Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Hampshire is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 75 104
Rank change year-on-year -19 +29 +47
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 30 129 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.48% 3.23% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 3.41% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23 111 56
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,625 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £54,625
90th Percentile - £63,750 £67,500
South East median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,925 3,780 2,663
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.16% 94.55% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,204 2,958 1,984
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £81,025
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Basingstoke +9 15 £57,500 - 8
Southampton +33 7 £52,500 -8.70% 1
Farnborough -6 1 £47,500 - 4
Portsmouth -26 1 £27,500 -38.89%
Hook - 1 £47,500 -
Eastleigh - 1 £46,500 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Hampshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (66.67%) Windows
2 20 (66.67%) VMware
3 16 (53.33%) Active Directory
3 16 (53.33%) Windows Server
4 15 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (43.33%) Hyper-V
6 12 (40.00%) DV Cleared
6 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
6 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
7 11 (36.67%) Linux
7 11 (36.67%) Azure
7 11 (36.67%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (33.33%) vCenter Server
8 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
8 10 (33.33%) DNS
8 10 (33.33%) DHCP
9 9 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
10 8 (26.67%) SMTP
10 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (26.67%) Citrix
10 8 (26.67%) Terminal Services
10 8 (26.67%) Firewall
10 8 (26.67%) Clustering
10 8 (26.67%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (26.67%) Google
10 8 (26.67%) PKI
10 8 (26.67%) Incident Management
10 8 (26.67%) Task Automation

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) GCP
3 6 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Run
5 2 (6.67%) Datadog
5 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) DHCP
1 10 (33.33%) DNS
2 8 (26.67%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) SMTP
3 7 (23.33%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (20.00%) Network Security
5 3 (10.00%) VPN
6 2 (6.67%) iSCSI
6 2 (6.67%) SAN
6 2 (6.67%) SNMP
6 2 (6.67%) VSAN
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (3.33%) LAN
7 1 (3.33%) NAS
7 1 (3.33%) VoIP
7 1 (3.33%) WAN
7 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
General
1 9 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Retail
3 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Clustering
1 8 (26.67%) PKI
2 6 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (66.67%) Windows
2 16 (53.33%) Windows Server
3 11 (36.67%) Linux
4 3 (10.00%) CentOS
4 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (26.67%) High Availability
2 8 (26.67%) Incident Management
2 8 (26.67%) Task Automation
3 6 (20.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 6 (20.00%) DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Disk Encryption
3 6 (20.00%) RBAC
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.00%) 3D Modelling
5 3 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (10.00%) Line Management
5 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (10.00%) Security Patching
5 3 (10.00%) Server Building
6 2 (6.67%) Application Packaging
6 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce
6 2 (6.67%) Logistics
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 16 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 15 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (43.33%) Hyper-V
4 11 (36.67%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (26.67%) BitLocker
5 8 (26.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (26.67%) Terminal Services
5 8 (26.67%) vSphere
6 7 (23.33%) Docker
7 3 (10.00%) VMware NSX
8 1 (3.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (26.67%) vMotion
3 6 (20.00%) Ansible
3 6 (20.00%) Nagios
3 6 (20.00%) Puppet
4 3 (10.00%) Terraform
5 1 (3.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) VMware
2 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (26.67%) Citrix
3 8 (26.67%) Google
4 6 (20.00%) HP
4 6 (20.00%) Symantec
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco
6 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.33%) Aruba
7 1 (3.33%) Broadcom
7 1 (3.33%) Dell
7 1 (3.33%) Meraki
7 1 (3.33%) NetApp
7 1 (3.33%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (3.33%) Veeam
7 1 (3.33%) WatchGuard