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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 32 28
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 26 53 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 3.39% 5.49% 6.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 7.20% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7 40 34
10th Percentile £36,000 £39,750 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,375 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.18% +12.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £56,831
90th Percentile £84,000 £83,808 £78,875
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

All Process and 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 577 736 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 75.23% 76.19% 89.91%
Number of salaries quoted 358 331 349
10th Percentile £27,350 £32,500 £29,700
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,591 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,800
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 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
Dartford +10 2 £50,000 +42.86%
Chatham +8 1 £95,000 +111.11%
Tunbridge Wells -3 1 £40,000 - 2
Sittingbourne -7 1 £45,000 -7.69% 1
Westerham - 1 - - 2
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 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (15.38%) Route 53
3 4 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (11.54%) Azure
5 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.69%) Nutanix
5 2 (7.69%) OVHcloud
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) DHCP
1 10 (38.46%) DNS
1 10 (38.46%) SAN
2 5 (19.23%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) VLAN
4 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) WAN
5 1 (3.85%) Internet
5 1 (3.85%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.85%) VoIP
5 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Automotive
3 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
2 6 (23.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior IT Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Support Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (3.85%) Junior
4 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 11 (42.31%) Windows Server
3 10 (38.46%) Windows Server 2012
3 10 (38.46%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (19.23%) Linux
5 3 (11.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (57.69%) DevOps
3 10 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (38.46%) Security Operations
4 7 (26.92%) Cloud Security
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (19.23%) Information Security
7 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
8 3 (11.54%) ITIL
8 3 (11.54%) ITSM
8 3 (11.54%) Migration
9 2 (7.69%) Data Protection
9 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (7.69%) Service Catalogue
9 2 (7.69%) Technical Discovery
9 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Go
2 1 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CCDA
3 1 (3.85%) CCNA
3 1 (3.85%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 10 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) SCCM
1 13 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 12 (46.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (30.77%) Terraform
4 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
5 3 (11.54%) Nagios
5 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 3 (11.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (46.15%) VMware
3 10 (38.46%) 3PAR
3 10 (38.46%) NetApp
3 10 (38.46%) SolarWinds
3 10 (38.46%) Veeam
4 3 (11.54%) Fortinet
4 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Rapid7