Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Support Engineer salary in the South East is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 341 371
Rank change year-on-year +67 +30 +92
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 38 55 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.35% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 29 54 25
10th Percentile - £29,750 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +16.25% -
75th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £52,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.98% +3.33% -2.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 8,348 15,844 12,920
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.97% 94.01% 90.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,552 11,341 8,137
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,032 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Support Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Support Engineer
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 Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Surrey +73 31 £40,000 -4.76% 2
Hampshire +46 7 £57,500 +18.56%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
England

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Infrastructure Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Infrastructure Support Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (92.11%) Microsoft
3 31 (81.58%) Windows
3 31 (81.58%) VMware
4 29 (76.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (76.32%) Active Directory
4 29 (76.32%) PowerShell
5 25 (65.79%) High Availability
6 24 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 23 (60.53%) Security Cleared
8 20 (52.63%) NAS
8 20 (52.63%) SAN
9 19 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (50.00%) DV Cleared
10 18 (47.37%) Clustering
11 17 (44.74%) Kalman Filter
11 17 (44.74%) Virtual Environments
12 16 (42.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (42.11%) Degree
13 15 (39.47%) Computer Science
14 14 (36.84%) Citrix
15 13 (34.21%) Azure
16 11 (28.95%) HND
17 10 (26.32%) Linux
17 10 (26.32%) Server Building
18 9 (23.68%) Windows Server
18 9 (23.68%) Web Filtering
18 9 (23.68%) Antivirus Management
18 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
18 9 (23.68%) Patch Management

Infrastructure Support Engineer Skill Set
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 29 (76.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.79%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) GCP
3 6 (15.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (52.63%) NAS
1 20 (52.63%) SAN
2 7 (18.42%) DHCP
2 7 (18.42%) DNS
2 7 (18.42%) Firewall
2 7 (18.42%) LAN
2 7 (18.42%) SD-WAN
2 7 (18.42%) SMTP
2 7 (18.42%) WAN
3 6 (15.79%) Network Security
3 6 (15.79%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (7.89%) IP Telephony
4 3 (7.89%) SNMP
5 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (13.16%) Games
3 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 18 (47.37%) Clustering
2 7 (18.42%) PKI
3 6 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.89%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 31 (81.58%) Windows
2 10 (26.32%) Linux
3 9 (23.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (65.79%) High Availability
3 19 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (44.74%) Kalman Filter
4 17 (44.74%) Virtual Environments
5 16 (42.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (39.47%) Computer Science
7 10 (26.32%) Server Building
8 9 (23.68%) Antivirus Management
8 9 (23.68%) IT Strategy
8 9 (23.68%) Patch Management
8 9 (23.68%) Web Filtering
9 8 (21.05%) Customer Service
10 7 (18.42%) Budget Management
10 7 (18.42%) Change Control
10 7 (18.42%) Data Protection
10 7 (18.42%) Migration
10 7 (18.42%) Mobile Device Management
10 7 (18.42%) Statistics
10 7 (18.42%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (76.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) Security Cleared
2 19 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 16 (42.11%) Degree
4 11 (28.95%) HND
5 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (76.32%) Active Directory
2 24 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (18.42%) BitLocker
3 7 (18.42%) Hyper-V
3 7 (18.42%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (18.42%) Terminal Services
3 7 (18.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (18.42%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (15.79%) Docker
4 6 (15.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) vCenter Server
1 7 (18.42%) vMotion
2 6 (15.79%) Ansible
2 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.79%) Nagios
2 6 (15.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (92.11%) Microsoft
2 31 (81.58%) VMware
3 14 (36.84%) Citrix
4 6 (15.79%) Google
4 6 (15.79%) HP
4 6 (15.79%) Symantec
5 3 (7.89%) McAfee
5 3 (7.89%) Veeam