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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 193 77
Rank change year-on-year +105 -116 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 351 100 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.88% 1.12% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 1.25% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 286 61 287
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -5.15% +5.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -

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 17,632 8,021 12,449
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.55% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,514 4,438 7,342
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £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 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 19 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 19 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 +96 129 £55,000 +22.22% 52
Hampshire +29 123 £70,000 +21.74% 22
Surrey +8 67 £60,000 +50.00% 21
Oxfordshire +18 58 £55,000 +26.44% 22
Buckinghamshire +28 40 £62,500 +31.58% 17
Berkshire +39 31 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Kent -26 15 £60,000 +20.00% 3
East Sussex - 11 £45,000 - 5
Sussex -8 2 £45,000 +28.57%
West Sussex - 2 £37,500 - 6
Middlesex - 2 £60,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 334 (95.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 136 (38.75%) Azure
3 110 (31.34%) Microsoft
4 99 (28.21%) Windows
5 80 (22.79%) VMware
6 74 (21.08%) Linux
7 69 (19.66%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (17.09%) Firewall
9 58 (16.52%) PowerShell
10 57 (16.24%) Windows Server
11 52 (14.81%) Active Directory
12 50 (14.25%) VMware Infrastructure
13 47 (13.39%) AWS
13 47 (13.39%) Security Cleared
14 45 (12.82%) DNS
15 42 (11.97%) Disaster Recovery
16 40 (11.40%) VPN
17 39 (11.11%) Entra ID
17 39 (11.11%) Hyper-V
18 36 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
20 31 (8.83%) Microsoft Intune
20 31 (8.83%) SC Cleared
21 29 (8.26%) Business Continuity
22 28 (7.98%) DV Cleared
22 28 (7.98%) High Availability
23 27 (7.69%) DHCP
23 27 (7.69%) Kubernetes
23 27 (7.69%) SharePoint
24 26 (7.41%) 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 27 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.42%) IIS
4 4 (1.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 136 (38.75%) Azure
2 69 (19.66%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (13.39%) AWS
4 39 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 21 (5.98%) SaaS
6 15 (4.27%) IaaS
7 14 (3.99%) Nutanix
8 12 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (3.13%) Cloudflare
10 8 (2.28%) GCP
10 8 (2.28%) PaaS
11 6 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.71%) Mimecast
11 6 (1.71%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.42%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.14%) Azure Stack
13 4 (1.14%) Datadog
14 3 (0.85%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (17.09%) Firewall
2 45 (12.82%) DNS
3 40 (11.40%) VPN
4 27 (7.69%) DHCP
5 25 (7.12%) WAN
6 24 (6.84%) LAN
7 21 (5.98%) VLAN
8 16 (4.56%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.99%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (2.56%) Internet
10 9 (2.56%) Network Security
11 5 (1.42%) SAN
11 5 (1.42%) VSAN
12 4 (1.14%) SSL
12 4 (1.14%) Wireless
13 3 (0.85%) NetScaler
14 2 (0.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (2.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 14 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (3.70%) Finance
4 10 (2.85%) Retail
5 9 (2.56%) Legal
6 8 (2.28%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.42%) Law
10 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Military
11 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.28%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.41%) 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 (4.56%) Driving Licence
2 14 (3.99%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.42%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.42%) PKI
4 11 (3.13%) Replication
5 10 (2.85%) iSeries
6 9 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.99%) Clustering
8 5 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) FPGA
9 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.57%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.28%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 99 (28.21%) Windows
2 74 (21.08%) Linux
3 57 (16.24%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.42%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.71%) CentOS
6 6 (1.71%) 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
1 334 (95.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (11.97%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (8.26%) Business Continuity
6 28 (7.98%) High Availability
7 24 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (6.84%) Vulnerability Management
8 22 (6.27%) Business Continuity Planning
9 21 (5.98%) DevOps
10 20 (5.70%) SIEM
11 19 (5.41%) Agile
11 19 (5.41%) BCP
11 19 (5.41%) Project Delivery
12 18 (5.13%) CI/CD
12 18 (5.13%) Incident Management
12 18 (5.13%) ITIL
13 17 (4.84%) Migration
13 17 (4.84%) Zero Trust
14 16 (4.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.52%) PowerShell
2 16 (4.56%) Bash
3 14 (3.99%) Python
4 8 (2.28%) SQL
5 6 (1.71%) R
6 5 (1.42%) Go
7 3 (0.85%) Bicep
8 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.83%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.98%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.42%) 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 (6.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.42%) NCSC
4 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.57%) GDPR
5 2 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 50 (14.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 25 (7.12%) vSphere
5 17 (4.84%) Docker
6 11 (3.13%) Firmware
6 11 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.28%) KVM
7 8 (2.28%) VMware Server
8 5 (1.42%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.57%) Lustre
10 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (8.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.55%) vCenter Server
4 21 (5.98%) Ansible
5 9 (2.56%) ZABBIX
6 8 (2.28%) Graylog
6 8 (2.28%) Proxmox
7 7 (1.99%) SCCM
8 6 (1.71%) Nessus
8 6 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
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
1 110 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 80 (22.79%) VMware
3 24 (6.84%) Veeam
4 18 (5.13%) Cisco
5 14 (3.99%) IBM
6 13 (3.70%) Dell
7 10 (2.85%) Aruba
8 9 (2.56%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.56%) Qualys
9 7 (1.99%) Oracle
9 7 (1.99%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.71%) Commvault
10 6 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.71%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.71%) Google
11 5 (1.42%) Citrix
11 5 (1.42%) EMC
11 5 (1.42%) HP
11 5 (1.42%) Meraki
12 3 (0.85%) Juniper