Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 89 176
Rank change year-on-year -114 +87 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 107 498 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.13% 2.87% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 3.06% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 72 451 200
10th Percentile - £36,250 £35,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,170
England median annual salary £55,320 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.64% - -

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 8,226 16,296 12,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.07% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,393 11,638 8,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 28 May 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 28 May 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
Surrey +6 34 £40,000 -27.27% 11
Hampshire -25 32 £55,000 +13.40% 26
Thames Valley -56 31 £50,000 - 78
Buckinghamshire +1 15 £52,500 +23.53% 19
Berkshire -16 10 £48,750 -7.23% 50
Kent +1 7 £55,000 +42.86% 11
Oxfordshire -8 6 £45,000 -10.00% 11
East Sussex -7 2 £27,500 -45.00% 2
Sussex +16 1 £35,000 -46.15% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 104 (97.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 73 (68.22%) VMware
3 69 (64.49%) Windows
4 67 (62.62%) Microsoft
5 62 (57.94%) Active Directory
6 57 (53.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 47 (43.93%) PowerShell
8 39 (36.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 38 (35.51%) Social Skills
10 36 (33.64%) Linux
11 35 (32.71%) Security Cleared
11 35 (32.71%) Windows Server
11 35 (32.71%) Azure
12 31 (28.97%) High Availability
13 29 (27.10%) Degree
14 27 (25.23%) Disaster Recovery
15 26 (24.30%) DV Cleared
16 25 (23.36%) SAN
17 23 (21.50%) Microsoft 365
18 22 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (20.56%) Ansible
18 22 (20.56%) NAS
18 22 (20.56%) Virtual Environments
18 22 (20.56%) DNS
19 19 (17.76%) Firewall
19 19 (17.76%) Clustering
19 19 (17.76%) Terraform
19 19 (17.76%) Kalman Filter
19 19 (17.76%) vSphere
20 18 (16.82%) Inclusion and Diversity

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (36.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.74%) Apache
3 3 (2.80%) IIS
3 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.71%) Azure
2 23 (21.50%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (12.15%) AWS
4 10 (9.35%) GCP
5 6 (5.61%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.80%) Route 53
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.87%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.87%) Datadog
9 2 (1.87%) PaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (23.36%) SAN
2 22 (20.56%) DNS
2 22 (20.56%) NAS
3 19 (17.76%) Firewall
4 17 (15.89%) DHCP
5 14 (13.08%) WAN
6 12 (11.21%) LAN
6 12 (11.21%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (10.28%) SMTP
8 9 (8.41%) 5G
8 9 (8.41%) Bluetooth
8 9 (8.41%) LTE
8 9 (8.41%) SD-WAN
9 7 (6.54%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (5.61%) Network Security
10 6 (5.61%) SNMP
11 4 (3.74%) IP Telephony
12 3 (2.80%) VPN
13 2 (1.87%) SSL
13 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.41%) Electronics
4 8 (7.48%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Finance
6 5 (4.67%) Games
7 4 (3.74%) Legal
8 3 (2.80%) Automotive
8 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Back Office
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.80%) YAML
2 1 (0.93%) JSON
2 1 (0.93%) OLE
2 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.76%) Clustering
2 11 (10.28%) PKI
3 9 (8.41%) IoT
3 9 (8.41%) NB-IoT
4 6 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.74%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.87%) NHS
6 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (64.49%) Windows
2 36 (33.64%) Linux
3 35 (32.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.67%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.80%) VMS
5 3 (2.80%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.87%) Debian
6 2 (1.87%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.87%) SUSE
6 2 (1.87%) Unix
6 2 (1.87%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.93%) CentOS
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (97.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (28.97%) High Availability
3 27 (25.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (20.56%) Virtual Environments
5 19 (17.76%) Kalman Filter
6 16 (14.95%) Computer Science
6 16 (14.95%) DevOps
6 16 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (14.02%) Server Building
8 14 (13.08%) Patch Management
8 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.21%) Customer Service
10 11 (10.28%) Change Control
10 11 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.35%) Antivirus Management
11 10 (9.35%) Asset Management
11 10 (9.35%) IT Strategy
11 10 (9.35%) Migration
11 10 (9.35%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.93%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.21%) Python
3 10 (9.35%) Bash
4 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (32.71%) Security Cleared
2 29 (27.10%) Degree
3 26 (24.30%) DV Cleared
4 12 (11.21%) HND
5 9 (8.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (8.41%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.80%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.87%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.93%) CISSP
10 1 (0.93%) HNC
10 1 (0.93%) MCSA
10 1 (0.93%) MCSE
10 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (57.94%) Active Directory
2 57 (53.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (17.76%) vSphere
4 17 (15.89%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (14.95%) Hyper-V
6 10 (9.35%) Docker
7 9 (8.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (7.48%) BitLocker
8 8 (7.48%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (7.48%) Terminal Services
9 7 (6.54%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (2.80%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.93%) KVM
11 1 (0.93%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (20.56%) Ansible
2 19 (17.76%) Terraform
3 15 (14.02%) Puppet
4 12 (11.21%) vCenter Server
5 11 (10.28%) Kubernetes
6 8 (7.48%) vMotion
7 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (5.61%) Nagios
8 3 (2.80%) WSUS
9 2 (1.87%) Nessus
9 2 (1.87%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.87%) SCCM
9 2 (1.87%) ZENworks
10 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.93%) Packer
10 1 (0.93%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.93%) vRealize
10 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 73 (68.22%) VMware
2 67 (62.62%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.95%) Citrix
4 9 (8.41%) HP
5 8 (7.48%) Cisco
5 8 (7.48%) Google
6 7 (6.54%) Veeam
7 6 (5.61%) Symantec
8 4 (3.74%) Dell
8 4 (3.74%) McAfee
9 3 (2.80%) Juniper
10 2 (1.87%) Apple
10 2 (1.87%) Meraki
10 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.87%) Sophos
11 1 (0.93%) Aruba
11 1 (0.93%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.93%) Ruckus Wireless
11 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.93%) Tanium