Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 112 77
Rank change year-on-year -44 -35 +84
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 126 219 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.22% 2.40% 3.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 2.63% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 94 137 237
10th Percentile £42,150 £36,725 £37,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,250 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -3.85%

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 9,448 8,341 7,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 91.22% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,849 4,466 5,521
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.78%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +37 52 £55,000 +15.79% 14
Thames Valley -47 31 £48,000 +1.05% 20
Kent -2 28 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Buckinghamshire -18 20 £46,750 -1.58% 9
Surrey -6 13 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Berkshire -26 9 £51,250 +7.89% 10
Oxfordshire +11 2 £50,000 -16.67% 2
West Sussex -11 2 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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.

1 125 (99.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (50.00%) Windows
3 51 (40.48%) VMware
4 47 (37.30%) Windows Server
5 42 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 41 (32.54%) Azure
7 39 (30.95%) Active Directory
8 36 (28.57%) Firewall
9 32 (25.40%) DNS
10 31 (24.60%) DHCP
11 27 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (21.43%) SAN
12 25 (19.84%) vCenter Server
13 24 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
14 23 (18.25%) Microsoft Intune
14 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
15 22 (17.46%) Linux
16 21 (16.67%) NetApp
16 21 (16.67%) Security Operations
16 21 (16.67%) Veeam
17 20 (15.87%) SCCM
18 19 (15.08%) PowerShell
18 19 (15.08%) VMware ESXi
18 19 (15.08%) VPN
19 17 (13.49%) Performance Tuning
20 16 (12.70%) AWS
20 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
20 16 (12.70%) DV Cleared
20 16 (12.70%) Hyper-V

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 9 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.59%) WinCC
4 1 (0.79%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.79%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.79%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.54%) Azure
2 27 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (12.70%) AWS
4 10 (7.94%) GCP
5 9 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.59%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.59%) OVHcloud
7 2 (1.59%) Serverless
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.79%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (28.57%) Firewall
2 32 (25.40%) DNS
3 31 (24.60%) DHCP
4 27 (21.43%) SAN
5 19 (15.08%) VPN
6 15 (11.90%) VLAN
7 12 (9.52%) TCP/IP
8 11 (8.73%) Network Security
9 9 (7.14%) NAS
10 7 (5.56%) Wireless
11 6 (4.76%) WAN
12 3 (2.38%) NetScaler
12 3 (2.38%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (1.59%) InfiniBand
13 2 (1.59%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.59%) Modbus
13 2 (1.59%) VSAN
14 1 (0.79%) IPv4
14 1 (0.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.38%) Data Mining
1 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.17%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.79%) GitLab
2 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.73%) Finance
3 6 (4.76%) Legal
4 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.17%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.79%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.17%) LDAP
2 2 (1.59%) .NET
2 2 (1.59%) Middleware
3 1 (0.79%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.79%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.97%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.38%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.59%) Clustering
4 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.59%) SCADA
5 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.79%) CCTV
5 1 (0.79%) CMDB
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.79%) FMCG
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.79%) PKI
5 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 63 (50.00%) Windows
2 47 (37.30%) Windows Server
3 22 (17.46%) Linux
4 14 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (7.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.76%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.17%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.79%) Unix
8 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (99.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 17 (13.49%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (11.90%) Business Continuity
6 15 (11.90%) DevOps
7 14 (11.11%) Agile
7 14 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (10.32%) Proactive Monitoring
9 11 (8.73%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 10 (7.94%) High Availability
10 10 (7.94%) ITIL
11 9 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (7.14%) Data Protection
11 9 (7.14%) SIEM
12 8 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (6.35%) Incident Response
12 8 (6.35%) Situational Awareness
12 8 (6.35%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.08%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.76%) Bash
3 5 (3.97%) Python
4 3 (2.38%) SQL
5 2 (1.59%) Bicep
6 1 (0.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.70%) DV Cleared
3 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.76%) Degree
5 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.38%) MCSE
7 3 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.59%) CCNA
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) HND
9 1 (0.79%) MCP
9 1 (0.79%) MCSA
9 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.79%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.59%) IEC 61508
1 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.59%) NIST
1 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.59%) QA
1 2 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.79%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 39 (30.95%) Active Directory
2 24 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (15.08%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (12.70%) Hyper-V
5 9 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (7.14%) vSphere
6 2 (1.59%) Docker
6 2 (1.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.59%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.79%) Ceph
7 1 (0.79%) Firmware
7 1 (0.79%) Lustre
7 1 (0.79%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 25 (19.84%) vCenter Server
2 23 (18.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (15.87%) SCCM
4 6 (4.76%) Terraform
5 5 (3.97%) ZABBIX
6 4 (3.17%) Ansible
6 4 (3.17%) Nagios
7 3 (2.38%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.38%) SCOM
8 2 (1.59%) SCSM
8 2 (1.59%) VxRail
9 1 (0.79%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.79%) Grafana
9 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.79%) Podman
9 1 (0.79%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 51 (40.48%) VMware
2 42 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 21 (16.67%) NetApp
3 21 (16.67%) Veeam
4 15 (11.90%) SolarWinds
5 13 (10.32%) 3PAR
6 7 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 7 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (3.17%) Citrix
8 4 (3.17%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.17%) Splunk
9 3 (2.38%) Cisco
9 3 (2.38%) Dell
9 3 (2.38%) Trend Micro
10 2 (1.59%) HP
10 2 (1.59%) IBM
10 2 (1.59%) Juniper
10 2 (1.59%) Siemens