Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 79 77
Rank change year-on-year -105 -2 +88
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 100 356 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.14% 3.14% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 3.26% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 67 255 198
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £39,875 £40,500 £41,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £59,375 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +0.96%

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 7,939 10,921 7,294
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 96.34% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 6,096 5,214
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

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 7 November 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 7 November 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
Hampshire -15 33 £55,000 +16.40% 31
Thames Valley -66 30 £47,500 - 64
Kent -6 22 £42,750 -16.59% 3
Buckinghamshire -22 16 £47,500 +11.76% 19
Surrey -6 15 £40,000 -23.81% 8
Oxfordshire +5 9 £43,500 -20.91% 4
Berkshire -17 5 £53,750 +14.97% 41
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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 99 (99.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (57.00%) VMware
2 57 (57.00%) Windows
3 52 (52.00%) Microsoft
4 50 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 41 (41.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 38 (38.00%) Windows Server
7 37 (37.00%) Azure
8 33 (33.00%) Firewall
9 31 (31.00%) DNS
10 29 (29.00%) PowerShell
11 28 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (28.00%) SAN
12 26 (26.00%) DHCP
13 25 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
14 24 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (23.00%) Linux
16 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
17 21 (21.00%) Disaster Recovery
17 21 (21.00%) SCCM
18 20 (20.00%) vCenter Server
19 19 (19.00%) Hyper-V
19 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Exchange
19 19 (19.00%) Veeam
20 18 (18.00%) AWS
20 18 (18.00%) DevOps
21 17 (17.00%) Agile
22 16 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
22 16 (16.00%) VMware ESXi

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 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.00%) IIS
4 3 (3.00%) Apache
5 2 (2.00%) WinCC
6 1 (1.00%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.00%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.00%) Civil 3D
3 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.00%) Azure
2 28 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (18.00%) AWS
4 12 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 10 (10.00%) GCP
6 5 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.00%) Route 53
7 3 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.00%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.00%) OVHcloud
8 2 (2.00%) Serverless
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (33.00%) Firewall
2 31 (31.00%) DNS
3 28 (28.00%) SAN
4 26 (26.00%) DHCP
5 13 (13.00%) VPN
6 12 (12.00%) NAS
6 12 (12.00%) VLAN
7 10 (10.00%) TCP/IP
8 7 (7.00%) WAN
9 6 (6.00%) Network Security
10 5 (5.00%) Wireless
11 4 (4.00%) IP Telephony
11 4 (4.00%) LAN
11 4 (4.00%) SNMP
12 3 (3.00%) SD-WAN
12 3 (3.00%) SMTP
13 2 (2.00%) InfiniBand
13 2 (2.00%) iSCSI
13 2 (2.00%) Modbus
13 2 (2.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.00%) GitLab
2 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.00%) Finance
3 7 (7.00%) Legal
4 5 (5.00%) Automotive
4 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.00%) Local Government
5 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.00%) Advertising
6 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.00%) LDAP
2 3 (3.00%) YAML
3 2 (2.00%) OLE
4 1 (1.00%) .NET
4 1 (1.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.00%) Blackberry
1 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.00%) NHS
2 3 (3.00%) PKI
3 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (2.00%) SCADA
4 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.00%) CCTV
4 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.00%) CMDB
4 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 57 (57.00%) Windows
2 38 (38.00%) Windows Server
3 23 (23.00%) Linux
4 11 (11.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (11.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (8.00%) Mac OS
6 6 (6.00%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.00%) Apple iOS
7 5 (5.00%) Unix
8 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (99.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (21.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (18.00%) DevOps
6 17 (17.00%) Agile
7 16 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (14.00%) Security Operations
9 13 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (13.00%) ITIL
10 12 (12.00%) Information Security
11 11 (11.00%) Business Continuity
11 11 (11.00%) High Availability
12 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
12 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
12 10 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
12 10 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
13 9 (9.00%) Kalman Filter
14 8 (8.00%) Computer Science
15 7 (7.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.00%) Bash
2 6 (6.00%) Python
3 1 (1.00%) Bicep
3 1 (1.00%) Java
3 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.00%) DV Cleared
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.00%) Degree
4 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.00%) MCSE
5 6 (6.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (5.00%) HND
7 3 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.00%) Postgraduate
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.00%) CCNA
9 1 (1.00%) CCNP
9 1 (1.00%) MCP
9 1 (1.00%) MCSA
9 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.00%) IEC 61508
5 2 (2.00%) NIST
5 2 (2.00%) QA
6 1 (1.00%) GDPR
6 1 (1.00%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 50 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 41 (41.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (19.00%) Hyper-V
4 16 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (8.00%) vSphere
6 7 (7.00%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (2.00%) Docker
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (1.00%) Ceph
9 1 (1.00%) Firmware
9 1 (1.00%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 25 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (21.00%) SCCM
3 20 (20.00%) vCenter Server
4 9 (9.00%) Terraform
5 6 (6.00%) Ansible
6 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.00%) Nagios
6 4 (4.00%) ZABBIX
7 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.00%) SCOM
8 2 (2.00%) SCSM
9 1 (1.00%) AirWatch
9 1 (1.00%) PaperCut
9 1 (1.00%) Podman
9 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 57 (57.00%) VMware
2 52 (52.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (19.00%) Veeam
4 15 (15.00%) NetApp
5 11 (11.00%) SolarWinds
6 10 (10.00%) 3PAR
7 6 (6.00%) Palo Alto
8 5 (5.00%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (5.00%) Sophos
9 4 (4.00%) Apple
9 4 (4.00%) McAfee
9 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.00%) Cisco
10 3 (3.00%) Splunk
10 3 (3.00%) Trend Micro
11 2 (2.00%) Citrix
11 2 (2.00%) Dynatrace
11 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.00%) Siemens