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 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 173 85
Rank change year-on-year +86 -88 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 332 122 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.92% 1.37% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.53% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 270 83 333
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £64,350
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 16,495 7,989 13,156
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 89.41% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,717 4,441 8,669
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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £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 22 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 22 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 +83 120 £55,000 +22.22% 15
Hampshire +22 116 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Surrey -4 61 £60,000 +50.00% 5
Oxfordshire +17 49 £55,000 +26.44% 5
Buckinghamshire +24 43 £62,500 +28.21% 6
Berkshire +40 28 £51,250 +10.81% 4
East Sussex -3 14 £45,000 +63.64%
Kent -20 14 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Sussex -5 2 £45,000 +28.57%
West Sussex - 2 £37,500 -
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 22 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.

1 317 (95.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 138 (41.57%) Azure
3 113 (34.04%) Microsoft
4 94 (28.31%) Windows
5 74 (22.29%) VMware
6 71 (21.39%) Linux
7 68 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (18.07%) Firewall
9 55 (16.57%) PowerShell
10 54 (16.27%) Windows Server
11 49 (14.76%) VMware Infrastructure
12 48 (14.46%) Active Directory
13 47 (14.16%) AWS
14 45 (13.55%) Security Cleared
15 40 (12.05%) Disaster Recovery
16 39 (11.75%) DNS
17 38 (11.45%) Entra ID
17 38 (11.45%) Hyper-V
18 34 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (10.24%) VPN
19 33 (9.94%) Microsoft Intune
20 32 (9.64%) SC Cleared
21 27 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
21 27 (8.13%) High Availability
22 26 (7.83%) Business Continuity
22 26 (7.83%) SharePoint
23 25 (7.53%) Terraform
24 24 (7.23%) SaaS
25 22 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
25 22 (6.63%) Cyber Essentials

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 26 (7.83%) SharePoint
2 20 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.51%) IIS
4 4 (1.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 138 (41.57%) Azure
2 68 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (14.16%) AWS
4 38 (11.45%) Entra ID
5 24 (7.23%) SaaS
6 19 (5.72%) IaaS
7 14 (4.22%) Nutanix
8 12 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (3.61%) PaaS
9 11 (3.31%) Cloudflare
10 9 (2.71%) Mimecast
11 8 (2.41%) GCP
12 6 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (1.81%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.20%) Azure Stack
13 4 (1.20%) Datadog
14 3 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (0.90%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (18.07%) Firewall
2 39 (11.75%) DNS
3 34 (10.24%) VPN
4 22 (6.63%) WAN
5 21 (6.33%) DHCP
5 21 (6.33%) LAN
6 15 (4.52%) VLAN
7 9 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (2.41%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (2.11%) Internet
10 5 (1.51%) Network Security
10 5 (1.51%) SAN
10 5 (1.51%) VoIP
10 5 (1.51%) VSAN
11 4 (1.20%) SSL
12 3 (0.90%) NetScaler
13 2 (0.60%) NAS
14 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (3.92%) JIRA
2 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (11.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (3.61%) Legal
3 11 (3.31%) Finance
4 8 (2.41%) Retail
5 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.11%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.11%) Telecoms
6 6 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.51%) Law
8 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.53%) Terraform
2 7 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.20%) HTML
4 3 (0.90%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.30%) OpenTofu
5 1 (0.30%) Redfish
5 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.52%) Driving Licence
2 14 (4.22%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.31%) PKI
4 10 (3.01%) iSeries
5 9 (2.71%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.41%) Replication
7 7 (2.11%) Clustering
8 5 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.90%) FPGA
9 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.30%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 94 (28.31%) Windows
2 71 (21.39%) Linux
3 54 (16.27%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.71%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.81%) CentOS
7 3 (0.90%) Rocky
8 2 (0.60%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) Debian
9 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (95.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (12.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 34 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (8.13%) High Availability
5 26 (7.83%) Business Continuity
6 22 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (6.02%) Business Continuity Planning
7 20 (6.02%) Vulnerability Management
8 19 (5.72%) Agile
8 19 (5.72%) CI/CD
8 19 (5.72%) Incident Management
8 19 (5.72%) ITIL
8 19 (5.72%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (5.42%) Project Delivery
10 17 (5.12%) BCP
10 17 (5.12%) Zero Trust
11 16 (4.82%) SIEM
12 15 (4.52%) DevOps
12 15 (4.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 55 (16.57%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.22%) Bash
3 12 (3.61%) Python
4 9 (2.71%) R
5 8 (2.41%) SQL
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
7 1 (0.30%) Go
7 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.63%) DV Cleared
4 12 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.81%) Degree
6 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.60%) MCSE
7 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.51%) NCSC
4 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (14.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (14.46%) Active Directory
3 38 (11.45%) Hyper-V
4 21 (6.33%) vSphere
5 11 (3.31%) Docker
5 11 (3.31%) Firmware
5 11 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.41%) KVM
6 8 (2.41%) VMware Server
7 5 (1.51%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.60%) Lustre
9 2 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (9.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.72%) Ansible
2 19 (5.72%) vCenter Server
3 18 (5.42%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.71%) ZABBIX
5 8 (2.41%) Graylog
5 8 (2.41%) Proxmox
6 6 (1.81%) Nessus
6 6 (1.81%) SCCM
7 4 (1.20%) Nagios
7 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.20%) VxRail
8 2 (0.60%) Argo
8 2 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.60%) Grafana
9 1 (0.30%) FlexNet
9 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.30%) Rancher
9 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 113 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 74 (22.29%) VMware
3 20 (6.02%) Veeam
4 14 (4.22%) Cisco
4 14 (4.22%) IBM
5 10 (3.01%) Dell
6 9 (2.71%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (2.41%) Aruba
8 7 (2.11%) Oracle
8 7 (2.11%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.11%) Qualys
8 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.81%) Commvault
10 5 (1.51%) EMC
10 5 (1.51%) HP
11 4 (1.20%) Citrix
11 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.90%) Meraki
12 3 (0.90%) NetApp
13 2 (0.60%) Zerto