Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 83 75
Rank change year-on-year -97 -8 +92
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 102 351 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.10% 3.11% 3.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 3.24% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 69 250 200
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,125 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +0.96%

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 8,453 10,835 7,289
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 95.99% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,165 6,043 5,213
10th Percentile £27,600 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 the South East.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies 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 November 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 November 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
Hampshire -15 33 £55,000 +13.40% 26
Thames Valley -61 31 £47,500 - 29
Kent -18 23 £50,000 -2.44% 7
Buckinghamshire -30 17 £47,500 +11.76% 12
Surrey -15 15 £40,000 -21.95% 11
Oxfordshire +1 9 £43,500 -17.92% 8
Berkshire -25 5 £53,750 +13.16% 11
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 101 (99.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (54.90%) VMware
3 55 (53.92%) Windows
4 51 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 48 (47.06%) Active Directory
6 39 (38.24%) Azure
6 39 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
7 38 (37.25%) Windows Server
8 35 (34.31%) Firewall
9 31 (30.39%) DNS
10 29 (28.43%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (27.45%) PowerShell
12 27 (26.47%) SAN
13 26 (25.49%) DHCP
13 26 (25.49%) Microsoft Intune
14 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (22.55%) Linux
16 22 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (20.59%) SCCM
17 21 (20.59%) Security Cleared
18 20 (19.61%) Disaster Recovery
18 20 (19.61%) Hyper-V
18 20 (19.61%) vCenter Server
19 18 (17.65%) Agile
19 18 (17.65%) AWS
19 18 (17.65%) DevOps
19 18 (17.65%) Veeam
20 17 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
21 16 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
21 16 (15.69%) VMware ESXi

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.92%) IIS
4 3 (2.94%) Apache
5 2 (1.96%) WinCC
6 1 (0.98%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.96%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.96%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.98%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.24%) Azure
2 29 (28.43%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (17.65%) AWS
4 13 (12.75%) Entra ID
5 10 (9.80%) GCP
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.94%) Route 53
7 3 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.96%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.96%) OVHcloud
8 2 (1.96%) Serverless
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.98%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 35 (34.31%) Firewall
2 31 (30.39%) DNS
3 27 (26.47%) SAN
4 26 (25.49%) DHCP
5 15 (14.71%) VPN
6 12 (11.76%) VLAN
7 11 (10.78%) NAS
8 10 (9.80%) TCP/IP
9 7 (6.86%) WAN
10 6 (5.88%) Network Security
11 5 (4.90%) Wireless
12 4 (3.92%) LAN
13 3 (2.94%) IP Telephony
13 3 (2.94%) SD-WAN
13 3 (2.94%) SMTP
13 3 (2.94%) SNMP
14 2 (1.96%) InfiniBand
14 2 (1.96%) iSCSI
14 2 (1.96%) Modbus
14 2 (1.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.94%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.98%) GitLab
2 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.82%) Finance
3 7 (6.86%) Legal
4 5 (4.90%) Automotive
4 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.94%) Local Government
7 2 (1.96%) Advertising
7 2 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.92%) LDAP
2 3 (2.94%) YAML
3 2 (1.96%) OLE
4 1 (0.98%) .NET
4 1 (0.98%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
1 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.94%) Blackberry
2 3 (2.94%) NHS
2 3 (2.94%) PKI
3 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.96%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.96%) SCADA
4 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.98%) CCTV
4 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.98%) CMDB
4 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (53.92%) Windows
2 38 (37.25%) Windows Server
3 23 (22.55%) Linux
4 11 (10.78%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (10.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (7.84%) Mac OS
6 6 (5.88%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.90%) Apple iOS
7 5 (4.90%) Unix
8 4 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (99.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (19.61%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (17.65%) Agile
5 18 (17.65%) DevOps
6 16 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (13.73%) Security Operations
8 13 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (12.75%) ITIL
9 12 (11.76%) Information Security
10 11 (10.78%) Business Continuity
10 11 (10.78%) High Availability
11 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Monitoring
11 10 (9.80%) Mentoring
11 10 (9.80%) Proactive Monitoring
12 8 (7.84%) Virtual Environments
13 7 (6.86%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (6.86%) Kalman Filter
13 7 (6.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.45%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.88%) Bash
2 6 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (0.98%) Bicep
3 1 (0.98%) Java
3 1 (0.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.80%) Degree
5 7 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.88%) MCSE
6 6 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.92%) HND
8 3 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.94%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.96%) CCNA
10 1 (0.98%) CCNP
10 1 (0.98%) MCP
10 1 (0.98%) MCSA
10 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.98%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.96%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.96%) NIST
5 2 (1.96%) QA
6 1 (0.98%) GDPR
6 1 (0.98%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 48 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 39 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (19.61%) Hyper-V
4 16 (15.69%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (7.84%) vSphere
6 5 (4.90%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.96%) Docker
7 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.98%) Ceph
8 1 (0.98%) Firmware
8 1 (0.98%) Lustre
8 1 (0.98%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (20.59%) SCCM
3 20 (19.61%) vCenter Server
4 9 (8.82%) Terraform
5 7 (6.86%) Ansible
6 5 (4.90%) ZABBIX
7 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes
7 4 (3.92%) Nagios
8 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.94%) SCOM
9 2 (1.96%) SCSM
10 1 (0.98%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.98%) Grafana
10 1 (0.98%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.98%) Podman
10 1 (0.98%) Puppet
10 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 56 (54.90%) VMware
2 51 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (17.65%) Veeam
4 15 (14.71%) NetApp
5 11 (10.78%) SolarWinds
6 10 (9.80%) 3PAR
7 6 (5.88%) Fortinet
7 6 (5.88%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.90%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (4.90%) Sophos
9 4 (3.92%) Apple
9 4 (3.92%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.94%) Cisco
10 3 (2.94%) McAfee
10 3 (2.94%) Splunk
10 3 (2.94%) Trend Micro
11 2 (1.96%) Citrix
11 2 (1.96%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.96%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (1.96%) Rockwell