Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 174 82
Rank change year-on-year +75 -92 +89
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 258 108 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.78% 1.38% 3.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.62% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 215 73 485
10th Percentile £42,500 - £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £59,750 £64,200
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% +14.00% -

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 13,813 6,674 16,650
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.25% 85.36% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,551 3,535 11,981
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.87%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +23 90 £65,000 +18.18% 20
Thames Valley +63 78 £60,000 +23.08% 24
Buckinghamshire +20 47 £62,500 +13.64% 13
Surrey -20 39 £57,500 +43.75% 8
East Sussex +7 24 £45,000 +63.64%
Oxfordshire +9 20 £47,500 +14.46% 7
Kent -17 19 £45,000 -18.18% 4
Berkshire +13 11 £58,750 +20.51% 4
West Sussex - 4 £60,000 - 1
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 6 June 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.

1 258 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 102 (39.53%) Azure
3 94 (36.43%) Microsoft
4 70 (27.13%) Windows
5 54 (20.93%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (20.16%) VMware
7 48 (18.60%) Linux
8 41 (15.89%) AWS
9 40 (15.50%) Firewall
9 40 (15.50%) Windows Server
10 35 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (13.57%) Security Cleared
11 34 (13.18%) Active Directory
11 34 (13.18%) PowerShell
12 33 (12.79%) VMware Infrastructure
13 27 (10.47%) Hyper-V
14 25 (9.69%) VPN
15 24 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
16 23 (8.91%) DNS
17 22 (8.53%) Entra ID
17 22 (8.53%) SaaS
17 22 (8.53%) SC Cleared
18 21 (8.14%) SQL Server
18 21 (8.14%) Veeam
19 18 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
19 18 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
20 17 (6.59%) IaaS
20 17 (6.59%) ITIL
21 16 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 16 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange

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 16 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.55%) Confluence
3 4 (1.55%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 102 (39.53%) Azure
2 54 (20.93%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (15.89%) AWS
4 22 (8.53%) Entra ID
4 22 (8.53%) SaaS
5 17 (6.59%) IaaS
6 15 (5.81%) PaaS
7 12 (4.65%) Mimecast
8 11 (4.26%) Cloudflare
9 9 (3.49%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (2.71%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.33%) GCP
11 6 (2.33%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.16%) Datadog
12 3 (1.16%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.39%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.50%) Firewall
2 25 (9.69%) VPN
3 23 (8.91%) DNS
4 14 (5.43%) DHCP
5 11 (4.26%) LAN
5 11 (4.26%) WAN
6 10 (3.88%) SAN
7 6 (2.33%) VLAN
8 5 (1.94%) Network Security
8 5 (1.94%) VoIP
9 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.78%) NAS
10 2 (0.78%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.78%) VSAN
11 1 (0.39%) SSL
11 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 15 (5.81%) JIRA
General
1 23 (8.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (4.65%) Legal
3 8 (3.10%) Finance
4 6 (2.33%) Telecoms
5 5 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.55%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.78%) Military
8 2 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.78%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.65%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.88%) iSeries
2 10 (3.88%) PKI
3 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.33%) Replication
5 3 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.78%) Clustering
6 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (27.13%) Windows
2 48 (18.60%) Linux
3 40 (15.50%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.10%) CentOS
5 8 (3.10%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
4 17 (6.59%) ITIL
5 15 (5.81%) Agile
5 15 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (5.81%) Incident Management
6 13 (5.04%) Vulnerability Management
7 12 (4.65%) Change Management
7 12 (4.65%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (4.65%) DevOps
7 12 (4.65%) High Availability
7 12 (4.65%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (4.26%) DevSecOps
8 11 (4.26%) Identity Management
8 11 (4.26%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 11 (4.26%) SIEM
8 11 (4.26%) Workflow
9 10 (3.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.18%) PowerShell
2 11 (4.26%) R
3 9 (3.49%) Bash
4 8 (3.10%) Python
5 6 (2.33%) SQL
6 2 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 35 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.43%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.33%) Degree
5 5 (1.94%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.16%) MCSE
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.39%) CCIE
9 1 (0.39%) CCNA
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.39%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (13.18%) Active Directory
2 33 (12.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (10.47%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.88%) vSphere
5 8 (3.10%) KVM
5 8 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.55%) Firmware
6 4 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.16%) Docker
7 3 (1.16%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (6.20%) Terraform
3 13 (5.04%) Ansible
3 13 (5.04%) vCenter Server
4 8 (3.10%) Graylog
4 8 (3.10%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.10%) Nessus
4 8 (3.10%) Proxmox
4 8 (3.10%) ZABBIX
5 7 (2.71%) SCCM
6 4 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.16%) Nagios
8 2 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 94 (36.43%) Microsoft
2 52 (20.16%) VMware
3 21 (8.14%) Veeam
4 14 (5.43%) IBM
5 11 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (3.10%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.71%) NetApp
8 6 (2.33%) Cisco
8 6 (2.33%) Commvault
8 6 (2.33%) HP
9 5 (1.94%) 3PAR
9 5 (1.94%) EMC
9 5 (1.94%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.55%) Dell
11 3 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.78%) Citrix
12 2 (0.78%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.78%) Meraki
12 2 (0.78%) Zerto
13 1 (0.39%) Juniper