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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 59 47
Rank change year-on-year -114 -12 +103
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 145 669 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.50% 3.81% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 4.57% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 100 608 294
10th Percentile £36,125 £35,000 £35,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £57,813 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £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 8,872 14,647 13,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.08% 83.51% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,278 10,075 7,715
10th Percentile £29,175 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,875 £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 30 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 30 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
Thames Valley -51 49 £47,500 -5.00% 161
Hampshire -39 48 £50,000 +5.26% 55
Surrey -7 40 £40,000 -25.93% 29
Buckinghamshire -2 24 £50,000 +17.65% 29
Berkshire -29 18 £45,000 -14.37% 110
Kent -20 7 £55,000 +29.41% 26
Oxfordshire -22 7 £45,000 -10.00% 22
Sussex +14 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 45 (31.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.76%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) 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 47 (32.41%) Azure
2 31 (21.38%) 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 31 (21.38%) SAN
2 25 (17.24%) Firewall
3 23 (15.86%) DNS
3 23 (15.86%) NAS
4 20 (13.79%) WAN
5 18 (12.41%) DHCP
5 18 (12.41%) LAN
6 14 (9.66%) Network Security
7 13 (8.97%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (7.59%) SMTP
9 10 (6.90%) SD-WAN
10 9 (6.21%) 5G
10 9 (6.21%) Bluetooth
10 9 (6.21%) LTE
10 9 (6.21%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (4.83%) SNMP
12 6 (4.14%) VPN
13 5 (3.45%) IP Telephony
14 4 (2.76%) SSL
15 3 (2.07%) Software-Defined Radio
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%) NoSQL
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 11 (7.59%) Finance
4 10 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.21%) Electronics
6 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.45%) Games
7 5 (3.45%) Legal
8 4 (2.76%) Retail
9 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.07%) Automotive
9 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (72.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 49 (33.79%) Infrastructure Support
3 44 (30.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 44 (30.34%) Support Engineer
4 31 (21.38%) IT Engineer
5 30 (20.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (18.62%) IT Support
7 25 (17.24%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (11.72%) Lead
9 14 (9.66%) Senior
10 13 (8.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (8.28%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Integration 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 19 (13.10%) Clustering
2 16 (11.03%) PKI
3 10 (6.90%) IoT
4 9 (6.21%) NB-IoT
5 6 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.45%) Blackberry
6 5 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.07%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.07%) FPGA
9 2 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.38%) NHS
9 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.69%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 88 (60.69%) Windows
2 47 (32.41%) Windows Server
3 40 (27.59%) 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 29 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 28 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (15.86%) DevOps
5 23 (15.86%) Virtual Environments
6 22 (15.17%) Computer Science
7 20 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
8 19 (13.10%) Customer Service
9 18 (12.41%) Server Building
10 17 (11.72%) Patch Management
11 16 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (8.97%) Data Protection
12 13 (8.97%) IT Strategy
13 12 (8.28%) Change Control
13 12 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (8.28%) Project Management
13 12 (8.28%) Software Testing
14 11 (7.59%) Antivirus Management
14 11 (7.59%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 54 (37.24%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.41%) Python
3 10 (6.90%) Bash
4 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
4 4 (2.76%) SQL
5 3 (2.07%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.38%) C#
6 2 (1.38%) Java
7 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 37 (25.52%) Degree
3 33 (22.76%) DV Cleared
4 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared
5 13 (8.97%) HND
6 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (6.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (6.21%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (4.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (4.14%) Azure Certification
10 6 (4.14%) CCNA
10 6 (4.14%) CCNP
10 6 (4.14%) MCSE
11 5 (3.45%) MCSA
12 3 (2.07%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.38%) CISSP
13 2 (1.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) GDPR
1 5 (3.45%) SLA
2 3 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) NIST
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (51.03%) Active Directory
2 59 (40.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (15.86%) Hyper-V
4 22 (15.17%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (13.10%) vSphere
6 12 (8.28%) 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 23 (15.86%) Ansible
2 20 (13.79%) Terraform
3 15 (10.34%) Puppet
4 12 (8.28%) vCenter Server
5 11 (7.59%) Kubernetes
6 8 (5.52%) vMotion
7 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (4.14%) Nagios
8 5 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.76%) Nessus
9 4 (2.76%) Proxmox
10 3 (2.07%) WSUS
11 2 (1.38%) SCCM
11 2 (1.38%) ZENworks
12 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.69%) Packer
12 1 (0.69%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.69%) vRealize
12 1 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 84 (57.93%) VMware
2 79 (54.48%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.03%) Citrix
4 13 (8.97%) Veeam
5 10 (6.90%) Cisco
6 9 (6.21%) HP
7 8 (5.52%) Google
8 6 (4.14%) Symantec
9 5 (3.45%) Juniper
9 5 (3.45%) McAfee
10 4 (2.76%) Dell
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