Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 88 173
Rank change year-on-year -117 +85 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 108 512 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.12% 2.92% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 3.10% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 72 462 198
10th Percentile - £36,313 £35,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,510
England median annual salary £55,910 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.82% - -

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 8,376 16,502 12,665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.09% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,469 11,730 7,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,613 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 30 May 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 30 May 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
Surrey 0 35 £40,000 -27.27% 11
Hampshire -22 32 £55,000 +13.40% 26
Thames Valley -50 31 £50,000 - 67
Buckinghamshire -3 16 £55,000 +29.41% 16
Berkshire -16 10 £48,750 -7.23% 45
Kent -12 7 £55,000 +37.50% 9
Oxfordshire -15 5 £45,000 -10.00% 6
East Sussex -7 2 £27,500 -45.00% 3
Sussex +15 1 £35,000 -46.15%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 105 (97.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 74 (68.52%) VMware
3 69 (63.89%) Windows
4 67 (62.04%) Microsoft
5 62 (57.41%) Active Directory
6 57 (52.78%) VMware Infrastructure
7 48 (44.44%) PowerShell
8 40 (37.04%) Microsoft Exchange
9 39 (36.11%) Social Skills
10 36 (33.33%) Linux
10 36 (33.33%) Security Cleared
11 35 (32.41%) Azure
12 34 (31.48%) Windows Server
13 32 (29.63%) High Availability
14 30 (27.78%) Degree
15 29 (26.85%) Disaster Recovery
16 26 (24.07%) SAN
16 26 (24.07%) DV Cleared
17 24 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 23 (21.30%) NAS
18 23 (21.30%) Virtual Environments
19 22 (20.37%) Microsoft 365
20 21 (19.44%) Ansible
20 21 (19.44%) DNS
21 20 (18.52%) Kalman Filter
22 19 (17.59%) vSphere
22 19 (17.59%) Firewall
22 19 (17.59%) Clustering
23 18 (16.67%) Terraform
23 18 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (37.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.70%) Apache
3 3 (2.78%) IIS
3 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.41%) Azure
2 22 (20.37%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (12.96%) AWS
4 11 (10.19%) GCP
5 6 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.63%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.78%) Route 53
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.85%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.85%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.85%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.07%) SAN
2 23 (21.30%) NAS
3 21 (19.44%) DNS
4 19 (17.59%) Firewall
5 16 (14.81%) DHCP
6 15 (13.89%) WAN
7 13 (12.04%) LAN
8 12 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (10.19%) SMTP
10 9 (8.33%) 5G
10 9 (8.33%) Bluetooth
10 9 (8.33%) LTE
10 9 (8.33%) SD-WAN
11 7 (6.48%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (6.48%) SNMP
12 6 (5.56%) Network Security
13 5 (4.63%) IP Telephony
14 3 (2.78%) VPN
15 2 (1.85%) iSCSI
15 2 (1.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.33%) Electronics
4 8 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.63%) Finance
6 5 (4.63%) Games
7 4 (3.70%) Legal
8 3 (2.78%) Automotive
8 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.78%) Retail
9 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Back Office
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) YAML
2 1 (0.93%) JSON
2 1 (0.93%) OLE
2 1 (0.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Clustering
2 11 (10.19%) PKI
3 9 (8.33%) IoT
3 9 (8.33%) NB-IoT
4 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.63%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.85%) NHS
6 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (63.89%) Windows
2 36 (33.33%) Linux
3 34 (31.48%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.63%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.78%) VMS
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.85%) Debian
6 2 (1.85%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.85%) SUSE
6 2 (1.85%) Unix
6 2 (1.85%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.93%) CentOS
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (97.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (29.63%) High Availability
3 29 (26.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (21.30%) Virtual Environments
6 20 (18.52%) Kalman Filter
7 17 (15.74%) Computer Science
8 16 (14.81%) DevOps
8 16 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (14.81%) Server Building
9 15 (13.89%) Patch Management
9 15 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (11.11%) Customer Service
11 11 (10.19%) Antivirus Management
11 11 (10.19%) Change Control
11 11 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (10.19%) IT Strategy
11 11 (10.19%) Web Filtering
12 10 (9.26%) Asset Management
12 10 (9.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 48 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.11%) Python
3 10 (9.26%) Bash
4 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.78%) Degree
3 26 (24.07%) DV Cleared
4 13 (12.04%) HND
5 9 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
6 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.78%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.85%) MCSE
10 2 (1.85%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.93%) CISSP
11 1 (0.93%) HNC
11 1 (0.93%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) GDPR
2 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (57.41%) Active Directory
2 57 (52.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (17.59%) vSphere
4 17 (15.74%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (14.81%) Hyper-V
6 10 (9.26%) Docker
7 9 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (7.41%) BitLocker
8 8 (7.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (7.41%) Terminal Services
9 7 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (2.78%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.93%) KVM
11 1 (0.93%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (19.44%) Ansible
2 18 (16.67%) Terraform
3 15 (13.89%) Puppet
4 12 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 11 (10.19%) Kubernetes
6 8 (7.41%) vMotion
7 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (5.56%) Nagios
8 3 (2.78%) WSUS
9 2 (1.85%) Nessus
9 2 (1.85%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.85%) SCCM
9 2 (1.85%) ZENworks
10 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.93%) Packer
10 1 (0.93%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.93%) vRealize
10 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 74 (68.52%) VMware
2 67 (62.04%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.81%) Citrix
4 9 (8.33%) HP
5 8 (7.41%) Cisco
5 8 (7.41%) Google
5 8 (7.41%) Veeam
6 6 (5.56%) Symantec
7 5 (4.63%) McAfee
8 4 (3.70%) Dell
9 3 (2.78%) Juniper
10 2 (1.85%) Apple
10 2 (1.85%) Meraki
10 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.85%) Sophos
11 1 (0.93%) Aruba
11 1 (0.93%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.93%) Ruckus Wireless
11 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.93%) Tanium