Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South East

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 179 209
Rank change year-on-year +84 +30 -85
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 476 277 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.84% 1.86% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 2.05% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 432 201 259
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,854 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,759 13,491 19,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 90.50% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,363 8,459 12,571
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South East

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 Infrastructure Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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 +69 176 £50,000 - 17
Hampshire +24 129 £48,500 -3.00% 19
Surrey +63 85 £55,000 +5.77% 6
Berkshire +45 74 £52,550 -4.45% 7
Oxfordshire +44 55 £47,500 +11.76% 6
Buckinghamshire 0 47 £42,500 -15.00% 4
Kent -3 39 £37,500 -11.76% 13
East Sussex +33 28 £55,000 +22.22% 2
West Sussex +39 25 £67,500 +68.75% 1
Sussex - 6 £65,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 468 (98.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 256 (53.78%) Windows
3 221 (46.43%) VMware
4 183 (38.45%) Azure
5 175 (36.76%) Active Directory
6 163 (34.24%) Microsoft
7 149 (31.30%) Microsoft 365
8 139 (29.20%) Windows Server
9 123 (25.84%) Linux
10 121 (25.42%) VMware Infrastructure
11 115 (24.16%) Firewall
12 107 (22.48%) PowerShell
13 103 (21.64%) Security Cleared
14 94 (19.75%) DNS
15 93 (19.54%) Social Skills
16 87 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
17 74 (15.55%) Data Centre
18 70 (14.71%) Degree
19 68 (14.29%) SC Cleared
20 67 (14.08%) ITIL
21 65 (13.66%) Windows Server 2016
22 63 (13.24%) Cisco
23 61 (12.82%) Hyper-V
24 58 (12.18%) AWS
25 56 (11.76%) DV Cleared
26 55 (11.55%) WAN
27 54 (11.34%) LAN
28 53 (11.13%) DevOps
29 51 (10.71%) Windows 10
30 50 (10.50%) DHCP

