Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Kent is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 50 68
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 18 26 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.85% 3.30% 3.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 3.66% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11 26 36
10th Percentile £23,500 £29,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £37,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -11.90% -6.67%
75th Percentile £60,625 £41,000 £47,813
90th Percentile £67,500 - £57,375
South East median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £50,654
% change year-on-year -5.94% -0.30% +1.31%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 864 711 1,099
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.71% 90.23% 92.51%
Number of salaries quoted 295 582 611
10th Percentile £31,250 £23,108 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £67,285
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Kent over the 6 months to 21 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
Sittingbourne 0 3 £47,500 +18.75%
Gravesend - 3 £65,000 -
Tunbridge Wells - 2 £25,000 -
Maidstone - 1 £52,500 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 January 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 Kent region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (61.11%) Firewall
3 10 (55.56%) Hyper-V
4 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (44.44%) VMware
5 8 (44.44%) Driving Licence
6 7 (38.89%) Change Control
6 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (38.89%) Azure
6 7 (38.89%) HP
7 6 (33.33%) WAN
7 6 (33.33%) Telecoms
7 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 5 (27.78%) Data Management
8 5 (27.78%) Migration
8 5 (27.78%) NEC
8 5 (27.78%) Cisco
8 5 (27.78%) MPLS
8 5 (27.78%) FortiGate
8 5 (27.78%) 4G
8 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (27.78%) IoT
8 5 (27.78%) 5G
8 5 (27.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (27.78%) Darktrace
9 4 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (22.22%) DNS
10 3 (16.67%) DHCP

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
2 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Firewall
2 6 (33.33%) WAN
3 5 (27.78%) 4G
3 5 (27.78%) 5G
3 5 (27.78%) MPLS
4 4 (22.22%) DNS
5 3 (16.67%) DHCP
5 3 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (16.67%) iSCSI
5 3 (16.67%) NAS
5 3 (16.67%) SAN
6 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (11.11%) VPN
7 1 (5.56%) LAN
7 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 6 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Retail
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Driving Licence
2 5 (27.78%) IoT
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (11.11%) Clustering
5 1 (5.56%) Housing Association
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Change Control
3 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (27.78%) Data Management
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (11.11%) Cost Control
5 2 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Security Hardening
5 2 (11.11%) Supply Chain Management
6 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.56%) ITIL
6 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 2 (11.11%) CISM
2 2 (11.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Hyper-V
2 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (11.11%) pfSense
5 2 (11.11%) Terminal Server
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Statseeker
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 7 (38.89%) HP
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (27.78%) Cisco
4 5 (27.78%) Darktrace
4 5 (27.78%) NEC
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.11%) Dell
5 2 (11.11%) WatchGuard
6 1 (5.56%) Aruba
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds