Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 372 553
Rank change year-on-year +7 +181 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 48 228 118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.67% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.70% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 38 200 101
10th Percentile £44,594 £41,750 £41,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,000 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,306 £67,968 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,686 £68,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year +2.56% +4.93% +1.36%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (47.92%) Azure
3 20 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 17 (35.42%) Windows
5 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
6 14 (29.17%) Firewall
7 13 (27.08%) VMware
8 12 (25.00%) Finance
8 12 (25.00%) DNS
8 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 12 (25.00%) Windows Server
8 12 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (22.92%) Degree
10 10 (20.83%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (20.83%) Cisco
10 10 (20.83%) Linux
10 10 (20.83%) ITIL
10 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
11 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (18.75%) PaaS
12 8 (16.67%) AWS
12 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
13 7 (14.58%) High Availability
13 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (14.58%) Agile
13 7 (14.58%) AutoCAD
13 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (14.58%) Data Centre
13 7 (14.58%) SaaS

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
2 3 (6.25%) IIS
2 3 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (18.75%) PaaS
4 8 (16.67%) AWS
5 7 (14.58%) IaaS
5 7 (14.58%) SaaS
6 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.17%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.08%) Serverless
9 1 (2.08%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.17%) Firewall
2 12 (25.00%) DNS
3 5 (10.42%) DHCP
3 5 (10.42%) VLAN
4 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.25%) BGP
5 3 (6.25%) HSRP
5 3 (6.25%) VPN
5 3 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (4.17%) LAN
6 2 (4.17%) Network Security
6 2 (4.17%) SAN
6 2 (4.17%) SNMP
6 2 (4.17%) WAN
7 1 (2.08%) 4G
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (2.08%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.08%) Wireless
7 1 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (25.00%) Finance
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.33%) Local Government
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Games
5 1 (2.08%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Clustering
3 3 (6.25%) NHS
3 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Windows
2 12 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (20.83%) Linux
4 3 (6.25%) CentOS
4 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.17%) VMS
6 1 (2.08%) Android
6 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (20.83%) ITIL
3 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 7 (14.58%) Agile
4 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (14.58%) High Availability
4 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (12.50%) DevOps
5 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (10.42%) Configuration Management
6 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (10.42%) Line Management
7 4 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 4 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (8.33%) Problem Management
7 4 (8.33%) Runbook
7 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (4.17%) SQL
4 1 (2.08%) Bash
4 1 (2.08%) Bicep
4 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
2 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) CCNA
5 3 (6.25%) CCNP
5 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.17%) MCSA
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) MCSE
7 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.83%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.25%) Squid
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.08%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (2.08%) Firmware
7 1 (2.08%) NFS
7 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.08%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.50%) Ansible
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.25%) HAProxy
4 3 (6.25%) SCCM
4 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.17%) SCOM
6 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.08%) Puppet
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.08%) VMware
3 10 (20.83%) Cisco
4 3 (6.25%) Citrix
4 3 (6.25%) Dell
4 3 (6.25%) HP
4 3 (6.25%) IBM
4 3 (6.25%) Veeam
5 2 (4.17%) Acronis
5 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.17%) WatchGuard
6 1 (2.08%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.08%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.08%) Meraki
6 1 (2.08%) NetApp
6 1 (2.08%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.08%) Zscaler