Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 71 174
Rank change year-on-year -37 +103 +46
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 288 281 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.46% 3.62% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% 3.83% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 198 210 271
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £32,075
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,752 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £51,573
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.80% +8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,119 7,331 16,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 94.57% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,725 5,038 10,411
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,500 £84,101
England median annual salary £57,560 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.07% - +4.35%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 2 December 2024.

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 2 December 2024. 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 -27 100 £46,750 +3.44% 15
Hampshire -29 75 £48,500 -7.62% 15
Buckinghamshire -29 46 £42,500 -5.96% 5
Surrey -21 40 £56,250 +2.27% 4
Kent -11 35 £47,500 +18.75% 1
Berkshire -12 30 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Oxfordshire -13 24 £47,500 +2.70% 6
East Sussex +12 23 £55,000 -18.52%
West Sussex +1 18 £47,500 -2.56%
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 December 2024, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 283 (98.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (57.99%) Windows
3 145 (50.35%) VMware
4 107 (37.15%) Linux
5 103 (35.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 98 (34.03%) Active Directory
7 86 (29.86%) Microsoft
8 83 (28.82%) Azure
9 71 (24.65%) Firewall
10 66 (22.92%) Windows Server
11 61 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (20.14%) Social Skills
13 56 (19.44%) DNS
14 55 (19.10%) Microsoft Exchange
15 53 (18.40%) PowerShell
16 49 (17.01%) Cybersecurity
17 47 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
18 38 (13.19%) SQL Server
18 38 (13.19%) ITIL
19 37 (12.85%) Kubernetes
20 36 (12.50%) Security Cleared
20 36 (12.50%) Hyper-V
21 35 (12.15%) AWS
22 34 (11.81%) TCP/IP
23 32 (11.11%) WAN
23 32 (11.11%) Terraform
24 31 (10.76%) Data Centre
24 31 (10.76%) DHCP
24 31 (10.76%) Disaster Recovery
25 29 (10.07%) Information Security

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (19.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.08%) CloudStack
3 6 (2.08%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.74%) Confluence
5 4 (1.39%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 83 (28.82%) Azure
2 47 (16.32%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (12.15%) AWS
4 21 (7.29%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.51%) IaaS
6 9 (3.13%) GCP
6 9 (3.13%) GitHub
6 9 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (2.78%) Nutanix
7 8 (2.78%) PaaS
8 7 (2.43%) SaaS
9 6 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.39%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.04%) Cloudflare
12 3 (1.04%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.04%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.04%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.04%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 71 (24.65%) Firewall
2 56 (19.44%) DNS
3 34 (11.81%) TCP/IP
4 32 (11.11%) WAN
5 31 (10.76%) DHCP
6 27 (9.38%) SAN
7 26 (9.03%) LAN
8 25 (8.68%) Network Security
9 24 (8.33%) NAS
10 23 (7.99%) VSAN
11 22 (7.64%) VPN
12 17 (5.90%) HTTP
13 15 (5.21%) SMTP
14 14 (4.86%) Intrusion Detection
14 14 (4.86%) iSCSI
14 14 (4.86%) Wireless
15 13 (4.51%) VLAN
16 10 (3.47%) SNMP
17 8 (2.78%) VoIP
18 7 (2.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.39%) Power BI
4 3 (1.04%) MariaDB
4 3 (1.04%) MySQL
5 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (3.47%) GitLab
2 5 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
2 5 (1.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.38%) Finance
3 18 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (4.17%) Back Office
5 9 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.39%) Games
8 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.04%) Local Government
9 3 (1.04%) Retail
10 2 (0.69%) Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.35%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.21%) Web Services
2 1 (0.35%) JSON
2 1 (0.35%) Keycloak
2 1 (0.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.76%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.38%) Clustering
3 17 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.82%) Driving Licence
4 11 (3.82%) IoT
5 10 (3.47%) Blackberry
6 7 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.74%) PKI
8 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.39%) Replication
10 3 (1.04%) EMC VNX
10 3 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (0.69%) Housing Association
12 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 167 (57.99%) Windows
2 107 (37.15%) Linux
3 66 (22.92%) Windows Server
4 21 (7.29%) Ubuntu
5 17 (5.90%) CentOS
6 13 (4.51%) Windows 10
7 10 (3.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (2.08%) Debian
10 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.04%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.69%) Android
12 2 (0.69%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.69%) VMS
12 2 (0.69%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.35%) Windows Mobile
13 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (98.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 61 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (17.01%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (13.19%) ITIL
5 31 (10.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 29 (10.07%) Information Security
7 26 (9.03%) Change Control
8 19 (6.60%) Kalman Filter
8 19 (6.60%) Virtual Environments
9 18 (6.25%) High Availability
10 17 (5.90%) Change Management
10 17 (5.90%) CI/CD
11 16 (5.56%) Server Building
12 15 (5.21%) SIEM
13 13 (4.51%) Capacity Planning
13 13 (4.51%) DevOps
14 11 (3.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (3.82%) Mobile Device Management
14 11 (3.82%) Project Management
15 10 (3.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (18.40%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.51%) Python
3 6 (2.08%) Bash
3 6 (2.08%) Perl
3 6 (2.08%) SQL
4 3 (1.04%) ActionScript
4 3 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (5.21%) Degree
4 12 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.47%) HND
6 6 (2.08%) CCNA
6 6 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.08%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.39%) CCNP
8 3 (1.04%) CISM
8 3 (1.04%) CISSP
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.86%) NIST
2 13 (4.51%) GDPR
3 12 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (35.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 98 (34.03%) Active Directory
3 36 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 28 (9.72%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (7.29%) vSphere
6 18 (6.25%) Docker
7 15 (5.21%) pfSense
8 13 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (3.47%) VMware NSX
11 3 (1.04%) Firmware
11 3 (1.04%) NFS
11 3 (1.04%) OpenSSH
11 3 (1.04%) Terminal Server
11 3 (1.04%) XenApp
12 2 (0.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (12.85%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.11%) Terraform
3 25 (8.68%) vCenter Server
4 13 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.82%) Ansible
5 11 (3.82%) SCCM
6 9 (3.13%) Argo
7 6 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 6 (2.08%) WSUS
8 5 (1.74%) Packer
9 4 (1.39%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (1.04%) IBM BigFix
10 3 (1.04%) Nagios
10 3 (1.04%) NetCrunch
10 3 (1.04%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.69%) Nessus
11 2 (0.69%) Puppet
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 145 (50.35%) VMware
2 86 (29.86%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.72%) Cisco
4 22 (7.64%) HP
5 19 (6.60%) CheckPoint
5 19 (6.60%) Veeam
6 18 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 16 (5.56%) Palo Alto
8 15 (5.21%) Citrix
9 10 (3.47%) McAfee
10 9 (3.13%) Dell
10 9 (3.13%) Forcepoint
11 7 (2.43%) NetApp
12 6 (2.08%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.08%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.74%) Darktrace
13 5 (1.74%) Meraki
13 5 (1.74%) NEC
14 4 (1.39%) Aruba
14 4 (1.39%) WatchGuard