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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 177 85
Rank change year-on-year +84 -92 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 279 110 529
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.81% 1.33% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.50% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 234 79 473
10th Percentile - - £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -13.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.56% +19.00% -

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 14,689 7,353 16,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.53% 88.71% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10,385 4,039 12,029
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% -12.50%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +13 97 £65,000 +13.04% 33
Thames Valley +80 87 £60,000 +29.73% 12
Buckinghamshire +34 53 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Surrey -14 43 £57,500 +43.75% 8
East Sussex +13 24 £45,000 +63.64%
Oxfordshire +1 24 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Kent -20 18 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Berkshire +16 10 £65,000 +40.54% 4
West Sussex - 4 £60,000 -
Sussex -7 2 £45,000 +28.57% 1
Middlesex - 2 £60,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 (97.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 106 (37.99%) Azure
3 99 (35.48%) Microsoft
4 71 (25.45%) Windows
5 57 (20.43%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (19.00%) Linux
7 51 (18.28%) VMware
8 41 (14.70%) AWS
9 40 (14.34%) Firewall
10 37 (13.26%) PowerShell
11 36 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
12 35 (12.54%) Windows Server
13 34 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (11.83%) Security Cleared
15 32 (11.47%) Active Directory
15 32 (11.47%) Hyper-V
16 28 (10.04%) VPN
17 24 (8.60%) Entra ID
18 23 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
19 22 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
19 22 (7.89%) DNS
19 22 (7.89%) SaaS
19 22 (7.89%) SC Cleared
19 22 (7.89%) SQL Server
20 20 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
21 19 (6.81%) Agile
21 19 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
22 17 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
22 17 (6.09%) IaaS
22 17 (6.09%) ITIL

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 14 (5.02%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.43%) Confluence
2 4 (1.43%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 106 (37.99%) Azure
2 57 (20.43%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (14.70%) AWS
4 24 (8.60%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.89%) SaaS
6 17 (6.09%) IaaS
7 15 (5.38%) PaaS
8 12 (4.30%) Mimecast
9 11 (3.94%) Cloudflare
10 9 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.51%) Nutanix
11 7 (2.51%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.15%) GCP
13 4 (1.43%) 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 (14.34%) Firewall
2 28 (10.04%) VPN
3 22 (7.89%) DNS
4 12 (4.30%) WAN
5 11 (3.94%) LAN
6 10 (3.58%) DHCP
7 7 (2.51%) VLAN
8 6 (2.15%) Network Security
8 6 (2.15%) SAN
9 5 (1.79%) VoIP
10 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.72%) NAS
11 2 (0.72%) 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 22 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.38%) JIRA
General
1 21 (7.53%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.02%) Legal
3 9 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (2.87%) Finance
5 6 (2.15%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.43%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.08%) Retail
9 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.72%) Military
9 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.72%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.72%) HTML
4 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.66%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.94%) PKI
3 10 (3.58%) Driving Licence
3 10 (3.58%) iSeries
4 8 (2.87%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.15%) Replication
6 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.72%) Clustering
7 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.36%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 71 (25.45%) Windows
2 53 (19.00%) Linux
3 35 (12.54%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.87%) CentOS
5 8 (2.87%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.72%) VMS
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (97.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
5 19 (6.81%) Agile
6 17 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (6.09%) ITIL
7 15 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (5.38%) Incident Management
8 13 (4.66%) Change Control
8 13 (4.66%) High Availability
9 12 (4.30%) Change Management
9 12 (4.30%) Vulnerability Management
10 11 (3.94%) DevSecOps
10 11 (3.94%) Identity Management
10 11 (3.94%) Infrastructure Maintenance
10 11 (3.94%) Project Delivery
10 11 (3.94%) Workflow
11 10 (3.58%) SIEM
11 10 (3.58%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.26%) PowerShell
2 11 (3.94%) R
3 10 (3.58%) Bash
4 9 (3.23%) Python
5 6 (2.15%) SQL
6 2 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.87%) Degree
5 5 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.43%) 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 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.66%) 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 36 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (11.47%) Active Directory
2 32 (11.47%) Hyper-V
3 11 (3.94%) vSphere
4 8 (2.87%) KVM
5 6 (2.15%) Firmware
5 6 (2.15%) VMware Server
6 4 (1.43%) Docker
6 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (6.09%) Terraform
3 14 (5.02%) Ansible
4 9 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.23%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.87%) Graylog
5 8 (2.87%) Nessus
5 8 (2.87%) Proxmox
5 8 (2.87%) ZABBIX
6 4 (1.43%) SCCM
6 4 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.08%) Nagios
8 2 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 99 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.28%) VMware
3 16 (5.73%) Veeam
4 14 (5.02%) IBM
5 11 (3.94%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.51%) Cisco
8 6 (2.15%) Commvault
8 6 (2.15%) HP
9 5 (1.79%) EMC
9 5 (1.79%) Oracle
10 4 (1.43%) Dell
11 3 (1.08%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.08%) NetApp
11 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.72%) 3PAR
12 2 (0.72%) Citrix
12 2 (0.72%) Meraki
12 2 (0.72%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.72%) Zerto