IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

IT Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 364 359
Rank change year-on-year +80 -5 +76
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 28 37 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17 37 37
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,750 £40,050
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £43,250 £56,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £45,900 £57,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -

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 8,398 15,863 12,949
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.96% 94.01% 90.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,556 11,342 8,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £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 £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

IT Infrastructure 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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 +72 20 £40,000 -16.67% 6
Thames Valley +52 3 £42,500 - 3
Oxfordshire +31 2 £42,000 -1.18% 2
Kent +28 2 - - 2
East Sussex +15 2 £27,500 -45.00%
Hampshire +71 1 £46,500 +16.25% 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £50,000 -
IT Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, IT Infrastructure 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (85.71%) VMware
3 23 (82.14%) Windows
4 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 21 (75.00%) Active Directory
5 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
5 17 (60.71%) PowerShell
5 17 (60.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (57.14%) SAN
6 16 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 15 (53.57%) NAS
7 15 (53.57%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (50.00%) High Availability
9 13 (46.43%) Virtual Environments
9 13 (46.43%) DV Cleared
10 12 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
11 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (39.29%) Degree
11 11 (39.29%) HND
12 10 (35.71%) Computer Science
12 10 (35.71%) Patch Management
12 10 (35.71%) Server Building
13 9 (32.14%) Web Filtering
13 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (32.14%) IT Strategy
13 9 (32.14%) Antivirus Management
14 8 (28.57%) Change Control
14 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
15 7 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
16 6 (21.43%) Linux

IT Infrastructure 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 17 (60.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
2 2 (7.14%) Route 53
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (57.14%) SAN
2 15 (53.57%) NAS
3 3 (10.71%) IP Telephony
3 3 (10.71%) SNMP
4 2 (7.14%) Firewall
5 1 (3.57%) LAN
5 1 (3.57%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Clustering
2 3 (10.71%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (82.14%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Linux
3 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) VMS
5 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.57%) Unix
5 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (53.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (50.00%) High Availability
4 13 (46.43%) Virtual Environments
5 12 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
6 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (35.71%) Computer Science
7 10 (35.71%) Patch Management
7 10 (35.71%) Server Building
8 9 (32.14%) Antivirus Management
8 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (32.14%) IT Strategy
8 9 (32.14%) Web Filtering
9 8 (28.57%) Change Control
9 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
11 3 (10.71%) Information Security
11 3 (10.71%) Storage Management
12 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 2 (7.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) DV Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) Degree
3 11 (39.29%) HND
4 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.57%) CCNA
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.57%) HNC
6 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (85.71%) VMware
2 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) McAfee
3 3 (10.71%) Veeam
4 1 (3.57%) Apple
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Sophos