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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 173 81
Rank change year-on-year +84 -92 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 313 120 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.89% 1.39% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 1.55% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 260 83 351
10th Percentile £42,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £47,188 £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 £65,625 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £64,500 £64,500
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 15,777 7,757 13,519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 89.54% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,162 4,351 9,303
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,000
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 £87,200 £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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +22 109 £65,000 +13.04% 21
Thames Valley +72 105 £60,000 +33.33% 20
Surrey -6 56 £60,000 +50.00% 14
Buckinghamshire +22 47 £62,500 +13.64% 5
Oxfordshire +6 36 £55,000 +26.44% 11
Berkshire +37 22 £52,500 +16.67% 4
East Sussex +8 19 £45,000 +63.64%
Kent -21 16 £60,000 +20.00%
West Sussex - 3 £37,500 -
Sussex -5 2 £45,000 +28.57%
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 1 August 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.

1 303 (96.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (40.89%) Azure
3 114 (36.42%) Microsoft
4 88 (28.12%) Windows
5 68 (21.73%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (21.41%) Linux
7 65 (20.77%) VMware
8 52 (16.61%) Firewall
9 47 (15.02%) Windows Server
10 46 (14.70%) PowerShell
10 46 (14.70%) VMware Infrastructure
11 44 (14.06%) Active Directory
11 44 (14.06%) AWS
12 43 (13.74%) Security Cleared
13 37 (11.82%) Hyper-V
14 34 (10.86%) Entra ID
15 33 (10.54%) DNS
15 33 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (10.22%) VPN
17 31 (9.90%) Disaster Recovery
17 31 (9.90%) Microsoft Intune
18 30 (9.58%) SC Cleared
19 25 (7.99%) SaaS
19 25 (7.99%) Terraform
20 23 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
21 22 (7.03%) SharePoint
21 22 (7.03%) SQL Server
22 21 (6.71%) Agile
22 21 (6.71%) High Availability
23 20 (6.39%) Ansible

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 22 (7.03%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.60%) IIS
4 4 (1.28%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 128 (40.89%) Azure
2 68 (21.73%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (14.06%) AWS
4 34 (10.86%) Entra ID
5 25 (7.99%) SaaS
6 18 (5.75%) IaaS
7 14 (4.47%) PaaS
8 11 (3.51%) Cloudflare
8 11 (3.51%) Mimecast
9 10 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (3.19%) Nutanix
10 7 (2.24%) GCP
10 7 (2.24%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.28%) Datadog
13 3 (0.96%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (0.96%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 1 (0.32%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 52 (16.61%) Firewall
2 33 (10.54%) DNS
3 32 (10.22%) VPN
4 19 (6.07%) WAN
5 18 (5.75%) LAN
6 15 (4.79%) DHCP
7 10 (3.19%) VLAN
8 5 (1.60%) SAN
8 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.60%) VoIP
8 5 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.28%) Internet
9 4 (1.28%) Network Security
10 3 (0.96%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.96%) SSL
11 2 (0.64%) NAS
11 2 (0.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (4.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (10.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.47%) Legal
3 10 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (3.19%) Finance
4 7 (2.24%) Public Sector
5 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (1.92%) Manufacturing
5 6 (1.92%) Retail
5 6 (1.92%) Telecoms
6 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (0.96%) Law
6 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.64%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.28%) HTML
3 3 (0.96%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.32%) Redfish
4 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.47%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.15%) Driving Licence
3 11 (3.51%) PKI
4 10 (3.19%) iSeries
5 9 (2.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.92%) Replication
8 4 (1.28%) Clustering
9 3 (0.96%) FPGA
9 3 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.96%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 88 (28.12%) Windows
2 67 (21.41%) Linux
3 47 (15.02%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.88%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.56%) CentOS
6 2 (0.64%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) Debian
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Rocky
7 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (96.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (9.90%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (6.71%) Agile
5 21 (6.71%) High Availability
6 20 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (6.07%) Incident Management
7 19 (6.07%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (5.43%) Business Continuity
8 17 (5.43%) CI/CD
8 17 (5.43%) ITIL
8 17 (5.43%) Vulnerability Management
9 15 (4.79%) Project Delivery
10 14 (4.47%) Change Control
10 14 (4.47%) Zero Trust
11 13 (4.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (4.15%) SIEM
12 12 (3.83%) Business Continuity Planning
12 12 (3.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.70%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.47%) Bash
3 12 (3.83%) Python
4 11 (3.51%) R
5 8 (2.56%) SQL
6 3 (0.96%) Bicep
7 1 (0.32%) Go
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.58%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.07%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.56%) Degree
6 4 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.96%) MCSE
8 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.07%) Cyber Essentials
1 19 (6.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.28%) NCSC
3 3 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 46 (14.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (14.06%) Active Directory
3 37 (11.82%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.47%) vSphere
5 10 (3.19%) Docker
6 8 (2.56%) Firmware
6 8 (2.56%) KVM
6 8 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.56%) VMware Server
7 4 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (9.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (7.99%) Terraform
3 20 (6.39%) Ansible
4 15 (4.79%) Kubernetes
5 12 (3.83%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.88%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.56%) Graylog
7 8 (2.56%) Nessus
7 8 (2.56%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.60%) SCCM
9 4 (1.28%) Nagios
9 4 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.64%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.64%) Grafana
11 1 (0.32%) FlexNet
11 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.32%) Rancher
11 1 (0.32%) VxRail
11 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 114 (36.42%) Microsoft
2 65 (20.77%) VMware
3 15 (4.79%) Veeam
4 14 (4.47%) IBM
5 11 (3.51%) Cisco
5 11 (3.51%) CrowdStrike
6 9 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.24%) Oracle
8 6 (1.92%) Commvault
9 5 (1.60%) Aruba
9 5 (1.60%) Dell
9 5 (1.60%) EMC
9 5 (1.60%) HP
10 4 (1.28%) Citrix
10 4 (1.28%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.28%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.28%) Qualys
11 3 (0.96%) Meraki
11 3 (0.96%) NetApp
12 2 (0.64%) Zerto