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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 47 148
Rank change year-on-year -18 +101 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 633 837 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.75% 5.84% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 6.18% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 582 303 352
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,420 £31,350
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +4.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,644
90th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,150
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 14,220 13,554 18,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.27% 94.51% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,861 7,915 11,840
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
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 £86,250 £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 19 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 19 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 -9 218 £50,000 - 31
Hampshire +2 209 £47,500 -5.00% 26
Surrey -12 98 £54,000 -1.82% 6
Berkshire +4 96 £52,550 -4.45% 11
Oxfordshire +25 69 £48,750 +14.71% 11
Buckinghamshire -45 54 £42,500 -22.73% 9
Kent -24 52 £40,000 -5.88% 13
West Sussex -13 32 £55,000 +22.91% 1
East Sussex -26 32 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Sussex - 7 £65,000 - 1
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 38 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.69%) IIS
4 4 (0.63%) WordPress
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.16%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 225 (35.55%) Azure
2 190 (30.02%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (11.69%) AWS
4 33 (5.21%) Entra ID
5 32 (5.06%) IaaS
6 23 (3.63%) OneDrive
7 19 (3.00%) SaaS
8 17 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (2.69%) Nutanix
9 13 (2.05%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.05%) OCI
10 12 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (1.90%) PaaS
10 12 (1.90%) Serverless
10 12 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.74%) CloudFront
11 11 (1.74%) Route 53
12 10 (1.58%) GitHub
13 7 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 141 (22.27%) Firewall
2 94 (14.85%) DNS
3 68 (10.74%) WAN
4 59 (9.32%) LAN
5 54 (8.53%) SAN
6 52 (8.21%) DHCP
7 50 (7.90%) VPN
8 35 (5.53%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (4.58%) TCP/IP
10 26 (4.11%) Wireless
11 20 (3.16%) SD-WAN
12 19 (3.00%) MPLS
13 18 (2.84%) BGP
14 17 (2.69%) NAS
15 16 (2.53%) 5G
15 16 (2.53%) Internet
16 14 (2.21%) HTTP
17 13 (2.05%) VLAN
18 12 (1.90%) FTP
19 10 (1.58%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.74%) MySQL
4 7 (1.11%) Power BI
5 4 (0.63%) DB2
6 3 (0.47%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (2.53%) JIRA
2 14 (2.21%) Git
3 13 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.58%) Trac
5 4 (0.63%) Subversion
6 2 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) Chocolatey
General
1 112 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 47 (7.42%) Finance
3 25 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (3.16%) Telecoms
5 17 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (2.69%) Retail
6 12 (1.90%) Advertising
7 10 (1.58%) Games
8 8 (1.26%) Public Sector
9 5 (0.79%) Aerospace
9 5 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.63%) Law
11 2 (0.32%) Legal
11 2 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 470 (74.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (15.17%) Senior
3 84 (13.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 73 (11.53%) Support Engineer
5 67 (10.58%) Infrastructure Support
6 61 (9.64%) Network Engineer
7 58 (9.16%) IT Engineer
8 56 (8.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 53 (8.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 40 (6.32%) IT Support
11 37 (5.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 35 (5.53%) Systems Engineer
13 30 (4.74%) IT Support Engineer
14 28 (4.42%) VMware Engineer
14 28 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (4.27%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (4.27%) Integration Engineer
16 23 (3.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.58%) Web Services
2 9 (1.42%) OLE
3 5 (0.79%) JSON
4 4 (0.63%) .NET
4 4 (0.63%) 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 (12.95%) Data Centre
2 45 (7.11%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.00%) IoT
4 18 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.37%) PKI
6 11 (1.74%) Clustering
6 11 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.58%) Replication
8 7 (1.11%) Cyber Security Posture
8 7 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.11%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.79%) PMI
10 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.47%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.47%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.47%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.32%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 353 (55.77%) Windows
2 187 (29.54%) Windows Server
3 138 (21.80%) Linux
4 75 (11.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 61 (9.64%) Windows 10
6 50 (7.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 47 (7.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 27 (4.27%) Ubuntu
9 18 (2.84%) CentOS
10 17 (2.69%) Windows 7
11 14 (2.21%) Android
11 14 (2.21%) Apple iOS
12 12 (1.90%) Windows XP
13 11 (1.74%) Windows NT
14 9 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.95%) VMS
16 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.47%) Rocky
18 1 (0.16%) AIX
18 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (12.95%) ITIL
3 66 (10.43%) DevOps
4 52 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
5 45 (7.11%) Customer Service
6 42 (6.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 38 (6.00%) Storage Management
8 34 (5.37%) Decision-Making
9 32 (5.06%) Service Delivery
10 30 (4.74%) Change Management
11 27 (4.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (4.27%) Project Management
12 25 (3.95%) Computer Science
12 25 (3.95%) Problem Management
12 25 (3.95%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (3.63%) Mentoring
13 23 (3.63%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 22 (3.48%) Agile
15 20 (3.16%) Change Control
16 19 (3.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 154 (24.33%) PowerShell
2 36 (5.69%) Python
3 26 (4.11%) Bash
4 19 (3.00%) SQL
5 13 (2.05%) Perl
6 10 (1.58%) ActionScript
6 10 (1.58%) VB
7 4 (0.63%) C#
7 4 (0.63%) C++
7 4 (0.63%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.16%) Java
9 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 166 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 123 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 89 (14.06%) DV Cleared
4 81 (12.80%) Degree
5 27 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (3.95%) CCNA
7 22 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.21%) CCNP
9 11 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.74%) HNC
9 11 (1.74%) MCP
10 10 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.79%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.47%) MCSE
15 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.69%) SLA
2 13 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.58%) GDPR
4 7 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.47%) QA
7 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 208 (32.86%) Active Directory
2 127 (20.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (12.01%) Hyper-V
4 45 (7.11%) vSphere
5 43 (6.79%) VMware ESXi
6 37 (5.85%) Docker
7 34 (5.37%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (2.84%) Firmware
9 14 (2.21%) XenApp
10 10 (1.58%) NFS
10 10 (1.58%) OpenSSH
10 10 (1.58%) pfSense
11 6 (0.95%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.47%) KVM
12 3 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.47%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.32%) QEMU
13 2 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (9.00%) SCCM
2 50 (7.90%) vCenter Server
3 42 (6.64%) Kubernetes
4 39 (6.16%) WSUS
5 30 (4.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (3.79%) Terraform
7 22 (3.48%) FortiGate
8 19 (3.00%) Ansible
8 19 (3.00%) EMC NetWorker
8 19 (3.00%) SCOM
9 16 (2.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 16 (2.53%) SCDPM
10 13 (2.05%) NetBackup
11 12 (1.90%) Grafana
12 11 (1.74%) Sysprep
13 10 (1.58%) IBM BigFix
13 10 (1.58%) PowerCLI
13 10 (1.58%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (1.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 227 (35.86%) VMware
2 210 (33.18%) Microsoft
3 85 (13.43%) Cisco
4 48 (7.58%) Veeam
5 38 (6.00%) Juniper
5 38 (6.00%) Palo Alto
6 37 (5.85%) HP
7 34 (5.37%) Aruba
8 29 (4.58%) Citrix
9 27 (4.27%) Fortinet
10 24 (3.79%) Dell
11 23 (3.63%) EMC
12 21 (3.32%) Red Hat
13 18 (2.84%) 3PAR
13 18 (2.84%) Extreme Networks
14 17 (2.69%) Oracle
15 14 (2.21%) Meraki
16 13 (2.05%) IBM
17 12 (1.90%) Symantec
18 11 (1.74%) McAfee