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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 116 76
Rank change year-on-year -26 -40 +88
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 130 213 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.26% 2.35% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 2.58% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 98 131 258
10th Percentile £38,025 £36,875 £36,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,875 £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 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £67,500 £65,000
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 9,481 8,248 8,378
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 91.17% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,908 4,358 6,020
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £28,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -5.69%

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 11 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 11 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 +49 58 £55,000 +12.82% 15
Thames Valley -47 31 £48,000 -1.54% 20
Kent -3 27 £47,500 - 6
Buckinghamshire -19 21 £46,000 -5.64% 9
Surrey +1 12 £48,750 -15.22% 2
Berkshire -22 9 £51,250 +7.89% 11
West Sussex -11 2 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Oxfordshire +13 1 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 129 (99.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (47.69%) Windows
3 48 (36.92%) VMware
4 47 (36.15%) Windows Server
5 40 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 39 (30.00%) Active Directory
7 38 (29.23%) Azure
8 34 (26.15%) Firewall
9 32 (24.62%) DNS
10 31 (23.85%) DHCP
11 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (19.23%) SAN
13 24 (18.46%) Microsoft 365
14 23 (17.69%) vCenter Server
15 22 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
15 22 (16.92%) Security Cleared
16 21 (16.15%) Security Operations
16 21 (16.15%) Veeam
16 21 (16.15%) VMware Infrastructure
17 20 (15.38%) Linux
17 20 (15.38%) SCCM
18 19 (14.62%) NetApp
18 19 (14.62%) VMware ESXi
19 18 (13.85%) VPN
20 17 (13.08%) Performance Tuning
21 16 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
21 16 (12.31%) DV Cleared
21 16 (12.31%) PowerShell
22 15 (11.54%) Business Continuity
22 15 (11.54%) DevOps

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 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.54%) WinCC
4 1 (0.77%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.77%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.77%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.23%) Azure
2 24 (18.46%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (10.77%) AWS
4 10 (7.69%) GCP
5 9 (6.92%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.77%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.77%) IaaS
8 1 (0.77%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.77%) OVHcloud
8 1 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (26.15%) Firewall
2 32 (24.62%) DNS
3 31 (23.85%) DHCP
4 25 (19.23%) SAN
5 18 (13.85%) VPN
6 15 (11.54%) VLAN
7 11 (8.46%) Network Security
8 10 (7.69%) TCP/IP
9 7 (5.38%) NAS
9 7 (5.38%) Wireless
10 5 (3.85%) WAN
11 3 (2.31%) NetScaler
12 2 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (1.54%) InfiniBand
12 2 (1.54%) Modbus
12 2 (1.54%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.54%) VSAN
13 1 (0.77%) 5G
13 1 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
13 1 (0.77%) Miracast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.31%) Data Mining
1 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.77%) GitLab
2 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.46%) Finance
3 7 (5.38%) Legal
4 5 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.08%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.77%) Advertising
8 1 (0.77%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.08%) LDAP
2 2 (1.54%) .NET
2 2 (1.54%) Middleware
3 1 (0.77%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.31%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.54%) Clustering
4 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.54%) SCADA
5 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.77%) CCTV
5 1 (0.77%) CMDB
5 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.77%) FMCG
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.77%) PKI
5 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (47.69%) Windows
2 47 (36.15%) Windows Server
3 20 (15.38%) Linux
4 14 (10.77%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (10.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.62%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.08%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.77%) Unix
8 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (99.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (16.15%) Security Operations
4 17 (13.08%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (11.54%) Business Continuity
6 15 (11.54%) DevOps
7 14 (10.77%) Agile
8 13 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
9 10 (7.69%) High Availability
9 10 (7.69%) ITIL
10 9 (6.92%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 9 (6.92%) SIEM
11 8 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.15%) Data Protection
11 8 (6.15%) Incident Response
11 8 (6.15%) Situational Awareness
11 8 (6.15%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.31%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.08%) Bash
3 3 (2.31%) Python
3 3 (2.31%) SQL
4 2 (1.54%) Bicep
5 1 (0.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.31%) DV Cleared
3 11 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.85%) Degree
5 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.54%) MCSE
7 2 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.77%) CCNA
8 1 (0.77%) CCNP
8 1 (0.77%) HND
8 1 (0.77%) MCP
8 1 (0.77%) MCSA
8 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.77%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.54%) IEC 61508
1 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.54%) NIST
1 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.54%) QA
1 2 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.77%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 39 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (14.62%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (11.54%) Hyper-V
5 9 (6.92%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (6.92%) vSphere
6 2 (1.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.54%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.77%) Ceph
7 1 (0.77%) Docker
7 1 (0.77%) Lustre
7 1 (0.77%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 23 (17.69%) vCenter Server
2 22 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (15.38%) SCCM
4 5 (3.85%) Terraform
4 5 (3.85%) ZABBIX
5 4 (3.08%) Nagios
6 3 (2.31%) Ansible
6 3 (2.31%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.31%) SCOM
7 2 (1.54%) SCSM
7 2 (1.54%) VxRail
8 1 (0.77%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.77%) Grafana
8 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 48 (36.92%) VMware
2 40 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 21 (16.15%) Veeam
4 19 (14.62%) NetApp
5 15 (11.54%) SolarWinds
6 13 (10.00%) 3PAR
7 7 (5.38%) Fortinet
7 7 (5.38%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.62%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (3.08%) Citrix
9 4 (3.08%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.31%) Cisco
10 3 (2.31%) Dell
10 3 (2.31%) Trend Micro
11 2 (1.54%) HP
11 2 (1.54%) IBM
11 2 (1.54%) Juniper
11 2 (1.54%) New Relic
11 2 (1.54%) Splunk