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 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 363 345
Rank change year-on-year +39 -18 +191
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 53 97 132
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.52% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.53% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 43 77 121
10th Percentile £53,000 £44,956 £42,798
25th Percentile £60,596 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,644 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% +17.42% -4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,119 £60,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +6.80%

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 14,301 18,135 19,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 96.44% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,124 11,360 16,118
10th Percentile £29,825 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.83% -3.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 9 December 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 9 December 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 53 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (50.94%) Azure
3 20 (37.74%) Firewall
4 17 (32.08%) Terraform
5 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (28.30%) Windows
7 13 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (24.53%) DevOps
8 12 (22.64%) Bicep
9 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
9 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
9 11 (20.75%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (20.75%) VMware
10 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
10 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
11 9 (16.98%) DNS
11 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
11 9 (16.98%) Migration
11 9 (16.98%) Observability
11 9 (16.98%) Python
11 9 (16.98%) VPN
12 8 (15.09%) .NET
12 8 (15.09%) Benchmarking
12 8 (15.09%) New Relic
12 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
13 7 (13.21%) AWS
13 7 (13.21%) Coaching
13 7 (13.21%) LAN
13 7 (13.21%) PowerShell

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 2 (3.77%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.89%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.94%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (13.21%) AWS
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.55%) Azure App Service
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.89%) IaaS
7 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (37.74%) Firewall
2 9 (16.98%) DNS
2 9 (16.98%) VPN
3 7 (13.21%) LAN
3 7 (13.21%) WAN
4 4 (7.55%) SAN
5 3 (5.66%) DHCP
6 2 (3.77%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.89%) ISDN
7 1 (1.89%) Network Security
7 1 (1.89%) PSTN
7 1 (1.89%) RTP
7 1 (1.89%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.89%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.89%) VLAN
7 1 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (20.75%) Finance
2 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Local Government
4 4 (7.55%) Legal
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Cloud Native
1 8 (15.09%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (9.43%) NHS
3 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Clustering
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Windows
2 10 (18.87%) Windows Server
3 7 (13.21%) VMS
4 3 (5.66%) Linux
5 2 (3.77%) Android
5 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (24.53%) DevOps
4 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
4 11 (20.75%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
6 9 (16.98%) Migration
6 9 (16.98%) Observability
7 8 (15.09%) Benchmarking
8 7 (13.21%) Coaching
9 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (9.43%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (9.43%) Project Management
11 4 (7.55%) Cloud Operations
11 4 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (7.55%) Roadmaps
11 4 (7.55%) SDLC
11 4 (7.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.64%) Bicep
2 9 (16.98%) Python
3 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.55%) SQL
5 3 (5.66%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.77%) MCSE
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Postgraduate
3 2 (3.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.89%) CCNA
4 1 (1.89%) CCNP
4 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.66%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.89%) Ceph
5 1 (1.89%) Lustre
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Terraform
2 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.32%) Ansible
4 3 (5.66%) FlexNet
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.77%) SCOM
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (1.89%) SCCM
6 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
1 11 (20.75%) VMware
2 8 (15.09%) New Relic
3 6 (11.32%) Cisco
4 5 (9.43%) Fortinet
5 4 (7.55%) AppDynamics
5 4 (7.55%) Juniper
6 2 (3.77%) Apple
6 2 (3.77%) Samsung
6 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.89%) Aruba
7 1 (1.89%) Citrix
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle
7 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (1.89%) Veeam