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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 101 57
Rank change year-on-year +9 -44 +59
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 109 76 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.65% 2.20% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.36% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 99 55 162
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,250 £36,250
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 £57,188
90th Percentile £70,500 £75,000 £69,875
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 6,222 3,226 6,061
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 93.43% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,276 1,831 4,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,125 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -12.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 15 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 15 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 -10 36 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Hertfordshire -13 32 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Essex -3 26 £45,000 -5.26% 3
Suffolk +25 9 £40,000 -36.00% 1
Bedfordshire +1 5 £40,000 -37.50% 1
Norfolk - 1 £60,000 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
3 27 (24.77%) Azure
4 26 (23.85%) DV Cleared
5 24 (22.02%) Microsoft
6 22 (20.18%) Firewall
6 22 (20.18%) VMware
6 22 (20.18%) Windows
7 21 (19.27%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (16.51%) DNS
9 17 (15.60%) Active Directory
10 16 (14.68%) DHCP
10 16 (14.68%) VMware Infrastructure
11 15 (13.76%) Windows Server
12 13 (11.93%) PowerShell
12 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (11.93%) Project Delivery
13 11 (10.09%) Hyper-V
13 11 (10.09%) Mentoring
13 11 (10.09%) VLAN
14 10 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
15 9 (8.26%) Customer Service
15 9 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
15 9 (8.26%) ITIL
15 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
15 9 (8.26%) VPN
16 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
16 8 (7.34%) TCP/IP
16 8 (7.34%) Virtual Desktop
17 7 (6.42%) Degree

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 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.77%) Azure
2 21 (19.27%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.42%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (1.83%) AWS
4 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (1.83%) Serverless
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.18%) Firewall
2 18 (16.51%) DNS
3 16 (14.68%) DHCP
4 11 (10.09%) VLAN
5 9 (8.26%) VPN
6 8 (7.34%) TCP/IP
7 7 (6.42%) LAN
7 7 (6.42%) SAN
8 6 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.75%) Network Security
10 2 (1.83%) WAN
11 1 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.92%) IPv4
11 1 (0.92%) SNMP
11 1 (0.92%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (0.92%) WireGuard
11 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
General
1 10 (9.17%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Finance
2 9 (8.26%) Retail
3 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Fat Client
1 8 (7.34%) Thin Client
2 6 (5.50%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.59%) PMI
4 4 (3.67%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) CCTV
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.18%) Windows
2 15 (13.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.59%) Linux
3 5 (4.59%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.83%) CentOS
5 2 (1.83%) Rocky
6 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (89.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (11.93%) Project Delivery
3 11 (10.09%) Mentoring
4 10 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (8.26%) Customer Service
5 9 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (8.26%) ITIL
6 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (5.50%) Migration
7 6 (5.50%) Service Delivery
8 5 (4.59%) Asset Management
8 5 (4.59%) ERP
8 5 (4.59%) Incident Response
8 5 (4.59%) Presales
8 5 (4.59%) PRINCE2
8 5 (4.59%) Software Testing
9 4 (3.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (3.67%) Service Management
9 4 (3.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.93%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.75%) Python
3 2 (1.83%) Bash
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.85%) DV Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.42%) Degree
5 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.59%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.83%) SSCP
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 17 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.09%) Hyper-V
4 8 (7.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.75%) Docker
5 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.83%) Ansible
2 2 (1.83%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.92%) Podman
3 1 (0.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.18%) VMware
3 4 (3.67%) Fortinet
3 4 (3.67%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (2.75%) Citrix
4 3 (2.75%) ConnectWise
4 3 (2.75%) Draytek
4 3 (2.75%) SonicWALL
5 2 (1.83%) Cisco
5 2 (1.83%) NetApp
5 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.83%) Veeam
6 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.92%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.92%) Sophos