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 24 October 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 386 385
Rank change year-on-year +26 -1 +148
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 50 94 131
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.31% 0.47% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.48% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 32 71 118
10th Percentile £46,875 £45,000 £42,798
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,522 £45,743
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.21% -3.64%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £91,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year +18.18% +1.38% +4.26%

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 15,307 19,496 22,119
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 96.63% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,710 12,281 18,058
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,944 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -4.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 17 (34.00%) Mentoring
4 13 (26.00%) DNS
4 13 (26.00%) Terraform
4 13 (26.00%) Windows
5 11 (22.00%) Firewall
5 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (22.00%) Project Management
5 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (22.00%) Windows Server
6 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 10 (20.00%) Python
6 10 (20.00%) VMware
7 9 (18.00%) Ansible
7 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (18.00%) DevOps
7 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
8 8 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
8 8 (16.00%) VPN
9 7 (14.00%) AWS
9 7 (14.00%) DHCP
9 7 (14.00%) ITIL
9 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
9 7 (14.00%) Linux
9 7 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (12.00%) 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 3 (6.00%) IIS
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Civil 3D
1 1 (2.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) Azure App Service
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 2 (4.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) DNS
2 11 (22.00%) Firewall
3 8 (16.00%) VPN
4 7 (14.00%) DHCP
5 4 (8.00%) LAN
5 4 (8.00%) WAN
6 2 (4.00%) InfiniBand
6 2 (4.00%) SAN
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.00%) ISDN
7 1 (2.00%) Network Security
7 1 (2.00%) NX-OS
7 1 (2.00%) PSTN
7 1 (2.00%) RTP
7 1 (2.00%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.00%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.00%) VLAN
7 1 (2.00%) VoIP
7 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (34.00%) Finance
2 11 (22.00%) Local Government
3 8 (16.00%) Legal
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) NHS
2 5 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Clustering
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Windows
2 11 (22.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.00%) Linux
4 4 (8.00%) Mac OS
4 4 (8.00%) VMS
5 3 (6.00%) CentOS
5 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (34.00%) Mentoring
3 11 (22.00%) Project Management
3 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (18.00%) DevOps
5 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
7 7 (14.00%) ITIL
7 7 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (12.00%) Coaching
8 6 (12.00%) High Availability
8 6 (12.00%) Migration
8 6 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (10.00%) AI
9 5 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (20.00%) Python
2 6 (12.00%) Bicep
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
4 4 (8.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (8.00%) Postgraduate
2 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) MCSE
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.00%) CCNA
3 1 (2.00%) CCNP
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.00%) Docker
3 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.00%) Ceph
6 1 (2.00%) Firmware
6 1 (2.00%) Lustre
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.00%) Ansible
3 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
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 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.00%) VMware
3 5 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) EMC
4 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.00%) New Relic
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.00%) Aruba
5 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.00%) Citrix
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Veeam