Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Surrey

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 57 68
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 61 33 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.71% 3.21% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.55% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 56 24 81
10th Percentile £45,000 - £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £61,250
90th Percentile - £54,625 £63,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +0.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,691 930 2,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.99% 90.47% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 989 520 1,375
10th Percentile £31,510 £30,795 £24,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,625 £80,000
South East median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% -9.09%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Surrey

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Surrey over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Surrey

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Woking +5 16 £57,500 -1.71% 2
Guildford -15 14 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Epsom - 7 £57,500 -
Leatherhead -7 4 £60,000 +41.18% 4
Redhill -11 2 £50,000 +25.00%
Egham - 2 £45,000 -
Farnham - 1 £47,500 -
Reigate - 1 £50,000 -
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 15 (24.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (24.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.82%) Azure
2 22 (36.07%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (26.23%) Entra ID
4 15 (24.59%) Mimecast
4 15 (24.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) VPN
3 1 (1.64%) 5G
3 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 15 (24.59%) JIRA
General
1 17 (27.87%) Legal
2 5 (8.20%) Finance
3 3 (4.92%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (60.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (22.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 14 (22.95%) 3rd Line Support
2 14 (22.95%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 14 (22.95%) Support Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) IT Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Security Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Firewall Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior
7 3 (4.92%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.79%) iSeries
2 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 8 (13.11%) Replication
3 3 (4.92%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.51%) Change Management
1 18 (29.51%) Technical Leadership
2 17 (27.87%) Incident Management
3 15 (24.59%) Identity Management
3 15 (24.59%) Workflow
4 8 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (11.48%) SIEM
5 7 (11.48%) SOAR
5 7 (11.48%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (4.92%) Agile
6 3 (4.92%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (4.92%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (3.28%) AI
7 2 (3.28%) Configuration Management
7 2 (3.28%) Contract Management
7 2 (3.28%) Performance Management
7 2 (3.28%) Release Management
7 2 (3.28%) Service Delivery
7 2 (3.28%) Service Management
7 2 (3.28%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) R
2 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.64%) Bash
3 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.39%) Hyper-V
3 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (13.11%) Firmware
5 1 (1.64%) pfSense
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Puppet
2 1 (1.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (49.18%) Microsoft
2 20 (32.79%) IBM
3 15 (24.59%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (19.67%) VMware
5 10 (16.39%) HP
6 8 (13.11%) CheckPoint
6 8 (13.11%) Commvault
6 8 (13.11%) EMC
6 8 (13.11%) Veeam
7 7 (11.48%) Cisco
7 7 (11.48%) LogRhythm
7 7 (11.48%) Palo Alto
7 7 (11.48%) Splunk
7 7 (11.48%) Tenable
8 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.64%) Juniper