Infrastructure Engineer Jobs 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 to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 177 207
Rank change year-on-year +80 +30 -85
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 472 275 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.81% 1.89% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.99% 2.09% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 430 202 254
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £62,375 £71,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,795 13,135 19,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 90.36% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,343 8,294 12,415
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +65 172 £50,000 - 14
Hampshire +30 129 £48,500 -3.00% 19
Surrey +54 84 £55,000 +5.77% 9
Berkshire +52 72 £52,550 -4.45% 3
Oxfordshire +49 55 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Buckinghamshire +1 45 £42,500 -15.00% 5
Kent -5 41 £38,500 -9.41% 15
East Sussex +33 27 £55,000 +22.22% 2
West Sussex +27 24 £67,500 +68.75% 2
Sussex - 6 £65,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 464 (98.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 252 (53.39%) Windows
3 217 (45.97%) VMware
4 180 (38.14%) Azure
5 171 (36.23%) Active Directory
6 164 (34.75%) Microsoft
7 148 (31.36%) Microsoft 365
8 139 (29.45%) Windows Server
9 123 (26.06%) Linux
10 117 (24.79%) VMware Infrastructure
11 114 (24.15%) Firewall
12 106 (22.46%) PowerShell
13 101 (21.40%) Security Cleared
14 92 (19.49%) Social Skills
15 90 (19.07%) DNS
16 85 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
17 74 (15.68%) Data Centre
18 67 (14.19%) Degree
18 67 (14.19%) SC Cleared
19 65 (13.77%) Windows Server 2016
20 64 (13.56%) ITIL
21 63 (13.35%) Cisco
22 62 (13.14%) Hyper-V
23 57 (12.08%) AWS
24 56 (11.86%) DV Cleared
25 55 (11.65%) WAN
26 53 (11.23%) LAN
27 51 (10.81%) Windows 10
28 50 (10.59%) DevOps
29 49 (10.38%) DHCP

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 39 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.39%) IIS
4 4 (0.85%) WordPress
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.42%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.21%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 180 (38.14%) Azure
2 148 (31.36%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (12.08%) AWS
4 29 (6.14%) IaaS
5 19 (4.03%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.60%) OneDrive
7 16 (3.39%) Nutanix
8 15 (3.18%) Amazon S3
9 14 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.75%) CloudFront
10 13 (2.75%) OCI
10 13 (2.75%) Route 53
10 13 (2.75%) SaaS
10 13 (2.75%) Serverless
10 13 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (2.12%) GitHub
12 9 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 114 (24.15%) Firewall
2 90 (19.07%) DNS
3 55 (11.65%) WAN
4 53 (11.23%) LAN
5 49 (10.38%) DHCP
6 47 (9.96%) VPN
7 46 (9.75%) SAN
8 35 (7.42%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (5.51%) Wireless
10 18 (3.81%) TCP/IP
11 15 (3.18%) 5G
12 14 (2.97%) MPLS
13 12 (2.54%) BGP
13 12 (2.54%) SD-WAN
13 12 (2.54%) VLAN
14 11 (2.33%) Internet
15 10 (2.12%) HTTP
15 10 (2.12%) NAS
15 10 (2.12%) SMTP
15 10 (2.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.93%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (2.33%) MySQL
4 4 (0.85%) DB2
5 1 (0.21%) Power BI
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (3.39%) JIRA
2 13 (2.75%) Git
2 13 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.12%) Trac
4 2 (0.42%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) Chocolatey
General
1 92 (19.49%) Social Skills
2 36 (7.63%) Finance
3 22 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (3.60%) Telecoms
5 11 (2.33%) Advertising
6 5 (1.06%) Financial Institution
6 5 (1.06%) Games
6 5 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (1.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.06%) Retail
7 4 (0.85%) Law
8 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
8 3 (0.64%) Legal
9 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.21%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.12%) Web Services
2 4 (0.85%) LAMP
3 2 (0.42%) CSS
3 2 (0.42%) JSON
3 2 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.42%) YAML
4 1 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.21%) Flash
4 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (15.68%) Data Centre
2 39 (8.26%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.81%) IoT
