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 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 103 102
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 83 66 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.70% 2.08% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 2.34% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73 39 86
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,320 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,160 £46,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +13.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,086 £57,188
90th Percentile - £65,054 £61,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -3.45%

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 4,364 2,819 4,314
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 88.68% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,695 1,367 3,452
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,296 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +15 40 £60,000 +8.46% 1
Cambridgeshire +10 21 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Essex -7 12 £70,000 +40.00%
Suffolk +8 9 £40,000 - 1
Bedfordshire +19 1 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 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 83 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (40.96%) Azure
3 32 (38.55%) Windows
4 31 (37.35%) Firewall
5 30 (36.14%) Microsoft
6 29 (34.94%) Active Directory
6 29 (34.94%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (34.94%) Windows Server
7 21 (25.30%) Security Cleared
8 18 (21.69%) VMware
9 17 (20.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 15 (18.07%) Roadmaps
11 14 (16.87%) Cisco
11 14 (16.87%) LAN
12 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
13 12 (14.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (14.46%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (13.25%) Technology Roadmap
15 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (12.05%) PowerShell
15 10 (12.05%) VLAN
15 10 (12.05%) WAN
16 9 (10.84%) DHCP
16 9 (10.84%) DNS
16 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (9.64%) AWS
17 8 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (9.64%) DV Cleared
17 8 (9.64%) Entra ID
17 8 (9.64%) IT Strategy

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 17 (20.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) Azure
2 29 (34.94%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (14.46%) Azure Logic Apps
4 8 (9.64%) AWS
4 8 (9.64%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.41%) Cohesity
5 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.41%) Serverless
5 2 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (37.35%) Firewall
2 14 (16.87%) LAN
3 12 (14.46%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (12.05%) VLAN
4 10 (12.05%) WAN
5 9 (10.84%) DHCP
5 9 (10.84%) DNS
6 8 (9.64%) SAN
7 6 (7.23%) Network Security
7 6 (7.23%) VPN
8 4 (4.82%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (3.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (3.61%) IP Telephony
9 3 (3.61%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.20%) Internet
10 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (10.84%) Retail
2 5 (6.02%) Finance
2 5 (6.02%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.02%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.23%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.61%) iPad
4 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (38.55%) Windows
2 29 (34.94%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.64%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.82%) Linux
5 3 (3.61%) Android
6 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (18.07%) Roadmaps
3 11 (13.25%) Technology Roadmap
4 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.64%) IT Strategy
7 6 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (7.23%) Virtual Environments
8 5 (6.02%) Asset Management
8 5 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (6.02%) ERP
8 5 (6.02%) Incident Response
8 5 (6.02%) ITIL
8 5 (6.02%) Network Design
8 5 (6.02%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (6.02%) Service Delivery
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (4.82%) Migration
10 3 (3.61%) Information Security
10 3 (3.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.41%) Bash
2 2 (2.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (9.64%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.23%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.02%) Degree
6 4 (4.82%) CCNA
7 3 (3.61%) DBS Check
7 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CCNP
8 1 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.23%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.61%) Firmware
6 2 (2.41%) Docker
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.41%) vSphere
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (4.82%) SCCM
2 2 (2.41%) NetBackup
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.20%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (36.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.69%) VMware
3 14 (16.87%) Cisco
4 5 (6.02%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.82%) Juniper
6 3 (3.61%) Apple
6 3 (3.61%) Citrix
6 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.61%) Remedy
6 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.61%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.41%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.20%) Aruba
8 1 (1.20%) Sophos
8 1 (1.20%) Veeam