Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 53 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +19
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 22 49 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.64% 5.07% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 5.37% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18 26 33
10th Percentile - £35,000 £36,174
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £48,000 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £51,375 - £63,875
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,107 913 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.55% 94.42% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 657 397 594
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £38,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Milton Keynes -5 18 £45,000 -21.74% 7
High Wycombe -2 2 £51,250 +7.89% 3
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (9.09%) WinCC
2 1 (4.55%) FactoryTalk
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) Firewall
2 7 (31.82%) DNS
3 6 (27.27%) DHCP
3 6 (27.27%) NAS
3 6 (27.27%) SAN
3 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
3 6 (27.27%) VLAN
3 6 (27.27%) Wireless
4 2 (9.09%) Modbus
5 1 (4.55%) LAN
5 1 (4.55%) VPN
5 1 (4.55%) WAN
General
1 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
1 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 2 (9.09%) SCADA
2 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Business Continuity
2 6 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
2 6 (27.27%) High Availability
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 6 (27.27%) Proactive Monitoring
2 6 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
2 6 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Migration
4 2 (9.09%) Presales
5 1 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.55%) Network Architecture
5 1 (4.55%) Network Design
5 1 (4.55%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) MCSE
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) IEC 61508
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Hyper-V
1 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (27.27%) vSphere
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
1 9 (40.91%) VMware
2 6 (27.27%) LogicMonitor
2 6 (27.27%) Palo Alto
3 2 (9.09%) Rockwell
3 2 (9.09%) Siemens