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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 67 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 -34 +52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 21 35 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.22% 3.00% 6.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 3.22% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 79
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,125 £46,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,625 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,250 £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 1,390 1,086 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.67% 93.14% 88.50%
Number of salaries quoted 810 483 870
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,250 £37,500
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,670 £52,293
% change year-on-year -13.30% +10.28% -4.92%

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 31 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 31 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 +22 5 £57,500 -16.67% 1
Woking - 4 £57,500 -
Redhill -14 2 £50,000 +53.85%
Staines - 2 £82,500 -
Egham - 2 £45,000 - 1
Leatherhead - 2 - -
Reigate -1 1 £50,000 -
Farnham - 1 £47,500 -
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 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Mimecast
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) VPN
3 2 (9.52%) LAN
3 2 (9.52%) WAN
3 2 (9.52%) Wireless
4 1 (4.76%) 5G
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (23.81%) Legal
2 3 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (19.05%) Change Management
2 4 (19.05%) SIEM
2 4 (19.05%) SOAR
2 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (14.29%) Agile
3 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Workflow
4 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
4 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL
4 2 (9.52%) Service Management
4 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) R
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) pfSense
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
4 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) VMware
3 5 (23.81%) CheckPoint
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco
4 4 (19.05%) LogRhythm
4 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto
4 4 (19.05%) Splunk
4 4 (19.05%) Tenable
5 3 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (9.52%) HP
7 1 (4.76%) Citrix
7 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.76%) Juniper