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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 365 406
Rank change year-on-year +59 +41 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 151 50 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 136 27 69
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 - £72,500
90th Percentile £75,625 £84,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -

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 22,503 14,991 22,313
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 92.61% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,883 8,935 14,520
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.85% - -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 15 September 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 15 September 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.

1 151 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 50 (33.11%) Azure
3 46 (30.46%) Microsoft
4 40 (26.49%) Windows
5 32 (21.19%) Active Directory
6 30 (19.87%) DNS
7 28 (18.54%) VMware
7 28 (18.54%) Windows Server
8 27 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (17.88%) Firewall
8 27 (17.88%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (16.56%) AWS
10 25 (16.56%) Entra ID
11 24 (15.89%) DHCP
11 24 (15.89%) Linux
12 23 (15.23%) WAN
13 22 (14.57%) Mentoring
14 21 (13.91%) Coaching
15 20 (13.25%) Microsoft Exchange
15 20 (13.25%) VPN
16 19 (12.58%) ITIL
16 19 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
16 19 (12.58%) PowerShell
17 18 (11.92%) Disaster Recovery
18 17 (11.26%) LAN
18 17 (11.26%) Terraform
18 17 (11.26%) Unix
19 16 (10.60%) Agile
19 16 (10.60%) SharePoint

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 20 (13.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.62%) AutoCAD
1 10 (6.62%) Civil 3D
2 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.11%) Azure
2 27 (17.88%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (16.56%) AWS
3 25 (16.56%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (6.62%) Azure AKS
4 10 (6.62%) OneDrive
5 9 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (3.97%) OCI
7 5 (3.31%) PaaS
7 5 (3.31%) SaaS
8 4 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.65%) IaaS
8 4 (2.65%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.99%) GCP
9 3 (1.99%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 30 (19.87%) DNS
2 27 (17.88%) Firewall
3 24 (15.89%) DHCP
4 23 (15.23%) WAN
5 20 (13.25%) VPN
6 17 (11.26%) LAN
7 13 (8.61%) TCP/IP
8 11 (7.28%) Network Security
8 11 (7.28%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (5.30%) BGP
10 5 (3.31%) MPLS
10 5 (3.31%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.99%) HTTP
11 3 (1.99%) OSPF
11 3 (1.99%) SAN
12 2 (1.32%) VLAN
12 2 (1.32%) Wireless
13 1 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (0.66%) SMTP
13 1 (0.66%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.31%) JIRA
2 4 (2.65%) GitLab
3 3 (1.99%) Git
General
1 28 (18.54%) Public Sector
2 15 (9.93%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.30%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.64%) Legal
5 6 (3.97%) Finance
5 6 (3.97%) Retail
6 3 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.66%) Automotive
8 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.26%) Terraform
2 6 (3.97%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.99%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (4.64%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.65%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.65%) PKI
4 4 (2.65%) Replication
5 3 (1.99%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.99%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.66%) CMDB
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.66%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.66%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 40 (26.49%) Windows
2 28 (18.54%) Windows Server
3 24 (15.89%) Linux
4 17 (11.26%) Unix
5 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.66%) CentOS
6 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (14.57%) Mentoring
5 21 (13.91%) Coaching
6 19 (12.58%) ITIL
7 18 (11.92%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (10.60%) Agile
9 14 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (8.61%) Proactive Monitoring
10 13 (8.61%) Project Delivery
11 12 (7.95%) Change Management
11 12 (7.95%) CI/CD
11 12 (7.95%) Incident Management
11 12 (7.95%) Migration
12 11 (7.28%) Business Continuity
13 10 (6.62%) Incident Response
14 9 (5.96%) Collaborative Working
14 9 (5.96%) Root Cause Analysis
15 8 (5.30%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.58%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.97%) SQL
3 5 (3.31%) Python
4 4 (2.65%) Bicep
4 4 (2.65%) R
5 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (6.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.96%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.97%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.65%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.65%) Degree
5 3 (1.99%) CCNA
5 3 (1.99%) CCNP
5 3 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.66%) MCSE
7 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.31%) SLA
3 4 (2.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (21.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.28%) vSphere
4 8 (5.30%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.64%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.65%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.66%) Firmware
7 1 (0.66%) GPFS
7 1 (0.66%) Lustre
7 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.62%) Ansible
3 5 (3.31%) vCenter Server
4 4 (2.65%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.99%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.32%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.66%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.66%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (30.46%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.54%) VMware
3 12 (7.95%) Cisco
4 11 (7.28%) Veeam
5 9 (5.96%) Oracle
6 8 (5.30%) Zscaler
7 6 (3.97%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.65%) Apple
8 4 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.65%) HP
8 4 (2.65%) Splunk
9 2 (1.32%) Acronis
9 2 (1.32%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.32%) EMC
9 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.32%) Meraki
9 2 (1.32%) Netskope
9 2 (1.32%) Sophos
9 2 (1.32%) Ubiquiti
9 2 (1.32%) YouTube