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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +27
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 8 6 42
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 1.50% 2.64% 6.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.88% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 34
10th Percentile £53,750 - £29,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £43,750 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile - - £68,750
90th Percentile £61,250 - £72,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

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 354 208 567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 66.42% 91.63% 86.83%
Number of salaries quoted 237 122 383
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,575 £25,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,975 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,430 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.39% +12.86% -9.09%

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
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 16 March 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 -3 4 £60,000 -
Horsham +1 2 £50,000 +5.26%
Haywards Heath - 1 £60,000 -
Bognor Regis - 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Senior
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Support
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) LPIC
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) VMware