Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
London > Central London

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Central London is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 120 94
Rank change year-on-year +8 -26 +93
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 28 65 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.19% 2.00% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 2.16% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28 48 87
10th Percentile £48,875 £41,250 £46,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,094 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £63,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -5.56% +22.73%
75th Percentile £86,875 £88,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £101,875 £95,000 £90,000
London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,202 3,007 2,963
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 92.35% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,689 1,911 2,639
10th Percentile £38,700 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £94,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Central London

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +4 19 £80,000 +28.00% 27
City of Westminster +35 1 £80,000 -
West End of London - 1 £57,500 -
Southwark - 1 £102,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
London

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, 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 job ads across the Central London region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (71.43%) Azure
3 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
4 16 (57.14%) VMware
5 15 (53.57%) Windows
6 13 (46.43%) Active Directory
6 13 (46.43%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
8 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (35.71%) Entra ID
9 10 (35.71%) Firewall
9 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (35.71%) Windows Server
10 9 (32.14%) Migration
11 8 (28.57%) Cisco
11 8 (28.57%) Terraform
12 7 (25.00%) DevOps
12 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
12 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
12 7 (25.00%) VPN
13 6 (21.43%) DNS
13 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (21.43%) Meraki
13 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
13 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 5 (17.86%) Citrix
14 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
15 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (14.29%) Business Continuity

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Nutanix
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.14%) AWS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (7.14%) Cohesity
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.57%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) IaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) SaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) Firewall
2 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (25.00%) VPN
3 6 (21.43%) DNS
4 3 (10.71%) LAN
4 3 (10.71%) NetScaler
4 3 (10.71%) WAN
5 2 (7.14%) DHCP
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security
5 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.57%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Legal
3 4 (14.29%) Law
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (53.57%) Windows
2 10 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) VMS
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (32.14%) Migration
4 7 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (14.29%) Business Continuity
6 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
6 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Benchmarking
7 3 (10.71%) ITIL
7 3 (10.71%) Patch Management
7 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.14%) Converged Infrastructure
8 2 (7.14%) Data Governance
8 2 (7.14%) High Availability
8 2 (7.14%) Load Balancing
8 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.71%) Bicep
3 2 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.57%) CCNA
3 1 (3.57%) CISSP
3 1 (3.57%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.57%) MCSA
3 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Active Directory
2 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.14%) vSphere
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (3.57%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) Terminal Server
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (28.57%) Terraform
3 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.71%) SCCM
5 2 (7.14%) Ansible
5 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.57%) SCOM
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (57.14%) VMware
3 8 (28.57%) Cisco
4 6 (21.43%) Meraki
5 5 (17.86%) Citrix
6 3 (10.71%) AppDynamics
6 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
6 3 (10.71%) New Relic
7 2 (7.14%) EMC
7 2 (7.14%) F5
7 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
7 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
8 1 (3.57%) Commvault
8 1 (3.57%) Dell
8 1 (3.57%) OneLogin
8 1 (3.57%) Pure Storage
8 1 (3.57%) Reuters
8 1 (3.57%) Veeam