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 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 381 356
Rank change year-on-year +52 -25 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 95 49 225
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.31% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.34% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 82 30 197
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -2.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,375 £67,625 £72,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -

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 19,397 14,514 32,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 92.19% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,176 8,961 25,140
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £32,730
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,242
Median % change year-on-year - +8.61% -11.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 95 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (51.58%) Azure
3 43 (45.26%) Microsoft
4 36 (37.89%) DNS
5 29 (30.53%) DHCP
6 28 (29.47%) Windows
7 27 (28.42%) Active Directory
7 27 (28.42%) Entra ID
8 26 (27.37%) AWS
8 26 (27.37%) VMware
8 26 (27.37%) WAN
9 25 (26.32%) Firewall
10 24 (25.26%) VPN
11 22 (23.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (23.16%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (22.11%) Windows Server
13 20 (21.05%) ITIL
13 20 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
15 18 (18.95%) Mentoring
16 17 (17.89%) LAN
17 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (16.84%) TCP/IP
18 15 (15.79%) Coaching
19 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Exchange
19 14 (14.74%) Root Cause Analysis
20 13 (13.68%) Apple iOS
20 13 (13.68%) CI/CD
20 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
20 13 (13.68%) Terraform

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 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (12.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) AutoCAD
1 5 (5.26%) Civil 3D
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (51.58%) Azure
2 27 (28.42%) Entra ID
3 26 (27.37%) AWS
4 22 (23.16%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (10.53%) OneDrive
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (6.32%) GCP
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.21%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.11%) Datadog
9 2 (2.11%) IaaS
9 2 (2.11%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.11%) PaaS
10 1 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (37.89%) DNS
2 29 (30.53%) DHCP
3 26 (27.37%) WAN
4 25 (26.32%) Firewall
5 24 (25.26%) VPN
6 17 (17.89%) LAN
7 16 (16.84%) TCP/IP
8 10 (10.53%) SD-WAN
9 8 (8.42%) BGP
9 8 (8.42%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (5.26%) MPLS
10 5 (5.26%) Network Security
11 3 (3.16%) HTTP
11 3 (3.16%) OSPF
11 3 (3.16%) SAN
12 2 (2.11%) VLAN
12 2 (2.11%) Wireless
13 1 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (1.05%) SMTP
13 1 (1.05%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) GitLab
General
1 18 (18.95%) Public Sector
2 16 (16.84%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.11%) Legal
5 2 (2.11%) Retail
6 1 (1.05%) Automotive
6 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.16%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.21%) PKI
3 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.11%) Replication
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.05%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.05%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 28 (29.47%) Windows
2 21 (22.11%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.68%) Apple iOS
4 10 (10.53%) Linux
5 8 (8.42%) Android
6 5 (5.26%) Unix
6 5 (5.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.05%) CentOS
7 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (23.16%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (21.05%) ITIL
4 18 (18.95%) Mentoring
5 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.79%) Coaching
7 14 (14.74%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (13.68%) CI/CD
9 12 (12.63%) Incident Management
9 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (10.53%) Incident Response
10 10 (10.53%) Project Delivery
11 9 (9.47%) Service Management
12 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.42%) Proactive Monitoring
13 7 (7.37%) Cloud Operations
14 6 (6.32%) High Availability
14 6 (6.32%) Performance Tuning
14 6 (6.32%) SIEM
14 6 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.21%) Python
3 3 (3.16%) Bicep
4 1 (1.05%) Bash
4 1 (1.05%) SQL
4 1 (1.05%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Degree
3 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.16%) CCNA
5 3 (3.16%) CCNP
5 3 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.16%) MCSE
5 3 (3.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) GDPR
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (28.42%) Active Directory
2 19 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.53%) vSphere
4 6 (6.32%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.05%) Firmware
7 1 (1.05%) GPFS
7 1 (1.05%) Lustre
7 1 (1.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (21.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (13.68%) Terraform
3 10 (10.53%) Ansible
4 5 (5.26%) vCenter Server
5 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.16%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.11%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (1.05%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (45.26%) Microsoft
2 26 (27.37%) VMware
3 9 (9.47%) Cisco
4 8 (8.42%) Apple
4 8 (8.42%) Samsung
5 6 (6.32%) SolarWinds
5 6 (6.32%) Veeam
6 5 (5.26%) Zscaler
7 4 (4.21%) Citrix
7 4 (4.21%) Splunk
8 2 (2.11%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.11%) Dell
8 2 (2.11%) EMC
8 2 (2.11%) HP
8 2 (2.11%) Meraki
8 2 (2.11%) Sophos
8 2 (2.11%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.05%) Juniper
9 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow