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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 363 393
Rank change year-on-year +61 +30 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 158 53 93
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 141 29 70
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +4.00% +15.47%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,875
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,500 £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 22,963 14,956 21,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.66% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,069 8,877 14,057
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,750
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 22 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 22 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.

1 158 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (32.91%) Azure
3 48 (30.38%) Microsoft
4 41 (25.95%) Windows
5 34 (21.52%) Active Directory
6 29 (18.35%) DNS
6 29 (18.35%) VMware
6 29 (18.35%) Windows Server
7 28 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (16.46%) Entra ID
9 26 (16.46%) Firewall
9 26 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (15.82%) AWS
11 24 (15.19%) Linux
12 23 (14.56%) Mentoring
13 22 (13.92%) Coaching
13 22 (13.92%) DHCP
13 22 (13.92%) WAN
14 20 (12.66%) Microsoft Exchange
14 20 (12.66%) Microsoft Intune
15 19 (12.03%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (12.03%) ITIL
15 19 (12.03%) PowerShell
15 19 (12.03%) VPN
16 17 (10.76%) Agile
16 17 (10.76%) Terraform
17 16 (10.13%) LAN
17 16 (10.13%) SharePoint
17 16 (10.13%) Unix

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 (12.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.96%) AutoCAD
1 11 (6.96%) Civil 3D
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.91%) Azure
2 28 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (16.46%) Entra ID
4 25 (15.82%) AWS
5 10 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (6.33%) Azure AKS
5 10 (6.33%) OneDrive
6 8 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (3.80%) OCI
7 6 (3.80%) PaaS
8 5 (3.16%) IaaS
8 5 (3.16%) SaaS
9 4 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.53%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.90%) GCP
10 3 (1.90%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.35%) DNS
2 26 (16.46%) Firewall
3 22 (13.92%) DHCP
3 22 (13.92%) WAN
4 19 (12.03%) VPN
5 16 (10.13%) LAN
6 12 (7.59%) Network Security
6 12 (7.59%) TCP/IP
7 10 (6.33%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.80%) BGP
9 4 (2.53%) MPLS
9 4 (2.53%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.90%) SAN
11 2 (1.27%) HTTP
11 2 (1.27%) OSPF
11 2 (1.27%) VLAN
11 2 (1.27%) Wireless
12 1 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.63%) SMTP
12 1 (0.63%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.80%) JIRA
2 4 (2.53%) Git
2 4 (2.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
General
1 29 (18.35%) Public Sector
2 16 (10.13%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.06%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.43%) Legal
4 7 (4.43%) Retail
5 5 (3.16%) Finance
6 3 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.76%) Terraform
2 5 (3.16%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (4.43%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.16%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.53%) PKI
4 4 (2.53%) Replication
5 3 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) CMDB
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.63%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.63%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.95%) Windows
2 29 (18.35%) Windows Server
3 24 (15.19%) Linux
4 16 (10.13%) Unix
5 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
6 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (14.56%) Mentoring
5 22 (13.92%) Coaching
6 19 (12.03%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (12.03%) ITIL
7 17 (10.76%) Agile
8 15 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (8.86%) Migration
10 13 (8.23%) Incident Management
10 13 (8.23%) Proactive Monitoring
10 13 (8.23%) Project Delivery
11 12 (7.59%) Change Management
11 12 (7.59%) CI/CD
12 11 (6.96%) Business Continuity
12 11 (6.96%) Incident Response
13 10 (6.33%) Root Cause Analysis
14 9 (5.70%) Collaborative Working
14 9 (5.70%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.03%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.80%) SQL
3 5 (3.16%) Python
4 4 (2.53%) R
5 3 (1.90%) Bicep
6 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (6.96%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.53%) Degree
5 3 (1.90%) CCNA
5 3 (1.90%) CCNP
5 3 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.63%) MCSE
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.16%) SLA
3 4 (2.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (21.52%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.96%) vSphere
4 10 (6.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.90%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.63%) Firmware
8 1 (0.63%) GPFS
8 1 (0.63%) Lustre
8 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (12.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.33%) Ansible
3 5 (3.16%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.53%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.90%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.27%) SCCM
6 2 (1.27%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 48 (30.38%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.35%) VMware
3 12 (7.59%) Veeam
4 11 (6.96%) Cisco
5 9 (5.70%) Oracle
6 8 (5.06%) Zscaler
7 5 (3.16%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.53%) Apple
8 4 (2.53%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (2.53%) HP
9 3 (1.90%) Splunk
9 3 (1.90%) YouTube
10 2 (1.27%) Acronis
10 2 (1.27%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.27%) Citrix
10 2 (1.27%) EMC
10 2 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.27%) Meraki
10 2 (1.27%) Sophos
10 2 (1.27%) Ubiquiti