Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Kent is £38,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 62 88
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 -61
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 43 40 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.84% 3.63% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 4.24% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 43 34 32
10th Percentile £30,000 £39,000 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,188 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% -5.56% +18.42%
75th Percentile £56,250 £44,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £58,500 £52,625 £48,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,412 943 1,276
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 85.65% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 515 735
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +1.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £59,063 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,990 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 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
Chatham +17 15 £35,000 -47.53%
Dartford - 12 £34,000 - 2
Gravesend - 6 £55,000 - 2
Maidstone +13 4 £57,500 +32.95%
Sittingbourne +1 1 £50,000 +25.00%
Sevenoaks - 1 £60,000 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Kent region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (53.49%) Windows
3 18 (41.86%) Azure
4 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
5 15 (34.88%) VMware
5 15 (34.88%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (32.56%) Apple iOS
6 14 (32.56%) Android
7 13 (30.23%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (25.58%) AWS
9 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
10 9 (20.93%) Darktrace
10 9 (20.93%) Windows Server
11 8 (18.60%) Firewall
12 7 (16.28%) SharePoint
12 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (16.28%) WAN
12 7 (16.28%) DNS
12 7 (16.28%) Entra ID
12 7 (16.28%) Windows 10
12 7 (16.28%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (16.28%) Security Posture
12 7 (16.28%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (13.95%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (13.95%) 5G
13 6 (13.95%) Driving Licence
13 6 (13.95%) FortiGate
13 6 (13.95%) IoT
13 6 (13.95%) 4G

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 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (16.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) Azure
2 15 (34.88%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (25.58%) AWS
4 7 (16.28%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.98%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.33%) IaaS
6 1 (2.33%) SaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Firewall
2 7 (16.28%) DNS
2 7 (16.28%) WAN
3 6 (13.95%) 4G
3 6 (13.95%) 5G
3 6 (13.95%) DHCP
3 6 (13.95%) MPLS
4 3 (6.98%) VLAN
5 2 (4.65%) SNMP
6 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Cyber Security Posture
1 7 (16.28%) Security Posture
1 7 (16.28%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (13.95%) Driving Licence
2 6 (13.95%) IoT
3 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 23 (53.49%) Windows
2 14 (32.56%) Android
2 14 (32.56%) Apple iOS
3 9 (20.93%) Windows Server
4 7 (16.28%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (30.23%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.95%) Data Management
5 3 (6.98%) Computer Science
5 3 (6.98%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (6.98%) DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (4.65%) Project Delivery
6 2 (4.65%) Security Operations
7 1 (2.33%) Business Continuity
7 1 (2.33%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.95%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (4.65%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) VMware
2 9 (20.93%) Darktrace
3 6 (13.95%) Cisco
3 6 (13.95%) HP
3 6 (13.95%) NEC
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.98%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
6 2 (4.65%) Veeam
7 1 (2.33%) Citrix