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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 73 65
Rank change year-on-year +38 -8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 120 27 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.81% 2.33% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 2.61% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 107 15 35
10th Percentile £45,000 - £30,800
25th Percentile £56,250 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £50,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £59,650 £68,400
South East median annual salary £60,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -8.00% +4.17%

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 1,899 1,035 1,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 76.14% 89.22% 87.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,415 690 786
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,951 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,875 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,625 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 26 September 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 26 September 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
Guildford -6 27 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Woking +3 26 £57,500 -1.71% 3
Leatherhead -2 14 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Epsom +11 12 £60,000 +4.35% 3
Camberley 0 6 £43,750 +15.13% 5
Dorking - 4 £60,000 - 1
Reigate - 3 £112,500 -
Staines - 3 £60,000 -
Chertsey - 2 £47,500 -
Windlesham - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (18.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (46.67%) Azure
2 33 (27.50%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (20.83%) Entra ID
4 24 (20.00%) SaaS
5 21 (17.50%) Mimecast
6 10 (8.33%) AWS
7 9 (7.50%) Nutanix
8 6 (5.00%) GCP
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.33%) Firewall
2 11 (9.17%) VPN
3 9 (7.50%) DNS
4 7 (5.83%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.33%) VSAN
6 2 (1.67%) SAN
6 2 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 21 (17.50%) JIRA
General
1 21 (17.50%) Legal
2 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Finance
5 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.50%) Games
7 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (49.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (18.33%) IT Engineer
3 16 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 15 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) IT Support
5 12 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (8.33%) Lead
6 10 (8.33%) Systems Support
6 10 (8.33%) Systems Support Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Data Centre Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Nutanix Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Security Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.33%) HTML
2 3 (2.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 39 (32.50%) iSeries
2 18 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (10.83%) Enterprise Storage
3 13 (10.83%) Replication
4 8 (6.67%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.33%) Clustering
6 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.00%) Windows
1 12 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (3.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
2 23 (19.17%) Change Management
2 23 (19.17%) Identity Management
2 23 (19.17%) Incident Management
3 21 (17.50%) Workflow
4 19 (15.83%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (7.50%) AI
6 7 (5.83%) Business Continuity
7 6 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (4.17%) Cyber Intelligence
9 4 (3.33%) Business Continuity Planning
9 4 (3.33%) Converged Infrastructure
9 4 (3.33%) DevSecOps
9 4 (3.33%) High Availability
9 4 (3.33%) Proactive Maintenance
9 4 (3.33%) Project Management
9 4 (3.33%) SIEM
9 4 (3.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.50%) R
2 7 (5.83%) Python
3 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.50%) Bash
4 3 (2.50%) C#
4 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) CISSP
4 2 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.83%) CCSP
5 1 (0.83%) CEH
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.83%) CISM
5 1 (0.83%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (22.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.33%) NIST
4 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.83%) Hyper-V
3 17 (14.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (12.50%) Firmware
5 6 (5.00%) VMware Server
5 6 (5.00%) vSphere
6 4 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.33%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.50%) Docker
8 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.33%) VxRail
3 3 (2.50%) Ansible
3 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (35.83%) Microsoft
2 39 (32.50%) IBM
3 23 (19.17%) VMware
4 21 (17.50%) CrowdStrike
5 17 (14.17%) Veeam
6 11 (9.17%) Commvault
6 11 (9.17%) EMC
6 11 (9.17%) HP
7 6 (5.00%) Dell
8 2 (1.67%) Google
8 2 (1.67%) NetApp
8 2 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.83%) Qualys
9 1 (0.83%) Splunk