Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 174 84
Rank change year-on-year +84 -90 +44
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 292 118 468
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.85% 1.37% 2.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.54% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 243 85 416
10th Percentile - - £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +10.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -1.23%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 15,119 7,648 15,415
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 89.08% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,714 4,253 10,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 18 July 2026.

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 18 July 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
Hampshire +16 100 £65,000 +13.04% 22
Thames Valley +72 94 £60,000 +33.33% 20
Buckinghamshire +27 50 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Surrey -14 48 £58,750 +46.88% 8
Oxfordshire +9 28 £52,500 +20.69% 8
East Sussex +9 23 £45,000 +63.64%
Kent -16 17 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Berkshire +31 16 £58,750 +27.03% 9
West Sussex - 4 £60,000 - 1
Sussex -7 2 £45,000 +28.57% 1
Middlesex - 2 £60,000 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 284 (97.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 114 (39.04%) Azure
3 105 (35.96%) Microsoft
4 77 (26.37%) Windows
5 61 (20.89%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (19.86%) Linux
7 56 (19.18%) VMware
8 45 (15.41%) Firewall
9 42 (14.38%) AWS
10 41 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
11 39 (13.36%) PowerShell
11 39 (13.36%) Windows Server
12 38 (13.01%) Active Directory
13 36 (12.33%) Security Cleared
14 34 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (11.30%) Hyper-V
16 28 (9.59%) VPN
17 27 (9.25%) Entra ID
18 26 (8.90%) DNS
18 26 (8.90%) SC Cleared
19 25 (8.56%) Disaster Recovery
19 25 (8.56%) Microsoft Intune
20 22 (7.53%) SaaS
20 22 (7.53%) SQL Server
21 21 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
22 19 (6.51%) Agile
22 19 (6.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
22 19 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
22 19 (6.51%) Terraform
23 17 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement

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 16 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.37%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 114 (39.04%) Azure
2 61 (20.89%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (14.38%) AWS
4 27 (9.25%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.53%) SaaS
6 17 (5.82%) IaaS
7 14 (4.79%) PaaS
8 12 (4.11%) Mimecast
9 11 (3.77%) Cloudflare
10 10 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.40%) Nutanix
11 7 (2.40%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.05%) GCP
13 4 (1.37%) Datadog
14 3 (1.03%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
16 1 (0.34%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.41%) Firewall
2 28 (9.59%) VPN
3 26 (8.90%) DNS
4 15 (5.14%) WAN
5 14 (4.79%) LAN
6 11 (3.77%) DHCP
7 8 (2.74%) VLAN
8 6 (2.05%) Network Security
9 5 (1.71%) SAN
9 5 (1.71%) VoIP
10 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.03%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (0.68%) Internet
12 2 (0.68%) NAS
13 1 (0.34%) SSL
13 1 (0.34%) VSAN
13 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (7.88%) Social Skills
2 13 (4.45%) Legal
3 10 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.74%) Finance
5 7 (2.40%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.05%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.71%) Retail
8 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Law
10 2 (0.68%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.37%) HTML
3 2 (0.68%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.34%) Redfish
4 1 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.79%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.11%) PKI
3 10 (3.42%) Driving Licence
3 10 (3.42%) iSeries
4 9 (3.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.05%) Replication
7 3 (1.03%) Clustering
7 3 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.03%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.68%) FPGA
8 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (26.37%) Windows
2 58 (19.86%) Linux
3 39 (13.36%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.08%) Ubuntu
4 9 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.74%) CentOS
6 2 (0.68%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Debian
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (97.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (8.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (6.51%) Agile
5 19 (6.51%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (5.82%) Incident Management
6 17 (5.82%) ITIL
7 15 (5.14%) High Availability
7 15 (5.14%) Vulnerability Management
8 14 (4.79%) Change Control
9 12 (4.11%) Project Delivery
9 12 (4.11%) SIEM
10 11 (3.77%) Change Management
10 11 (3.77%) CI/CD
10 11 (3.77%) DevSecOps
10 11 (3.77%) Identity Management
10 11 (3.77%) Workflow
10 11 (3.77%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.36%) PowerShell
2 11 (3.77%) Bash
2 11 (3.77%) Python
2 11 (3.77%) R
3 6 (2.05%) SQL
4 2 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.90%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.11%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.08%) Degree
5 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.03%) MCSE
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.34%) CCIE
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.68%) GDPR
4 2 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (13.01%) Active Directory
3 33 (11.30%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.11%) vSphere
5 8 (2.74%) KVM
6 6 (2.05%) Firmware
6 6 (2.05%) VMware Server
7 5 (1.71%) Docker
7 5 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 25 (8.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (6.51%) Terraform
3 16 (5.48%) Ansible
4 11 (3.77%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.42%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.08%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.74%) Graylog
7 8 (2.74%) Nessus
7 8 (2.74%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.71%) SCCM
9 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.03%) Nagios
11 2 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.34%) FlexNet
12 1 (0.34%) Grafana
12 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.34%) Rancher
12 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 105 (35.96%) Microsoft
2 56 (19.18%) VMware
3 15 (5.14%) Veeam
4 14 (4.79%) IBM
5 11 (3.77%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (3.08%) Cisco
6 9 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.40%) Oracle
8 6 (2.05%) Commvault
8 6 (2.05%) HP
9 5 (1.71%) EMC
9 5 (1.71%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.37%) Citrix
10 4 (1.37%) Dell
11 3 (1.03%) Aruba
11 3 (1.03%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.03%) NetApp
12 2 (0.68%) Meraki
12 2 (0.68%) Qualys
12 2 (0.68%) Zerto