Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 85 72
Rank change year-on-year -72 -13 +99
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 115 310 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.21% 2.78% 3.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 2.92% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 83 215 205
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +1.80%

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 8,712 10,600 7,047
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 95.08% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,486 5,905 5,065
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,741
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 28 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 28 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 +19 43 £55,000 +13.40% 22
Thames Valley -49 32 £47,500 +3.26% 18
Kent -11 26 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Buckinghamshire -15 18 £48,000 +12.94% 9
Surrey -11 12 £43,750 -20.45% 15
Oxfordshire +13 7 £43,500 -8.42% 4
Berkshire -19 7 £53,750 +13.16% 6
West Sussex -10 2 £50,000 +5.26% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 114 (99.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (55.65%) Windows
3 53 (46.09%) VMware
4 47 (40.87%) Windows Server
5 44 (38.26%) Microsoft
6 43 (37.39%) Azure
7 42 (36.52%) Active Directory
8 36 (31.30%) Firewall
9 32 (27.83%) DNS
9 32 (27.83%) VMware Infrastructure
10 31 (26.96%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (26.09%) DHCP
12 24 (20.87%) Linux
12 24 (20.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (20.87%) PowerShell
12 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (20.87%) SAN
13 21 (18.26%) Security Cleared
13 21 (18.26%) vCenter Server
14 20 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (16.52%) SCCM
16 18 (15.65%) AWS
16 18 (15.65%) Hyper-V
16 18 (15.65%) VPN
17 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (14.78%) NetApp
17 17 (14.78%) Veeam
17 17 (14.78%) VMware ESXi
18 16 (13.91%) Performance Tuning
18 16 (13.91%) Security Operations

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 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.83%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.74%) WinCC
4 1 (0.87%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.87%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.87%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.87%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 43 (37.39%) Azure
2 31 (26.96%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (15.65%) AWS
4 13 (11.30%) Entra ID
4 13 (11.30%) GCP
5 4 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.74%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.74%) OVHcloud
7 2 (1.74%) Serverless
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.87%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (31.30%) Firewall
2 32 (27.83%) DNS
3 30 (26.09%) DHCP
4 24 (20.87%) SAN
5 18 (15.65%) VPN
6 13 (11.30%) VLAN
7 10 (8.70%) TCP/IP
8 9 (7.83%) NAS
8 9 (7.83%) Network Security
9 8 (6.96%) WAN
10 6 (5.22%) Wireless
11 4 (3.48%) LAN
12 3 (2.61%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (1.74%) InfiniBand
13 2 (1.74%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.74%) Modbus
13 2 (1.74%) NetScaler
13 2 (1.74%) VoIP
14 1 (0.87%) Miracast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.61%) Data Mining
1 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) JIRA
2 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.87%) GitLab
2 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.57%) Finance
3 6 (5.22%) Legal
4 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.61%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.61%) Automotive
5 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.87%) Advertising
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Electronics
7 1 (0.87%) Local Government
7 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) LDAP
2 2 (1.74%) Middleware
2 2 (1.74%) OLE
3 1 (0.87%) .NET
3 1 (0.87%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.87%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
1 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.74%) CCTV
3 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.74%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.74%) SCADA
4 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.87%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.87%) Clustering
4 1 (0.87%) CMDB
4 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.87%) NHS
4 1 (0.87%) PKI
4 1 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (55.65%) Windows
2 47 (40.87%) Windows Server
3 24 (20.87%) Linux
4 11 (9.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (9.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (7.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (5.22%) Mac OS
6 6 (5.22%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.61%) Unix
8 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (99.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (13.91%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (13.91%) Security Operations
6 14 (12.17%) Agile
6 14 (12.17%) Business Continuity
7 13 (11.30%) DevOps
8 12 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (10.43%) ITIL
8 12 (10.43%) Proactive Monitoring
9 10 (8.70%) Information Security
9 10 (8.70%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 9 (7.83%) Data Protection
10 9 (7.83%) High Availability
11 8 (6.96%) Mentoring
12 7 (6.09%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (6.09%) SIEM
12 7 (6.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.87%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.22%) Bash
2 6 (5.22%) Python
3 2 (1.74%) SQL
4 1 (0.87%) Bicep
4 1 (0.87%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.30%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.96%) Degree
6 6 (5.22%) MCSE
6 6 (5.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.74%) CCNA
9 2 (1.74%) CCNP
9 2 (1.74%) HND
10 1 (0.87%) MCP
10 1 (0.87%) MCSA
10 1 (0.87%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.87%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.74%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 2 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (36.52%) Active Directory
2 32 (27.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (15.65%) Hyper-V
4 17 (14.78%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (6.96%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (6.96%) vSphere
6 5 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.74%) Docker
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.87%) Ceph
8 1 (0.87%) Firmware
8 1 (0.87%) Lustre
8 1 (0.87%) pfSense
8 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (20.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (18.26%) vCenter Server
3 19 (16.52%) SCCM
4 7 (6.09%) Terraform
5 5 (4.35%) ZABBIX
6 4 (3.48%) Ansible
6 4 (3.48%) Nagios
7 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.61%) SCOM
8 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.74%) SCSM
9 1 (0.87%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.87%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.87%) Grafana
9 1 (0.87%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.87%) Podman
9 1 (0.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.87%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (46.09%) VMware
2 44 (38.26%) Microsoft
3 17 (14.78%) NetApp
3 17 (14.78%) Veeam
4 12 (10.43%) SolarWinds
5 10 (8.70%) 3PAR
6 6 (5.22%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.22%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (3.48%) Cisco
8 4 (3.48%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.48%) Splunk
9 3 (2.61%) Citrix
9 3 (2.61%) Sophos
9 3 (2.61%) Trend Micro
10 2 (1.74%) Apple
10 2 (1.74%) HP
10 2 (1.74%) Juniper
10 2 (1.74%) Red Hat