Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 121 65
Rank change year-on-year +25 -56 -45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 99 44 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.58% 1.50% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.61% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 82 41 162
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,320 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +22.93% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £61,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,194 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.84% +14.39% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,310 2,730 4,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 68.93% 93.24% 80.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,745 1,407 3,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,215 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the East of England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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 -2 34 £60,000 +20.00% 9
Hertfordshire -12 32 £60,000 -4.00% 15
Essex -17 12 £75,000 -11.76% 2
Suffolk +27 9 £40,000 -40.74%
Bedfordshire +17 8 £40,000 -32.77%
Norfolk - 4 £60,000 -
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.05%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.02%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.26%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (22.22%) Azure
3 10 (10.10%) AWS
4 9 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.03%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.02%) Serverless
6 2 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (25.25%) Firewall
2 13 (13.13%) DNS
2 13 (13.13%) VPN
3 12 (12.12%) DHCP
4 8 (8.08%) VLAN
5 7 (7.07%) LAN
6 6 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (5.05%) SAN
8 3 (3.03%) Network Security
8 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.02%) WAN
9 2 (2.02%) Wireless
10 1 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (1.01%) SNMP
10 1 (1.01%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (1.01%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
General
1 14 (14.14%) Finance
2 10 (10.10%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.09%) Retail
4 7 (7.07%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.04%) Marketing
6 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.03%) Local Government
8 2 (2.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 78 (78.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (28.28%) Senior
3 20 (20.20%) Infrastructure Support
3 20 (20.20%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 20 (20.20%) Support Engineer
4 19 (19.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (13.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (13.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (11.11%) IT Support
7 10 (10.10%) IT Engineer
7 10 (10.10%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Lead
9 7 (7.07%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Network Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (5.05%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.04%) Fat Client
3 4 (4.04%) Thin Client
4 3 (3.03%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.02%) PMI
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.22%) Windows
2 10 (10.10%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.05%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.02%) Linux
5 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 8 (8.08%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (7.07%) Coaching
5 7 (7.07%) ERP
5 7 (7.07%) Migration
6 6 (6.06%) Project Delivery
6 6 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (5.05%) Asset Management
7 5 (5.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (5.05%) Network Design
7 5 (5.05%) Roadmaps
7 5 (5.05%) Service Delivery
8 4 (4.04%) Customer Service
8 4 (4.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.04%) Incident Response
8 4 (4.04%) Project Management
8 4 (4.04%) Risk Management
8 4 (4.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.04%) Python
3 3 (3.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.17%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) Degree
5 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.02%) ACCA
6 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.02%) CIMA
6 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) GRC
1 4 (4.04%) SLA
2 1 (1.01%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (4.04%) Docker
6 1 (1.01%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Terraform
2 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.01%) Podman
3 1 (1.01%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.15%) VMware
3 4 (4.04%) Apple
3 4 (4.04%) Cisco
4 3 (3.03%) Citrix
5 2 (2.02%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.01%) Draytek
6 1 (1.01%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.01%) SonicWALL
6 1 (1.01%) Sophos