Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 154 62
Rank change year-on-year +94 -92 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 432 156 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.53% 1.77% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 2.01% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 376 108 410
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,875 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £58,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,238 7,772 11,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.53% 88.04% 80.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,734 4,155 7,263
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 August 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 +28 138 £70,000 +27.27% 50
Thames Valley +77 129 £55,000 +22.22% 38
Surrey +24 112 £60,000 +50.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +17 47 £65,000 +30.00% 10
Oxfordshire +6 44 £55,000 +26.44% 20
Berkshire +47 38 £52,500 +61.54% 9
East Sussex - 22 £45,000 - 2
Kent -25 17 £60,000 +14.29% 4
West Sussex - 9 £75,000 - 2
Sussex -4 2 £45,000 +28.57%
Middlesex - 2 £60,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 57 (13.19%) SharePoint
2 54 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.62%) Apache
4 5 (1.16%) IIS
4 5 (1.16%) nginx
5 4 (0.93%) Confluence
5 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 192 (44.44%) Azure
2 110 (25.46%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (15.51%) Entra ID
4 58 (13.43%) AWS
5 45 (10.42%) SaaS
6 29 (6.71%) Mimecast
7 20 (4.63%) IaaS
8 13 (3.01%) PaaS
9 12 (2.78%) GCP
9 12 (2.78%) Nutanix
10 11 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (2.55%) Cloudflare
11 9 (2.08%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.62%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.93%) Datadog
14 4 (0.93%) Power Automate
15 3 (0.69%) Azure Key Vault
15 3 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (16.90%) Firewall
2 55 (12.73%) DNS
3 41 (9.49%) VPN
4 35 (8.10%) DHCP
5 19 (4.40%) VLAN
6 17 (3.94%) TCP/IP
7 14 (3.24%) WAN
8 13 (3.01%) LAN
9 9 (2.08%) SAN
10 8 (1.85%) Network Security
10 8 (1.85%) VoIP
11 6 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.39%) Wireless
12 5 (1.16%) NetScaler
13 4 (0.93%) NAS
13 4 (0.93%) SSL
14 3 (0.69%) VSAN
15 2 (0.46%) OSPF
15 2 (0.46%) Wireless Backhaul
15 2 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 33 (7.64%) JIRA
2 2 (0.46%) Git
3 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (13.19%) Social Skills
2 32 (7.41%) Legal
3 20 (4.63%) Finance
4 18 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.70%) Retail
6 15 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.62%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.93%) Law
12 3 (0.69%) Games
12 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 312 (72.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 82 (18.98%) Senior
3 65 (15.05%) IT Engineer
4 60 (13.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 48 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 47 (10.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 41 (9.49%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 41 (9.49%) Support Engineer
8 38 (8.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 27 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
9 27 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 23 (5.32%) IT Support
10 23 (5.32%) IT Support Engineer
11 21 (4.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (4.86%) Infrastructure Support
11 21 (4.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 21 (4.86%) Lead
12 20 (4.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (4.63%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.39%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (0.93%) HTML
4 3 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (0.69%) AWS CDK
4 3 (0.69%) Kafka
4 3 (0.69%) Node.js
5 2 (0.46%) React
6 1 (0.23%) Redfish
6 1 (0.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.87%) iSeries
2 22 (5.09%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 16 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
4 15 (3.47%) Replication
5 14 (3.24%) PKI
6 11 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.16%) Clustering
9 5 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.16%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.93%) CESG
11 3 (0.69%) CCTV
11 3 (0.69%) FPGA
11 3 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.69%) Social Media
12 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.46%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 116 (26.85%) Windows
2 84 (19.44%) Linux
3 74 (17.13%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.55%) Ubuntu
5 9 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.85%) CentOS
7 7 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.16%) Debian
9 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.69%) Rocky
9 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.46%) VMS
11 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (11.57%) Technical Leadership
2 44 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (8.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 36 (8.33%) High Availability
6 35 (8.10%) Incident Management
7 34 (7.87%) CI/CD
8 32 (7.41%) Agile
9 31 (7.18%) Change Management
10 29 (6.71%) Identity Management
10 29 (6.71%) Workflow
11 28 (6.48%) ITIL
12 26 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (5.32%) Project Delivery
14 22 (5.09%) DevOps
15 19 (4.40%) DevSecOps
16 18 (4.17%) Business Continuity
16 18 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
17 17 (3.94%) Zero Trust
18 16 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 58 (13.43%) PowerShell
2 29 (6.71%) R
3 19 (4.40%) Python
4 16 (3.70%) Bash
5 10 (2.31%) SQL
6 9 (2.08%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.16%) C#
7 5 (1.16%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.69%) Bicep
8 3 (0.69%) Go
9 2 (0.46%) C++
9 2 (0.46%) Java
9 2 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 71 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.94%) DV Cleared
4 20 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.31%) Degree
7 6 (1.39%) CCNA
7 6 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.16%) CISM
8 5 (1.16%) CISSP
9 4 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.46%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (1.85%) NIST
4 5 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.93%) NCSC
6 3 (0.69%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.46%) GDPR
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 86 (19.91%) Active Directory
2 65 (15.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (10.42%) Hyper-V
4 21 (4.86%) Docker
5 18 (4.17%) vSphere
6 16 (3.70%) Firmware
7 14 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.85%) KVM
8 8 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (1.85%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (14.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (6.71%) Kubernetes
3 28 (6.48%) Terraform
4 26 (6.02%) Ansible
5 15 (3.47%) vCenter Server
6 13 (3.01%) ZABBIX
7 8 (1.85%) Graylog
7 8 (1.85%) Nessus
7 8 (1.85%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.39%) SCCM
9 5 (1.16%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.93%) Nagios
10 4 (0.93%) Puppet
10 4 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.46%) Grafana
11 2 (0.46%) VxRail
12 1 (0.23%) FlexNet
12 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 169 (39.12%) Microsoft
2 90 (20.83%) VMware
3 38 (8.80%) IBM
4 32 (7.41%) Veeam
5 29 (6.71%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (3.01%) Commvault
7 12 (2.78%) EMC
7 12 (2.78%) HP
8 9 (2.08%) Cisco
8 9 (2.08%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.85%) Dell
10 7 (1.62%) Oracle
11 6 (1.39%) Citrix
12 5 (1.16%) NetApp
13 4 (0.93%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.69%) Google
14 3 (0.69%) Meraki
14 3 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 2 (0.46%) Splunk
15 2 (0.46%) Zerto