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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 95 42
Rank change year-on-year +20 -53 +49
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 147 80 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.81% 2.39% 4.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 2.58% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 101 59 105
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,850 £31,833
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -

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 7,561 3,096 4,183
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 92.47% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,350 1,731 2,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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
Hertfordshire -12 62 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Cambridgeshire -19 37 £60,000 - 25
Essex +2 32 £40,000 -15.79% 5
Suffolk +13 9 £100,000 +60.00% 6
Bedfordshire -5 6 £40,000 -37.50% 4
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 23 September 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.

1 132 (89.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (34.69%) Security Cleared
3 42 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 37 (25.17%) VMware
5 35 (23.81%) Windows
6 30 (20.41%) Azure
6 30 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 28 (19.05%) Microsoft
8 24 (16.33%) ITIL
9 22 (14.97%) DNS
9 22 (14.97%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (13.61%) DHCP
11 18 (12.24%) Active Directory
11 18 (12.24%) Firewall
11 18 (12.24%) PowerShell
11 18 (12.24%) TCP/IP
12 17 (11.56%) Collaborative Working
12 17 (11.56%) Customer Service
12 17 (11.56%) Windows Server
13 15 (10.20%) Entra ID
13 15 (10.20%) Project Delivery
14 14 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (7.48%) Migration
16 10 (6.80%) Ubiquiti
17 9 (6.12%) Degree
17 9 (6.12%) Hyper-V
17 9 (6.12%) Mentoring
17 9 (6.12%) SC Cleared
18 8 (5.44%) Client Onboarding
18 8 (5.44%) Computer Science

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 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.41%) Azure
2 22 (14.97%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (10.20%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.68%) AWS
4 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (0.68%) GCP
4 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.97%) DNS
2 20 (13.61%) DHCP
3 18 (12.24%) Firewall
3 18 (12.24%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.76%) SAN
4 7 (4.76%) Wireless
5 6 (4.08%) VLAN
6 5 (3.40%) VPN
7 2 (1.36%) LAN
7 2 (1.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.68%) Broadband
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.68%) DOCSIS
8 1 (0.68%) IPv4
8 1 (0.68%) Network Security
8 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.68%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 19 (12.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (2.72%) Aerospace
2 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
3 1 (0.68%) Retail
3 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.36%) Terraform
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.48%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.44%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.44%) Fat Client
3 8 (5.44%) Thin Client
4 7 (4.76%) CCTV
5 6 (4.08%) Replication
6 5 (3.40%) PMI
7 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) CMDB
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (23.81%) Windows
2 17 (11.56%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.44%) Linux
4 5 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.72%) CentOS
5 4 (2.72%) Rocky
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (89.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (16.33%) ITIL
3 17 (11.56%) Collaborative Working
3 17 (11.56%) Customer Service
4 15 (10.20%) Project Delivery
5 14 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (7.48%) Migration
7 9 (6.12%) Mentoring
8 8 (5.44%) Client Onboarding
8 8 (5.44%) Computer Science
8 8 (5.44%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (4.76%) Data Migration
9 7 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (4.08%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (4.08%) Presales
11 5 (3.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (3.40%) Infrastructure Maintenance
11 5 (3.40%) PRINCE2
11 5 (3.40%) Service Management
12 4 (2.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.24%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.72%) Python
3 2 (1.36%) Bash
4 1 (0.68%) Java
Qualifications
1 51 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 42 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) Degree
3 9 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.40%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.36%) CCNP
7 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.36%) SSCP
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CCNA
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) SLA
2 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.36%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.68%) Docker
7 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (4.08%) Ansible
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.72%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.68%) Nessus
5 1 (0.68%) Podman
5 1 (0.68%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (25.17%) VMware
2 28 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.80%) Ubiquiti
4 6 (4.08%) Veeam
5 4 (2.72%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.72%) NetApp
6 3 (2.04%) ConnectWise
6 3 (2.04%) Draytek
6 3 (2.04%) SonicWALL
7 2 (1.36%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) Citrix
8 1 (0.68%) Google
8 1 (0.68%) Meraki
8 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) Sophos
8 1 (0.68%) Tenable
8 1 (0.68%) WatchGuard