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 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 82 70
Rank change year-on-year +36 -12 +34
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 97 30 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 2.72% 1.86% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.84% 1.98% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 79 23 111
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £44,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +8.25% -3.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 - £63,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% +11.11%

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 3,417 1,517 3,754
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 94.05% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,400 1,032 2,958
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% -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 16 May 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 16 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
Farnborough +4 22 £75,000 +57.89% 7
Fareham - 19 £55,000 -
Basingstoke +21 18 £47,500 -17.39% 3
Portsmouth +5 14 £65,000 +136.36%
Yateley - 6 - -
Eastleigh 0 4 £57,500 +23.66%
Southampton -21 4 £50,000 -4.76% 2
Aldershot - 1 £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 16 May 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 97 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (30.93%) Windows
3 24 (24.74%) Security Cleared
4 21 (21.65%) Azure
5 20 (20.62%) Windows Server
6 19 (19.59%) AWS
7 17 (17.53%) Linux
8 15 (15.46%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (15.46%) VMware
9 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
10 13 (13.40%) SC Cleared
10 13 (13.40%) Terraform
11 11 (11.34%) Agile
11 11 (11.34%) DV Cleared
11 11 (11.34%) PowerShell
12 10 (10.31%) Ansible
13 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Maintenance
13 9 (9.28%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (8.25%) DevOps
14 8 (8.25%) DevSecOps
14 8 (8.25%) Firewall
14 8 (8.25%) High Availability
15 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes
15 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
16 6 (6.19%) Application Packaging
16 6 (6.19%) CentOS
16 6 (6.19%) Change Control
16 6 (6.19%) Incident Response
16 6 (6.19%) Nessus
16 6 (6.19%) Performance Monitoring

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 2 (2.06%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.65%) Azure
2 19 (19.59%) AWS
3 15 (15.46%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.19%) SaaS
5 5 (5.15%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.12%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.09%) Cloudflare
7 3 (3.09%) GCP
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) Firewall
2 5 (5.15%) Network Security
2 5 (5.15%) VPN
3 4 (4.12%) DHCP
3 4 (4.12%) DNS
4 2 (2.06%) LAN
4 2 (2.06%) SAN
5 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.03%) VLAN
5 1 (1.03%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (6.19%) Finance
2 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (4.12%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.06%) Military
4 1 (1.03%) Legal
4 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) AWS CDK
1 2 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.19%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.93%) Windows
2 20 (20.62%) Windows Server
3 17 (17.53%) Linux
4 9 (9.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (6.19%) CentOS
5 6 (6.19%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (11.34%) Agile
3 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 8 (8.25%) DevOps
4 8 (8.25%) DevSecOps
4 8 (8.25%) High Availability
5 6 (6.19%) Application Packaging
5 6 (6.19%) Change Control
5 6 (6.19%) Incident Response
5 6 (6.19%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (5.15%) CI/CD
6 5 (5.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (5.15%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (5.15%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (4.12%) AI
7 4 (4.12%) Security Operations
7 4 (4.12%) SIEM
7 4 (4.12%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (4.12%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.34%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.34%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.19%) vSphere
3 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) Docker
4 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (13.40%) Terraform
2 10 (10.31%) Ansible
3 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.19%) Nessus
5 5 (5.15%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.09%) Nagios
7 2 (2.06%) SCCM
7 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (15.46%) VMware
2 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.19%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.03%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco
5 1 (1.03%) New Relic