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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 126 84
Rank change year-on-year +31 -42 +59
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 94 44 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.46% 1.48% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.65% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 83 41 129
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,160 £47,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,320 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +22.93% -5.26%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 5,938 2,674 5,705
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 90.00% 93.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,699 1,481 4,353
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,422 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +8.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,212 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +5 36 £62,500 +25.00% 10
Hertfordshire -3 33 £55,000 -0.58% 3
Essex -25 11 £70,000 +12.00% 5
Suffolk +20 9 £40,000 -40.74%
Bedfordshire +13 4 £40,000 -32.77%
Norfolk -21 1 £60,000 -7.69%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 86 (91.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (27.66%) Security Cleared
3 22 (23.40%) Firewall
4 20 (21.28%) Azure
5 19 (20.21%) Microsoft
6 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (18.09%) Windows
8 15 (15.96%) VMware
9 14 (14.89%) Active Directory
10 13 (13.83%) DV Cleared
10 13 (13.83%) LAN
10 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
10 13 (13.83%) Windows Server
11 11 (11.70%) Cisco
11 11 (11.70%) SAN
11 11 (11.70%) VLAN
12 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.64%) DNS
12 10 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (9.57%) DHCP
13 9 (9.57%) WAN
14 8 (8.51%) AWS
14 8 (8.51%) IT Strategy
14 8 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Exchange
15 7 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
15 7 (7.45%) VPN
16 6 (6.38%) Fortinet
16 6 (6.38%) Hyper-V
16 6 (6.38%) Incident Response

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 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.28%) Azure
2 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.51%) AWS
4 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.13%) Cohesity
5 2 (2.13%) Serverless
5 2 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.40%) Firewall
2 13 (13.83%) LAN
3 11 (11.70%) SAN
3 11 (11.70%) VLAN
4 10 (10.64%) DNS
5 9 (9.57%) DHCP
5 9 (9.57%) WAN
6 8 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (7.45%) VPN
8 6 (6.38%) Network Security
9 4 (4.26%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (3.19%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (3.19%) Spanning Tree
10 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
11 1 (1.06%) Internet
11 1 (1.06%) SNMP
11 1 (1.06%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (9.57%) Finance
1 9 (9.57%) Retail
2 5 (5.32%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.06%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Windows
2 13 (13.83%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.32%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.26%) Linux
5 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (91.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (8.51%) IT Strategy
4 6 (6.38%) Incident Response
4 6 (6.38%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (5.32%) Asset Management
5 5 (5.32%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (5.32%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (5.32%) ERP
5 5 (5.32%) Network Design
5 5 (5.32%) Service Delivery
5 5 (5.32%) Virtual Environments
6 4 (4.26%) Migration
6 4 (4.26%) Roadmaps
6 4 (4.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (3.19%) Containerisation
7 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (3.19%) Mentoring
7 3 (3.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.19%) Python
3 2 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.83%) DV Cleared
2 13 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.13%) Degree
7 1 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.06%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.06%) NIST
1 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (14.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.38%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.19%) Docker
5 3 (3.19%) Firmware
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) NetBackup
1 2 (2.13%) Terraform
1 2 (2.13%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.06%) Podman
2 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) VMware
3 11 (11.70%) Cisco
4 6 (6.38%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.26%) Juniper
6 3 (3.19%) Citrix
6 3 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.19%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.13%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.06%) Draytek
8 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.06%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.06%) Sophos