Hybrid/Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 415 393
Rank change year-on-year +36 -22 +163
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 50 92 119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.41% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27 69 109
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -9.48%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £91,250 £78,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +5.70%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 15,056 22,468 23,975
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 96.27% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,997 14,462 19,872
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,541 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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 Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (40.00%) Finance
3 18 (36.00%) Mentoring
4 17 (34.00%) Azure
5 14 (28.00%) Local Government
5 14 (28.00%) Project Management
6 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
6 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (24.00%) DNS
7 12 (24.00%) NHS
7 12 (24.00%) Windows
8 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (22.00%) Terraform
8 11 (22.00%) Windows Server
8 11 (22.00%) DevOps
9 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
9 10 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
9 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
10 9 (18.00%) VMware
10 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
10 9 (18.00%) Ansible
11 8 (16.00%) Due Diligence
11 8 (16.00%) Project Delivery
11 8 (16.00%) Accessibility
11 8 (16.00%) Strategic Planning
11 8 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
11 8 (16.00%) Legal

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.00%) IIS
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.00%) Azure App Service
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.00%) GitHub
6 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.00%) Nutanix
7 2 (4.00%) SaaS
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.00%) GCP
8 1 (2.00%) IaaS
8 1 (2.00%) PaaS
8 1 (2.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) DNS
2 8 (16.00%) Firewall
3 7 (14.00%) DHCP
3 7 (14.00%) VPN
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.00%) LAN
4 2 (4.00%) SAN
4 2 (4.00%) WAN
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.00%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.00%) Network Security
5 1 (2.00%) NX-OS
5 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.00%) VLAN
5 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 20 (40.00%) Finance
2 14 (28.00%) Local Government
3 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (16.00%) Legal
5 3 (6.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Games
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) NHS
2 5 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.00%) Clustering
4 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Windows
2 11 (22.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.00%) Linux
4 4 (8.00%) CentOS
4 4 (8.00%) Mac OS
4 4 (8.00%) VMS
4 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (36.00%) Mentoring
3 14 (28.00%) Project Management
4 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 11 (22.00%) DevOps
5 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (16.00%) Due Diligence
8 8 (16.00%) Project Delivery
8 8 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
8 8 (16.00%) Strategic Planning
9 7 (14.00%) Configuration Management
9 7 (14.00%) ITIL
10 6 (12.00%) Coaching
10 6 (12.00%) Migration
10 6 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 5 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
12 4 (8.00%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
4 4 (8.00%) Bicep
5 3 (6.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) Postgraduate
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) MCSE
5 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Docker
3 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.00%) Firmware
5 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.00%) NFS
6 1 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Terraform
2 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.00%) SCOM
5 2 (4.00%) SmoothWall
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.00%) Puppet
6 1 (2.00%) SCCM
6 1 (2.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.00%) VMware
3 5 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.00%) EMC
4 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.00%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.00%) Meraki
5 1 (2.00%) NetApp
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) Veeam
5 1 (2.00%) Zscaler