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 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 356 335
Rank change year-on-year +30 -21 +239
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 63 42 237
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.33% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.35% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 54 38 219
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,594 £41,650
25th Percentile £60,596 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £93,375 £65,940 £68,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,465 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% +5.16% +4.55%

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 15,789 12,094 29,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.27% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,010 8,866 24,416
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,965 £46,000 £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 27 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 27 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 63 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (73.02%) Azure
3 33 (52.38%) Microsoft
4 26 (41.27%) VMware
4 26 (41.27%) Windows
5 23 (36.51%) Entra ID
6 22 (34.92%) Firewall
7 20 (31.75%) DNS
7 20 (31.75%) Windows Server
8 19 (30.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (30.16%) WAN
9 18 (28.57%) Apple iOS
9 18 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
9 18 (28.57%) VPN
10 17 (26.98%) Active Directory
11 16 (25.40%) AWS
11 16 (25.40%) VMware Infrastructure
12 15 (23.81%) DHCP
12 15 (23.81%) Mentoring
12 15 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (22.22%) CI/CD
13 14 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (22.22%) TCP/IP
14 12 (19.05%) ITIL
14 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (19.05%) Terraform
15 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
16 10 (15.87%) Android
16 10 (15.87%) 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.59%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 46 (73.02%) Azure
2 23 (36.51%) Entra ID
3 16 (25.40%) AWS
4 15 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (14.29%) OneDrive
6 5 (7.94%) GCP
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.59%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (34.92%) Firewall
2 20 (31.75%) DNS
3 19 (30.16%) WAN
4 18 (28.57%) VPN
5 15 (23.81%) DHCP
6 14 (22.22%) TCP/IP
7 10 (15.87%) LAN
7 10 (15.87%) SD-WAN
8 4 (6.35%) SAN
9 2 (3.17%) BGP
10 1 (1.59%) HTTP
10 1 (1.59%) InfiniBand
10 1 (1.59%) MPLS
10 1 (1.59%) Network Security
10 1 (1.59%) OSPF
10 1 (1.59%) VLAN
10 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) .NET
2 1 (1.59%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Clustering
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (41.27%) Windows
2 20 (31.75%) Windows Server
3 18 (28.57%) Apple iOS
4 10 (15.87%) Android
5 8 (12.70%) Windows 10
6 4 (6.35%) VMS
7 3 (4.76%) Linux
8 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 15 (23.81%) Mentoring
4 14 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (19.05%) ITIL
5 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (15.87%) Coaching
7 10 (15.87%) Incident Management
8 9 (14.29%) DevOps
9 8 (12.70%) Cloud Operations
9 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.70%) Cost Management
9 8 (12.70%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (12.70%) Observability
9 8 (12.70%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (12.70%) Proactive Management
9 8 (12.70%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.29%) Bicep
2 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.17%) Bash
3 2 (3.17%) Python
4 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.76%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) MCSE
4 3 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Active Directory
2 16 (25.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.17%) Docker
5 1 (1.59%) Ceph
5 1 (1.59%) Firmware
5 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.59%) Lustre
5 1 (1.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (19.05%) Terraform
3 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.35%) Ansible
5 3 (4.76%) FlexNet
6 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.59%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (41.27%) VMware
3 10 (15.87%) Apple
3 10 (15.87%) Samsung
4 8 (12.70%) New Relic
5 6 (9.52%) Cisco
6 5 (7.94%) Fortinet
6 5 (7.94%) Juniper
7 4 (6.35%) AppDynamics
8 3 (4.76%) Citrix
9 2 (3.17%) Splunk
10 1 (1.59%) Dell
10 1 (1.59%) HP
10 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.59%) Veeam