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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 377 365
Rank change year-on-year +30 -12 +159
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 54 90 134
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.45% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.47% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 39 67 123
10th Percentile £54,500 £45,000 £42,798
25th Percentile £61,548 £49,750 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +6.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 15,030 19,200 21,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 96.66% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,036 11,975 17,333
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,265 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -4.00% +1.08%
75th Percentile £77,063 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025, 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 54 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (40.74%) Azure
3 17 (31.48%) Mentoring
4 16 (29.63%) Firewall
5 14 (25.93%) Terraform
6 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
8 11 (20.37%) Windows
9 10 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (18.52%) DevOps
9 10 (18.52%) DNS
9 10 (18.52%) Project Management
9 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (18.52%) VPN
10 9 (16.67%) Bicep
10 9 (16.67%) PowerShell
10 9 (16.67%) Python
10 9 (16.67%) VMware
10 9 (16.67%) Windows Server
11 8 (14.81%) AWS
11 8 (14.81%) Coaching
11 8 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (14.81%) Risk Assessment
12 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
12 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
13 6 (11.11%) Ansible
13 6 (11.11%) Cisco
13 6 (11.11%) Docker
13 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes

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 3 (5.56%) IIS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.85%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.81%) AWS
4 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.41%) Azure App Service
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.41%) GitHub
6 2 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.85%) IaaS
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (29.63%) Firewall
2 10 (18.52%) DNS
2 10 (18.52%) VPN
3 6 (11.11%) LAN
3 6 (11.11%) WAN
4 4 (7.41%) DHCP
5 3 (5.56%) SAN
6 2 (3.70%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.85%) ISDN
7 1 (1.85%) Network Security
7 1 (1.85%) NX-OS
7 1 (1.85%) PSTN
7 1 (1.85%) RTP
7 1 (1.85%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.85%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.85%) VLAN
7 1 (1.85%) VoIP
7 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
2 10 (18.52%) Local Government
3 8 (14.81%) Legal
4 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) NHS
2 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.26%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.85%) Clustering
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Windows
2 9 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.41%) Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Mac OS
3 4 (7.41%) VMS
4 2 (3.70%) Android
4 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.85%) CentOS
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (31.48%) Mentoring
3 13 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (18.52%) DevOps
4 10 (18.52%) Project Management
4 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (14.81%) Coaching
5 8 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (14.81%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.11%) Migration
7 6 (11.11%) Observability
8 5 (9.26%) Benchmarking
8 5 (9.26%) Due Diligence
8 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (9.26%) ITIL
8 5 (9.26%) Project Delivery
8 5 (9.26%) Strategic Planning
8 5 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) Bicep
1 9 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 9 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (9.26%) SQL
3 3 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Postgraduate
2 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) MCSE
3 2 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.85%) CCNA
4 1 (1.85%) CCNP
4 1 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.11%) Docker
3 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.85%) Ceph
5 1 (1.85%) Firmware
5 1 (1.85%) Lustre
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Terraform
2 6 (11.11%) Ansible
2 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.70%) SCOM
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (1.85%) SCCM
5 1 (1.85%) SmoothWall
5 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.67%) VMware
3 6 (11.11%) Cisco
4 5 (9.26%) New Relic
5 4 (7.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.70%) Apple
6 2 (3.70%) Juniper
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 2 (3.70%) Samsung
6 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.85%) Aruba
7 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.85%) Citrix
7 1 (1.85%) EMC
7 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.85%) Splunk
7 1 (1.85%) Veeam