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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 61 129
Rank change year-on-year -59 +68 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 68 214 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.81% 3.24% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 3.44% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 48 163 67
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £60,200
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

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 3,532 6,219 3,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 94.03% 82.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,802 4,701 1,992
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,833 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Cambridgeshire +3 24 £50,000 +25.00% 24
Hertfordshire -9 19 £70,000 +55.56% 18
Essex -7 11 £47,500 -13.64% 4
Bedfordshire +5 9 £64,000 +52.38% 2
Suffolk -24 5 £62,500 +47.06% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 68 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (54.41%) Windows
3 35 (51.47%) Azure
3 35 (51.47%) Windows Server
4 32 (47.06%) Microsoft
5 25 (36.76%) Firewall
6 24 (35.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 22 (32.35%) Social Skills
8 18 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (25.00%) PowerShell
10 15 (22.06%) Active Directory
10 15 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (20.59%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (20.59%) Power Platform
11 14 (20.59%) VMware
11 14 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
11 14 (20.59%) Hyper-V
12 13 (19.12%) Degree
12 13 (19.12%) SQL Server
12 13 (19.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
13 12 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (17.65%) Cloud Security
13 12 (17.65%) PowerApps
13 12 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (17.65%) Cost Management
13 12 (17.65%) Risk Management
13 12 (17.65%) Autodesk
13 12 (17.65%) QA
13 12 (17.65%) Asset Management

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 24 (35.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.41%) IIS
3 2 (2.94%) Apache
3 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 35 (51.47%) Azure
2 18 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (20.59%) Azure Logic Apps
3 14 (20.59%) Power Platform
4 12 (17.65%) PowerApps
5 11 (16.18%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.35%) AWS
7 3 (4.41%) IaaS
8 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.94%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.94%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.94%) SaaS
9 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.47%) GCP
9 1 (1.47%) GitHub
9 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (36.76%) Firewall
2 9 (13.24%) DNS
3 7 (10.29%) DHCP
3 7 (10.29%) SD-WAN
4 5 (7.35%) VPN
5 3 (4.41%) SAN
5 3 (4.41%) WAN
6 2 (2.94%) VLAN
7 1 (1.47%) CATAPAN
7 1 (1.47%) IPsec
7 1 (1.47%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.47%) LAN
7 1 (1.47%) Multicast
7 1 (1.47%) Network Security
7 1 (1.47%) OSPF
7 1 (1.47%) SNMP
7 1 (1.47%) SSH
7 1 (1.47%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.47%) VoIP
7 1 (1.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.47%) Big Data
2 1 (1.47%) DB2
2 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 22 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (8.82%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Legal
5 3 (4.41%) Local Government
5 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Aviation
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) ARM Templates
1 2 (2.94%) SAML
1 2 (2.94%) Web Services
2 1 (1.47%) .NET
2 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.47%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.41%) NHS
3 2 (2.94%) Clustering
3 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.47%) CMDB
4 1 (1.47%) PKI
4 1 (1.47%) Smartcard
4 1 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 37 (54.41%) Windows
2 35 (51.47%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (5.88%) Linux
5 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.94%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.47%) AIX
6 1 (1.47%) CentOS
6 1 (1.47%) Debian
6 1 (1.47%) VMS
6 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
4 12 (17.65%) Asset Management
4 12 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 12 (17.65%) Cost Management
4 12 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
4 12 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 12 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (13.24%) ITIL
5 9 (13.24%) Project Delivery
5 9 (13.24%) Workflow
5 9 (13.24%) Workflow Management
6 7 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (10.29%) Patch Management
6 7 (10.29%) Task Automation
7 6 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.35%) DevOps
9 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (4.41%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.35%) SQL
3 4 (5.88%) Python
4 2 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) CCNA
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) Active Directory
2 14 (20.59%) Hyper-V
2 14 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.94%) Docker
3 2 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Backup Exec
2 5 (7.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (7.35%) Ansible
2 5 (7.35%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.47%) Avamar
4 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.47%) Grafana
4 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.47%) Nessus
4 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.47%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
4 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.47%) VxRail
4 1 (1.47%) WMI
4 1 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.59%) VMware
3 12 (17.65%) Autodesk
4 8 (11.76%) Veeam
5 6 (8.82%) Citrix
6 4 (5.88%) Cisco
7 3 (4.41%) Dell
8 2 (2.94%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.94%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.47%) Aruba
9 1 (1.47%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (1.47%) EMC
9 1 (1.47%) F5
9 1 (1.47%) Forcepoint
9 1 (1.47%) IBM
9 1 (1.47%) Okta
9 1 (1.47%) Red Hat