Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 155 170
Rank change year-on-year +66 +15 -46
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 172 103 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.56% 1.71% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 1.90% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 162 68 90
10th Percentile £36,875 £35,400 £33,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,485
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £56,275 £58,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £59,975 £67,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,367 5,409 6,712
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 89.81% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,460 3,165 4,147
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +49 72 £52,550 -4.45% 6
Oxfordshire +47 55 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Buckinghamshire -9 45 £42,500 -15.00% 3
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 169 (98.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 90 (52.33%) Windows
3 79 (45.93%) Microsoft
4 72 (41.86%) VMware
5 66 (38.37%) Active Directory
6 65 (37.79%) Azure
7 61 (35.47%) Linux
8 50 (29.07%) Windows Server
9 43 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 42 (24.42%) VMware Infrastructure
11 40 (23.26%) Microsoft 365
12 39 (22.67%) Firewall
13 38 (22.09%) SCCM
13 38 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (21.51%) PowerShell
14 37 (21.51%) DNS
15 36 (20.93%) Windows Server 2019
16 34 (19.77%) Cisco
17 33 (19.19%) Windows Server 2016
18 32 (18.60%) Degree
19 30 (17.44%) ITIL
19 30 (17.44%) Windows Server 2012
20 28 (16.28%) Data Centre
21 27 (15.70%) Windows 10
21 27 (15.70%) Veeam
21 27 (15.70%) Social Skills
22 26 (15.12%) SC Cleared
23 23 (13.37%) DV Cleared
23 23 (13.37%) Cybersecurity
24 22 (12.79%) Palo Alto

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 18 (10.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.33%) IIS
3 4 (2.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (37.79%) Azure
2 40 (23.26%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.56%) OCI
4 10 (5.81%) AWS
5 8 (4.65%) OneDrive
6 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.91%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (2.91%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.33%) SaaS
8 3 (1.74%) IaaS
8 3 (1.74%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.16%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.58%) PaaS
10 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (22.67%) Firewall
2 37 (21.51%) DNS
3 22 (12.79%) SAN
4 20 (11.63%) DHCP
5 16 (9.30%) Wireless
6 14 (8.14%) TCP/IP
7 13 (7.56%) WAN
8 11 (6.40%) LAN
9 10 (5.81%) HTTP
9 10 (5.81%) SMTP
10 8 (4.65%) BGP
10 8 (4.65%) OSPF
10 8 (4.65%) VPN
11 7 (4.07%) MPLS
11 7 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (3.49%) NAS
12 6 (3.49%) VLAN
13 4 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (2.33%) iSCSI
13 4 (2.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.74%) MySQL
3 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Git
1 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (15.70%) Social Skills
2 4 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (2.33%) Law
3 3 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (1.74%) Retail
4 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.58%) Legal
5 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.81%) Web Services
2 4 (2.33%) LAMP
3 2 (1.16%) JSON
4 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.28%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.49%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (2.33%) Replication
4 3 (1.74%) EMC VNX
4 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.16%) PKI
5 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (52.33%) Windows
2 61 (35.47%) Linux
3 50 (29.07%) Windows Server
4 36 (20.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 33 (19.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (17.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 27 (15.70%) Windows 10
8 12 (6.98%) Windows XP
9 11 (6.40%) Windows 7
10 7 (4.07%) Ubuntu
11 6 (3.49%) VMS
12 4 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (1.74%) CentOS
13 3 (1.74%) Rocky
13 3 (1.74%) Windows NT
14 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (98.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (17.44%) ITIL
4 23 (13.37%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (12.21%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (9.30%) Server Management
6 16 (9.30%) Storage Management
7 14 (8.14%) Change Management
7 14 (8.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 14 (8.14%) Decision-Making
8 13 (7.56%) Proactive Monitoring
8 13 (7.56%) Project Management
9 12 (6.98%) Break/Fix
9 12 (6.98%) Converged Infrastructure
9 12 (6.98%) Performance Monitoring
9 12 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (6.98%) Problem Management
10 11 (6.40%) Roadmaps
11 10 (5.81%) Business Continuity
11 10 (5.81%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (21.51%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.07%) SQL
3 2 (1.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.60%) Degree
3 26 (15.12%) SC Cleared
4 23 (13.37%) DV Cleared
5 18 (10.47%) CCNA
5 18 (10.47%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (6.98%) CCNP
7 11 (6.40%) HNC
8 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (1.16%) ISO 9001
1 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.16%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 66 (38.37%) Active Directory
2 42 (24.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (11.63%) Hyper-V
4 17 (9.88%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (6.98%) Docker
6 7 (4.07%) vSphere
7 3 (1.74%) Firmware
8 2 (1.16%) KVM
8 2 (1.16%) QEMU
8 2 (1.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 38 (22.09%) SCCM
2 18 (10.47%) WSUS
3 17 (9.88%) vCenter Server
4 15 (8.72%) EMC NetWorker
5 13 (7.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (6.98%) NetBackup
6 12 (6.98%) SCOM
7 11 (6.40%) Kubernetes
8 6 (3.49%) Ansible
9 5 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.74%) Sysprep
11 2 (1.16%) Grafana
11 2 (1.16%) Nagios
11 2 (1.16%) Nessus
11 2 (1.16%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (1.16%) Terraform
12 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 79 (45.93%) Microsoft
2 72 (41.86%) VMware
3 34 (19.77%) Cisco
4 27 (15.70%) Veeam
5 22 (12.79%) Palo Alto
6 18 (10.47%) Extreme Networks
7 17 (9.88%) Aruba
7 17 (9.88%) Dell
8 16 (9.30%) EMC
8 16 (9.30%) HP
8 16 (9.30%) Oracle
9 14 (8.14%) Juniper
10 12 (6.98%) 3PAR
10 12 (6.98%) Symantec
11 6 (3.49%) Citrix
11 6 (3.49%) Infoblox
12 4 (2.33%) ProCurve
12 4 (2.33%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.33%) Synology
12 4 (2.33%) Zerto