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 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 371 356
Rank change year-on-year +55 -15 +159
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 57 100 138
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.50% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.52% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 46 77 127
10th Percentile £56,250 £44,982 £42,798
25th Percentile - £48,250 £46,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,465 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +13.02% -2.73%
75th Percentile £81,875 £70,000 £59,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £71,500
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 14,213 19,190 20,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 96.50% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9,094 12,022 16,606
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.64% -2.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -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 25 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 25 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 57 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (42.11%) Azure
3 20 (35.09%) Firewall
4 16 (28.07%) Terraform
5 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (24.56%) Windows
7 13 (22.81%) Mentoring
8 12 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (21.05%) DevOps
8 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
9 11 (19.30%) Bicep
9 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (19.30%) VMware
10 10 (17.54%) DNS
10 10 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (17.54%) VPN
10 10 (17.54%) Windows Server
11 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
11 9 (15.79%) Python
12 8 (14.04%) AWS
12 8 (14.04%) Coaching
12 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
12 8 (14.04%) LAN
12 8 (14.04%) Observability
12 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
12 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
12 8 (14.04%) WAN
13 7 (12.28%) .NET
13 7 (12.28%) Active Directory
13 7 (12.28%) Benchmarking

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 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Civil 3D
1 1 (1.75%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.11%) Azure
2 12 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.04%) AWS
4 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.02%) Azure App Service
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.02%) GitHub
6 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.51%) GCP
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.75%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.75%) IaaS
7 1 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (35.09%) Firewall
2 10 (17.54%) DNS
2 10 (17.54%) VPN
3 8 (14.04%) LAN
3 8 (14.04%) WAN
4 4 (7.02%) DHCP
4 4 (7.02%) SAN
5 2 (3.51%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.75%) ISDN
6 1 (1.75%) Network Security
6 1 (1.75%) NX-OS
6 1 (1.75%) PSTN
6 1 (1.75%) RTP
6 1 (1.75%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.75%) VLAN
6 1 (1.75%) VoIP
6 1 (1.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 13 (22.81%) Finance
2 5 (8.77%) Local Government
2 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Legal
3 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
1 7 (12.28%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) NHS
3 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Clustering
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.56%) Windows
2 10 (17.54%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.53%) VMS
4 4 (7.02%) Linux
4 4 (7.02%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.51%) Android
5 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.75%) CentOS
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.75%) Unix
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (22.81%) Mentoring
4 12 (21.05%) DevOps
5 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 8 (14.04%) Coaching
8 8 (14.04%) Observability
9 7 (12.28%) Benchmarking
9 7 (12.28%) Migration
10 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (8.77%) High Availability
11 5 (8.77%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (8.77%) Project Management
11 5 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (7.02%) Asset Management
12 4 (7.02%) Network Design
12 4 (7.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.30%) Bicep
2 9 (15.79%) Python
3 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.77%) SQL
5 3 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) MCSE
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.51%) Postgraduate
3 2 (3.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.75%) CCNA
4 1 (1.75%) CCNP
4 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.53%) Docker
3 3 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.75%) Ceph
5 1 (1.75%) Firmware
5 1 (1.75%) Lustre
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) Terraform
2 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.53%) Ansible
4 3 (5.26%) FlexNet
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.51%) SCOM
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (1.75%) SCCM
6 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.30%) VMware
3 7 (12.28%) Cisco
3 7 (12.28%) New Relic
4 6 (10.53%) Fortinet
5 4 (7.02%) Juniper
6 3 (5.26%) AppDynamics
7 2 (3.51%) Apple
7 2 (3.51%) Oracle
7 2 (3.51%) Samsung
7 2 (3.51%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.75%) Aruba
8 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.75%) Citrix
8 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.75%) Splunk
8 1 (1.75%) Veeam