Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Croydon

Infrastructure Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Croydon is £61,644 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 7 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 3.85% - 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.86% - 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,016 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.52%
75th Percentile £65,272 - -
90th Percentile £74,109 - -
South London median annual salary £61,644 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.08% +4.76% +14.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 144 202 181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.12% 94.84% 91.88%
Number of salaries quoted 32 147 112
10th Percentile - £24,750 £32,275
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £40,113
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,272 £81,786 £67,438
90th Percentile £68,625 £83,750 £88,625
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Croydon

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Croydon.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Croydon

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Croydon over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Croydon

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 job ads across the Croydon region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
4 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
4 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 4 (57.14%) QA
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (57.14%) HSRP
4 4 (57.14%) Network Design
4 4 (57.14%) VLAN
4 4 (57.14%) CCNP
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (57.14%) BGP
5 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
5 3 (42.86%) Terraform
6 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
6 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (28.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (28.57%) Proxmox
6 2 (28.57%) Serverless
6 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (28.57%) Key Management

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) HSRP
2 4 (57.14%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) Network Design
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Key Management
4 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Compliance Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (14.29%) SOAR
5 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) CCNP
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Nessus
2 2 (28.57%) Proxmox
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) SonicWALL
2 1 (14.29%) VMware