) Windows Server
9 14 (25.45%) VMware Infrastructure
10 13 (23.64%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (23.64%) DevOps
10 13 (23.64%) DHCP
11 12 (21.82%) Bicep
11 12 (21.82%) Cloud Operations
11 12 (21.82%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (21.82%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (21.82%) TCP/IP
12 11 (20.00%) Apple iOS
12 11 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
13 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
13 10 (18.18%) Performance Tuning

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 (16.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (16.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.82%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 39 (70.91%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 15 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (23.64%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (16.36%) OneDrive
5 5 (9.09%) AWS
6 4 (7.27%) Azure App Service
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (7.27%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.82%) GCP
7 1 (1.82%) IaaS
7 1 (1.82%) PaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (40.00%) Firewall
2 18 (32.73%) DNS
3 16 (29.09%) VPN
4 15 (27.27%) WAN
5 13 (23.64%) DHCP
6 12 (21.82%) TCP/IP
7 9 (16.36%) SD-WAN
8 6 (10.91%) LAN
9 4 (7.27%) SAN
10 2 (3.64%) InfiniBand
11 1 (1.82%) ISDN
11 1 (1.82%) Network Security
11 1 (1.82%) PSTN
11 1 (1.82%) RTP
11 1 (1.82%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (1.82%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.82%) VLAN
11 1 (1.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Finance
3 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Banking
4 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.82%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Cloud Native
1 8 (14.55%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (36.36%) Windows
2 15 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 11 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 8 (14.55%) Windows 10
5 7 (12.73%) VMS
6 3 (5.45%) Android
7 2 (3.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (23.64%) DevOps
4 12 (21.82%) Cloud Operations
4 12 (21.82%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (21.82%) Identity Access Management
5 11 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 10 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
8 8 (14.55%) Benchmarking
8 8 (14.55%) Cost Management
8 8 (14.55%) Investment Management
8 8 (14.55%) Migration
8 8 (14.55%) Observability
8 8 (14.55%) Performance Monitoring
8 8 (14.55%) Proactive Management
8 8 (14.55%) Problem Management
8 8 (14.55%) Service Delivery
8 8 (14.55%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) Bicep
2 8 (14.55%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.09%) SQL
5 3 (5.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Azure Certification
2 5 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.45%) Degree
5 2 (3.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.82%) CCNA
6 1 (1.82%) CCNP
6 1 (1.82%) MCSE
6 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Active Directory
2 14 (25.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (12.73%) Docker
4 2 (3.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.82%) Ceph
5 1 (1.82%) Firmware
5 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.82%) Lustre
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (29.09%) Terraform
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.09%) Ansible
5 3 (5.45%) FlexNet
6 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 20 (36.36%) VMware
3 8 (14.55%) New Relic
4 6 (10.91%) Fortinet
5 5 (9.09%) Cisco
6 4 (7.27%) AppDynamics
6 4 (7.27%) Citrix
6 4 (7.27%) Juniper
7 3 (5.45%) Apple
7 3 (5.45%) Samsung
8 1 (1.82%) Aruba
8 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.82%) Splunk