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 30 March 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 355 332
Rank change year-on-year +28 -23 +224
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 64 43 233
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.33% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.35% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 55 39 215
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,715 £41,750
25th Percentile £60,596 £47,500 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £64,120 £67,968
90th Percentile £93,250 £67,624 £68,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,465 £57,750
% change year-on-year +7.50% +4.70% +5.00%

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 15,607 12,181 29,717
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 94.20% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,144 8,996 24,435
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,767
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
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 30 March 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 30 March 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 64 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (71.88%) Azure
3 34 (53.13%) Microsoft
4 27 (42.19%) VMware
4 27 (42.19%) Windows
5 23 (35.94%) Entra ID
6 22 (34.38%) Firewall
7 21 (32.81%) DNS
7 21 (32.81%) Windows Server
8 20 (31.25%) WAN
9 19 (29.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (29.69%) VPN
10 18 (28.13%) Active Directory
10 18 (28.13%) Apple iOS
10 18 (28.13%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (26.56%) VMware Infrastructure
12 16 (25.00%) AWS
12 16 (25.00%) DHCP
13 15 (23.44%) Mentoring
13 15 (23.44%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (21.88%) CI/CD
14 14 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (21.88%) TCP/IP
15 13 (20.31%) ITIL
16 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (18.75%) Terraform
17 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 10 (15.63%) Android
18 10 (15.63%) Apple

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 (14.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (14.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 46 (71.88%) Azure
2 23 (35.94%) Entra ID
3 16 (25.00%) AWS
4 15 (23.44%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (14.06%) OneDrive
6 5 (7.81%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (34.38%) Firewall
2 21 (32.81%) DNS
3 20 (31.25%) WAN
4 19 (29.69%) VPN
5 16 (25.00%) DHCP
6 14 (21.88%) TCP/IP
7 10 (15.63%) LAN
7 10 (15.63%) SD-WAN
8 4 (6.25%) SAN
9 3 (4.69%) BGP
10 2 (3.13%) MPLS
11 1 (1.56%) HTTP
11 1 (1.56%) InfiniBand
11 1 (1.56%) Network Security
11 1 (1.56%) OSPF
11 1 (1.56%) VLAN
11 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.94%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Clustering
4 2 (3.13%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.19%) Windows
2 21 (32.81%) Windows Server
3 18 (28.13%) Apple iOS
4 10 (15.63%) Android
5 8 (12.50%) Windows 10
6 4 (6.25%) Linux
6 4 (6.25%) VMS
7 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (28.13%) Root Cause Analysis
3 15 (23.44%) Mentoring
4 14 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 14 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (20.31%) ITIL
6 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (15.63%) Coaching
8 10 (15.63%) Incident Management
9 9 (14.06%) DevOps
10 8 (12.50%) Benchmarking
10 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.50%) Investment Management
10 8 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (12.50%) Proactive Management
10 8 (12.50%) Problem Management
10 8 (12.50%) Service Delivery
10 8 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) Bicep
2 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.13%) Bash
3 2 (3.13%) Python
4 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Azure Certification
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) MCSE
4 3 (4.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 17 (26.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.13%) Docker
4 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.13%) vSphere
5 1 (1.56%) Ceph
5 1 (1.56%) Firmware
5 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.56%) Lustre
5 1 (1.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (29.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (18.75%) Terraform
3 5 (7.81%) Ansible
3 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.69%) FlexNet
5 2 (3.13%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 34 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 27 (42.19%) VMware
3 10 (15.63%) Apple
3 10 (15.63%) Samsung
4 8 (12.50%) New Relic
5 6 (9.38%) Cisco
6 5 (7.81%) Fortinet
6 5 (7.81%) Juniper
7 4 (6.25%) AppDynamics
8 3 (4.69%) Citrix
8 3 (4.69%) Splunk
9 1 (1.56%) Dell
9 1 (1.56%) HP
9 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.56%) Veeam