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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 34 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 -13 +58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 19 48 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.54% 4.45% 8.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 5.80% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6 41 42
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.92% +8.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £56,643
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £58,625
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -0.95%

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 551 828 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 73.56% 76.74% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 348 434 384
10th Percentile £25,775 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,625 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,750 £68,375
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +6 2 £50,000 +35.14%
Chatham +7 1 £95,000 +22.58%
Tunbridge Wells +1 1 £40,000 -
Westerham - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (21.05%) Route 53
2 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
4 2 (10.53%) OVHcloud
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) DHCP
1 7 (36.84%) DNS
1 7 (36.84%) SAN
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
2 2 (10.53%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) WAN
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Automotive
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IT Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Junior
4 1 (5.26%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2012
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (63.16%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Cloud Security
3 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (36.84%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (36.84%) Security Operations
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
8 2 (10.53%) Presales
8 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
8 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
8 2 (10.53%) Service Catalogue
8 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (10.53%) Workflow
9 1 (5.26%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Go
2 1 (5.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (36.84%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (42.11%) Terraform
3 7 (36.84%) SCCM
3 7 (36.84%) vCenter Server
4 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) VMware
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) 3PAR
3 7 (36.84%) NetApp
3 7 (36.84%) SolarWinds
3 7 (36.84%) Veeam
4 1 (5.26%) Rapid7