Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > East of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the East of England is £55,320 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 91 149
Rank change year-on-year -33 +58 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 44 154 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.48% 2.54% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 2.70% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 40 127 73
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £36,700
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,750 £41,659
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.93% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £66,000 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,665 5,696 4,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 93.93% 84.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,522 4,346 2,298
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,675
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,206 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Hertfordshire -7 17 £55,320 +19.61% 8
Cambridgeshire +15 11 £50,000 +25.00% 7
Bedfordshire +4 10 £59,500 -4.80% 1
Essex +16 3 £40,000 -27.27% 6
Norfolk 0 2 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Suffolk -19 1 £67,500 +58.82% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 1 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 East of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (63.64%) Windows
3 27 (61.36%) Azure
4 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 22 (50.00%) Firewall
6 20 (45.45%) Windows Server
7 18 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (31.82%) Active Directory
8 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
9 13 (29.55%) DNS
10 11 (25.00%) Linux
10 11 (25.00%) Data Centre
10 11 (25.00%) AWS
10 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (20.45%) VMware
12 9 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
12 9 (20.45%) Entra ID
12 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
13 8 (18.18%) PowerApps
13 8 (18.18%) DHCP
13 8 (18.18%) Dell
14 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
14 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
15 6 (13.64%) Ansible
15 6 (13.64%) DevOps
15 6 (13.64%) ITIL

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.82%) IIS
3 2 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) Azure
2 18 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (25.00%) AWS
4 9 (20.45%) Entra ID
5 8 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 8 (18.18%) PowerApps
6 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub
8 2 (4.55%) Mimecast
8 2 (4.55%) Nutanix
8 2 (4.55%) SaaS
9 1 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (2.27%) GCP
9 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.27%) IaaS
9 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (50.00%) Firewall
2 13 (29.55%) DNS
3 8 (18.18%) DHCP
4 5 (11.36%) SD-WAN
5 4 (9.09%) LAN
5 4 (9.09%) VPN
5 4 (9.09%) WAN
6 2 (4.55%) Network Security
6 2 (4.55%) VLAN
6 2 (4.55%) VSAN
6 2 (4.55%) Wireless
7 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.27%) SAN
7 1 (2.27%) SNMP
7 1 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Big Data
2 1 (2.27%) DB2
2 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Retail
4 2 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (2.27%) Aviation
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) .NET
1 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.27%) SAML
1 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) CCTV
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (63.64%) Windows
2 20 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 11 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.27%) AIX
5 1 (2.27%) CentOS
5 1 (2.27%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (2.27%) Debian
5 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
3 6 (13.64%) Cost Management
3 6 (13.64%) DevOps
3 6 (13.64%) ITIL
3 6 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (11.36%) ITSM
5 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 4 (9.09%) Service Management
6 3 (6.82%) Agile
6 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.82%) Customer Service
6 3 (6.82%) High Availability
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (6.82%) Patch Management
6 3 (6.82%) Time Management
7 2 (4.55%) Problem Management
7 2 (4.55%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (4.55%) Bash
3 2 (4.55%) Python
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
1 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (4.55%) CCNA
3 2 (4.55%) CCNP
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (4.55%) MCP
3 2 (4.55%) MCSA
4 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.27%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 9 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (13.64%) VMware NSX
4 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.82%) vSphere
5 2 (4.55%) Docker
5 2 (4.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (4.55%) Firmware
5 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.64%) Ansible
3 5 (11.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (11.36%) vCenter Server
3 5 (11.36%) VxRail
4 3 (6.82%) Avamar
4 3 (6.82%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.82%) Puppet
4 3 (6.82%) WSUS
5 2 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (4.55%) SCCM
5 2 (4.55%) Terraform
5 2 (4.55%) vRealize
6 1 (2.27%) Grafana
6 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.27%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) VMware
3 8 (18.18%) Dell
4 6 (13.64%) Citrix
5 5 (11.36%) Cisco
5 5 (11.36%) EMC
6 4 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 3 (6.82%) Aruba
7 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.55%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (4.55%) Isilon
8 2 (4.55%) McAfee
8 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.27%) F5
9 1 (2.27%) Forcepoint
9 1 (2.27%) IBM
9 1 (2.27%) NetApp
9 1 (2.27%) Okta
9 1 (2.27%) Sophos