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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 67 42
Rank change year-on-year -21 -25 +53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 14 42 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.84% 3.39% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 3.70% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 48
10th Percentile £46,125 £30,275 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £36,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £60,625 £66,250 £59,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £69,000 £63,750
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
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 1,364 1,135 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 81.97% 91.68% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 779 514 596
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,130
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.23% -3.40%

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 2 January 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 2 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
Epsom +23 3 £57,500 -16.67%
Guildford -5 2 £52,500 -10.64% 1
Redhill -17 2 £50,000 +53.85%
Staines - 2 £82,500 -
Reigate +1 1 £50,000 -
Woking - 1 - -
Egham - 1 £45,000 - 3
Farnham - 1 £47,500 -
Leatherhead - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 2 (14.29%) LAN
3 2 (14.29%) NAS
3 2 (14.29%) SAN
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) Wireless
4 1 (7.14%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (21.43%) Aerospace
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LAMP
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Agile
1 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
2 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) Service Management
2 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.14%) Tech Ops
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CCNA
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) MCSE
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Firmware
3 1 (7.14%) pfSense
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Podman
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) NetApp
3 2 (14.29%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat