Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Kent

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 59 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 -20 +14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 28 16 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 2.61% 2.20% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.44% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 36
10th Percentile £34,750 £43,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +23.38% -9.41%
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £59,100 £68,000 £50,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 871 656 688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 81.25% 90.36% 80.28%
Number of salaries quoted 463 199 557
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,700 £24,050
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,900 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Kent

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Kent over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Kent

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Kent region over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. 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
Westerham - 2 £35,500 -
Maidstone +2 1 £42,500 -19.05% 1
Sittingbourne -3 1 £45,000 -5.26%
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £40,000 -
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (57.14%) DHCP
1 16 (57.14%) DNS
2 14 (50.00%) SAN
3 8 (28.57%) Firewall
3 8 (28.57%) VLAN
4 4 (14.29%) VPN
4 4 (14.29%) Wireless
5 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
6 2 (7.14%) BGP
6 2 (7.14%) Internet
6 2 (7.14%) IPsec
6 2 (7.14%) NetScaler
6 2 (7.14%) Network Security
6 2 (7.14%) VSAN
6 2 (7.14%) WAN
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (3.57%) MPLS
7 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications
7 1 (3.57%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
2 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 8 (28.57%) Support Specialist
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Civil Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Support
4 2 (7.14%) IT Support Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) CCTV
3 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.57%) FMCG
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (75.00%) Windows
2 17 (60.71%) Windows Server
3 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (39.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (21.43%) Linux
6 4 (14.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (39.29%) Security Operations
4 8 (28.57%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 4 (14.29%) ITSM
6 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.14%) Information Security
7 2 (7.14%) IT Governance
7 2 (7.14%) Preventative Maintenance
7 2 (7.14%) Proactive Maintenance
7 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.14%) Storage Management
7 2 (7.14%) Technology Roadmap
7 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) CCNP
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CCDA
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
1 2 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (46.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) vCenter Server
2 15 (53.57%) SCCM
3 14 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (14.29%) Nagios
4 4 (14.29%) ZABBIX
5 3 (10.71%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
6 2 (7.14%) Backup Exec
6 2 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (57.14%) Veeam
3 14 (50.00%) NetApp
4 13 (46.43%) VMware
5 12 (42.86%) SolarWinds
6 11 (39.29%) 3PAR
7 5 (17.86%) Cisco
7 5 (17.86%) Fortinet
8 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
9 3 (10.71%) Dell
9 3 (10.71%) Meraki
10 2 (7.14%) Citrix
11 1 (3.57%) Splunk