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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 54 42
Rank change year-on-year -117 -12 +111
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 146 711 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.52% 3.77% 6.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 4.63% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 96 638 269
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.04% +3.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £58,200 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.40% -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 8,821 15,367 12,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.68% 81.54% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,388 10,464 7,509
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £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 £78,750 £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 17 June 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 17 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
Thames Valley -58 49 £45,000 -10.00% 244
Surrey +4 44 £40,000 -26.61% 49
Hampshire -39 43 £55,000 +15.18% 123
Buckinghamshire -2 23 £50,000 +17.65% 48
Berkshire -29 16 £37,500 -28.64% 168
Oxfordshire -23 10 £41,500 -14.87% 29
Kent -16 9 £55,000 +25.71% 69
Sussex +12 1 £35,000 -46.15% 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 47 (32.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.05%) Apache
2 3 (2.05%) IIS
2 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (2.05%) AutoCAD
2 3 (2.05%) Simulink
3 1 (0.68%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.68%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (34.93%) Azure
2 34 (23.29%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (16.44%) AWS
4 11 (7.53%) GCP
5 8 (5.48%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.48%) Serverless
5 8 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.79%) IaaS
7 6 (4.11%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.42%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (2.74%) AWS KMS
9 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.74%) Route 53
10 3 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (22.60%) SAN
2 25 (17.12%) Firewall
3 23 (15.75%) NAS
4 22 (15.07%) DNS
5 19 (13.01%) WAN
6 18 (12.33%) DHCP
7 17 (11.64%) LAN
8 14 (9.59%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (8.90%) Network Security
10 11 (7.53%) SMTP
11 10 (6.85%) SD-WAN
12 9 (6.16%) 5G
12 9 (6.16%) Bluetooth
12 9 (6.16%) LTE
12 9 (6.16%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (4.79%) SNMP
14 6 (4.11%) VPN
15 5 (3.42%) IP Telephony
16 4 (2.74%) SSL
17 3 (2.05%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.53%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.68%) Parquet
5 1 (0.68%) Power BI
5 1 (0.68%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.37%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (10.27%) Finance
4 10 (6.85%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.16%) Electronics
6 8 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.11%) Legal
7 6 (4.11%) Retail
8 5 (3.42%) Games
9 4 (2.74%) Automotive
9 4 (2.74%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.05%) Local Government
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (74.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (36.30%) Infrastructure Support
3 48 (32.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 48 (32.88%) Support Engineer
4 35 (23.97%) IT Engineer
5 34 (23.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (21.23%) IT Support
7 29 (19.86%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (11.64%) Lead
9 14 (9.59%) Senior
10 13 (8.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (8.22%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (6.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.48%) 2nd Line Support
14 6 (4.11%) Civil Engineer
14 6 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (4.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 5 (3.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 4 (2.74%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.42%) SAML
2 3 (2.05%) JSON
2 3 (2.05%) YAML
3 2 (1.37%) OLE
3 2 (1.37%) XML
4 1 (0.68%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.01%) Clustering
2 16 (10.96%) PKI
3 12 (8.22%) IoT
4 9 (6.16%) NB-IoT
5 6 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.42%) Blackberry
6 5 (3.42%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.05%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.05%) FPGA
8 3 (2.05%) NHS
9 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.37%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.68%) CCTV
10 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.68%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 85 (58.22%) Windows
2 48 (32.88%) Windows Server
3 41 (28.08%) Linux
4 7 (4.79%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.74%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.74%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.74%) Unix
6 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.37%) Debian
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.37%) SUSE
7 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.68%) CentOS
8 1 (0.68%) VMS
8 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (21.23%) High Availability
2 30 (20.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (17.81%) Virtual Environments
6 25 (17.12%) DevOps
7 22 (15.07%) Computer Science
7 22 (15.07%) Kalman Filter
8 18 (12.33%) Customer Service
8 18 (12.33%) Server Building
9 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (11.64%) Patch Management
10 14 (9.59%) Agile
10 14 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (9.59%) IT Strategy
11 12 (8.22%) Project Management
11 12 (8.22%) Software Testing
12 11 (7.53%) Change Control
12 11 (7.53%) Data Protection
12 11 (7.53%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.25%) PowerShell
2 21 (14.38%) Python
3 11 (7.53%) Bash
4 6 (4.11%) SQL
5 4 (2.74%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.05%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.37%) C#
7 2 (1.37%) Java
8 1 (0.68%) Go
8 1 (0.68%) Groovy
8 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (30.82%) Security Cleared
2 40 (27.40%) Degree
3 29 (19.86%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.90%) HND
5 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (8.22%) SC Cleared
6 10 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (6.16%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (6.16%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
8 7 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (4.11%) CCNA
9 6 (4.11%) CCNP
9 6 (4.11%) MCSE
10 5 (3.42%) MCSA
11 3 (2.05%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.05%) Postgraduate
12 2 (1.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) GDPR
2 5 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.42%) SLA
3 4 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (54.11%) Active Directory
2 62 (42.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (17.81%) Hyper-V
4 22 (15.07%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (13.70%) vSphere
6 12 (8.22%) Docker
7 11 (7.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (5.48%) BitLocker
8 8 (5.48%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (5.48%) Terminal Services
9 6 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (2.74%) VMware NSX
11 3 (2.05%) Firmware
12 1 (0.68%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (15.75%) Ansible
2 22 (15.07%) Terraform
3 15 (10.27%) Puppet
4 12 (8.22%) Kubernetes
5 11 (7.53%) vCenter Server
6 8 (5.48%) vMotion
7 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (4.11%) Nagios
9 5 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.74%) Nessus
10 4 (2.74%) Proxmox
10 4 (2.74%) SCCM
11 2 (1.37%) WSUS
11 2 (1.37%) ZENworks
12 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.68%) Packer
12 1 (0.68%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.68%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.68%) vRealize
12 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 87 (59.59%) VMware
2 84 (57.53%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.96%) Citrix
4 12 (8.22%) Veeam
5 10 (6.85%) Cisco
6 9 (6.16%) HP
7 8 (5.48%) Google
8 6 (4.11%) Symantec
9 5 (3.42%) Juniper
9 5 (3.42%) McAfee
9 5 (3.42%) Sophos
10 4 (2.74%) Apple
10 4 (2.74%) Dell
10 4 (2.74%) SAP
11 3 (2.05%) Xilinx
12 2 (1.37%) Meraki
12 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.37%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.68%) Rapid7
13 1 (0.68%) Ruckus Wireless