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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 173 84
Rank change year-on-year +86 -89 +69
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 277 114 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.87% 1.45% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.66% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 230 74 497
10th Percentile £42,500 - £35,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -11.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £57,854
90th Percentile £80,000 £61,488 £64,700
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 14,160 6,859 17,557
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 87.16% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,992 3,650 12,588
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +22 92 £65,000 +15.56% 20
Thames Valley +61 88 £60,000 +29.73% 7
Buckinghamshire +34 54 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Surrey -15 43 £57,500 +43.75% 7
East Sussex +12 24 £45,000 +63.64%
Oxfordshire +6 22 £50,000 +20.48% 2
Kent -17 20 £55,000 - 1
Berkshire +21 12 £65,000 +36.84% 4
West Sussex - 4 £60,000 - 1
Sussex -10 2 £45,000 +28.57%
Middlesex - 2 £60,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 273 (98.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (38.99%) Azure
3 102 (36.82%) Microsoft
4 73 (26.35%) Windows
5 58 (20.94%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (18.41%) VMware
7 50 (18.05%) Linux
8 41 (14.80%) AWS
9 40 (14.44%) Firewall
10 37 (13.36%) Windows Server
11 36 (13.00%) PowerShell
11 36 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (12.64%) Active Directory
12 35 (12.64%) Security Cleared
12 35 (12.64%) VMware Infrastructure
13 30 (10.83%) Hyper-V
14 27 (9.75%) VPN
15 25 (9.03%) Microsoft Intune
16 24 (8.66%) Entra ID
17 23 (8.30%) DNS
18 22 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
18 22 (7.94%) SaaS
18 22 (7.94%) SC Cleared
19 21 (7.58%) SQL Server
20 20 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
21 19 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 19 (6.86%) Veeam
22 18 (6.50%) Agile
23 17 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
23 17 (6.14%) IaaS

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 15 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.44%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 108 (38.99%) Azure
2 58 (20.94%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (14.80%) AWS
4 24 (8.66%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.94%) SaaS
6 17 (6.14%) IaaS
7 15 (5.42%) PaaS
8 12 (4.33%) Mimecast
9 11 (3.97%) Cloudflare
10 9 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.53%) Nutanix
11 7 (2.53%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.17%) GCP
13 4 (1.44%) Datadog
14 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
16 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
16 1 (0.36%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.44%) Firewall
2 27 (9.75%) VPN
3 23 (8.30%) DNS
4 12 (4.33%) DHCP
4 12 (4.33%) WAN
5 11 (3.97%) LAN
6 8 (2.89%) SAN
7 7 (2.53%) VLAN
8 6 (2.17%) Network Security
9 5 (1.81%) VoIP
10 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.72%) NAS
12 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.36%) SSL
12 1 (0.36%) VSAN
12 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.42%) JIRA
General
1 23 (8.30%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.05%) Legal
3 8 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (2.89%) Finance
4 6 (2.17%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.72%) Military
7 2 (0.72%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.72%) Retail
8 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.72%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.72%) HTML
4 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.33%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.97%) PKI
3 10 (3.61%) Driving Licence
3 10 (3.61%) iSeries
4 7 (2.53%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.17%) Replication
6 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.36%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 73 (26.35%) Windows
2 50 (18.05%) Linux
3 37 (13.36%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.89%) CentOS
5 8 (2.89%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (98.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
5 18 (6.50%) Agile
6 17 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (6.14%) ITIL
7 16 (5.78%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (5.42%) Incident Management
9 12 (4.33%) Change Control
9 12 (4.33%) Change Management
9 12 (4.33%) High Availability
9 12 (4.33%) Vulnerability Management
10 11 (3.97%) DevOps
10 11 (3.97%) DevSecOps
10 11 (3.97%) Identity Management
10 11 (3.97%) Infrastructure Maintenance
10 11 (3.97%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (3.97%) Workflow
11 10 (3.61%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (3.97%) R
3 9 (3.25%) Bash
4 8 (2.89%) Python
5 5 (1.81%) SQL
6 2 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 35 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.05%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.53%) Degree
5 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.08%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.08%) MCSE
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.36%) CCIE
9 1 (0.36%) CCNA
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.72%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (12.64%) Active Directory
1 35 (12.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (10.83%) Hyper-V
3 11 (3.97%) vSphere
4 8 (2.89%) KVM
5 6 (2.17%) Firmware
5 6 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.81%) VMware Server
7 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.08%) Docker
9 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (9.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (5.78%) Terraform
3 13 (4.69%) Ansible
4 11 (3.97%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.89%) Graylog
5 8 (2.89%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.89%) Nessus
5 8 (2.89%) Proxmox
5 8 (2.89%) ZABBIX
6 6 (2.17%) SCCM
7 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.08%) Nagios
9 2 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 102 (36.82%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.41%) VMware
3 19 (6.86%) Veeam
4 14 (5.05%) IBM
5 11 (3.97%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.53%) Cisco
8 6 (2.17%) Commvault
8 6 (2.17%) HP
9 5 (1.81%) EMC
9 5 (1.81%) NetApp
10 4 (1.44%) 3PAR
10 4 (1.44%) Dell
10 4 (1.44%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.08%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.08%) Oracle
11 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.72%) Meraki
12 2 (0.72%) Zerto
13 1 (0.36%) LogRhythm