Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 June 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 86 176
Rank change year-on-year -109 +90 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 108 538 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.11% 2.97% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 3.16% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 73 485 191
10th Percentile - £36,250 £35,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,750 £64,200 £66,700
England median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% - -

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 8,490 17,042 12,173
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.20% 94.19% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,546 12,048 7,850
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,282
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.91% +0.47%

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 6 June 2025.

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 2025. 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
Surrey +5 36 £40,000 -27.27% 4
Hampshire -23 32 £55,000 +13.40% 25
Thames Valley -72 30 £48,750 -2.50% 55
Buckinghamshire -2 16 £55,000 +29.41% 8
Berkshire -26 9 £48,750 -7.23% 41
Kent -11 7 £55,000 +37.50% 9
Oxfordshire -13 5 £41,500 -17.00% 6
East Sussex -12 2 £27,500 -45.00% 1
Sussex +16 1 £35,000 -46.15% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 2025, 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.

1 105 (97.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 75 (69.44%) VMware
3 70 (64.81%) Windows
4 68 (62.96%) Microsoft
5 64 (59.26%) Active Directory
6 58 (53.70%) VMware Infrastructure
7 49 (45.37%) PowerShell
8 41 (37.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
9 36 (33.33%) Linux
9 36 (33.33%) Security Cleared
9 36 (33.33%) Azure
10 34 (31.48%) Windows Server
11 31 (28.70%) High Availability
12 30 (27.78%) Degree
13 29 (26.85%) Disaster Recovery
14 27 (25.00%) SAN
15 26 (24.07%) DV Cleared
16 24 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
17 23 (21.30%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (21.30%) NAS
18 21 (19.44%) Ansible
18 21 (19.44%) Kalman Filter
19 20 (18.52%) DNS
20 19 (17.59%) Firewall
20 19 (17.59%) Clustering
20 19 (17.59%) vSphere
21 18 (16.67%) Terraform
21 18 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 41 (37.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.78%) Apache
2 3 (2.78%) IIS
2 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.93%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.33%) Azure
2 23 (21.30%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (12.96%) AWS
4 11 (10.19%) GCP
5 6 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.78%) Route 53
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.85%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.85%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.85%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.85%) PaaS
9 2 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (25.00%) SAN
2 23 (21.30%) NAS
3 20 (18.52%) DNS
4 19 (17.59%) Firewall
5 16 (14.81%) DHCP
6 15 (13.89%) WAN
7 13 (12.04%) LAN
8 12 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (10.19%) SMTP
10 9 (8.33%) 5G
10 9 (8.33%) Bluetooth
10 9 (8.33%) LTE
10 9 (8.33%) SD-WAN
11 7 (6.48%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (6.48%) SNMP
12 6 (5.56%) Network Security
13 5 (4.63%) IP Telephony
14 3 (2.78%) VPN
15 2 (1.85%) SSL
15 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (8.33%) Electronics
4 8 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.63%) Finance
6 5 (4.63%) Games
7 4 (3.70%) Legal
8 3 (2.78%) Automotive
8 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.78%) Retail
9 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) YAML
2 1 (0.93%) JSON
2 1 (0.93%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Clustering
2 11 (10.19%) PKI
3 9 (8.33%) IoT
3 9 (8.33%) NB-IoT
4 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.63%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.85%) NHS
6 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (64.81%) Windows
2 36 (33.33%) Linux
3 34 (31.48%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.63%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.78%) Unix
5 3 (2.78%) VMS
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.85%) Debian
6 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.85%) SUSE
6 2 (1.85%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.93%) CentOS
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (97.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (28.70%) High Availability
3 29 (26.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
5 21 (19.44%) Kalman Filter
6 17 (15.74%) Computer Science
7 16 (14.81%) DevOps
7 16 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (14.81%) Server Building
8 15 (13.89%) Patch Management
8 15 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.11%) Customer Service
10 11 (10.19%) Antivirus Management
10 11 (10.19%) Change Control
10 11 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (10.19%) IT Strategy
10 11 (10.19%) Web Filtering
11 10 (9.26%) Asset Management
11 10 (9.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (45.37%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.11%) Python
3 10 (9.26%) Bash
4 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.93%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.78%) Degree
3 26 (24.07%) DV Cleared
4 13 (12.04%) HND
5 9 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
6 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.78%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.85%) MCSE
10 2 (1.85%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.93%) CISSP
11 1 (0.93%) HNC
11 1 (0.93%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) GDPR
2 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 64 (59.26%) Active Directory
2 58 (53.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (17.59%) vSphere
4 17 (15.74%) Hyper-V
5 16 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (9.26%) Docker
7 9 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (7.41%) BitLocker
8 8 (7.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (7.41%) Terminal Services
9 7 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (2.78%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.93%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (19.44%) Ansible
2 18 (16.67%) Terraform
3 15 (13.89%) Puppet
4 12 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 11 (10.19%) Kubernetes
6 8 (7.41%) vMotion
7 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (5.56%) Nagios
8 3 (2.78%) SCCM
8 3 (2.78%) WSUS
9 2 (1.85%) Nessus
9 2 (1.85%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.85%) ZENworks
10 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.93%) Packer
10 1 (0.93%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.93%) vRealize
10 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (69.44%) VMware
2 68 (62.96%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.81%) Citrix
4 8 (7.41%) Cisco
4 8 (7.41%) Google
4 8 (7.41%) HP
5 7 (6.48%) Veeam
6 6 (5.56%) Symantec
7 5 (4.63%) McAfee
8 4 (3.70%) Dell
9 3 (2.78%) Apple
9 3 (2.78%) Juniper
9 3 (2.78%) Sophos
10 2 (1.85%) Meraki
10 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.93%) Aruba
11 1 (0.93%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.93%) NetApp
11 1 (0.93%) Ruckus Wireless
11 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow