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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 197 82
Rank change year-on-year +111 -115 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 352 100 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.86% 1.12% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 1.25% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 281 63 280
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,875 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -4.12% +5.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £64,550
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -1.96%

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 17,756 7,985 12,307
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,600 4,459 7,046
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,400 £82,500
England median annual salary £59,852 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +74 129 £55,000 +22.22% 50
Hampshire +26 122 £70,000 +21.74% 33
Surrey +15 68 £60,000 +45.45% 27
Oxfordshire +19 59 £55,000 +26.44% 24
Buckinghamshire +25 40 £62,500 +31.58% 14
Berkshire +35 30 £50,000 +5.26% 13
Kent -26 18 £57,500 +15.00% 5
East Sussex - 9 £45,000 - 6
Sussex -11 2 £45,000 +28.57%
West Sussex - 2 £37,500 - 4
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 26 September 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.

1 335 (95.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 131 (37.22%) Azure
3 105 (29.83%) Microsoft
4 100 (28.41%) Windows
5 79 (22.44%) VMware
6 73 (20.74%) Linux
7 67 (19.03%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (17.33%) Firewall
9 57 (16.19%) Windows Server
10 56 (15.91%) PowerShell
11 51 (14.49%) Active Directory
12 50 (14.20%) VMware Infrastructure
13 48 (13.64%) Security Cleared
14 46 (13.07%) DNS
15 45 (12.78%) AWS
16 44 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
17 41 (11.65%) VPN
18 38 (10.80%) Hyper-V
19 37 (10.51%) Entra ID
20 35 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
21 33 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
22 32 (9.09%) SC Cleared
23 30 (8.52%) Business Continuity
23 30 (8.52%) Kubernetes
24 29 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
25 28 (7.95%) DHCP
25 28 (7.95%) DV Cleared
26 27 (7.67%) High Availability
27 26 (7.39%) SharePoint
27 26 (7.39%) Terraform

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 (7.39%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.42%) IIS
4 4 (1.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 131 (37.22%) Azure
2 67 (19.03%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (12.78%) AWS
4 37 (10.51%) Entra ID
5 19 (5.40%) SaaS
6 14 (3.98%) IaaS
6 14 (3.98%) Nutanix
7 12 (3.41%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (3.13%) Cloudflare
9 8 (2.27%) GCP
10 7 (1.99%) PaaS
11 6 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.70%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.42%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.14%) Azure Stack
13 4 (1.14%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.85%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (0.85%) Datadog
14 3 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (17.33%) Firewall
2 46 (13.07%) DNS
3 41 (11.65%) VPN
4 28 (7.95%) DHCP
5 25 (7.10%) WAN
6 24 (6.82%) LAN
7 22 (6.25%) VLAN
8 17 (4.83%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (2.56%) Internet
10 9 (2.56%) Network Security
11 6 (1.70%) SAN
12 5 (1.42%) VSAN
12 5 (1.42%) Wireless
13 4 (1.14%) SSL
14 3 (0.85%) NAS
14 3 (0.85%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (11.65%) Social Skills
2 14 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (3.69%) Finance
4 10 (2.84%) Retail
5 8 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 7 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.99%) Legal
6 7 (1.99%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.42%) Law
8 3 (0.85%) Aviation
8 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.57%) Military
9 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.28%) Police
10 1 (0.28%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.39%) Terraform
2 7 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.14%) HTML
4 3 (0.85%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.28%) OpenTofu
5 1 (0.28%) Redfish
5 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.55%) Driving Licence
2 14 (3.98%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.41%) PKI
4 11 (3.13%) Replication
5 10 (2.84%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (2.84%) iSeries
6 7 (1.99%) Clustering
7 5 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.85%) FPGA
8 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.85%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.57%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.57%) Robotics
9 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 100 (28.41%) Windows
2 73 (20.74%) Linux
3 57 (16.19%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.41%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.70%) CentOS
6 6 (1.70%) Rocky
7 2 (0.57%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (95.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 44 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 35 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (8.52%) Business Continuity
6 27 (7.67%) High Availability
7 26 (7.39%) Vulnerability Management
8 25 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (6.25%) Business Continuity Planning
9 22 (6.25%) DevOps
10 21 (5.97%) SIEM
11 20 (5.68%) Project Delivery
12 19 (5.40%) Agile
12 19 (5.40%) BCP
13 18 (5.11%) ITIL
13 18 (5.11%) Migration
14 17 (4.83%) CI/CD
14 17 (4.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (4.83%) Zero Trust
15 16 (4.55%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 17 (4.83%) Bash
3 15 (4.26%) Python
4 8 (2.27%) SQL
5 6 (1.70%) Go
6 4 (1.14%) R
7 3 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.95%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.98%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.42%) Degree
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.28%) CCA
8 1 (0.28%) CCSP
8 1 (0.28%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.28%) CISSP
8 1 (0.28%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.28%) MCSE
8 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.42%) NCSC
4 3 (0.85%) NIST
4 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 50 (14.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (10.80%) Hyper-V
4 25 (7.10%) vSphere
5 19 (5.40%) Docker
6 11 (3.13%) Firmware
6 11 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.27%) KVM
7 8 (2.27%) VMware Server
8 5 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.42%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.57%) Lustre
10 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (8.52%) Kubernetes
2 29 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (6.53%) vCenter Server
4 21 (5.97%) Ansible
5 9 (2.56%) ZABBIX
6 8 (2.27%) Graylog
6 8 (2.27%) Proxmox
7 7 (1.99%) SCCM
7 7 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.70%) Nessus
9 4 (1.14%) Nagios
9 4 (1.14%) VxRail
10 2 (0.57%) Argo
10 2 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.57%) Grafana
11 1 (0.28%) FlexNet
11 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.28%) Rancher
11 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 105 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 79 (22.44%) VMware
3 24 (6.82%) Veeam
4 18 (5.11%) Cisco
5 14 (3.98%) IBM
6 13 (3.69%) Dell
7 10 (2.84%) Aruba
8 9 (2.56%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.56%) Qualys
9 7 (1.99%) Google
9 7 (1.99%) Oracle
9 7 (1.99%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.70%) Commvault
10 6 (1.70%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.42%) Citrix
11 5 (1.42%) EMC
11 5 (1.42%) HP
11 5 (1.42%) Meraki
12 4 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.85%) Juniper