IT Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Exeter

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Devon > Exeter

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in Exeter is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 0.61% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median annual salary £31,000 £41,206 £34,854
% change year-on-year -24.77% +18.22% -5.16%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Exeter

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Exeter. 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 Exeter with a recognized job title 157 317 166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 96.35% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 133 255 126
10th Percentile £27,050 £27,759 £25,685
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £32,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.18% +11.14%
75th Percentile £46,500 £50,000 £60,756
90th Percentile £60,000 £60,750 £70,000
Devon median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% -1.10%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in Exeter

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Exeter

Salary distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Exeter.

Salary distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Exeter

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 Exeter region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware