Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 50 154
Rank change year-on-year -15 +104 -64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 624 830 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.72% 5.68% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 6.01% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 572 297 348
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +4.74% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,188 13,810 18,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.53% 94.55% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,890 8,011 11,960
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 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 -11 219 £50,000 -2.44% 28
Hampshire +2 203 £47,500 -4.76% 25
Berkshire +10 99 £52,550 -4.45% 17
Surrey -1 96 £54,000 -1.82% 7
Oxfordshire +27 66 £47,500 +11.76% 7
Buckinghamshire -46 55 £42,500 -22.73% 4
Kent -26 50 £39,250 -7.65% 17
East Sussex -24 32 £50,000 +11.11% 3
West Sussex -10 31 £55,000 +17.02% 1
Sussex - 7 £65,000 -
Infrastructure Engineering
England

Infrastructure Engineering
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 39 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.56%) IIS
4 4 (0.64%) WordPress
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 223 (35.74%) Azure
2 191 (30.61%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (11.22%) AWS
4 34 (5.45%) Entra ID
5 29 (4.65%) IaaS
6 22 (3.53%) OneDrive
7 18 (2.88%) SaaS
8 15 (2.40%) Nutanix
9 14 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.08%) OCI
11 12 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (1.92%) PaaS
11 12 (1.92%) Serverless
12 11 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (1.76%) CloudFront
12 11 (1.76%) Route 53
12 11 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (1.60%) GitHub
14 7 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 140 (22.44%) Firewall
2 93 (14.90%) DNS
3 68 (10.90%) WAN
4 61 (9.78%) LAN
5 53 (8.49%) DHCP
5 53 (8.49%) SAN
6 49 (7.85%) VPN
7 35 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
8 29 (4.65%) TCP/IP
9 27 (4.33%) Wireless
10 20 (3.21%) SD-WAN
11 18 (2.88%) BGP
11 18 (2.88%) MPLS
12 16 (2.56%) NAS
13 15 (2.40%) 5G
13 15 (2.40%) Internet
14 12 (1.92%) FTP
14 12 (1.92%) HTTP
14 12 (1.92%) VLAN
15 10 (1.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.76%) MySQL
4 7 (1.12%) Power BI
5 4 (0.64%) DB2
6 3 (0.48%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (2.56%) JIRA
2 15 (2.40%) Git
3 13 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.60%) Trac
5 5 (0.80%) Subversion
6 2 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.16%) Mercurial
General
1 111 (17.79%) Social Skills
2 43 (6.89%) Finance
3 25 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (3.04%) Telecoms
5 17 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (2.56%) Retail
7 12 (1.92%) Advertising
8 10 (1.60%) Games
9 8 (1.28%) Public Sector
10 5 (0.80%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.64%) Law
12 3 (0.48%) Legal
13 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.16%) Electronics
14 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 463 (74.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (15.38%) Senior
3 84 (13.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 72 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 67 (10.74%) Infrastructure Support
6 60 (9.62%) Network Engineer
7 57 (9.13%) IT Engineer
8 55 (8.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 53 (8.49%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 40 (6.41%) IT Support
11 37 (5.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 35 (5.61%) Systems Engineer
13 30 (4.81%) IT Support Engineer
14 27 (4.33%) Integration Engineer
14 27 (4.33%) VMware Engineer
14 27 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (4.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
17 21 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.60%) Web Services
2 9 (1.44%) OLE
3 5 (0.80%) JSON
4 4 (0.64%) .NET
4 4 (0.64%) LAMP
5 2 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.32%) YAML
6 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.16%) Flash
6 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.14%) Data Centre
2 45 (7.21%) Driving Licence
3 18 (2.88%) IoT
3 18 (2.88%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.24%) PKI
5 11 (1.76%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.60%) Replication
