Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 64 168
Rank change year-on-year -8 +104 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 227 279 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.37% 4.55% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 4.81% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 205 83 97
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £56,275 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £68,950 £72,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,737 5,806 6,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.16% 94.68% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,018 3,157 3,953
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Berkshire +2 102 £52,550 -4.45% 16
Oxfordshire +32 65 £45,000 +5.88% 9
Buckinghamshire -40 60 £42,500 -22.73% 4
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 23 (10.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.76%) IIS
3 4 (1.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 83 (36.56%) Azure
2 53 (23.35%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.17%) AWS
4 13 (5.73%) OCI
5 12 (5.29%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.52%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.20%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (2.20%) SaaS
8 4 (1.76%) PaaS
9 3 (1.32%) IaaS
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.88%) GCP
10 2 (0.88%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.88%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.88%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 50 (22.03%) Firewall
2 43 (18.94%) DNS
3 26 (11.45%) DHCP
4 24 (10.57%) SAN
5 17 (7.49%) WAN
5 17 (7.49%) Wireless
6 16 (7.05%) LAN
7 14 (6.17%) TCP/IP
8 10 (4.41%) HTTP
8 10 (4.41%) SMTP
9 9 (3.96%) VPN
10 8 (3.52%) BGP
10 8 (3.52%) OSPF
11 7 (3.08%) MPLS
11 7 (3.08%) NAS
11 7 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (2.64%) VLAN
13 5 (2.20%) iSCSI
14 4 (1.76%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (1.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.32%) MySQL
3 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Subversion
2 4 (1.76%) Git
3 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
General
1 32 (14.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (3.96%) Retail
3 5 (2.20%) Games
4 4 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (1.76%) Law
5 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
6 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.44%) Advertising
7 1 (0.44%) Electronics
7 1 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 178 (78.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (17.18%) Senior
3 28 (12.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (12.33%) Systems Engineer
4 25 (11.01%) Infrastructure Support
5 19 (8.37%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (8.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (7.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 14 (6.17%) Mechanical Engineer
7 14 (6.17%) Network Engineer
7 14 (6.17%) Support Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) PowerShell Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) VMware Engineer
8 13 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 12 (5.29%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 12 (5.29%) IT Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.41%) Web Services
2 4 (1.76%) .NET
2 4 (1.76%) LAMP
3 2 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.52%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.20%) PKI
5 4 (1.76%) EMC VNX
5 4 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.76%) Replication
6 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.44%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.44%) IoT
7 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (49.78%) Windows
2 70 (30.84%) Windows Server
3 66 (29.07%) Linux
4 49 (21.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 45 (19.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 42 (18.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 38 (16.74%) Windows 10
8 14 (6.17%) Windows NT
9 12 (5.29%) Windows XP
10 11 (4.85%) Windows 7
11 7 (3.08%) Ubuntu
12 6 (2.64%) VMS
12 6 (2.64%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (1.32%) CentOS
13 3 (1.32%) Rocky
14 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.44%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.15%) ITIL
2 43 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (11.89%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (9.25%) Customer Service
4 21 (9.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (8.81%) Server Management
5 20 (8.81%) Service Management
6 19 (8.37%) Change Management
7 17 (7.49%) Storage Management
8 15 (6.61%) DevOps
8 15 (6.61%) Problem Management
9 14 (6.17%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 14 (6.17%) Decision-Making
9 14 (6.17%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (6.17%) Proactive Monitoring
9 14 (6.17%) Project Management
10 12 (5.29%) Break/Fix
10 12 (5.29%) Converged Infrastructure
10 12 (5.29%) Performance Monitoring
10 12 (5.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 40 (17.62%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.29%) SQL
3 5 (2.20%) Bash
4 4 (1.76%) C#
4 4 (1.76%) C++
4 4 (1.76%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.88%) Python
6 1 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 70 (30.84%) Security Cleared
2 47 (20.70%) Degree
3 42 (18.50%) SC Cleared
4 38 (16.74%) DV Cleared
5 21 (9.25%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (8.81%) CCNA
7 13 (5.73%) CCNP
8 11 (4.85%) HNC
9 5 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.20%) MCP
10 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.32%) QA
2 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 87 (38.33%) Active Directory
2 47 (20.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.25%) Hyper-V
4 19 (8.37%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (6.61%) Firmware
6 14 (6.17%) Docker
7 9 (3.96%) vSphere
8 3 (1.32%) XenApp
8 3 (1.32%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.88%) KVM
9 2 (0.88%) QEMU
9 2 (0.88%) Xen
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (21.15%) SCCM
2 29 (12.78%) WSUS
3 19 (8.37%) vCenter Server
4 17 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (7.05%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (6.17%) Sysprep
7 13 (5.73%) Kubernetes
8 12 (5.29%) NetBackup
8 12 (5.29%) SCOM
9 8 (3.52%) Ansible
10 7 (3.08%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.32%) Nagios
12 2 (0.88%) Grafana
12 2 (0.88%) Nessus
12 2 (0.88%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.88%) Terraform
13 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 102 (44.93%) Microsoft
2 79 (34.80%) VMware
3 41 (18.06%) Cisco
4 28 (12.33%) Veeam
5 22 (9.69%) Palo Alto
6 19 (8.37%) Dell
7 18 (7.93%) EMC
7 18 (7.93%) Extreme Networks
8 17 (7.49%) Aruba
8 17 (7.49%) HP
9 16 (7.05%) Oracle
10 14 (6.17%) Juniper
11 12 (5.29%) 3PAR
11 12 (5.29%) Symantec
12 10 (4.41%) Citrix
13 6 (2.64%) Infoblox
13 6 (2.64%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.20%) Datto
14 5 (2.20%) Sophos
14 5 (2.20%) WatchGuard