IT Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Portsmouth

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 0.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £46,000 £46,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.08% +16.25% -8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 380 154 436
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.45% 95.65% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 273 101 373
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,000 - £75,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth.

Salary distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 19 March 2026, IT 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 Portsmouth region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft