IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Dorset

IT Infrastructure Engineer
South West > Dorset

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in Dorset is £40,315 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 90 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 2 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 0.44% 0.93% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.98% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,315 £37,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% - -
South West median annual salary £40,315 £46,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% -7.50% +15.61%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 446 1,119 592
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.67% 94.83% 84.09%
Number of salaries quoted 192 657 376
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £61,313 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £72,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in Dorset

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 7 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
Bournemouth - 1 - -
IT Infrastructure Engineer
South West

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, IT 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 Dorset region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft