Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Southampton

Infrastructure Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Southampton is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 68 52
Rank change year-on-year +36 -16 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 7 10 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 2.10% 1.15% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 1.18% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 23
10th Percentile £46,750 £52,200 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,500 - £67,500
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 330 849 714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.80% 97.25% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 256 718 564
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Southampton

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Southampton.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Southampton

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Southampton over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Southampton

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 Southampton region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) GitOps
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
5 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (28.57%) GCP
5 2 (28.57%) Datadog
5 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
5 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco
5 2 (28.57%) Logistics
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Google
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (14.29%) Azure
6 1 (14.29%) SaaS
6 1 (14.29%) PaaS
6 1 (14.29%) Bash

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
1 2 (28.57%) Datadog
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (14.29%) VoIP
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) GitOps
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Logistics
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Change Control
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Proactive Management
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Aruba
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) Ruckus Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) VMware