7 9 (1.44%) Clustering
8 7 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
8 7 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.12%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.80%) PMI
10 4 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.48%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.48%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.48%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.32%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 353 (56.57%) Windows
2 187 (29.97%) Windows Server
3 136 (21.79%) Linux
4 75 (12.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 62 (9.94%) Windows 10
6 50 (8.01%) Windows Server 2012
6 50 (8.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (4.33%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.88%) CentOS
9 17 (2.72%) Windows 7
10 14 (2.24%) Android
10 14 (2.24%) Apple iOS
11 12 (1.92%) Windows NT
11 12 (1.92%) Windows XP
12 8 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.96%) VMS
13 6 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.48%) Rocky
15 1 (0.16%) AIX
15 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (13.14%) ITIL
3 62 (9.94%) DevOps
4 52 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (7.37%) Customer Service
6 41 (6.57%) Disaster Recovery
7 36 (5.77%) Storage Management
8 33 (5.29%) Decision-Making
9 30 (4.81%) Change Management
9 30 (4.81%) Service Delivery
10 27 (4.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (4.33%) Project Management
11 24 (3.85%) Computer Science
11 24 (3.85%) Problem Management
11 24 (3.85%) Technical Leadership
12 23 (3.69%) Mentoring
13 22 (3.53%) Agile
13 22 (3.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 19 (3.04%) Change Control
14 19 (3.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (24.36%) PowerShell
2 35 (5.61%) Python
3 25 (4.01%) Bash
4 19 (3.04%) SQL
5 12 (1.92%) Perl
6 9 (1.44%) ActionScript
6 9 (1.44%) VB
7 4 (0.64%) C#
7 4 (0.64%) C++
7 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.48%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.16%) C
9 1 (0.16%) Java
9 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 167 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 123 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 90 (14.42%) DV Cleared
4 80 (12.82%) Degree
5 27 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (4.01%) CCNA
7 21 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.24%) CCNP
9 11 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.76%) HNC
9 11 (1.76%) MCP
10 10 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.48%) MCSE
15 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.61%) SLA
2 12 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.60%) GDPR
5 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.48%) QA
8 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 208 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 124 (19.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (12.02%) Hyper-V
4 43 (6.89%) vSphere
5 42 (6.73%) VMware ESXi
6 37 (5.93%) Docker
7 33 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
8 20 (3.21%) Firmware
9 13 (2.08%) XenApp
10 10 (1.60%) NFS
10 10 (1.60%) pfSense
11 9 (1.44%) OpenSSH
12 6 (0.96%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.48%) KVM
13 3 (0.48%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.32%) QEMU
14 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (9.13%) SCCM
2 49 (7.85%) vCenter Server
3 40 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.41%) WSUS
4 30 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (3.69%) Terraform
6 21 (3.37%) FortiGate
7 19 (3.04%) Ansible
7 19 (3.04%) EMC NetWorker
7 19 (3.04%) SCOM
8 16 (2.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 16 (2.56%) SCDPM
9 12 (1.92%) Grafana
9 12 (1.92%) NetBackup
9 12 (1.92%) Sysprep
10 10 (1.60%) ZABBIX
11 9 (1.44%) IBM BigFix
11 9 (1.44%) PowerCLI
12 7 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (1.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 226 (36.22%) VMware
2 211 (33.81%) Microsoft
3 83 (13.30%) Cisco
4 48 (7.69%) Veeam
5 38 (6.09%) Juniper
5 38 (6.09%) Palo Alto
6 35 (5.61%) HP
7 34 (5.45%) Aruba
8 27 (4.33%) Citrix
9 26 (4.17%) Fortinet
10 25 (4.01%) Dell
11 22 (3.53%) EMC
11 22 (3.53%) Red Hat
12 18 (2.88%) Extreme Networks
13 17 (2.72%) 3PAR
13 17 (2.72%) Oracle
14 13 (2.08%) Meraki
15 12 (1.92%) IBM
15 12 (1.92%) Symantec
16 11 (1.76%) McAfee