Infrastructure Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Infrastructure Security Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 640 616
Rank change year-on-year +56 -24 +350
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Security Engineer 24 75 47
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.051% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 22 49 44
10th Percentile £43,000 £37,716 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,183 £40,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £56,313 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,125 £70,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -11.54%

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 42,617 55,189 43,365
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 94.12% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 27,464 30,846 33,811
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,746
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,855 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.60% -4.17% -

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Security Engineer job vacancies in England

Infrastructure Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 November 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 30 November 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 +48 9 £55,000 -42.11% 2
South East +33 8 £46,000 -12.38% 6
West Midlands +50 2 £48,750 -2.50% 2
Midlands +48 2 £48,750 -8.88% 2
North of England +35 2 £49,375 +30.16%
South West - 2 £50,000 -
North West +43 1 £50,000 +31.80%
North East +10 1 £48,750 +28.51%
East of England - 1 £46,160 -
Infrastructure Security Engineer
UK

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 November 2025, Infrastructure Security 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 England region featuring Infrastructure Security Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (83.33%) Azure
3 17 (70.83%) Firewall
4 13 (54.17%) Network Security
4 13 (54.17%) VPN
5 12 (50.00%) Business Continuity
5 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 12 (50.00%) SIEM
6 11 (45.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (45.83%) Entra ID
6 11 (45.83%) Windows
7 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
7 10 (41.67%) Incident Response
8 9 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (33.33%) VMware
10 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (29.17%) Security Operations
10 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
10 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
11 6 (25.00%) AWS
11 6 (25.00%) Cisco
11 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
11 6 (25.00%) Data Protection
11 6 (25.00%) GDPR
11 6 (25.00%) Information Security
11 6 (25.00%) NIST
11 6 (25.00%) SharePoint
11 6 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
11 6 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence

Infrastructure Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Entra ID
3 9 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (20.83%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (20.83%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Stack
6 2 (8.33%) Mimecast
6 2 (8.33%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (70.83%) Firewall
2 13 (54.17%) Network Security
2 13 (54.17%) VPN
3 5 (20.83%) DNS
3 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
4 3 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (8.33%) Internet
5 2 (8.33%) LAN
5 2 (8.33%) VLAN
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (4.17%) HSRP
6 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (4.17%) Miracast
6 1 (4.17%) NAS
6 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.17%) Wireless
6 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Legal
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Law
5 3 (12.50%) Retail
6 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
7 1 (4.17%) Electronics
7 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) CCTV
1 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) FMCG
2 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 12 (50.00%) SIEM
3 11 (45.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (41.67%) Incident Response
5 7 (29.17%) Security Operations
6 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 6 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 6 (25.00%) Information Security
6 6 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
6 6 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (20.83%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (20.83%) Migration
7 5 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (20.83%) Threat Detection
7 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 4 (16.67%) RBAC
9 3 (12.50%) BCP
9 3 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) CCNP
2 1 (4.17%) CISSP
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (25.00%) GDPR
2 6 (25.00%) NIST
3 3 (12.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) VMware
3 6 (25.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Meraki
4 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 3 (12.50%) Splunk
6 2 (8.33%) Tenable
7 1 (4.17%) Dell
7 1 (4.17%) NetApp
7 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.17%) Qualys
7 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.17%) Tanium
7 1 (4.17%) Zscaler