Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £50,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 118 70
Rank change year-on-year -33 -48 +95
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 123 227 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.19% 2.39% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 2.57% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 95 154 216
10th Percentile £40,800 £35,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -1.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% +1.94%

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 9,489 8,821 6,822
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 92.71% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,916 4,803 4,909
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,750
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 December 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 19 December 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 +33 51 £55,000 +18.92% 9
Thames Valley -37 32 £48,000 +1.05% 10
Kent -3 26 £50,000 +8.11% 6
Buckinghamshire -16 20 £48,000 +1.05% 6
Surrey -12 12 £48,750 +14.71% 4
Berkshire -22 7 £53,750 +13.16% 3
Oxfordshire +11 5 £43,500 -23.01% 1
West Sussex -15 2 £50,000 +5.26% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 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.

1 122 (99.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (52.03%) Windows
3 53 (43.09%) VMware
4 48 (39.02%) Windows Server
5 45 (36.59%) Azure
6 41 (33.33%) Microsoft
7 39 (31.71%) Active Directory
8 38 (30.89%) Firewall
9 33 (26.83%) DNS
10 31 (25.20%) DHCP
11 29 (23.58%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
13 26 (21.14%) SAN
14 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (18.70%) Microsoft Intune
16 22 (17.89%) Linux
16 22 (17.89%) PowerShell
16 22 (17.89%) vCenter Server
17 21 (17.07%) Security Cleared
17 21 (17.07%) VPN
18 19 (15.45%) Disaster Recovery
19 18 (14.63%) AWS
19 18 (14.63%) NetApp
19 18 (14.63%) Security Operations
19 18 (14.63%) VMware ESXi
20 17 (13.82%) SCCM
20 17 (13.82%) Veeam
21 16 (13.01%) Hyper-V
21 16 (13.01%) Performance Tuning
22 15 (12.20%) Business Continuity

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 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.63%) WinCC
3 1 (0.81%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.81%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 45 (36.59%) Azure
2 29 (23.58%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (14.63%) AWS
4 12 (9.76%) Entra ID
4 12 (9.76%) GCP
5 4 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.63%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.63%) OVHcloud
6 2 (1.63%) Serverless
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.81%) AWS KMS
7 1 (0.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (30.89%) Firewall
2 33 (26.83%) DNS
3 31 (25.20%) DHCP
4 26 (21.14%) SAN
5 21 (17.07%) VPN
6 15 (12.20%) VLAN
7 12 (9.76%) TCP/IP
8 11 (8.94%) Network Security
9 9 (7.32%) NAS
10 8 (6.50%) WAN
11 7 (5.69%) Wireless
12 3 (2.44%) LAN
12 3 (2.44%) NetScaler
12 3 (2.44%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (1.63%) InfiniBand
13 2 (1.63%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.63%) Modbus
13 2 (1.63%) VSAN
14 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.44%) Data Mining
1 3 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.25%) JIRA
2 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.81%) GitLab
2 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (21.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.94%) Finance
3 6 (4.88%) Legal
4 5 (4.07%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.25%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.63%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Automotive
8 1 (0.81%) Electronics
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.25%) LDAP
2 2 (1.63%) .NET
2 2 (1.63%) Middleware
3 1 (0.81%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.81%) LAMP
3 1 (0.81%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.07%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.63%) Clustering
4 2 (1.63%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.63%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.63%) SCADA
5 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.81%) CCTV
5 1 (0.81%) CMDB
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.81%) FMCG
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.81%) PKI
5 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (52.03%) Windows
2 48 (39.02%) Windows Server
3 22 (17.89%) Linux
4 11 (8.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (8.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (4.88%) Windows 10
8 4 (3.25%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.81%) Unix
9 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (99.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (15.45%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (14.63%) Security Operations
5 16 (13.01%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (12.20%) Business Continuity
6 15 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (11.38%) Agile
8 13 (10.57%) Proactive Monitoring
9 12 (9.76%) DevOps
10 11 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 11 (8.94%) ITIL
11 10 (8.13%) High Availability
12 9 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
12 9 (7.32%) Data Protection
12 9 (7.32%) SIEM
13 8 (6.50%) Incident Response
13 8 (6.50%) Situational Awareness
13 8 (6.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.89%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.88%) Bash
3 5 (4.07%) Python
4 3 (2.44%) SQL
5 2 (1.63%) Bicep
6 1 (0.81%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.38%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.69%) Degree
4 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.07%) MCSE
5 5 (4.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.63%) CCNA
7 2 (1.63%) CCNP
8 1 (0.81%) HND
8 1 (0.81%) MCP
8 1 (0.81%) MCSA
8 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.81%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.63%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.63%) NIST
2 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.63%) QA
2 2 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 39 (31.71%) Active Directory
2 27 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (14.63%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (13.01%) Hyper-V
5 9 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (7.32%) vSphere
6 5 (4.07%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.63%) Docker
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.63%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.81%) Ceph
8 1 (0.81%) Firmware
8 1 (0.81%) Lustre
8 1 (0.81%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 23 (18.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (17.89%) vCenter Server
3 17 (13.82%) SCCM
4 6 (4.88%) Terraform
5 5 (4.07%) ZABBIX
6 4 (3.25%) Ansible
6 4 (3.25%) Nagios
7 3 (2.44%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.44%) SCOM
8 2 (1.63%) SCSM
8 2 (1.63%) VxRail
9 1 (0.81%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.81%) Grafana
9 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.81%) Podman
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 53 (43.09%) VMware
2 41 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 18 (14.63%) NetApp
4 17 (13.82%) Veeam
5 12 (9.76%) SolarWinds
6 10 (8.13%) 3PAR
7 7 (5.69%) Fortinet
7 7 (5.69%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.88%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (3.25%) Cisco
9 4 (3.25%) Citrix
9 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow
9 4 (3.25%) Splunk
10 3 (2.44%) Dell
10 3 (2.44%) Trend Micro
11 2 (1.63%) HP
11 2 (1.63%) Juniper
11 2 (1.63%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.63%) Siemens