Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 87 138
Rank change year-on-year -119 +51 +55
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 116 501 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.14% 2.89% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 3.07% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 84 441 189
10th Percentile - £36,250 £35,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,250 £63,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 9,066 16,341 11,031
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 94.26% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,050 11,552 7,507
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,152 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 July 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
Surrey +12 40 £40,000 -25.93% 10
Hampshire -30 33 £57,500 +18.56% 18
Thames Valley -73 27 £45,000 -10.00% 30
Kent -11 13 £52,500 +5.00% 14
Oxfordshire -9 10 £43,500 -13.00% 8
Buckinghamshire -18 10 £55,000 +29.41% 16
Berkshire -19 7 £46,250 -11.99% 8
East Sussex -10 2 £27,500 -45.00%
Sussex +17 1 £35,000 -41.67% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 14 July 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 113 (97.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 76 (65.52%) VMware
3 69 (59.48%) Microsoft
3 69 (59.48%) Active Directory
4 68 (58.62%) Windows
5 56 (48.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 46 (39.66%) Azure
6 46 (39.66%) PowerShell
7 43 (37.07%) Microsoft Exchange
8 39 (33.62%) Security Cleared
9 36 (31.03%) Disaster Recovery
9 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
10 33 (28.45%) SAN
11 31 (26.72%) High Availability
11 31 (26.72%) Microsoft 365
12 30 (25.86%) Windows Server
13 29 (25.00%) Linux
14 28 (24.14%) DV Cleared
14 28 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (21.55%) NAS
15 25 (21.55%) Virtual Environments
16 24 (20.69%) DNS
17 23 (19.83%) Firewall
17 23 (19.83%) Degree
18 22 (18.97%) Kalman Filter
19 20 (17.24%) AWS
20 19 (16.38%) Hyper-V
20 19 (16.38%) VMware ESXi
20 19 (16.38%) Clustering
20 19 (16.38%) DHCP

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 43 (37.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.59%) Apache
2 3 (2.59%) IIS
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) AutoCAD
1 2 (1.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 46 (39.66%) Azure
2 31 (26.72%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (17.24%) AWS
4 13 (11.21%) GCP
5 10 (8.62%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.17%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.45%) Route 53
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.59%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.59%) Serverless
10 2 (1.72%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.72%) Datadog
10 2 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (28.45%) SAN
2 25 (21.55%) NAS
3 24 (20.69%) DNS
4 23 (19.83%) Firewall
5 19 (16.38%) DHCP
6 16 (13.79%) WAN
7 13 (11.21%) LAN
8 11 (9.48%) SMTP
9 10 (8.62%) SD-WAN
10 7 (6.03%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (6.03%) SNMP
11 6 (5.17%) Network Security
11 6 (5.17%) VPN
12 5 (4.31%) IP Telephony
13 4 (3.45%) iSCSI
13 4 (3.45%) TCP/IP
14 3 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (1.72%) SSL
15 2 (1.72%) VLAN
15 2 (1.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.86%) JIRA
2 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.17%) Automotive
5 6 (5.17%) Finance
6 5 (4.31%) Games
6 5 (4.31%) Legal
7 3 (2.59%) Local Government
7 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.59%) Retail
8 2 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Advertising
9 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) OLE
1 3 (2.59%) YAML
2 1 (0.86%) JSON
2 1 (0.86%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.38%) Clustering
2 11 (9.48%) PKI
3 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.31%) Blackberry
5 3 (2.59%) NHS
6 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.86%) CCTV
7 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 68 (58.62%) Windows
2 30 (25.86%) Windows Server
3 29 (25.00%) Linux
4 5 (4.31%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.45%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.45%) Unix
6 3 (2.59%) VMS
6 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.72%) Debian
7 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.72%) SUSE
8 1 (0.86%) CentOS
8 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (97.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (31.03%) Disaster Recovery
3 31 (26.72%) High Availability
4 28 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (21.55%) Virtual Environments
6 22 (18.97%) Kalman Filter
7 19 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.66%) Computer Science
9 16 (13.79%) DevOps
9 16 (13.79%) Server Building
10 15 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (12.93%) Patch Management
11 12 (10.34%) IT Strategy
11 12 (10.34%) Migration
12 11 (9.48%) Antivirus Management
12 11 (9.48%) Web Filtering
13 10 (8.62%) Customer Service
13 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
14 9 (7.76%) CI/CD
14 9 (7.76%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 46 (39.66%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.17%) Python
3 2 (1.72%) Bash
3 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (33.62%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.14%) DV Cleared
3 23 (19.83%) Degree
4 13 (11.21%) HND
5 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.31%) MCSE
8 5 (4.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.59%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.59%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.86%) CCNA
11 1 (0.86%) CCNP
11 1 (0.86%) CISSP
11 1 (0.86%) HNC
11 1 (0.86%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) GDPR
2 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 69 (59.48%) Active Directory
2 56 (48.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (16.38%) Hyper-V
3 19 (16.38%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (8.62%) Docker
4 10 (8.62%) vSphere
5 9 (7.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (6.90%) BitLocker
6 8 (6.90%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (6.90%) Terminal Services
7 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.59%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.59%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.86%) Firmware
10 1 (0.86%) KVM
Systems Management
1 13 (11.21%) Ansible
1 13 (11.21%) Kubernetes
1 13 (11.21%) vCenter Server
2 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (10.34%) Terraform
3 8 (6.90%) vMotion
4 6 (5.17%) Nagios
4 6 (5.17%) Puppet
5 5 (4.31%) SCCM
6 2 (1.72%) Nessus
6 2 (1.72%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.72%) ZENworks
7 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.86%) Packer
7 1 (0.86%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.86%) Podman
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.86%) vRealize
7 1 (0.86%) VxRail
7 1 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (65.52%) VMware
2 69 (59.48%) Microsoft
3 16 (13.79%) Citrix
4 9 (7.76%) HP
5 8 (6.90%) Google
5 8 (6.90%) Veeam
6 7 (6.03%) Cisco
7 6 (5.17%) Symantec
8 5 (4.31%) McAfee
8 5 (4.31%) Sophos
9 4 (3.45%) Apple
9 4 (3.45%) Dell
9 4 (3.45%) NetApp
10 3 (2.59%) Juniper
11 2 (1.72%) Meraki
11 2 (1.72%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.72%) Splunk
12 1 (0.86%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow