Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Kent is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 58 90
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 -60
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 52 41 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 3.37% 3.81% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.59% 4.46% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 50 35 34
10th Percentile £30,875 - £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +18.42%
75th Percentile £57,500 £44,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £52,250 £48,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Kent. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Kent with a recognized job title 1,447 920 1,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 85.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 506 733
10th Percentile £25,550 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,875 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Kent.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Kent over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Kent

Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Chatham +15 15 £35,000 -47.53%
Dartford - 12 £34,000 - 1
Gravesend - 9 £55,000 - 1
Maidstone +14 4 £57,500 +27.78%
Sittingbourne -1 1 £50,000 +25.00% 2
Tunbridge Wells -5 1 - -
Sevenoaks - 1 £60,000 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Kent region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (50.00%) Windows
3 20 (38.46%) Azure
4 19 (36.54%) VMware
5 17 (32.69%) Active Directory
6 16 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (28.85%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (26.92%) Android
8 14 (26.92%) Apple iOS
9 13 (25.00%) AWS
10 11 (21.15%) Darktrace
11 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (19.23%) Windows Server
11 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
11 10 (19.23%) Firewall
12 9 (17.31%) WAN
12 9 (17.31%) Hyper-V
13 8 (15.38%) Data Management
13 8 (15.38%) 4G
13 8 (15.38%) FortiGate
13 8 (15.38%) IoT
13 8 (15.38%) HP
13 8 (15.38%) MPLS
13 8 (15.38%) DNS
13 8 (15.38%) Cisco
13 8 (15.38%) NEC
13 8 (15.38%) Telecoms
13 8 (15.38%) Driving Licence
13 8 (15.38%) 5G
13 8 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (13.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (25.00%) AWS
4 7 (13.46%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.69%) Nutanix
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.85%) IaaS
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.92%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (1.92%) GCP
8 1 (1.92%) PaaS
8 1 (1.92%) SaaS
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) Firewall
2 9 (17.31%) WAN
3 8 (15.38%) 4G
3 8 (15.38%) 5G
3 8 (15.38%) DNS
3 8 (15.38%) MPLS
4 7 (13.46%) DHCP
5 3 (5.77%) VLAN
6 2 (3.85%) SNMP
7 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.92%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Driving Licence
1 8 (15.38%) IoT
2 7 (13.46%) Cyber Security Posture
2 7 (13.46%) Security Posture
2 7 (13.46%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Clustering
4 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.00%) Windows
2 14 (26.92%) Android
2 14 (26.92%) Apple iOS
3 10 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 7 (13.46%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.77%) Linux
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (28.85%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (15.38%) Data Management
5 3 (5.77%) Computer Science
5 3 (5.77%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (5.77%) DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) Logistics
6 2 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.85%) Project Delivery
6 2 (3.85%) Security Operations
7 1 (1.92%) Analytics
7 1 (1.92%) Business Continuity
7 1 (1.92%) Change Control
7 1 (1.92%) Data Cleansing
7 1 (1.92%) High Availability
7 1 (1.92%) Migration
7 1 (1.92%) Operational Stability
7 1 (1.92%) Project Management
7 1 (1.92%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Active Directory
2 9 (17.31%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (3.85%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (36.54%) VMware
2 11 (21.15%) Darktrace
3 8 (15.38%) Cisco
3 8 (15.38%) HP
3 8 (15.38%) NEC
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.69%) Citrix
6 3 (5.77%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (5.77%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.85%) Veeam