Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 161 91
Rank change year-on-year +59 -70 +84
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 228 89 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.62% 1.30% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 1.54% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 191 67 444
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,917
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,588
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 13,266 5,767 15,133
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 84.41% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,757 3,628 11,214
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,675 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,520
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.04%

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 April 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 April 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 90 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Thames Valley +7 53 £49,000 -2.00% 18
Buckinghamshire -4 33 £48,000 -14.67% 12
Surrey -21 32 £57,500 +43.75% 4
East Sussex -2 23 £45,000 +63.64%
Kent -21 22 £47,500 -13.64% 1
Oxfordshire -2 12 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Berkshire 0 8 £51,250 +2.50% 3
West Sussex - 6 £60,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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.

1 228 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (37.28%) Azure
3 69 (30.26%) Microsoft
4 61 (26.75%) Windows
5 41 (17.98%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (17.54%) VMware
7 38 (16.67%) Windows Server
8 34 (14.91%) Active Directory
8 34 (14.91%) Firewall
8 34 (14.91%) Security Cleared
9 29 (12.72%) Linux
9 29 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (11.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 22 (9.65%) Entra ID
12 21 (9.21%) DNS
13 20 (8.77%) PowerShell
14 19 (8.33%) AWS
14 19 (8.33%) SC Cleared
14 19 (8.33%) SQL Server
15 18 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
16 17 (7.46%) DV Cleared
16 17 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
16 17 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
16 17 (7.46%) VPN
17 15 (6.58%) DHCP
17 15 (6.58%) Hyper-V
17 15 (6.58%) IaaS
17 15 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
17 15 (6.58%) Veeam
18 14 (6.14%) Identity Management

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 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 85 (37.28%) Azure
2 41 (17.98%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (9.65%) Entra ID
4 19 (8.33%) AWS
5 15 (6.58%) IaaS
6 14 (6.14%) PaaS
7 12 (5.26%) Mimecast
7 12 (5.26%) SaaS
8 10 (4.39%) GCP
9 3 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.88%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.88%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.44%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.91%) Firewall
2 21 (9.21%) DNS
3 17 (7.46%) VPN
4 15 (6.58%) DHCP
5 12 (5.26%) SAN
6 10 (4.39%) WAN
7 8 (3.51%) Network Security
7 8 (3.51%) VLAN
8 7 (3.07%) LAN
9 6 (2.63%) VoIP
10 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.75%) Wireless
11 3 (1.32%) NAS
11 3 (1.32%) NetScaler
12 2 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.88%) VSAN
13 1 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
13 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
13 1 (0.44%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 16 (7.02%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.14%) Legal
3 10 (4.39%) Finance
4 8 (3.51%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.44%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.88%) Middleware
2 1 (0.44%) .NET
2 1 (0.44%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.44%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.51%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (2.19%) iSeries
4 4 (1.75%) Replication
5 2 (0.88%) Clustering
5 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.88%) PKI
5 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.44%) CCTV
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.44%) FMCG
6 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.44%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.75%) Windows
2 38 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 29 (12.72%) Linux
4 13 (5.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.19%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.75%) CentOS
6 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.44%) Unix
8 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (6.14%) Identity Management
5 14 (6.14%) Incident Management
5 14 (6.14%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (5.70%) Change Management
7 11 (4.82%) Agile
7 11 (4.82%) ITIL
7 11 (4.82%) Workflow
8 10 (4.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (4.39%) High Availability
9 9 (3.95%) DevOps
10 8 (3.51%) Security Operations
11 7 (3.07%) Business Continuity
11 7 (3.07%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (3.07%) Infrastructure Maintenance
11 7 (3.07%) Problem Management
12 6 (2.63%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.77%) PowerShell
2 11 (4.82%) R
3 5 (2.19%) SQL
4 3 (1.32%) Bash
5 2 (0.88%) Bicep
6 1 (0.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.46%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.63%) Degree
5 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.32%) MCSE
6 3 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.44%) CCIE
8 1 (0.44%) CCNA
8 1 (0.44%) CCNP
8 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.44%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (14.91%) Active Directory
2 17 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.58%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.63%) vSphere
5 5 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.75%) Firmware
7 2 (0.88%) Docker
7 2 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.44%) Ceph
8 1 (0.44%) Lustre
8 1 (0.44%) pfSense
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (11.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.39%) Terraform
2 10 (4.39%) vCenter Server
3 7 (3.07%) Ansible
3 7 (3.07%) SCCM
4 5 (2.19%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.75%) Nessus
6 3 (1.32%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.88%) Nagios
7 2 (0.88%) SCOM
7 2 (0.88%) VxRail
7 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.44%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.44%) Grafana
8 1 (0.44%) Puppet
8 1 (0.44%) SCSM
Vendors
1 69 (30.26%) Microsoft
2 40 (17.54%) VMware
3 15 (6.58%) Veeam
4 11 (4.82%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (3.07%) HP
5 7 (3.07%) IBM
5 7 (3.07%) NetApp
5 7 (3.07%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.19%) 3PAR
7 5 (2.19%) Commvault
7 5 (2.19%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.75%) Cisco
8 4 (1.75%) EMC
8 4 (1.75%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.32%) Citrix
9 3 (1.32%) Dell
9 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.88%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.88%) Juniper