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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 374 366
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 97 51 222
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.31% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.34% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 85 32 194
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,313 £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 £77,250 £67,250 £68,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +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 19,725 14,967 31,682
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 92.30% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 14,415 9,328 24,598
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 6 July 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 July 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 97 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 48 (49.48%) Azure
3 42 (43.30%) Microsoft
4 35 (36.08%) DNS
5 28 (28.87%) DHCP
6 27 (27.84%) Windows
7 26 (26.80%) Active Directory
7 26 (26.80%) AWS
7 26 (26.80%) Entra ID
8 25 (25.77%) Firewall
8 25 (25.77%) VMware
8 25 (25.77%) WAN
9 23 (23.71%) VPN
10 21 (21.65%) Disaster Recovery
10 21 (21.65%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (20.62%) ITIL
11 20 (20.62%) Windows Server
12 19 (19.59%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (18.56%) Mentoring
13 18 (18.56%) VMware Infrastructure
14 17 (17.53%) LAN
15 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (15.46%) Coaching
16 15 (15.46%) TCP/IP
17 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
17 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Exchange
17 13 (13.40%) PowerShell
17 13 (13.40%) Root Cause Analysis
17 13 (13.40%) Terraform
18 12 (12.37%) Apple iOS

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 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (11.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) AutoCAD
1 5 (5.15%) Civil 3D
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (49.48%) Azure
2 26 (26.80%) AWS
2 26 (26.80%) Entra ID
3 21 (21.65%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (9.28%) OneDrive
5 6 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (6.19%) GCP
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.06%) Datadog
8 2 (2.06%) IaaS
8 2 (2.06%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.06%) PaaS
9 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (36.08%) DNS
2 28 (28.87%) DHCP
3 25 (25.77%) Firewall
3 25 (25.77%) WAN
4 23 (23.71%) VPN
5 17 (17.53%) LAN
6 15 (15.46%) TCP/IP
7 9 (9.28%) SD-WAN
8 8 (8.25%) BGP
8 8 (8.25%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (5.15%) MPLS
9 5 (5.15%) Network Security
10 3 (3.09%) HTTP
10 3 (3.09%) OSPF
10 3 (3.09%) SAN
11 2 (2.06%) VLAN
11 2 (2.06%) Wireless
12 1 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (1.03%) SMTP
12 1 (1.03%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) GitLab
General
1 18 (18.56%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Finance
4 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.06%) Legal
5 2 (2.06%) Retail
6 1 (1.03%) Automotive
6 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.12%) PKI
3 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Replication
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.03%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (27.84%) Windows
2 20 (20.62%) Windows Server
3 12 (12.37%) Apple iOS
4 10 (10.31%) Linux
5 8 (8.25%) Android
6 5 (5.15%) Unix
7 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.03%) CentOS
8 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (21.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (20.62%) ITIL
4 18 (18.56%) Mentoring
5 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.46%) Coaching
7 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.40%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (12.37%) Incident Management
8 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (10.31%) Incident Response
9 10 (10.31%) Project Delivery
10 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.25%) Proactive Monitoring
10 8 (8.25%) Service Management
11 6 (6.19%) Agile
11 6 (6.19%) High Availability
11 6 (6.19%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (6.19%) SIEM
11 6 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.40%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.12%) Python
3 3 (3.09%) Bicep
4 1 (1.03%) Bash
4 1 (1.03%) SQL
4 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Degree
3 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.09%) CCNA
5 3 (3.09%) CCNP
5 3 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.09%) MCSE
5 3 (3.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) GDPR
2 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (26.80%) Active Directory
2 18 (18.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.31%) vSphere
4 6 (6.19%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.12%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.03%) Firmware
7 1 (1.03%) GPFS
7 1 (1.03%) Lustre
7 1 (1.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (19.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (13.40%) Terraform
3 10 (10.31%) Ansible
4 5 (5.15%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.09%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.06%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (1.03%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (43.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (25.77%) VMware
3 9 (9.28%) Cisco
4 8 (8.25%) Apple
4 8 (8.25%) Samsung
5 6 (6.19%) SolarWinds
5 6 (6.19%) Veeam
6 5 (5.15%) Zscaler
7 4 (4.12%) Citrix
7 4 (4.12%) Splunk
8 2 (2.06%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.06%) Dell
8 2 (2.06%) EMC
8 2 (2.06%) HP
8 2 (2.06%) Meraki
8 2 (2.06%) Sophos
8 2 (2.06%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.03%) Juniper
9 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow