Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in West Sussex

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 11 0 19
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 1.18% - 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% - 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 13
10th Percentile £36,250 - -
25th Percentile £69,688 - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £56,278
90th Percentile - - £60,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 711 343 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 76.04% 86.40% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 518 232 189
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,853 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +5.71% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,875 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in West Sussex over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in West Sussex

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Crawley - 9 £75,000 - 1
Worthing - 1 £70,000 -
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 4 (36.36%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Team Leader
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Debian
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (36.36%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) AI
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) SOC 1
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Puppet
1 4 (36.36%) ZABBIX
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 1 (9.09%) Rackspace