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 41 (8.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (5.46%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.36%) IIS
4 4 (0.84%) WordPress
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.42%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 183 (38.45%) Azure
2 149 (31.30%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (12.18%) AWS
4 31 (6.51%) IaaS
5 19 (3.99%) Entra ID
6 18 (3.78%) Nutanix
7 17 (3.57%) OneDrive
8 16 (3.36%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (2.73%) CloudFront
10 13 (2.73%) OCI
10 13 (2.73%) Route 53
10 13 (2.73%) SaaS
10 13 (2.73%) Serverless
10 13 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (2.10%) GitHub
12 9 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 115 (24.16%) Firewall
2 94 (19.75%) DNS
3 55 (11.55%) WAN
4 54 (11.34%) LAN
5 50 (10.50%) DHCP
6 47 (9.87%) VPN
7 46 (9.66%) SAN
8 35 (7.35%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (5.46%) Wireless
10 19 (3.99%) TCP/IP
11 14 (2.94%) 5G
12 13 (2.73%) MPLS
13 12 (2.52%) BGP
13 12 (2.52%) SD-WAN
13 12 (2.52%) VLAN
14 11 (2.31%) Internet
14 11 (2.31%) iSCSI
15 10 (2.10%) HTTP
15 10 (2.10%) SMTP
15 10 (2.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (2.31%) MySQL
4 3 (0.63%) DB2
5 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.21%) Power BI
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (3.36%) JIRA
2 13 (2.73%) Git
2 13 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.10%) Trac
4 2 (0.42%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) Chocolatey
General
1 93 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 37 (7.77%) Finance
3 24 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (3.36%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.31%) Advertising
7 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.05%) Games
7 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.05%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.05%) Retail
8 4 (0.84%) Law
9 3 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.63%) Legal
10 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.21%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.10%) Web Services
2 4 (0.84%) LAMP
3 2 (0.42%) CSS
3 2 (0.42%) JSON
3 2 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.42%) YAML
4 1 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.21%) Flash
4 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (15.55%) Data Centre
2 38 (7.98%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.99%) IoT
4 15 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.31%) PKI
6 10 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.89%) Clustering
8 7 (1.47%) Cyber Security Posture
8 7 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.26%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.05%) Replication
11 4 (0.84%) EMC VNX
11 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.42%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.42%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.42%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.21%) NHS
13 1 (0.21%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.21%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 256 (53.78%) Windows
2 139 (29.20%) Windows Server
3 123 (25.84%) Linux
4 65 (13.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 51 (10.71%) Windows 10
6 42 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (8.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 27 (5.67%) Ubuntu
9 18 (3.78%) CentOS
10 17 (3.57%) Windows 7
11 14 (2.94%) Android
11 14 (2.94%) Apple iOS
12 12 (2.52%) Windows XP
13 7 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (1.26%) VMS
15 3 (0.63%) Rocky
15 3 (0.63%) Windows NT
16 1 (0.21%) AIX
16 1 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (98.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 87 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (14.08%) ITIL
4 53 (11.13%) DevOps
5 43 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
6 38 (7.98%) Storage Management
7 37 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (6.72%) Decision-Making
9 29 (6.09%) Customer Service
10 25 (5.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (5.25%) Project Management
10 25 (5.25%) Service Delivery
11 24 (5.04%) Change Management
11 24 (5.04%) Problem Management
12 22 (4.62%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (4.20%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 19 (3.99%) Computer Science
14 19 (3.99%) Project Delivery
14 19 (3.99%) Task Automation
15 18 (3.78%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 107 (22.48%) PowerShell
2 39 (8.19%) Python
3 28 (5.88%) Bash
4 15 (3.15%) Perl
5 12 (2.52%) SQL
6 9 (1.89%) ActionScript
6 9 (1.89%) VB
7 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 103 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 70 (14.71%) Degree
3 68 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 56 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.62%) CCNA
5 22 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.94%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (2.52%) CCNP
10 11 (2.31%) HNC
11 6 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.26%) MCP
12 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.63%) MCSE
14 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.83%) SLA
2 15 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.68%) GDPR
4 7 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.42%) QA
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 175 (36.76%) Active Directory
2 121 (25.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (12.82%) Hyper-V
4 43 (9.03%) VMware ESXi
5 42 (8.82%) vSphere
6 37 (7.77%) Docker
7 36 (7.56%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (2.10%) NFS
8 10 (2.10%) pfSense
8 10 (2.10%) XenApp
9 9 (1.89%) OpenSSH
10 6 (1.26%) VMware Server
11 5 (1.05%) Firmware
12 3 (0.63%) KVM
13 2 (0.42%) QEMU
13 2 (0.42%) Xen
14 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (10.29%) vCenter Server
2 48 (10.08%) SCCM
3 38 (7.98%) Kubernetes
4 31 (6.51%) WSUS
5 25 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (4.83%) Terraform
7 20 (4.20%) EMC NetWorker
8 19 (3.99%) SCOM
9 17 (3.57%) Ansible
10 16 (3.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (3.36%) SCDPM
11 12 (2.52%) Grafana
11 12 (2.52%) NetBackup
12 10 (2.10%) ZABBIX
13 9 (1.89%) FortiGate
13 9 (1.89%) IBM BigFix
13 9 (1.89%) PowerCLI
14 8 (1.68%) Nagios
15 6 (1.26%) Nessus
16 5 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 221 (46.43%) VMware
2 163 (34.24%) Microsoft
3 63 (13.24%) Cisco
4 44 (9.24%) Veeam
5 34 (7.14%) HP
6 33 (6.93%) Aruba
7 28 (5.88%) Juniper
8 27 (5.67%) Palo Alto
9 24 (5.04%) Dell
10 23 (4.83%) Citrix
11 22 (4.62%) EMC
11 22 (4.62%) Red Hat
12 19 (3.99%) Oracle
13 18 (3.78%) Extreme Networks
13 18 (3.78%) Fortinet
14 17 (3.57%) 3PAR
15 12 (2.52%) IBM
15 12 (2.52%) Symantec
16 11 (2.31%) McAfee
17 9 (1.89%) Meraki