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 23 March 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 82 144
Rank change year-on-year -12 +62 -19
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 21 88 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.51% 2.84% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.98% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17 85 31
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,550 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% -4.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £60,000 £60,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -8.16%

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 1,046 2,950 2,849
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.09% 95.28% 93.07%
Number of salaries quoted 540 2,131 1,635
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,175 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £80,313 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £90,000
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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +24 11 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Reading +17 8 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 23 March 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 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (90.48%) Windows
3 16 (76.19%) Active Directory
4 15 (71.43%) Firewall
5 12 (57.14%) Azure
6 11 (52.38%) VMware
6 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
6 11 (52.38%) Windows Server
7 10 (47.62%) Cisco
7 10 (47.62%) LAN
7 10 (47.62%) WAN
7 10 (47.62%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (42.86%) DNS
8 9 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (38.10%) vCenter Server
9 8 (38.10%) Customer Service
9 8 (38.10%) DHCP
9 8 (38.10%) Linux
9 8 (38.10%) WSUS
9 8 (38.10%) Change Control
10 6 (28.57%) AWS
10 6 (28.57%) Ubuntu
11 5 (23.81%) CentOS
11 5 (23.81%) pfSense
12 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
12 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
13 3 (14.29%) Debian
13 3 (14.29%) Mac OS
13 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (14.29%) Data Centre

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 2 (9.52%) CloudStack
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
2 10 (47.62%) LAN
2 10 (47.62%) WAN
3 9 (42.86%) DNS
4 8 (38.10%) DHCP
5 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.76%) SAN
5 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.76%) SSL
5 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.76%) VPN
5 1 (4.76%) VSAN
5 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Back Office
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.76%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 19 (90.48%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) Windows Server
3 8 (38.10%) Linux
4 6 (28.57%) Ubuntu
5 5 (23.81%) CentOS
6 3 (14.29%) Debian
6 3 (14.29%) Mac OS
7 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
7 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Change Control
2 8 (38.10%) Customer Service
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (9.52%) Project Management
5 1 (4.76%) Agile
5 1 (4.76%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.76%) Change Management
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security
5 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.76%) Key Management
5 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (4.76%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.76%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) MCSA
2 1 (4.76%) MCSE
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Active Directory
2 10 (47.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (23.81%) pfSense
5 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
6 1 (4.76%) Docker
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) vCenter Server
1 8 (38.10%) WSUS
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Nessus
4 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
4 1 (4.76%) vRealize
4 1 (4.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) VMware
2 10 (47.62%) Cisco
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) Juniper
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) Dell