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 £58,910 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 79 146
Rank change year-on-year -56 +67 +26
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 47 172 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.43% 2.72% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 2.89% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 38 140 65
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,563 £39,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,910 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £66,375 £66,300
England median annual salary £55,320 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.64% - -

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 3,096 5,947 4,217
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 93.98% 83.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,473 4,551 2,157
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -7 19 £70,000 +55.56% 28
Cambridgeshire -3 10 £47,500 +11.76% 15
Bedfordshire -3 9 £64,000 +2.40% 2
Essex +10 8 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Suffolk -30 1 £67,500 +58.82% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 47 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (63.83%) Azure
3 29 (61.70%) Windows
4 25 (53.19%) Windows Server
5 24 (51.06%) Microsoft
5 24 (51.06%) Firewall
6 16 (34.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (34.04%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
8 13 (27.66%) Active Directory
9 12 (25.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (23.40%) Power Platform
10 11 (23.40%) PowerApps
11 10 (21.28%) Entra ID
11 10 (21.28%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (21.28%) Cost Management
11 10 (21.28%) Cloud Security
11 10 (21.28%) SQL Server
11 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
12 9 (19.15%) DNS
13 8 (17.02%) Data Centre
13 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (14.89%) VMware
14 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
14 7 (14.89%) AWS
15 6 (12.77%) Degree
15 6 (12.77%) Hyper-V
15 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 6 (12.77%) DHCP
15 6 (12.77%) Citrix

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 16 (34.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.38%) IIS
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
4 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 30 (63.83%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (25.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 11 (23.40%) Power Platform
4 11 (23.40%) PowerApps
5 10 (21.28%) Entra ID
6 7 (14.89%) AWS
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.26%) IaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.26%) Mimecast
7 2 (4.26%) Nutanix
7 2 (4.26%) SaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (51.06%) Firewall
2 9 (19.15%) DNS
3 6 (12.77%) DHCP
3 6 (12.77%) SD-WAN
4 3 (6.38%) VPN
5 2 (4.26%) Network Security
5 2 (4.26%) WAN
6 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.13%) LAN
6 1 (2.13%) SAN
6 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.13%) Big Data
2 1 (2.13%) DB2
2 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
4 3 (6.38%) Local Government
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Aviation
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) Web Services
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.13%) SAML
2 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.26%) NHS
2 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Clustering
3 1 (2.13%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 29 (61.70%) Windows
2 25 (53.19%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.51%) Linux
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.13%) AIX
5 1 (2.13%) CentOS
5 1 (2.13%) Debian
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) VMS
5 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (21.28%) Cloud Security
2 10 (21.28%) Cost Management
2 10 (21.28%) Performance Optimisation
3 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.77%) ITIL
4 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
4 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (10.64%) DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) Asset Management
6 4 (8.51%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.51%) Risk Management
6 4 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (6.38%) Agile
7 3 (6.38%) CI/CD
7 3 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.38%) Patch Management
7 3 (6.38%) Workflow
7 3 (6.38%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.38%) SQL
3 2 (4.26%) Bash
3 2 (4.26%) Python
4 1 (2.13%) Java
4 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.26%) Postgraduate
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.77%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.26%) Docker
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (8.51%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Backup Exec
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.38%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Avamar
4 1 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.13%) Grafana
4 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.13%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.13%) Puppet
4 1 (2.13%) SCCM
4 1 (2.13%) SCOM
4 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) VMware
3 6 (12.77%) Citrix
4 4 (8.51%) Autodesk
5 3 (6.38%) Cisco
5 3 (6.38%) Dell
5 3 (6.38%) Veeam
6 2 (4.26%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.13%) Aruba
7 1 (2.13%) EMC
7 1 (2.13%) F5
7 1 (2.13%) Forcepoint
7 1 (2.13%) IBM
7 1 (2.13%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (2.13%) Okta
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) Sophos