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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 58 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 -21 +17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 28 17 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 2.68% 2.34% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 2.67% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 26
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,688 £45,313 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £64,063 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,613 £67,750 £56,161
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 855 636 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 81.98% 87.60% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 446 222 374
10th Percentile £27,375 £28,650 £25,550
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +20.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,063 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £79,425 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 - 2 £50,000 - 4
Westerham - 2 £35,500 -
Sittingbourne +1 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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
3 2 (7.14%) OVHcloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (53.57%) DHCP
1 15 (53.57%) DNS
1 15 (53.57%) SAN
2 8 (28.57%) Firewall
3 6 (21.43%) VLAN
4 4 (14.29%) VPN
4 4 (14.29%) WAN
5 2 (7.14%) Internet
5 2 (7.14%) NetScaler
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security
5 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
5 2 (7.14%) VSAN
5 2 (7.14%) Wireless
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.57%) HSRP
6 1 (3.57%) Miracast
6 1 (3.57%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
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%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 6 (21.43%) Support Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Support Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Civil Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Voice Specialist
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
3 1 (3.57%) CCTV
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 15 (53.57%) Windows Server
3 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
3 12 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (28.57%) Linux
5 4 (14.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (46.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (42.86%) DevOps
3 12 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (42.86%) Security Operations
4 6 (21.43%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 4 (14.29%) ITSM
5 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.14%) Converged Infrastructure
7 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
7 2 (7.14%) Patch Management
7 2 (7.14%) Presales
7 2 (7.14%) Preventative Maintenance
7 2 (7.14%) Process Improvement
7 2 (7.14%) Storage Management
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 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 19 (67.86%) Active Directory
2 14 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) vCenter Server
2 17 (60.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (57.14%) SCCM
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%) Terraform
6 2 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (57.14%) VMware
3 15 (53.57%) NetApp
4 14 (50.00%) Veeam
5 13 (46.43%) SolarWinds
6 12 (42.86%) 3PAR
7 5 (17.86%) Fortinet
8 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
9 3 (10.71%) Cisco
9 3 (10.71%) Dell
10 2 (7.14%) Citrix
11 1 (3.57%) Meraki
11 1 (3.57%) Splunk