Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 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
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 298 362
Rank change year-on-year 0 +64 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 11 96 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.12% 0.56% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.59% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8 89 33
10th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,600
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,825 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,625 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £64,000 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.27% +3.04% -

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 8,168 16,230 12,790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.08% 90.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,353 11,600 8,093
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,613 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,748 £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%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Hampshire +35 4 £47,500 -17.39% 1
Thames Valley +44 3 £60,000 +14.18% 3
Kent - 3 £60,000 - 2
Oxfordshire +33 1 £60,000 +17.65% 1
Surrey +32 1 £57,500 -8.00% 1
Berkshire +22 1 £47,500 -9.61% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £65,000 -
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) VMware
3 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
4 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
5 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (27.27%) Terraform
6 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) Linux
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 3 (27.27%) DNS
6 3 (27.27%) Azure
6 3 (27.27%) AWS
6 3 (27.27%) High Availability
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (18.18%) Route 53
7 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (18.18%) Cisco
7 2 (18.18%) DHCP
7 2 (18.18%) SNMP
7 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (18.18%) Firewall
7 2 (18.18%) Automotive

Senior 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Route 53
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) SNMP
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Automotive
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Local Government
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) CentOS
4 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
3 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Information Security
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.09%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
4 1 (9.09%) KVM
4 1 (9.09%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
3 1 (9.09%) Packer
3 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Broadcom
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Tanium
4 1 (9.09%) Veeam