Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 112 79
Rank change year-on-year +27 -33 +70
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 56 78 103
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 2.37% 2.39% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.50% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51 55 102
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% +15.38%
75th Percentile £79,375 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,089 3,116 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.48% 95.64% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 1,921 2,592
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Central London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 37 £68,750 +5.77% 53
City of Westminster +35 1 £80,000 -
Southwark - 1 £102,000 -
West End of London - 1 £57,500 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
London

Infrastructure Engineering
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 17 (30.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (44.64%) Azure
2 23 (41.07%) Entra ID
2 23 (41.07%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (10.71%) SaaS
4 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.14%) AWS
5 4 (7.14%) Mimecast
6 3 (5.36%) Nutanix
6 3 (5.36%) Tessian
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.57%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.79%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub
8 1 (1.79%) IaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Serverless
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) TCP/IP
2 16 (28.57%) DNS
3 14 (25.00%) Firewall
4 13 (23.21%) LAN
4 13 (23.21%) WAN
5 12 (21.43%) DHCP
6 10 (17.86%) VPN
7 3 (5.36%) NetScaler
7 3 (5.36%) Network Security
8 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.79%) NAS
9 1 (1.79%) SAN
9 1 (1.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) CircleCI
1 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 24 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (39.29%) Finance
3 15 (26.79%) Legal
4 4 (7.14%) Law
5 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Front Office
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) Windows Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
4 11 (19.64%) Senior
5 10 (17.86%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (17.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (17.86%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Security Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) IT Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Administrator
9 4 (7.14%) IT Security Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (7.14%) Server Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) DPDK
2 1 (1.79%) Next.js
2 1 (1.79%) Node.js
2 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Hedge funds
2 11 (19.64%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) Clustering
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (46.43%) Windows
2 20 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 12 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (10.71%) Linux
5 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.57%) VMS
6 2 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) DevOps
1 13 (23.21%) Patch Management
2 12 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
2 12 (21.43%) Systems Engineering
3 11 (19.64%) Batch Scripting
3 11 (19.64%) Task Automation
4 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (16.07%) Migration
5 9 (16.07%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (8.93%) Incident Response
9 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
9 5 (8.93%) Observability
10 4 (7.14%) Microservices
10 4 (7.14%) Roadmaps
10 4 (7.14%) Runbook
10 4 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.14%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) Bash
3 3 (5.36%) Bicep
4 2 (3.57%) SQL
5 1 (1.79%) C
5 1 (1.79%) C++
5 1 (1.79%) Rust
5 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) CISSP
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.79%) CCNA
4 1 (1.79%) CISA
4 1 (1.79%) CISM
4 1 (1.79%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.79%) CRISC
4 1 (1.79%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) GIAC
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.79%) MCSA
4 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 13 (23.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.36%) Docker
5 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.57%) vSphere
6 1 (1.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (1.79%) Terminal Server
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (19.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (17.86%) Terraform
4 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.14%) SCCM
6 3 (5.36%) Ansible
7 2 (3.57%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.79%) SCOM
8 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (58.93%) Microsoft
2 18 (32.14%) VMware
3 11 (19.64%) Bloomberg
3 11 (19.64%) Reuters
4 9 (16.07%) Cisco
5 6 (10.71%) Meraki
6 5 (8.93%) Citrix
6 5 (8.93%) Palo Alto
7 4 (7.14%) Red Hat
8 3 (5.36%) AppDynamics
8 3 (5.36%) CheckPoint
8 3 (5.36%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (5.36%) New Relic
9 2 (3.57%) EMC
9 2 (3.57%) F5
9 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.79%) Commvault
10 1 (1.79%) Dell
10 1 (1.79%) Veeam