Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Reading

Infrastructure Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Reading is £41,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 70 111
Rank change year-on-year +12 +41 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 4 45 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.78% 2.62% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 2.76% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2 43 10
10th Percentile £36,875 - £32,375
25th Percentile £37,813 £48,825 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -5.98% +46.25%
75th Percentile £45,313 £59,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £46,625 £60,000 £69,850
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,550 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.85% -4.45% -21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 424 1,628 1,467
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.81% 94.82% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 235 1,026 781
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,188 £76,250
90th Percentile £94,500 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £57,750
% change year-on-year +9.52% -9.09% +0.43%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Reading

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Reading region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Nessus
3 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) SSL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (50.00%) Key Management
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Key Management
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) MCSA
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
1 2 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (25.00%) vRealize
2 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) VMware