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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 168 84
Rank change year-on-year +77 -84 +40
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 300 118 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.87% 1.37% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 1.53% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 248 84 369
10th Percentile £42,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +10.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,250 £63,900
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 15,372 7,696 14,141
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.61% 89.50% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,869 4,300 9,839
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £37,500
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 £81,250 £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 25 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 25 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 +22 102 £65,000 +13.04% 33
Thames Valley +83 101 £60,000 +33.33% 18
Surrey -9 52 £60,000 +50.00% 9
Buckinghamshire +28 49 £62,500 +13.64% 5
Oxfordshire +8 33 £53,500 +22.99% 8
East Sussex +6 20 £45,000 +63.64%
Berkshire +33 19 £52,500 +16.67% 5
Kent -23 17 £60,000 +20.00%
West Sussex - 3 £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 25 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.

1 291 (97.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 121 (40.33%) Azure
3 110 (36.67%) Microsoft
4 83 (27.67%) Windows
5 64 (21.33%) Microsoft 365
6 62 (20.67%) Linux
7 61 (20.33%) VMware
8 47 (15.67%) Firewall
9 45 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 43 (14.33%) Active Directory
11 42 (14.00%) AWS
11 42 (14.00%) Windows Server
12 41 (13.67%) PowerShell
13 39 (13.00%) Security Cleared
14 36 (12.00%) Hyper-V
15 32 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (10.33%) Entra ID
17 30 (10.00%) DNS
17 30 (10.00%) VPN
18 29 (9.67%) Microsoft Intune
19 28 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
19 28 (9.33%) SC Cleared
20 23 (7.67%) SaaS
21 22 (7.33%) SQL Server
21 22 (7.33%) Terraform
22 21 (7.00%) Agile
22 21 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
23 20 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
23 20 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
24 19 (6.33%) Incident Management

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 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.33%) Confluence
3 4 (1.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 121 (40.33%) Azure
2 64 (21.33%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (14.00%) AWS
4 31 (10.33%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.67%) SaaS
6 17 (5.67%) IaaS
7 14 (4.67%) PaaS
8 12 (4.00%) Mimecast
9 11 (3.67%) Cloudflare
10 10 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (3.00%) Nutanix
12 7 (2.33%) GCP
12 7 (2.33%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.33%) Datadog
14 3 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.00%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (0.67%) Azure Key Vault
16 1 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (15.67%) Firewall
2 30 (10.00%) DNS
2 30 (10.00%) VPN
3 18 (6.00%) WAN
4 17 (5.67%) LAN
5 13 (4.33%) DHCP
6 9 (3.00%) VLAN
7 5 (1.67%) SAN
7 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.67%) VoIP
8 4 (1.33%) Network Security
8 4 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.00%) Internet
9 3 (1.00%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.67%) NAS
10 2 (0.67%) SSL
10 2 (0.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (5.33%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (9.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.00%) Legal
3 10 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.00%) Finance
5 7 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.67%) Retail
8 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.00%) Law
8 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.67%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.33%) HTML
3 2 (0.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.33%) Redfish
4 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.67%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.67%) Driving Licence
2 11 (3.67%) PKI
3 10 (3.33%) iSeries
4 9 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.00%) Replication
7 4 (1.33%) Clustering
8 3 (1.00%) FPGA
8 3 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 83 (27.67%) Windows
2 62 (20.67%) Linux
3 42 (14.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.00%) Ubuntu
4 9 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.67%) CentOS
6 2 (0.67%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) Debian
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Rocky
7 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (97.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (9.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (7.00%) Agile
4 21 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (6.33%) Incident Management
7 18 (6.00%) High Availability
8 16 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (5.33%) ITIL
9 15 (5.00%) CI/CD
9 15 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 14 (4.67%) Business Continuity
10 14 (4.67%) Change Control
11 13 (4.33%) Project Delivery
12 12 (4.00%) Change Management
12 12 (4.00%) Identity Management
12 12 (4.00%) SIEM
12 12 (4.00%) Workflow
12 12 (4.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.67%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.33%) Bash
3 12 (4.00%) Python
3 12 (4.00%) R
4 7 (2.33%) SQL
5 2 (0.67%) Bicep
6 1 (0.33%) Go
6 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.67%) Degree
5 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.00%) MCSE
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.00%) NCSC
3 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (14.33%) Active Directory
3 36 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 13 (4.33%) vSphere
5 8 (2.67%) Firmware
5 8 (2.67%) KVM
5 8 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.33%) Docker
6 7 (2.33%) VMware Server
7 4 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (9.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (7.33%) Terraform
3 18 (6.00%) Ansible
4 14 (4.67%) Kubernetes
5 11 (3.67%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.00%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.67%) Graylog
7 8 (2.67%) Nessus
7 8 (2.67%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.67%) SCCM
9 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.00%) Nagios
11 2 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.67%) Grafana
12 1 (0.33%) FlexNet
12 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.33%) Rancher
12 1 (0.33%) VxRail
12 1 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 110 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 61 (20.33%) VMware
3 15 (5.00%) Veeam
4 14 (4.67%) IBM
5 12 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (3.33%) Cisco
7 9 (3.00%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.33%) Oracle
9 6 (2.00%) Commvault
10 5 (1.67%) Dell
10 5 (1.67%) EMC
10 5 (1.67%) HP
11 4 (1.33%) Aruba
11 4 (1.33%) Citrix
11 4 (1.33%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.00%) Meraki
12 3 (1.00%) NetApp
12 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.00%) Qualys
13 2 (0.67%) Apple