Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £46,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 81 100
Rank change year-on-year -107 +19 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 99 368 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 2.85% 3.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 2.97% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 61 280 194
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,430
25th Percentile £39,750 £40,500 £39,095
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £48,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +5.43% -3.58%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -1.92%

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 8,033 12,372 8,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 95.90% 93.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,430 7,341 6,017
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £66,938 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Thames Valley -72 28 £45,000 +5.88% 15
Surrey +15 27 £40,000 -23.81% 2
Hampshire -22 27 £57,500 +23.66% 23
Kent -17 16 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Buckinghamshire -44 15 £47,500 +11.76% 3
Oxfordshire -5 10 £43,500 -20.91% 6
Berkshire -18 3 £47,500 +15.85% 8
Sussex +16 1 £35,000 -41.67% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 98 (98.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (64.65%) VMware
3 60 (60.61%) Microsoft
4 57 (57.58%) Windows
5 54 (54.55%) Active Directory
6 45 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
7 38 (38.38%) PowerShell
7 38 (38.38%) Azure
8 34 (34.34%) Windows Server
9 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
9 33 (33.33%) SAN
10 32 (32.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 31 (31.31%) DNS
12 29 (29.29%) Firewall
12 29 (29.29%) Security Cleared
13 27 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (27.27%) DHCP
14 26 (26.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (24.24%) Linux
15 24 (24.24%) Hyper-V
16 23 (23.23%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (22.22%) High Availability
18 21 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (21.21%) AWS
18 21 (21.21%) DV Cleared
19 20 (20.20%) NAS
19 20 (20.20%) VMware ESXi
20 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Intune
21 17 (17.17%) DevOps
21 17 (17.17%) vCenter Server

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 32 (32.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.03%) Apache
2 3 (3.03%) IIS
3 2 (2.02%) WinCC
4 1 (1.01%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) AutoCAD
1 2 (2.02%) Civil 3D
2 1 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 38 (38.38%) Azure
2 23 (23.23%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (21.21%) AWS
4 11 (11.11%) GCP
5 10 (10.10%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.06%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.04%) Route 53
9 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.03%) Serverless
10 2 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.02%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.02%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.02%) OVHcloud
11 1 (1.01%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 33 (33.33%) SAN
2 31 (31.31%) DNS
3 29 (29.29%) Firewall
4 27 (27.27%) DHCP
5 20 (20.20%) NAS
6 11 (11.11%) SMTP
6 11 (11.11%) WAN
7 8 (8.08%) TCP/IP
7 8 (8.08%) VPN
8 7 (7.07%) LAN
8 7 (7.07%) SD-WAN
9 6 (6.06%) Network Security
9 6 (6.06%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (6.06%) VLAN
10 5 (5.05%) IP Telephony
10 5 (5.05%) SNMP
11 4 (4.04%) Wireless
12 3 (3.03%) iSCSI
12 3 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (2.02%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (1.01%) GitLab
General
1 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (8.08%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.06%) Automotive
4 6 (6.06%) Finance
4 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.04%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.03%) Legal
6 3 (3.03%) Local Government
6 3 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.01%) Advertising
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.03%) OLE
1 3 (3.03%) YAML
2 1 (1.01%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) PKI
2 10 (10.10%) Clustering
3 8 (8.08%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.05%) Blackberry
5 3 (3.03%) NHS
6 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.02%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.02%) SCADA
6 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.01%) CCTV
7 1 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (57.58%) Windows
2 34 (34.34%) Windows Server
3 24 (24.24%) Linux
4 8 (8.08%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (8.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (5.05%) Apple iOS
5 5 (5.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.04%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.04%) Unix
7 3 (3.03%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.02%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (98.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 26 (26.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (22.22%) High Availability
5 21 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.17%) DevOps
7 16 (16.16%) Virtual Environments
8 14 (14.14%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (13.13%) Kalman Filter
10 12 (12.12%) Agile
10 12 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (10.10%) Patch Management
12 9 (9.09%) CI/CD
12 9 (9.09%) Information Security
12 9 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 9 (9.09%) Server Building
13 8 (8.08%) Cloud Security
13 8 (8.08%) Computer Science
13 8 (8.08%) IT Strategy
13 8 (8.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 38 (38.38%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.06%) Python
3 4 (4.04%) Bash
4 1 (1.01%) Java
4 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.21%) DV Cleared
3 14 (14.14%) Degree
4 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.09%) HND
6 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.04%) MCSE
7 4 (4.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.03%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.03%) Postgraduate
9 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.01%) CCNA
10 1 (1.01%) CCNP
10 1 (1.01%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.02%) IEC 61508
4 2 (2.02%) QA
5 1 (1.01%) GDPR
5 1 (1.01%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 54 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 45 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (24.24%) Hyper-V
4 20 (20.20%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (10.10%) vSphere
6 8 (8.08%) BitLocker
6 8 (8.08%) Docker
6 8 (8.08%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (8.08%) Terminal Services
7 5 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (4.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (1.01%) Firmware
11 1 (1.01%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (17.17%) vCenter Server
3 12 (12.12%) Ansible
4 11 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 11 (11.11%) SCCM
5 8 (8.08%) Terraform
5 8 (8.08%) vMotion
6 6 (6.06%) Nagios
6 6 (6.06%) Puppet
7 2 (2.02%) ZENworks
8 1 (1.01%) Nessus
8 1 (1.01%) PaperCut
8 1 (1.01%) Podman
8 1 (1.01%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 64 (64.65%) VMware
2 60 (60.61%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.13%) Veeam
4 12 (12.12%) Citrix
5 9 (9.09%) NetApp
6 7 (7.07%) 3PAR
6 7 (7.07%) HP
6 7 (7.07%) SolarWinds
7 6 (6.06%) Google
7 6 (6.06%) Symantec
8 5 (5.05%) McAfee
8 5 (5.05%) Sophos
9 4 (4.04%) Apple
9 4 (4.04%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (4.04%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.02%) Meraki
10 2 (2.02%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (2.02%) Rockwell
10 2 (2.02%) Siemens
10 2 (2.02%) Splunk