Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the East of England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 95 47
Rank change year-on-year +3 -48 +50
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 109 80 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.59% 2.31% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 2.48% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 96 59 135
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +38.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,125 £75,000 £87,248
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 6,459 3,228 4,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 93.13% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,459 1,824 3,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,125 £33,152
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 the East of England.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Cambridgeshire -17 36 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Hertfordshire -14 34 £57,500 -17.86% 7
Essex -1 26 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Suffolk +18 7 £40,000 -36.00% 4
Bedfordshire +5 5 £40,000 -37.50%
Norfolk - 1 £60,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 29 July 2026, 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 East of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 98 (89.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (27.52%) Security Cleared
3 27 (24.77%) Azure
4 25 (22.94%) DV Cleared
4 25 (22.94%) VMware
5 24 (22.02%) Windows
6 22 (20.18%) Microsoft
7 19 (17.43%) Firewall
8 18 (16.51%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
9 17 (15.60%) DNS
10 16 (14.68%) Active Directory
11 15 (13.76%) DHCP
11 15 (13.76%) Windows Server
12 14 (12.84%) Project Delivery
13 12 (11.01%) PowerShell
13 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (10.09%) Hyper-V
14 11 (10.09%) ITIL
15 10 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
15 10 (9.17%) Customer Service
15 10 (9.17%) TCP/IP
16 9 (8.26%) Mentoring
16 9 (8.26%) VLAN
17 8 (7.34%) Entra ID
17 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
17 8 (7.34%) VPN
18 7 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
18 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Automation
18 7 (6.42%) SAN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.77%) Azure
2 18 (16.51%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.34%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.83%) AWS
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.92%) GCP
5 1 (0.92%) Serverless
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.43%) Firewall
2 17 (15.60%) DNS
3 15 (13.76%) DHCP
4 10 (9.17%) TCP/IP
5 9 (8.26%) VLAN
6 8 (7.34%) VPN
7 7 (6.42%) SAN
8 5 (4.59%) LAN
9 3 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.83%) Network Security
10 2 (1.83%) WAN
10 2 (1.83%) Wireless
11 1 (0.92%) IPv4
11 1 (0.92%) SNMP
11 1 (0.92%) WireGuard
11 1 (0.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (9.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.42%) Finance
3 6 (5.50%) Retail
4 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Fat Client
1 8 (7.34%) Thin Client
2 6 (5.50%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.59%) PMI
4 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.75%) Replication
6 2 (1.83%) CCTV
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.02%) Windows
2 15 (13.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.59%) Linux
4 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.75%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.83%) CentOS
6 2 (1.83%) Rocky
7 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (89.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (12.84%) Project Delivery
3 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (10.09%) ITIL
5 10 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (9.17%) Customer Service
6 9 (8.26%) Mentoring
7 7 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (5.50%) Migration
8 6 (5.50%) Presales
9 5 (4.59%) Computer Science
9 5 (4.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (4.59%) PRINCE2
10 4 (3.67%) Service Delivery
10 4 (3.67%) Service Management
10 4 (3.67%) Software Testing
11 3 (2.75%) Asset Management
11 3 (2.75%) ERP
11 3 (2.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.01%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.83%) Python
3 1 (0.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (27.52%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.94%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) PMI Certification
4 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.83%) SSCP
7 1 (0.92%) CCNA
7 1 (0.92%) CCNP
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) SLA
2 1 (0.92%) GDPR
2 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.92%) NIST
2 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (16.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (14.68%) Active Directory
3 11 (10.09%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.83%) Docker
7 1 (0.92%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.83%) Ansible
2 2 (1.83%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.92%) Podman
3 1 (0.92%) SCCM
3 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (22.94%) VMware
2 22 (20.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.59%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.59%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (2.75%) ConnectWise
4 3 (2.75%) Draytek
4 3 (2.75%) SonicWALL
4 3 (2.75%) Veeam
5 2 (1.83%) Cisco
5 2 (1.83%) Citrix
5 2 (1.83%) NetApp
5 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.83%) Sophos
6 1 (0.92%) Google
6 1 (0.92%) Meraki
6 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.92%) WatchGuard