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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 192 79
Rank change year-on-year +103 -113 +19
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 349 101 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.84% 1.13% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.26% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 274 63 279
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £39,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -4.12% +3.74%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -1.96%

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 17,777 8,036 12,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 89.66% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12,623 4,419 6,832
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £67,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +90 131 £56,250 +25.00% 49
Hampshire +27 117 £70,000 +21.74% 29
Surrey +21 69 £60,000 +50.00% 22
Oxfordshire +17 59 £55,000 +26.44% 16
Buckinghamshire +25 41 £61,250 +28.95% 17
Berkshire +35 31 £50,000 +5.26% 17
Kent -17 18 £60,000 +20.00% 6
East Sussex - 8 £45,000 - 6
Sussex -11 2 £45,000 +28.57% 3
West Sussex - 2 £37,500 - 9
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 3 October 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.

1 332 (95.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (36.68%) Azure
3 104 (29.80%) Microsoft
4 100 (28.65%) Windows
5 77 (22.06%) VMware
6 71 (20.34%) Linux
7 67 (19.20%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (17.77%) Firewall
9 56 (16.05%) Windows Server
10 55 (15.76%) PowerShell
11 52 (14.90%) Active Directory
12 48 (13.75%) DNS
13 47 (13.47%) VMware Infrastructure
14 46 (13.18%) AWS
15 45 (12.89%) Security Cleared
16 44 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
17 43 (12.32%) VPN
18 39 (11.17%) Hyper-V
19 37 (10.60%) Entra ID
20 34 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
20 34 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
21 31 (8.88%) SC Cleared
22 30 (8.60%) Business Continuity
22 30 (8.60%) Kubernetes
23 29 (8.31%) DHCP
23 29 (8.31%) Microsoft Intune
24 28 (8.02%) High Availability
25 27 (7.74%) SharePoint
25 27 (7.74%) Vulnerability Management
26 26 (7.45%) DV Cleared

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 (7.74%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.43%) IIS
4 4 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 128 (36.68%) Azure
2 67 (19.20%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (13.18%) AWS
4 37 (10.60%) Entra ID
5 18 (5.16%) SaaS
6 13 (3.72%) IaaS
6 13 (3.72%) Nutanix
7 12 (3.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (3.15%) Cloudflare
9 9 (2.58%) GCP
10 6 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.72%) Google Workspace
10 6 (1.72%) PaaS
11 4 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.15%) Azure Stack
11 4 (1.15%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.15%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.15%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.86%) Datadog
12 3 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (17.77%) Firewall
2 48 (13.75%) DNS
3 43 (12.32%) VPN
4 29 (8.31%) DHCP
5 26 (7.45%) WAN
6 25 (7.16%) LAN
7 23 (6.59%) VLAN
8 19 (5.44%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.01%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.87%) Network Security
11 9 (2.58%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (2.58%) Internet
12 6 (1.72%) SAN
13 5 (1.43%) VSAN
13 5 (1.43%) Wireless
14 4 (1.15%) SSL
15 3 (0.86%) NAS
15 3 (0.86%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (2.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (11.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (3.72%) Finance
4 10 (2.87%) Retail
5 9 (2.58%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.01%) Legal
7 7 (2.01%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.43%) Law
9 4 (1.15%) Aviation
10 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Military
11 2 (0.57%) Police
12 1 (0.29%) Swedish Language
12 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.16%) Terraform
2 7 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.15%) HTML
4 3 (0.86%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.29%) OpenTofu
5 1 (0.29%) Redfish
5 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.58%) Driving Licence
2 13 (3.72%) Data Centre
2 13 (3.72%) Onboarding
2 13 (3.72%) PKI
3 12 (3.44%) Replication
4 10 (2.87%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (2.87%) iSeries
5 7 (2.01%) Clustering
6 4 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.86%) FPGA
7 3 (0.86%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.57%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.57%) Robotics
8 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 100 (28.65%) Windows
2 71 (20.34%) Linux
3 56 (16.05%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.15%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.01%) Rocky
6 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.15%) CentOS
8 2 (0.57%) VMS
8 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.29%) Debian
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (95.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
3 34 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (8.60%) Business Continuity
5 28 (8.02%) High Availability
6 27 (7.74%) Vulnerability Management
7 25 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (6.59%) DevOps
9 22 (6.30%) Business Continuity Planning
9 22 (6.30%) SIEM
10 20 (5.73%) Migration
11 19 (5.44%) BCP
11 19 (5.44%) Project Delivery
12 17 (4.87%) Agile
12 17 (4.87%) CI/CD
12 17 (4.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (4.87%) ITIL
12 17 (4.87%) Zero Trust
13 15 (4.30%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.76%) PowerShell
2 18 (5.16%) Bash
3 16 (4.58%) Python
4 7 (2.01%) Go
4 7 (2.01%) SQL
5 4 (1.15%) R
6 3 (0.86%) Bicep
7 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.88%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.45%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.01%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.43%) Degree
7 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.57%) CCSP
7 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.57%) CISSP
7 2 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CCA
8 1 (0.29%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.29%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.29%) MCSE
8 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.43%) NCSC
4 4 (1.15%) NIST
5 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (14.90%) Active Directory
2 47 (13.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.17%) Hyper-V
4 23 (6.59%) vSphere
5 21 (6.02%) Docker
6 11 (3.15%) Firmware
6 11 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.29%) KVM
7 8 (2.29%) VMware Server
8 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.43%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.57%) Lustre
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 29 (8.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (6.02%) vCenter Server
4 20 (5.73%) Ansible
5 9 (2.58%) ZABBIX
6 8 (2.29%) Graylog
6 8 (2.29%) Proxmox
6 8 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.01%) SCCM
8 4 (1.15%) Nagios
8 4 (1.15%) Nessus
8 4 (1.15%) VxRail
9 2 (0.57%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.57%) Grafana
10 1 (0.29%) FlexNet
10 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.29%) Rancher
10 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 104 (29.80%) Microsoft
2 77 (22.06%) VMware
3 26 (7.45%) Veeam
4 18 (5.16%) Cisco
5 14 (4.01%) Dell
5 14 (4.01%) IBM
6 10 (2.87%) Aruba
7 9 (2.58%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.58%) Qualys
8 8 (2.29%) Google
9 7 (2.01%) Oracle
10 6 (1.72%) Commvault
10 6 (1.72%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.43%) Citrix
11 5 (1.43%) EMC
11 5 (1.43%) HP
11 5 (1.43%) Meraki
11 5 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.86%) Juniper