Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 31 127
Rank change year-on-year -31 +96 -8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 521 823 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.45% 7.10% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 7.49% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 459 269 448
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.17%

All Process and 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 12,301 10,994 21,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.50% 94.87% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,138 7,007 11,964
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,620 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Hampshire -6 198 £48,500 -2.76% 16
Thames Valley -36 156 £47,625 -2.06% 12
Oxfordshire +1 62 £50,000 +17.65%
Surrey -27 62 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Buckinghamshire -33 58 £42,500 -19.05% 8
Kent -16 57 £55,000 +22.22% 5
East Sussex -12 42 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Berkshire -44 37 £52,550 +19.81% 4
West Sussex -38 10 £65,000 +41.30% 4
Sussex - 3 £60,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 45 (8.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.84%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.07%) IIS
4 4 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 156 (29.94%) Azure
2 113 (21.69%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (13.44%) AWS
4 26 (4.99%) Entra ID
4 26 (4.99%) IaaS
5 20 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (3.26%) SaaS
7 15 (2.88%) Nutanix
8 13 (2.50%) OneDrive
9 11 (2.11%) GitHub
10 10 (1.92%) PaaS
11 8 (1.54%) GCP
12 6 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.96%) Azure Pipelines
13 5 (0.96%) Cloudflare
13 5 (0.96%) OCI
13 5 (0.96%) Power Platform
13 5 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (0.77%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 104 (19.96%) Firewall
2 76 (14.59%) DNS
3 48 (9.21%) WAN
4 44 (8.45%) VPN
5 42 (8.06%) DHCP
5 42 (8.06%) SAN
6 36 (6.91%) LAN
7 23 (4.41%) NAS
8 20 (3.84%) HTTP
8 20 (3.84%) TCP/IP
9 18 (3.45%) Internet
9 18 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (3.26%) 5G
10 17 (3.26%) iSCSI
11 11 (2.11%) MPLS
11 11 (2.11%) SMTP
11 11 (2.11%) VLAN
12 8 (1.54%) 4G
12 8 (1.54%) Wireless
13 7 (1.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (1.92%) MySQL
4 5 (0.96%) Power BI
5 4 (0.77%) DB2
5 4 (0.77%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.38%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (2.30%) Git
1 12 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.92%) JIRA
3 9 (1.73%) Trac
4 5 (0.96%) GitLab
5 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (13.44%) Social Skills
2 60 (11.52%) Finance
3 22 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (3.45%) Telecoms
5 15 (2.88%) Games
6 11 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 10 (1.92%) Retail
8 9 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.15%) Advertising
10 5 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.77%) Law
11 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.38%) Marketing
12 2 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 413 (79.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 82 (15.74%) Senior
3 71 (13.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 57 (10.94%) Support Engineer
5 52 (9.98%) Infrastructure Support
5 52 (9.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 34 (6.53%) IT Engineer
6 34 (6.53%) Network Engineer
7 31 (5.95%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (5.37%) VMware Engineer
8 28 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (5.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (5.18%) VMware Support Engineer
10 26 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (4.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (4.61%) Lead
13 22 (4.22%) Integration Engineer
14 17 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (3.07%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.11%) Web Services
2 4 (0.77%) JSON
2 4 (0.77%) LAMP
2 4 (0.77%) OLE
3 1 (0.19%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.17%) Data Centre
2 25 (4.80%) Clustering
3 24 (4.61%) Driving Licence
4 22 (4.22%) PKI
5 19 (3.65%) IoT
6 10 (1.92%) Blackberry
6 10 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.54%) Replication
8 7 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (0.77%) EMC VNX
10 4 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.58%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.38%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.38%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.38%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.38%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 263 (50.48%) Windows
2 144 (27.64%) Windows Server
3 124 (23.80%) Linux
4 44 (8.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (5.95%) Windows 10
6 29 (5.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 26 (4.99%) Ubuntu
8 23 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (3.45%) CentOS
10 11 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (1.34%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.96%) Android
13 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.77%) Debian
13 4 (0.77%) Rocky
13 4 (0.77%) VMS
13 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.77%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.19%) Unix
14 1 (0.19%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (11.71%) DevOps
3 50 (9.60%) ITIL
4 41 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (7.10%) Disaster Recovery
6 32 (6.14%) Service Delivery
7 28 (5.37%) Change Control
8 24 (4.61%) Decision-Making
8 24 (4.61%) Problem Management
9 23 (4.41%) Storage Management
10 22 (4.22%) Agile
10 22 (4.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (3.84%) Computer Science
11 20 (3.84%) Configuration Management
11 20 (3.84%) Customer Requirements
12 18 (3.45%) Business Continuity
12 18 (3.45%) Project Management
12 18 (3.45%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 16 (3.07%) Change Management
13 16 (3.07%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 130 (24.95%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.61%) Python
3 16 (3.07%) ActionScript
3 16 (3.07%) VB
4 15 (2.88%) Bash
5 13 (2.50%) SQL
6 11 (2.11%) Perl
7 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.38%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 117 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 85 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 64 (12.28%) DV Cleared
4 56 (10.75%) Degree
5 16 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.50%) CCNA
8 10 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.92%) HND
9 8 (1.54%) CCNP
9 8 (1.54%) MCP
10 6 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.96%) HNC
12 4 (0.77%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.38%) CISM
13 2 (0.38%) CISSP
13 2 (0.38%) MCSE
13 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.95%) SLA
2 16 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.92%) GDPR
5 7 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.58%) QA
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 161 (30.90%) Active Directory
2 119 (22.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (11.71%) Hyper-V
4 52 (9.98%) vSphere
5 33 (6.33%) VMware ESXi
6 31 (5.95%) Docker
6 31 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (3.84%) XenApp
8 16 (3.07%) OpenSSH
9 14 (2.69%) pfSense
10 13 (2.50%) NFS
11 10 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (1.54%) Firmware
13 4 (0.77%) KVM
14 3 (0.58%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.38%) QEMU
15 2 (0.38%) Xen
16 1 (0.19%) Terminal Server
16 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 48 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.83%) vCenter Server
3 37 (7.10%) SCCM
4 23 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (3.65%) Ansible
5 19 (3.65%) Terraform
6 16 (3.07%) IBM BigFix
6 16 (3.07%) PowerCLI
7 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 15 (2.88%) SCDPM
8 12 (2.30%) FortiGate
8 12 (2.30%) WSUS
9 10 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
10 9 (1.73%) Grafana
10 9 (1.73%) Puppet
10 9 (1.73%) ZABBIX
11 7 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (1.34%) SCOM
12 6 (1.15%) NetBackup
13 5 (0.96%) Nagios
Vendors
1 200 (38.39%) VMware
2 148 (28.41%) Microsoft
3 59 (11.32%) Cisco
4 48 (9.21%) Veeam
5 41 (7.87%) Citrix
6 22 (4.22%) Fortinet
6 22 (4.22%) HP
7 19 (3.65%) Aruba
7 19 (3.65%) McAfee
8 18 (3.45%) Red Hat
9 17 (3.26%) Palo Alto
10 16 (3.07%) IBM
10 16 (3.07%) Juniper
11 15 (2.88%) Dell
12 14 (2.69%) EMC
13 12 (2.30%) Meraki
14 10 (1.92%) SolarWinds
15 9 (1.73%) NEC
15 9 (1.73%) Oracle
16 8 (1.54%) Synology