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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 62 45
Rank change year-on-year -111 -17 +103
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 145 654 827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.53% 3.78% 5.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 4.51% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 103 597 298
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,375
25th Percentile £38,625 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +4.21%
75th Percentile £58,125 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,000 £63,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
Hampshire -40 50 £50,000 +5.26% 56
Thames Valley -57 48 £48,750 -2.50% 161
Surrey 0 39 £40,000 -25.93% 30
Buckinghamshire 0 23 £50,000 +17.65% 31
Berkshire -27 19 £46,250 -11.99% 110
Kent -8 7 £55,000 +33.33% 28
Oxfordshire -16 6 £45,000 -10.00% 22
Sussex +15 1 £35,000 -46.15% 3
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 44 (30.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.76%) Apache
2 4 (2.76%) IIS
3 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (2.07%) Simulink
3 1 (0.69%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.79%) Azure
2 32 (22.07%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (13.79%) AWS
4 11 (7.59%) GCP
5 8 (5.52%) Serverless
6 7 (4.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (4.14%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.14%) IaaS
7 6 (4.14%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (2.76%) AWS KMS
9 4 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.07%) Route 53
10 3 (2.07%) SaaS
11 2 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (20.69%) SAN
2 26 (17.93%) Firewall
3 25 (17.24%) DNS
4 22 (15.17%) NAS
5 20 (13.79%) DHCP
6 19 (13.10%) WAN
7 17 (11.72%) LAN
8 14 (9.66%) Network Security
9 13 (8.97%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (7.59%) SMTP
11 10 (6.90%) SD-WAN
12 9 (6.21%) 5G
12 9 (6.21%) Bluetooth
12 9 (6.21%) LTE
12 9 (6.21%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (4.83%) VPN
14 6 (4.14%) SNMP
15 4 (2.76%) IP Telephony
15 4 (2.76%) SSL
16 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.69%) Parquet
4 1 (0.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (2.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.38%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.69%) JIRA
3 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (6.90%) Finance
3 10 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.21%) Electronics
5 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.45%) Games
7 4 (2.76%) Legal
7 4 (2.76%) Retail
8 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Automotive
8 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.38%) Local Government
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (71.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 48 (33.10%) Infrastructure Support
3 43 (29.66%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 43 (29.66%) Support Engineer
4 30 (20.69%) IT Engineer
5 29 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (17.93%) IT Support
7 24 (16.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 18 (12.41%) Lead
9 13 (8.97%) Senior
10 12 (8.28%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (8.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 5 (3.45%) Civil Engineer
14 5 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.45%) SAML
2 3 (2.07%) JSON
2 3 (2.07%) YAML
3 2 (1.38%) XML
4 1 (0.69%) OLE
4 1 (0.69%) PySpark
4 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.79%) Clustering
2 16 (11.03%) PKI
3 9 (6.21%) IoT
3 9 (6.21%) NB-IoT
4 6 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.76%) Blackberry
5 4 (2.76%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.76%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.07%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.07%) FPGA
7 2 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.38%) NHS
7 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Replication
7 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 90 (62.07%) Windows
2 49 (33.79%) Windows Server
3 41 (28.28%) Linux
4 7 (4.83%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.07%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.38%) Debian
6 2 (1.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.38%) SUSE
6 2 (1.38%) Unix
6 2 (1.38%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.69%) CentOS
7 1 (0.69%) VMS
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.07%) High Availability
2 28 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (18.62%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (15.86%) DevOps
6 22 (15.17%) Virtual Environments
7 21 (14.48%) Computer Science
8 19 (13.10%) Customer Service
8 19 (13.10%) Kalman Filter
9 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (11.72%) Server Building
10 16 (11.03%) Patch Management
11 13 (8.97%) Data Protection
12 12 (8.28%) Change Control
12 12 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (8.28%) IT Strategy
12 12 (8.28%) Project Management
12 12 (8.28%) Software Testing
13 10 (6.90%) Antivirus Management
13 10 (6.90%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 55 (37.93%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.72%) Python
3 10 (6.90%) Bash
4 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.07%) MATLAB
5 3 (2.07%) SQL
6 2 (1.38%) C#
6 2 (1.38%) Java
7 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.14%) Degree
3 34 (23.45%) DV Cleared
4 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.28%) HND
6 10 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (6.21%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (6.21%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (4.83%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (4.14%) CCNA
9 6 (4.14%) CCNP
9 6 (4.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (3.45%) MCSA
10 5 (3.45%) MCSE
11 3 (2.07%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.38%) CISSP
12 2 (1.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.14%) SLA
2 5 (3.45%) GDPR
3 3 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (51.72%) Active Directory
2 59 (40.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (16.55%) Hyper-V
4 22 (15.17%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (13.10%) vSphere
6 14 (9.66%) Docker
7 11 (7.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (5.52%) BitLocker
8 8 (5.52%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (5.52%) Terminal Services
9 7 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (2.76%) VMware NSX
11 3 (2.07%) Firmware
12 1 (0.69%) KVM
12 1 (0.69%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (17.24%) Ansible
2 22 (15.17%) Terraform
3 16 (11.03%) Puppet
4 12 (8.28%) Kubernetes
4 12 (8.28%) vCenter Server
5 8 (5.52%) vMotion
6 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (4.14%) Nagios
7 5 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.76%) Nessus
8 4 (2.76%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.07%) WSUS
10 2 (1.38%) SCCM
10 2 (1.38%) ZENworks
11 1 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.69%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 83 (57.24%) VMware
2 81 (55.86%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.03%) Citrix
4 12 (8.28%) Veeam
5 11 (7.59%) Cisco
6 9 (6.21%) HP
7 8 (5.52%) Google
8 6 (4.14%) Symantec
9 5 (3.45%) Juniper
10 4 (2.76%) Dell
10 4 (2.76%) McAfee
10 4 (2.76%) SAP
11 3 (2.07%) Xilinx
12 2 (1.38%) Apple
12 2 (1.38%) Meraki
12 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.38%) Sophos
13 1 (0.69%) Ruckus Wireless
13 1 (0.69%) Tanium