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 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 178 81
Rank change year-on-year +94 -97 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 340 119 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.93% 1.31% 2.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.47% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 279 79 321
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.22% +5.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £64,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 16,723 8,098 12,941
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 89.38% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 11,918 4,537 8,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,500 £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 29 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 29 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 +98 123 £55,000 +22.22% 18
Hampshire +25 120 £65,000 +13.04% 17
Surrey +3 62 £60,000 +50.00% 10
Oxfordshire +21 51 £55,000 +26.44% 5
Buckinghamshire +23 43 £62,500 +28.21% 7
Berkshire +52 29 £50,000 +8.11% 6
Kent -18 15 £60,000 +20.00% 4
East Sussex - 13 £45,000 - 1
Sussex -4 2 £45,000 +28.57%
West Sussex - 2 £37,500 - 2
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 29 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.

1 324 (95.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 138 (40.59%) Azure
3 114 (33.53%) Microsoft
4 100 (29.41%) Windows
5 78 (22.94%) VMware
6 72 (21.18%) Linux
7 69 (20.29%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (17.94%) Firewall
9 58 (17.06%) Windows Server
10 57 (16.76%) PowerShell
11 50 (14.71%) Active Directory
11 50 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
12 47 (13.82%) AWS
13 45 (13.24%) Security Cleared
14 42 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
14 42 (12.35%) DNS
15 39 (11.47%) Entra ID
15 39 (11.47%) Hyper-V
16 37 (10.88%) VPN
17 36 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (9.71%) Microsoft Intune
19 31 (9.12%) SC Cleared
20 29 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
21 27 (7.94%) Business Continuity
21 27 (7.94%) High Availability
21 27 (7.94%) SharePoint
22 25 (7.35%) DV Cleared
22 25 (7.35%) Terraform
22 25 (7.35%) WAN
23 24 (7.06%) DHCP

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 27 (7.94%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.47%) IIS
4 4 (1.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 138 (40.59%) Azure
2 69 (20.29%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (13.82%) AWS
4 39 (11.47%) Entra ID
5 23 (6.76%) SaaS
6 18 (5.29%) IaaS
7 14 (4.12%) Nutanix
8 12 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (3.24%) Cloudflare
9 11 (3.24%) PaaS
10 8 (2.35%) GCP
10 8 (2.35%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.76%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.18%) Azure Stack
12 4 (1.18%) Datadog
13 3 (0.88%) Google Workspace
13 3 (0.88%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (17.94%) Firewall
2 42 (12.35%) DNS
3 37 (10.88%) VPN
4 25 (7.35%) WAN
5 24 (7.06%) DHCP
5 24 (7.06%) LAN
6 18 (5.29%) VLAN
7 12 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (3.24%) TCP/IP
9 8 (2.35%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (2.35%) Internet
10 7 (2.06%) Network Security
11 5 (1.47%) SAN
11 5 (1.47%) VSAN
12 4 (1.18%) SSL
13 3 (0.88%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.88%) VoIP
13 3 (0.88%) Wireless
14 2 (0.59%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (3.53%) JIRA
2 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (11.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (3.53%) Finance
4 11 (3.24%) Legal
5 9 (2.65%) Retail
6 7 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.06%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.76%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.47%) Law
8 5 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.35%) Terraform
2 7 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.18%) HTML
4 3 (0.88%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.29%) OpenTofu
5 1 (0.29%) Redfish
5 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.71%) Driving Licence
2 14 (4.12%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.24%) PKI
4 10 (2.94%) iSeries
4 10 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (2.65%) Replication
6 7 (2.06%) Clustering
7 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.88%) FPGA
8 3 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.59%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.29%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 100 (29.41%) Windows
2 72 (21.18%) Linux
3 58 (17.06%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.76%) CentOS
7 4 (1.18%) Rocky
8 2 (0.59%) VMS
9 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.29%) Debian
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (95.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (7.94%) Business Continuity
5 27 (7.94%) High Availability
6 23 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (6.18%) Business Continuity Planning
7 21 (6.18%) Vulnerability Management
8 19 (5.59%) Agile
8 19 (5.59%) CI/CD
8 19 (5.59%) Incident Management
8 19 (5.59%) ITIL
9 18 (5.29%) BCP
9 18 (5.29%) Project Delivery
9 18 (5.29%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (5.00%) SIEM
10 17 (5.00%) Zero Trust
11 15 (4.41%) DevOps
11 15 (4.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 57 (16.76%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.12%) Bash
3 12 (3.53%) Python
4 8 (2.35%) R
4 8 (2.35%) SQL
5 3 (0.88%) Bicep
6 1 (0.29%) Go
6 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 31 (9.12%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.35%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.82%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.76%) Degree
6 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.59%) MCSE
7 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.47%) NCSC
4 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (14.71%) Active Directory
1 50 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (11.47%) Hyper-V
3 23 (6.76%) vSphere
4 11 (3.24%) Docker
4 11 (3.24%) Firmware
4 11 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.35%) KVM
5 8 (2.35%) VMware Server
6 5 (1.47%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.59%) Lustre
8 2 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (9.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (6.18%) vCenter Server
3 19 (5.59%) Ansible
4 18 (5.29%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.65%) ZABBIX
6 8 (2.35%) Graylog
6 8 (2.35%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.76%) Nessus
7 6 (1.76%) SCCM
8 4 (1.18%) Nagios
8 4 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.18%) VxRail
9 2 (0.59%) Argo
9 2 (0.59%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.59%) Grafana
10 1 (0.29%) FlexNet
10 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.29%) Rancher
10 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 114 (33.53%) Microsoft
2 78 (22.94%) VMware
3 22 (6.47%) Veeam
4 16 (4.71%) Cisco
5 14 (4.12%) IBM
6 11 (3.24%) Dell
7 9 (2.65%) Aruba
8 8 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.35%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.35%) Qualys
9 7 (2.06%) Oracle
9 7 (2.06%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.76%) Commvault
11 5 (1.47%) EMC
11 5 (1.47%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.47%) HP
12 4 (1.18%) Citrix
12 4 (1.18%) Meraki
13 3 (0.88%) Google
13 3 (0.88%) NetApp