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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 64 85
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 +60
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 83 143 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.22% 3.41% 2.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 3.76% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 66 85 38
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% +1.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £59,125
90th Percentile - £68,109 £60,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +1.80%

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 3,342 3,799 1,944
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.50% 90.63% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,053 1,926 1,372
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £54,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 November 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 29 November 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 +27 50 £75,000 +66.67% 12
Cambridgeshire +4 20 £60,000 +14.29% 12
Essex -28 7 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Suffolk -11 6 £62,500 -3.85%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, 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 83 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (61.45%) Windows
3 50 (60.24%) Windows Server
4 48 (57.83%) Azure
5 38 (45.78%) Active Directory
6 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
7 34 (40.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 31 (37.35%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (31.33%) VMware
10 25 (30.12%) Firewall
11 24 (28.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 24 (28.92%) Roadmaps
12 21 (25.30%) Technology Roadmap
13 18 (21.69%) PowerShell
14 17 (20.48%) Cisco
15 14 (16.87%) Power Platform
15 14 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
16 13 (15.66%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
17 12 (14.46%) Hyper-V
17 12 (14.46%) SAN
17 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
18 11 (13.25%) Degree
18 11 (13.25%) Entra ID
18 11 (13.25%) Microsoft Intune
18 11 (13.25%) WAN
19 10 (12.05%) Cloud Security
19 10 (12.05%) Cost Management
19 10 (12.05%) Performance Optimisation

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 34 (40.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.83%) Azure
2 31 (37.35%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (28.92%) Azure Logic Apps
4 14 (16.87%) Power Platform
5 11 (13.25%) Entra ID
6 9 (10.84%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.61%) AWS
7 3 (3.61%) Cohesity
7 3 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.20%) IaaS
8 1 (1.20%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.12%) Firewall
2 12 (14.46%) SAN
3 11 (13.25%) WAN
4 10 (12.05%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (10.84%) LAN
6 7 (8.43%) VLAN
7 5 (6.02%) IP Telephony
8 4 (4.82%) DNS
9 3 (3.61%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (3.61%) DHCP
9 3 (3.61%) IPsec
9 3 (3.61%) Network Security
10 2 (2.41%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (2.41%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (2.41%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.41%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.41%) Spanning Tree
10 2 (2.41%) SSL
10 2 (2.41%) VPN
11 1 (1.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 9 (10.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.02%) Finance
4 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.41%) Retail
5 1 (1.20%) Advertising
5 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Legal
5 1 (1.20%) Local Government
5 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.20%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.82%) PKI
4 3 (3.61%) Clustering
4 3 (3.61%) iPad
5 2 (2.41%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.20%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.20%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (61.45%) Windows
2 50 (60.24%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.64%) Linux
4 6 (7.23%) Windows 10
5 5 (6.02%) Android
6 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (28.92%) Roadmaps
3 21 (25.30%) Technology Roadmap
4 13 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (12.05%) Cloud Security
6 10 (12.05%) Cost Management
6 10 (12.05%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (10.84%) ITIL
7 9 (10.84%) Task Automation
8 8 (9.64%) Asset Management
8 8 (9.64%) IT Strategy
8 8 (9.64%) Risk Management
9 7 (8.43%) Mentoring
10 6 (7.23%) AI
10 6 (7.23%) Workflow
10 6 (7.23%) Workflow Management
11 5 (6.02%) ITSM
11 5 (6.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.82%) Python
2 4 (4.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Cisco Certification
1 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) Degree
3 9 (10.84%) CCNA
3 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.02%) DBS Check
4 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.41%) MCSE
7 1 (1.20%) CCNP
7 1 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) GxP
2 2 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (45.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (16.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (14.46%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.82%) vSphere
5 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (3.61%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.41%) Firmware
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (13.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (7.23%) SCCM
3 5 (6.02%) Terraform
4 4 (4.82%) Backup Exec
4 4 (4.82%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.61%) Ansible
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.41%) Puppet
6 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.41%) WhatsUp Gold
6 2 (2.41%) WSUS
7 1 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.20%) Nessus
7 1 (1.20%) SCOM
7 1 (1.20%) WMI
Vendors
1 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
2 26 (31.33%) VMware
3 17 (20.48%) Cisco
4 8 (9.64%) Autodesk
5 6 (7.23%) Veeam
6 5 (6.02%) Apple
6 5 (6.02%) Remedy
6 5 (6.02%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.82%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.82%) Juniper
8 3 (3.61%) HP
8 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.41%) NVIDIA
9 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.20%) Aruba
10 1 (1.20%) Dell
10 1 (1.20%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.20%) SAP