Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Hampshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 83 64
Rank change year-on-year +22 -19 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 110 31 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 2.33% 1.60% 3.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 1.69% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 91 21 115
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £40,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £64,800
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,543 1,836 3,636
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 94.98% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,251 1,157 2,700
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Hampshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

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 14 August 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
Farnborough - 24 £80,000 - 6
Basingstoke +7 20 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Southampton -13 17 £65,000 - 1
Portsmouth - 15 £65,000 - 1
Fareham - 11 £55,000 -
Romsey - 8 £80,000 - 2
Eastleigh +6 6 - - 3
Yateley - 3 - -
Aldershot - 2 £55,000 -
New Milton - 1 £45,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 2026, Infrastructure 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 Hampshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 110 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (34.55%) Linux
3 33 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 33 (30.00%) Windows
4 27 (24.55%) Windows Server
5 24 (21.82%) Microsoft
6 22 (20.00%) Azure
6 22 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 22 (20.00%) Terraform
7 21 (19.09%) VMware
8 20 (18.18%) Ansible
8 20 (18.18%) DV Cleared
9 18 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
10 17 (15.45%) PowerShell
11 16 (14.55%) Agile
11 16 (14.55%) AWS
12 15 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (12.73%) CI/CD
13 14 (12.73%) Kubernetes
14 12 (10.91%) Change Control
14 12 (10.91%) High Availability
14 12 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (10.91%) SaaS
15 11 (10.00%) Containerisation
15 11 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (10.00%) DevSecOps
15 11 (10.00%) vCenter Server
16 10 (9.09%) Docker
16 10 (9.09%) vSphere
17 9 (8.18%) Firewall

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 3 (2.73%) IIS
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.00%) Azure
2 16 (14.55%) AWS
3 15 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (10.91%) SaaS
5 7 (6.36%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.64%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.73%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) Firewall
2 7 (6.36%) DNS
3 6 (5.45%) DHCP
3 6 (5.45%) VLAN
4 5 (4.55%) LAN
5 3 (2.73%) NetScaler
5 3 (2.73%) WAN
6 2 (1.82%) Network Security
6 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.82%) VPN
7 1 (0.91%) SAN
7 1 (0.91%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (8.18%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.73%) Finance
3 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
3 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (2.73%) Retail
4 2 (1.82%) Military
5 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.73%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.91%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.18%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.73%) Clustering
3 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (2.73%) FPGA
3 3 (2.73%) PKI
3 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (34.55%) Linux
2 33 (30.00%) Windows
3 27 (24.55%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.18%) Ubuntu
5 8 (7.27%) CentOS
5 8 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.91%) Debian
6 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.91%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (14.55%) Agile
3 14 (12.73%) CI/CD
4 12 (10.91%) Change Control
4 12 (10.91%) High Availability
4 12 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 11 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 9 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (7.27%) Application Packaging
7 8 (7.27%) DevOps
8 7 (6.36%) Project Delivery
9 6 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (5.45%) Technical Debt
10 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Maintenance
10 5 (4.55%) Software Engineering
11 4 (3.64%) Incident Response
11 4 (3.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (3.64%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.45%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.45%) Bash
3 4 (3.64%) Python
4 3 (2.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) Degree
5 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (9.09%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) vSphere
3 9 (8.18%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.36%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.36%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.91%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (20.00%) Terraform
2 20 (18.18%) Ansible
3 14 (12.73%) Kubernetes
4 11 (10.00%) vCenter Server
5 8 (7.27%) Nessus
6 4 (3.64%) Nagios
6 4 (3.64%) SCCM
6 4 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.91%) FlexNet
7 1 (0.91%) Grafana
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.91%) Rancher
7 1 (0.91%) WSUS
7 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.09%) VMware
3 9 (8.18%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.64%) Citrix
5 2 (1.82%) Cisco
6 1 (0.91%) Apple
6 1 (0.91%) NetApp