Infrastructure Security Engineer Jobs in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 787 855
Rank change year-on-year +118 +68 +304
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 25 82 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.087% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.092% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 25 69 17
10th Percentile £47,125 £35,736 £43,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,968 £90,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £81,500 £98,250
UK median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 46,001 89,053 72,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 94.65% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 25,119 64,627 48,533
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Security Engineer in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
London +105 18 £65,000 -34.18% 12
North of England +38 5 £52,500 -16.38% 1
Yorkshire +46 2 £52,500 +45.32%
North East +39 2 £53,125 -15.38%
South East +75 1 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Midlands +61 1 £40,000 -27.27%
East Midlands +35 1 £40,000 -30.43%
North West +9 1 £50,000 -20.36% 1
Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Infrastructure Security 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (72.00%) Azure
3 15 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
5 13 (52.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (52.00%) Firewall
5 13 (52.00%) Windows
5 13 (52.00%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (48.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 11 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (44.00%) SIEM
8 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
9 9 (36.00%) Entra ID
9 9 (36.00%) VMware
9 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (32.00%) NIST
10 8 (32.00%) GDPR
10 8 (32.00%) Business Continuity
10 8 (32.00%) Patch Management
10 8 (32.00%) Network Security
11 7 (28.00%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (28.00%) Network Design
11 7 (28.00%) Cisco
11 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
11 7 (28.00%) Cloud Security
11 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
12 6 (24.00%) DNS
12 6 (24.00%) DHCP
12 6 (24.00%) Penetration Testing

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (36.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (16.00%) AWS
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (12.00%) IaaS
5 3 (12.00%) IBM Cloud
5 3 (12.00%) OneDrive
5 3 (12.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Stack
6 2 (8.00%) Mimecast
6 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) Network Security
3 6 (24.00%) DHCP
3 6 (24.00%) DNS
4 5 (20.00%) VPN
5 4 (16.00%) Wireless
6 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (8.00%) WAN
8 1 (4.00%) LAN
8 1 (4.00%) NAS
8 1 (4.00%) SAN
8 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
8 1 (4.00%) SSL
8 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Law
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.00%) Legal
5 2 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (8.00%) VMS
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (52.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (48.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 11 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (44.00%) SIEM
5 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (32.00%) Business Continuity
6 8 (32.00%) Patch Management
7 7 (28.00%) Cloud Security
7 7 (28.00%) Incident Response
7 7 (28.00%) Network Design
8 6 (24.00%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (24.00%) Penetration Testing
9 5 (20.00%) Zero Trust
10 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity Planning
10 4 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention
10 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) CCNA
4 1 (4.00%) CCSP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (32.00%) GDPR
2 8 (32.00%) NIST
3 3 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.00%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) vSphere
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.00%) Nessus
2 4 (16.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (12.00%) SCCM
3 3 (12.00%) Terraform
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) VMware
3 7 (28.00%) Cisco
4 5 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (12.00%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (12.00%) IBM
5 3 (12.00%) Tenable
6 2 (8.00%) Dell
6 2 (8.00%) Meraki
6 2 (8.00%) Varonis
7 1 (4.00%) EMC
7 1 (4.00%) EqualLogic
7 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.00%) Google
7 1 (4.00%) iManage
7 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.00%) SonicWALL