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 16 January 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 119 79
Rank change year-on-year -23 -40 +91
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 134 213 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.28% 2.38% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 2.62% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 101 130 267
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,875 £36,850
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,688 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,938 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £64,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -3.85%

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 9,626 8,143 8,461
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 90.80% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,032 4,283 6,102
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,831 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.26%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +46 61 £55,000 +12.82% 14
Thames Valley -42 32 £48,000 -1.54% 19
Kent -5 25 £45,000 -5.26% 5
Buckinghamshire -16 22 £45,500 -6.67% 7
Surrey -5 13 £48,750 -15.22% 3
Berkshire -28 9 £51,250 +7.89% 11
West Sussex -13 2 £50,000 +5.26% 4
Oxfordshire +3 1 £55,000 -8.33% 3
East Sussex -4 1 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 January 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.

1 133 (99.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (46.27%) Windows
3 47 (35.07%) VMware
4 46 (34.33%) Windows Server
5 40 (29.85%) Microsoft
6 38 (28.36%) Active Directory
6 38 (28.36%) Azure
7 33 (24.63%) Firewall
8 31 (23.13%) DNS
9 30 (22.39%) DHCP
10 25 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.91%) SAN
11 24 (17.91%) Security Cleared
12 23 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (16.42%) vCenter Server
14 21 (15.67%) VMware Infrastructure
15 20 (14.93%) Linux
15 20 (14.93%) Microsoft Intune
15 20 (14.93%) Security Operations
15 20 (14.93%) Veeam
16 19 (14.18%) SCCM
17 18 (13.43%) NetApp
17 18 (13.43%) VMware ESXi
18 17 (12.69%) DV Cleared
18 17 (12.69%) VPN
19 16 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
19 16 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
19 16 (11.94%) PowerShell
20 15 (11.19%) Agile
20 15 (11.19%) Business Continuity

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 9 (6.72%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.49%) WinCC
4 1 (0.75%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.75%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (28.36%) Azure
2 23 (17.16%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (9.70%) AWS
4 10 (7.46%) GCP
5 9 (6.72%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.49%) IaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.75%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.75%) PaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.63%) Firewall
2 31 (23.13%) DNS
3 30 (22.39%) DHCP
4 24 (17.91%) SAN
5 17 (12.69%) VPN
6 15 (11.19%) VLAN
7 11 (8.21%) Network Security
8 10 (7.46%) TCP/IP
9 7 (5.22%) NAS
9 7 (5.22%) Wireless
10 4 (2.99%) WAN
11 3 (2.24%) NetScaler
12 2 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (1.49%) InfiniBand
12 2 (1.49%) Modbus
12 2 (1.49%) VSAN
13 1 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.75%) HSRP
13 1 (0.75%) Miracast
13 1 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.24%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (2.99%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.75%) GitLab
2 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.70%) Finance
3 7 (5.22%) Legal
4 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Advertising
8 1 (0.75%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.99%) LDAP
2 2 (1.49%) .NET
2 2 (1.49%) Middleware
3 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.73%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.24%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.49%) Clustering
4 2 (1.49%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.49%) SCADA
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) CCTV
5 1 (0.75%) CMDB
5 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.75%) FMCG
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.75%) PKI
5 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (46.27%) Windows
2 46 (34.33%) Windows Server
3 20 (14.93%) Linux
4 13 (9.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (9.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (7.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.48%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.99%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.75%) Unix
8 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (99.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (14.93%) Security Operations
4 16 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
5 15 (11.19%) Agile
5 15 (11.19%) Business Continuity
5 15 (11.19%) DevOps
6 13 (9.70%) Proactive Monitoring
7 12 (8.96%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (7.46%) High Availability
8 10 (7.46%) ITIL
9 9 (6.72%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (6.72%) Incident Response
9 9 (6.72%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 9 (6.72%) SIEM
10 8 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.97%) Situational Awareness
10 8 (5.97%) Threat Intelligence
11 7 (5.22%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.94%) PowerShell
2 5 (3.73%) Bash
3 4 (2.99%) SQL
4 3 (2.24%) Python
5 2 (1.49%) Bicep
6 1 (0.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.69%) DV Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.73%) Degree
5 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.49%) MCSE
7 2 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.75%) CCNA
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) HND
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.75%) MCP
8 1 (0.75%) MCSA
8 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.75%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.49%) IEC 61508
1 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.49%) NIST
1 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.49%) QA
1 2 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.75%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 38 (28.36%) Active Directory
2 21 (15.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (13.43%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (11.19%) Hyper-V
5 9 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (6.72%) vSphere
6 2 (1.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.49%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.75%) Ceph
7 1 (0.75%) Docker
7 1 (0.75%) Lustre
7 1 (0.75%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 22 (16.42%) vCenter Server
2 20 (14.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (14.18%) SCCM
4 5 (3.73%) ZABBIX
5 4 (2.99%) Nagios
5 4 (2.99%) Terraform
6 3 (2.24%) Ansible
6 3 (2.24%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.24%) SCOM
7 2 (1.49%) SCSM
7 2 (1.49%) VxRail
8 1 (0.75%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.75%) Grafana
8 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (35.07%) VMware
2 40 (29.85%) Microsoft
3 20 (14.93%) Veeam
4 18 (13.43%) NetApp
5 14 (10.45%) SolarWinds
6 12 (8.96%) 3PAR
7 7 (5.22%) Fortinet
7 7 (5.22%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.48%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (2.99%) Citrix
9 4 (2.99%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.99%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.24%) Cisco
10 3 (2.24%) Dell
10 3 (2.24%) Trend Micro
11 2 (1.49%) HP
11 2 (1.49%) IBM
11 2 (1.49%) Juniper
11 2 (1.49%) Siemens
11 2 (1.49%) Splunk