Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Berkshire is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 88 136
Rank change year-on-year -33 +48 +19
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 10 69 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.62% 2.24% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 2.35% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6 66 30
10th Percentile £39,375 £42,250 £35,110
25th Percentile £44,375 £48,769 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,550 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% -4.45% -21.43%
75th Percentile - £59,000 £58,438
90th Percentile - £60,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £45,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.00% +11.11% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,294 2,939 2,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.58% 95.45% 92.54%
Number of salaries quoted 588 2,069 1,616
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -10.64% +2.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Berkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
Bracknell +20 5 £50,000 +23.84% 3
Reading +27 4 £41,250 -25.00% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) Windows
3 6 (60.00%) Firewall
3 6 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (50.00%) VMware
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
4 5 (50.00%) DNS
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco
5 4 (40.00%) LAN
5 4 (40.00%) WAN
5 4 (40.00%) DHCP
5 4 (40.00%) WSUS
5 4 (40.00%) Change Control
5 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
5 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Juniper
7 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) Nessus
7 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (20.00%) AWS
7 2 (20.00%) Python
7 2 (20.00%) Linux
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (20.00%) SSL

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
3 4 (40.00%) DHCP
3 4 (40.00%) LAN
3 4 (40.00%) WAN
4 2 (20.00%) SSL
5 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Back Office
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Change Control
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Key Management
3 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (10.00%) Power Management
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) MCSA
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (20.00%) Docker
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (40.00%) WSUS
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Nessus
2 2 (20.00%) Proxmox
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (10.00%) vRealize
3 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Dell