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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 363 384
Rank change year-on-year +54 +21 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 162 51 94
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.33% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 138 30 71
10th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +13.04% +7.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £71,250
90th Percentile - £82,750 £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 23,475 15,383 20,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.25% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,102 8,694 12,681
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -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 13 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 13 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.

1 162 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 54 (33.33%) Azure
3 51 (31.48%) Microsoft
4 40 (24.69%) Windows
5 38 (23.46%) Active Directory
6 34 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (20.37%) Entra ID
8 29 (17.90%) Windows Server
9 28 (17.28%) AWS
9 28 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (17.28%) VMware
10 25 (15.43%) DNS
10 25 (15.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 23 (14.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 22 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (13.58%) Linux
13 21 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (12.35%) Coaching
14 20 (12.35%) Firewall
14 20 (12.35%) Mentoring
14 20 (12.35%) VPN
15 18 (11.11%) SharePoint
15 18 (11.11%) Terraform
16 17 (10.49%) DHCP
16 17 (10.49%) PowerShell
16 17 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (9.88%) Hyper-V
17 16 (9.88%) Root Cause Analysis
17 16 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
18 15 (9.26%) CI/CD

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 23 (14.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (7.41%) AutoCAD
1 12 (7.41%) Civil 3D
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (33.33%) Azure
2 34 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (20.37%) Entra ID
4 28 (17.28%) AWS
5 11 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (6.79%) OneDrive
6 10 (6.17%) SaaS
7 6 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 6 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (3.70%) OCI
7 6 (3.70%) PaaS
7 6 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.09%) GCP
8 5 (3.09%) Google Compute Engine
8 5 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (3.09%) Google Workspace
8 5 (3.09%) IaaS
9 4 (2.47%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.43%) DNS
2 20 (12.35%) Firewall
2 20 (12.35%) VPN
3 17 (10.49%) DHCP
4 15 (9.26%) TCP/IP
5 14 (8.64%) WAN
6 13 (8.02%) Network Security
7 11 (6.79%) LAN
8 9 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (4.32%) VLAN
10 6 (3.70%) BGP
11 3 (1.85%) SAN
11 3 (1.85%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.23%) Wireless
13 1 (0.62%) HTTP
13 1 (0.62%) OSPF
13 1 (0.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.85%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (3.70%) JIRA
2 5 (3.09%) Git
2 5 (3.09%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
General
1 25 (15.43%) Public Sector
2 19 (11.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.02%) Retail
4 8 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.94%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.32%) Finance
5 7 (4.32%) Legal
6 5 (3.09%) Back Office
6 5 (3.09%) Banking
6 5 (3.09%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.09%) Law
7 3 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.23%) Police
9 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.62%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.11%) Terraform
2 5 (3.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (3.09%) RESTful
3 3 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.62%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.62%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (4.32%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.09%) Blog
4 5 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.09%) Replication
5 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.23%) PKI
8 1 (0.62%) CMDB
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.62%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.62%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 40 (24.69%) Windows
2 29 (17.90%) Windows Server
3 22 (13.58%) Linux
4 15 (9.26%) Unix
5 2 (1.23%) macOS
6 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (12.35%) Coaching
5 20 (12.35%) Mentoring
6 17 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (9.88%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (9.26%) CI/CD
9 14 (8.64%) Migration
10 13 (8.02%) Agile
10 13 (8.02%) Change Management
10 13 (8.02%) Proactive Monitoring
10 13 (8.02%) Project Delivery
11 12 (7.41%) Incident Management
11 12 (7.41%) ITIL
12 11 (6.79%) Incident Response
12 11 (6.79%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (6.17%) Business Continuity
13 10 (6.17%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.49%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.79%) SQL
3 9 (5.56%) Python
4 5 (3.09%) Bash
4 5 (3.09%) Go
4 5 (3.09%) Java
5 4 (2.47%) R
6 3 (1.85%) Bicep
7 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.23%) CCNA
5 2 (1.23%) CCNP
5 2 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.23%) Degree
6 1 (0.62%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.09%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.09%) SLA
2 5 (3.09%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (23.46%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.88%) Hyper-V
2 16 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.32%) vSphere
4 3 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.62%) Docker
6 1 (0.62%) GPFS
6 1 (0.62%) Lustre
6 1 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (15.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.17%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.09%) Ansible
4 5 (3.09%) Grafana
4 5 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.23%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.23%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.62%) Packer
6 1 (0.62%) SCCM
6 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 51 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (17.28%) VMware
3 11 (6.79%) Veeam
4 10 (6.17%) Oracle
5 9 (5.56%) Cisco
6 8 (4.94%) Zscaler
7 6 (3.70%) Citrix
8 5 (3.09%) Google
9 4 (2.47%) Apple
9 4 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.47%) HP
10 3 (1.85%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.85%) YouTube
11 2 (1.23%) Acronis
11 2 (1.23%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.23%) EMC
11 2 (1.23%) Meraki
11 2 (1.23%) Netskope
11 2 (1.23%) Peregrine
11 2 (1.23%) Ubiquiti