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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 356 365
Rank change year-on-year +53 +9 +178
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 90 49 219
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.34% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.37% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 78 38 197
10th Percentile £49,551 £44,594 £41,750
25th Percentile £61,761 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,306 £67,968
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,686 £68,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% +3.57%

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 17,091 13,102 31,137
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 92.13% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,478 8,944 24,903
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £33,127
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year - +6.54% -9.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,200
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -11.67%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 90 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (48.89%) Azure
3 36 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 31 (34.44%) Windows
5 30 (33.33%) DNS
6 28 (31.11%) VMware
7 25 (27.78%) VPN
8 24 (26.67%) WAN
8 24 (26.67%) Windows Server
9 23 (25.56%) DHCP
10 22 (24.44%) Active Directory
10 22 (24.44%) AWS
10 22 (24.44%) Entra ID
11 21 (23.33%) Firewall
12 20 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
13 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (20.00%) ITIL
14 18 (20.00%) TCP/IP
15 17 (18.89%) Mentoring
15 17 (18.89%) Microsoft Intune
16 16 (17.78%) Apple iOS
16 16 (17.78%) CI/CD
16 16 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (16.67%) Terraform
18 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
19 13 (14.44%) LAN
20 12 (13.33%) Coaching
20 12 (13.33%) SD-WAN

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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) AutoCAD
1 2 (2.22%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.89%) Azure
2 22 (24.44%) AWS
2 22 (24.44%) Entra ID
3 16 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 6 (6.67%) GCP
6 5 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.44%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 30 (33.33%) DNS
2 25 (27.78%) VPN
3 24 (26.67%) WAN
4 23 (25.56%) DHCP
5 21 (23.33%) Firewall
6 18 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 13 (14.44%) LAN
8 12 (13.33%) SD-WAN
9 8 (8.89%) BGP
10 5 (5.56%) MPLS
11 3 (3.33%) HTTP
11 3 (3.33%) OSPF
11 3 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (2.22%) SAN
13 1 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (1.11%) Network Security
13 1 (1.11%) SMTP
13 1 (1.11%) VLAN
13 1 (1.11%) VSAN
13 1 (1.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.44%) GitLab
General
1 18 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.56%) Finance
3 2 (2.22%) Retail
4 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.33%) .NET
2 3 (3.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.44%) PKI
3 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.22%) Clustering
4 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.44%) Windows
2 24 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 16 (17.78%) Apple iOS
4 8 (8.89%) Android
4 8 (8.89%) Windows 10
5 7 (7.78%) Linux
6 4 (4.44%) Unix
6 4 (4.44%) VMS
7 1 (1.11%) CentOS
7 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (20.00%) ITIL
4 17 (18.89%) Mentoring
5 16 (17.78%) CI/CD
5 16 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (13.33%) Coaching
8 10 (11.11%) Incident Management
9 9 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (10.00%) Service Management
10 8 (8.89%) Cloud Operations
10 8 (8.89%) Cost Management
10 8 (8.89%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (8.89%) Investment Management
10 8 (8.89%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (8.89%) Proactive Management
10 8 (8.89%) Problem Management
10 8 (8.89%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.67%) Bicep
3 3 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (1.11%) Bash
4 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
3 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.22%) CCNA
6 2 (2.22%) CCNP
6 2 (2.22%) MCSE
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (24.44%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (6.67%) vSphere
4 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.22%) Firmware
6 1 (1.11%) Docker
6 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (18.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (16.67%) Terraform
3 10 (11.11%) Ansible
4 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.56%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.33%) FlexNet
6 3 (3.33%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.11%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (31.11%) VMware
3 8 (8.89%) Apple
3 8 (8.89%) Samsung
4 7 (7.78%) Cisco
5 5 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.44%) Citrix
6 4 (4.44%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.44%) Splunk
7 3 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.33%) Juniper
7 3 (3.33%) New Relic
8 2 (2.22%) Dell
8 2 (2.22%) Veeam
9 1 (1.11%) HP
9 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow