Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Kent is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 67 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +20
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 5 41 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.62% 2.74% 3.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 2.95% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4 41 35
10th Percentile £41,125 £29,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £35,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £44,500
90th Percentile £61,000 £57,500 £52,250
South East median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 563 1,389 960
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 69.42% 92.85% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 321 1,027 531
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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
Tunbridge Wells - 2 £48,750 -
West Malling - 1 £55,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Kent region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) DHCP
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) Dell
4 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Legal
4 2 (40.00%) SUSE
4 2 (40.00%) Debian
4 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (40.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Terraform
5 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud

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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Debian
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) SUSE
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix