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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 363 361
Rank change year-on-year +87 -2 +77
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 31 34 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 18 34 37
10th Percentile £29,925 £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 £55,750 £53,000
90th Percentile £48,075 £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 8,226 16,296 12,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.07% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,393 11,638 8,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +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 28 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 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
Surrey +71 21 £40,000 -25.93% 2
Thames Valley +63 4 £44,500 +4.71% 2
Kent +35 3 - -
Oxfordshire +43 2 £41,500 -2.35% 2
East Sussex +16 2 £27,500 -45.00%
Hampshire +64 1 £46,500 +16.25%
Berkshire +40 1 £47,500 -19.15%
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 28 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 29 (93.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (83.87%) VMware
2 26 (83.87%) Windows
3 25 (80.65%) Active Directory
4 23 (74.19%) Microsoft
5 19 (61.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (61.29%) PowerShell
6 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
6 18 (58.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (58.06%) SAN
7 16 (51.61%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (51.61%) NAS
8 15 (48.39%) High Availability
9 14 (45.16%) Virtual Environments
9 14 (45.16%) Kalman Filter
10 12 (38.71%) DV Cleared
10 12 (38.71%) Degree
10 12 (38.71%) HND
11 11 (35.48%) Computer Science
11 11 (35.48%) Server Building
12 10 (32.26%) Web Filtering
12 10 (32.26%) IT Strategy
12 10 (32.26%) Patch Management
12 10 (32.26%) Antivirus Management
12 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (25.81%) Linux
13 8 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
14 7 (22.58%) Mobile Device Management
14 7 (22.58%) Change Control

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 19 (61.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
2 3 (9.68%) Route 53
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) SAN
2 16 (51.61%) NAS
3 4 (12.90%) IP Telephony
3 4 (12.90%) SNMP
4 2 (6.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.68%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Clustering
2 4 (12.90%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 26 (83.87%) Windows
2 8 (25.81%) Linux
3 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
4 2 (6.45%) Unix
4 2 (6.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (51.61%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (48.39%) High Availability
4 14 (45.16%) Kalman Filter
4 14 (45.16%) Virtual Environments
5 11 (35.48%) Computer Science
5 11 (35.48%) Server Building
6 10 (32.26%) Antivirus Management
6 10 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (32.26%) IT Strategy
6 10 (32.26%) Patch Management
6 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (32.26%) Web Filtering
7 8 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (22.58%) Change Control
8 7 (22.58%) Mobile Device Management
9 5 (16.13%) Information Security
10 4 (12.90%) Storage Management
11 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
11 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) Degree
2 12 (38.71%) DV Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) HND
3 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (80.65%) Active Directory
2 18 (58.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (83.87%) VMware
2 23 (74.19%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) McAfee
3 4 (12.90%) Veeam
4 2 (6.45%) Apple
4 2 (6.45%) Sophos