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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 176 83
Rank change year-on-year +90 -93 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 326 123 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.91% 1.39% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.56% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 267 84 333
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,250 £64,900
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

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 16,301 7,903 13,059
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.28% 89.52% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11,546 4,400 8,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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
Thames Valley +81 117 £55,000 +22.22% 18
Hampshire +27 111 £65,000 +13.04% 23
Surrey 0 60 £60,000 +50.00% 6
Oxfordshire +11 46 £55,000 +26.44% 8
Buckinghamshire +18 44 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Berkshire +42 27 £52,500 +16.67% 4
East Sussex -3 16 £45,000 +63.64%
Kent -25 15 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Sussex -4 2 £45,000 +28.57%
West Sussex - 2 £37,500 -
Middlesex - 2 £60,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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.

1 312 (95.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 139 (42.64%) Azure
3 118 (36.20%) Microsoft
4 91 (27.91%) Windows
5 72 (22.09%) Microsoft 365
6 70 (21.47%) Linux
6 70 (21.47%) VMware
7 57 (17.48%) Firewall
8 53 (16.26%) PowerShell
9 50 (15.34%) Active Directory
10 49 (15.03%) Windows Server
11 48 (14.72%) Security Cleared
11 48 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
12 47 (14.42%) AWS
13 39 (11.96%) Entra ID
14 38 (11.66%) DNS
15 37 (11.35%) Hyper-V
16 36 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
17 35 (10.74%) SC Cleared
18 34 (10.43%) Microsoft Intune
18 34 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (10.12%) VPN
20 27 (8.28%) Terraform
21 26 (7.98%) SaaS
21 26 (7.98%) SharePoint
22 25 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
22 25 (7.67%) High Availability
23 23 (7.06%) Business Continuity
24 22 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
24 22 (6.75%) Cyber Essentials

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 26 (7.98%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 4 (1.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 139 (42.64%) Azure
2 72 (22.09%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (14.42%) AWS
4 39 (11.96%) Entra ID
5 26 (7.98%) SaaS
6 20 (6.13%) IaaS
7 13 (3.99%) PaaS
8 12 (3.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (3.68%) Nutanix
9 11 (3.37%) Cloudflare
9 11 (3.37%) Mimecast
10 8 (2.45%) GCP
11 7 (2.15%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.23%) Datadog
14 3 (0.92%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (0.92%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (0.61%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.48%) Firewall
2 38 (11.66%) DNS
3 33 (10.12%) VPN
4 20 (6.13%) DHCP
4 20 (6.13%) WAN
5 19 (5.83%) LAN
6 13 (3.99%) VLAN
7 7 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.84%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (1.84%) Internet
9 5 (1.53%) SAN
9 5 (1.53%) VoIP
10 4 (1.23%) Network Security
10 4 (1.23%) SSL
11 3 (0.92%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.92%) VSAN
12 2 (0.61%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (4.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (11.04%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.29%) Legal
3 11 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (3.37%) Finance
4 8 (2.45%) Retail
5 7 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.15%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.84%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.23%) Law
9 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.23%) HTML
3 3 (0.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.31%) Redfish
4 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.29%) Data Centre
1 14 (4.29%) Driving Licence
2 11 (3.37%) PKI
3 10 (3.07%) iSeries
3 10 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.45%) Replication
6 6 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.53%) Clustering
8 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) FPGA
9 3 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.92%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.31%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 91 (27.91%) Windows
2 70 (21.47%) Linux
3 49 (15.03%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.37%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (2.45%) CentOS
7 3 (0.92%) Rocky
8 2 (0.61%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Debian
9 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (95.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 34 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (7.67%) High Availability
5 23 (7.06%) Business Continuity
6 22 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (6.44%) Agile
7 21 (6.44%) Incident Management
8 19 (5.83%) CI/CD
8 19 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (5.83%) Vulnerability Management
9 18 (5.52%) ITIL
10 17 (5.21%) Business Continuity Planning
10 17 (5.21%) Project Delivery
10 17 (5.21%) Zero Trust
11 15 (4.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (4.60%) SIEM
12 14 (4.29%) BCP
12 14 (4.29%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 53 (16.26%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.29%) Bash
3 12 (3.68%) Python
4 11 (3.37%) R
5 8 (2.45%) SQL
6 3 (0.92%) Bicep
7 1 (0.31%) Go
7 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.75%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.15%) Degree
7 3 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.61%) MCSE
9 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 19 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.53%) NCSC
4 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (15.34%) Active Directory
2 48 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (11.35%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.21%) vSphere
5 11 (3.37%) Docker
6 9 (2.76%) Firmware
6 9 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.45%) KVM
7 8 (2.45%) VMware Server
8 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.61%) Lustre
10 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (10.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (8.28%) Terraform
3 20 (6.13%) Ansible
4 17 (5.21%) Kubernetes
5 15 (4.60%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.76%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.45%) Graylog
7 8 (2.45%) Nessus
7 8 (2.45%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.84%) SCCM
9 4 (1.23%) Nagios
9 4 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.61%) Argo
10 2 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.61%) Grafana
10 2 (0.61%) VxRail
11 1 (0.31%) FlexNet
11 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.31%) Rancher
11 1 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 118 (36.20%) Microsoft
2 70 (21.47%) VMware
3 18 (5.52%) Veeam
4 14 (4.29%) IBM
5 13 (3.99%) Cisco
6 11 (3.37%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.45%) Dell
9 7 (2.15%) Aruba
9 7 (2.15%) Oracle
10 6 (1.84%) Commvault
10 6 (1.84%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.84%) Qualys
11 5 (1.53%) EMC
11 5 (1.53%) HP
12 4 (1.23%) Citrix
12 4 (1.23%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.92%) Meraki
13 3 (0.92%) NetApp
14 2 (0.61%) Zerto