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 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 375 323
Rank change year-on-year +46 -52 +231
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 61 62 216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.40% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.41% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 49 45 204
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,956 £41,750
25th Percentile £61,761 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,272 £67,968
90th Percentile £93,750 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £65,576 £60,000 £58,250
% change year-on-year +9.29% +3.00% +1.30%

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 15,190 14,959 26,570
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 95.68% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,125 9,042 22,220
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £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 £79,727 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
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 16 February 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 16 February 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 61 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (73.77%) Azure
3 29 (47.54%) Microsoft
4 22 (36.07%) Entra ID
4 22 (36.07%) Firewall
5 20 (32.79%) VMware
5 20 (32.79%) Windows
6 19 (31.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (29.51%) Apple iOS
7 18 (29.51%) DNS
7 18 (29.51%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
8 16 (26.23%) CI/CD
8 16 (26.23%) Mentoring
8 16 (26.23%) VPN
8 16 (26.23%) WAN
8 16 (26.23%) Windows Server
9 15 (24.59%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (22.95%) Terraform
11 13 (21.31%) AWS
11 13 (21.31%) Coaching
11 13 (21.31%) DHCP
11 13 (21.31%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
12 12 (19.67%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (19.67%) DevOps
12 12 (19.67%) ITIL
12 12 (19.67%) TCP/IP
13 11 (18.03%) Bicep

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 (14.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (14.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.64%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 45 (73.77%) Azure
2 22 (36.07%) Entra ID
3 15 (24.59%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (21.31%) AWS
5 12 (19.67%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (14.75%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.92%) Azure App Service
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.92%) GitHub
8 2 (3.28%) GCP
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (36.07%) Firewall
2 18 (29.51%) DNS
3 16 (26.23%) VPN
3 16 (26.23%) WAN
4 13 (21.31%) DHCP
5 12 (19.67%) TCP/IP
6 9 (14.75%) SD-WAN
7 7 (11.48%) LAN
8 4 (6.56%) SAN
9 1 (1.64%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.64%) ISDN
9 1 (1.64%) Network Security
9 1 (1.64%) PSTN
9 1 (1.64%) RTP
9 1 (1.64%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.64%) VLAN
9 1 (1.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Finance
3 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.64%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
1 8 (13.11%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Clustering
3 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.79%) Windows
2 18 (29.51%) Apple iOS
3 16 (26.23%) Windows Server
4 10 (16.39%) Android
5 8 (13.11%) Windows 10
6 6 (9.84%) VMS
7 1 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (29.51%) Root Cause Analysis
3 16 (26.23%) CI/CD
3 16 (26.23%) Mentoring
4 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (21.31%) Coaching
5 13 (21.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (19.67%) DevOps
6 12 (19.67%) ITIL
7 11 (18.03%) Cloud Operations
7 11 (18.03%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (18.03%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.39%) Incident Management
9 8 (13.11%) Benchmarking
9 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (13.11%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (13.11%) Problem Management
9 8 (13.11%) Service Delivery
9 8 (13.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) Bicep
2 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.20%) Python
3 4 (6.56%) SQL
4 1 (1.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.92%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.28%) MCSE
4 2 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.64%) CCNA
5 1 (1.64%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.20%) Docker
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.64%) Ceph
5 1 (1.64%) Firmware
5 1 (1.64%) Lustre
5 1 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (31.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (22.95%) Terraform
3 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.92%) Ansible
4 3 (4.92%) FlexNet
5 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) Microsoft
2 20 (32.79%) VMware
3 10 (16.39%) Apple
3 10 (16.39%) Samsung
4 8 (13.11%) New Relic
5 6 (9.84%) Fortinet
6 5 (8.20%) Cisco
7 4 (6.56%) AppDynamics
7 4 (6.56%) Citrix
7 4 (6.56%) Juniper
8 1 (1.64%) Aruba
8 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.64%) Splunk