Infrastructure Engineer: market
An Infrastructure Engineer builds and runs the foundation services sit on: servers, networks, storage, cloud accounts and platforms for engineering teams. We currently track 2 979 open positions for this role, 2 854 of them fresh. Postings usually require Linux, networking, one cloud, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), containers and monitoring; on-prem setups add virtualization and hardware. By co-occurrence in requirements, Python, AWS, Kubernetes and Azure appear most often. 28% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Infrastructure Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Infrastructure Engineer market currently has 2,979 open roles, 2,854 of them freshly observed. Median salary $10,208/mo.
28% of Infrastructure Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 263 of 2979 jobs; remote share from 2568 with a stated format; 2854 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Infrastructure Engineer postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 197
New sources connected: 11 May +4 · 18 May +3 · 25 May +4 · 1 Jun +10 · 8 Jun +4 · 15 Jun +5 · 22 Jun +23 · 29 Jun +26 · 6 Jul +22 · 13 Jul +17 · 20 Jul +14 · 27 Jul +6 · 3 Aug +3 · 10 Aug +1 · 17 Aug +3 · 24 Aug +3 · 31 Aug +4 · 7 Sept +8 · 14 Sept +4 · 21 Sept +7 · 28 Sept +4 · 5 Oct +1 · 12 Oct +7
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Infrastructure Engineer salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Infrastructure Engineer postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Infrastructure Engineer postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Infrastructure Engineer postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Infrastructure Engineer
| Open demand | 2,979 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Infrastructure Engineer
One in ten earns under $4,875, one in ten over $17,264. Half the market falls between $6,793 and $15,416. Sample: 263.
The range histogram for Infrastructure Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Infrastructure Engineer
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 1,331 |
| GB | 235 |
| PL | 148 |
| DE | 145 |
| IN | 98 |
| SG | 92 |
| CA | 59 |
| AU | 44 |
| HK | 31 |
| ES | 31 |
The top country for Infrastructure Engineer demand is the US (1 331 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Infrastructure Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Python, AWS, Kubernetes and Azure.
Demand by grade: Infrastructure Engineer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,015 |
| principal | 265 |
| lead | 202 |
| middle | 73 |
| junior | 52 |
Senior-and-above is about 92% of 1 607 Infrastructure Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Infrastructure Engineer
Demand is spread across 1,475 employers. The largest accounts for 3.5%, the top ten for 11.4%; the remaining 88.6% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 3.5% |
| top-3 | 6.5% |
| top-10 | 11.4% |
| long tail | 88.6% |
Infrastructure Engineer openings come from 1 475 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 3.5% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 109 sources; the largest accounts for 23.7% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Infrastructure Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Infrastructure Engineer
- Senior Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer · CH
- Senior Infrastructure Engineer · GB
- Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer · GB · $6,567
- Senior Systems Engineer · US
- EL1 Senior Infrastructure Engineer · AU
- Systems Engineer · US · $10,189
- Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Storage Platform · US
- Junior Linux Systems Engineer · US
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-24
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Infrastructure Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does an Infrastructure Engineer do?
An Infrastructure Engineer builds and runs the foundation services sit on: servers, networks, storage, cloud accounts and platforms for engineering teams.
Which skills do Infrastructure Engineer postings require?
Postings usually require Linux, networking, one cloud, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), containers and monitoring; on-prem setups add virtualization and hardware. In the current slice, Python, AWS, Kubernetes and Azure appear in requirements most often.
How does an Infrastructure Engineer differ from DevOps?
An Infrastructure Engineer focuses on the infrastructure itself — networks, compute, storage; DevOps — on the code delivery pipeline on top of it. Many teams use both titles for the same role.
How remote-friendly are Infrastructure Engineer jobs?
28% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 2 979 open positions.
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