4 15 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.33%) PKI
6 9 (1.91%) Clustering
6 9 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.48%) Cyber Security Posture
7 7 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.48%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.06%) Replication
10 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.64%) EMC VNX
12 2 (0.42%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.42%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.42%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.21%) NHS
13 1 (0.21%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.21%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 252 (53.39%) Windows
2 139 (29.45%) Windows Server
3 123 (26.06%) Linux
4 65 (13.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 51 (10.81%) Windows 10
6 41 (8.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (8.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 27 (5.72%) Ubuntu
9 18 (3.81%) CentOS
10 17 (3.60%) Windows 7
11 14 (2.97%) Android
11 14 (2.97%) Apple iOS
12 12 (2.54%) Windows XP
13 6 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (1.27%) VMS
13 6 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.64%) Rocky
14 3 (0.64%) Windows NT
15 1 (0.21%) AIX
15 1 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (98.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (13.56%) ITIL
4 50 (10.59%) DevOps
5 41 (8.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 38 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (7.63%) Storage Management
8 30 (6.36%) Decision-Making
9 29 (6.14%) Customer Service
10 26 (5.51%) Service Delivery
11 25 (5.30%) Change Management
11 25 (5.30%) Project Management
12 24 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (4.87%) Problem Management
14 20 (4.24%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (4.03%) Computer Science
15 19 (4.03%) Project Delivery
16 18 (3.81%) Agile
16 18 (3.81%) Virtual Infrastructure
17 17 (3.60%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (22.46%) PowerShell
2 35 (7.42%) Python
3 25 (5.30%) Bash
4 13 (2.75%) Perl
5 11 (2.33%) SQL
6 9 (1.91%) ActionScript
6 9 (1.91%) VB
7 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 101 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 67 (14.19%) Degree
2 67 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 56 (11.86%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.45%) CCNA
4 21 (4.45%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (2.54%) CCNP
8 11 (2.33%) HNC
9 6 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.27%) MCP
10 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.64%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.64%) MCSE
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.08%) SLA
2 13 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (1.69%) GDPR
4 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.42%) QA
6 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 171 (36.23%) Active Directory
2 117 (24.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (13.14%) Hyper-V
4 42 (8.90%) VMware ESXi
4 42 (8.90%) vSphere
5 37 (7.84%) Docker
6 34 (7.20%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.12%) NFS
7 10 (2.12%) pfSense
7 10 (2.12%) XenApp
8 9 (1.91%) OpenSSH
9 6 (1.27%) VMware Server
10 5 (1.06%) Firmware
11 3 (0.64%) KVM
12 2 (0.42%) QEMU
12 2 (0.42%) Xen
13 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (10.17%) SCCM
1 48 (10.17%) vCenter Server
2 38 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 31 (6.57%) WSUS
4 25 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (4.66%) Terraform
6 19 (4.03%) EMC NetWorker
6 19 (4.03%) SCOM
7 17 (3.60%) Ansible
8 16 (3.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 16 (3.39%) SCDPM
9 12 (2.54%) Grafana
9 12 (2.54%) NetBackup
10 10 (2.12%) FortiGate
10 10 (2.12%) ZABBIX
11 9 (1.91%) IBM BigFix
11 9 (1.91%) PowerCLI
12 7 (1.48%) Nagios
13 6 (1.27%) Nessus
14 5 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 217 (45.97%) VMware
2 164 (34.75%) Microsoft
3 63 (13.35%) Cisco
4 43 (9.11%) Veeam
5 35 (7.42%) HP
6 33 (6.99%) Aruba
7 28 (5.93%) Juniper
8 27 (5.72%) Palo Alto
9 24 (5.08%) Dell
10 23 (4.87%) Citrix
11 22 (4.66%) Red Hat
12 21 (4.45%) EMC
13 19 (4.03%) Oracle
14 18 (3.81%) Extreme Networks
14 18 (3.81%) Fortinet
15 17 (3.60%) 3PAR
16 12 (2.54%) IBM
16 12 (2.54%) Symantec
17 11 (2.33%) McAfee
18 9 (1.91%) Meraki