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 leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 88 164
Rank change year-on-year -52 +76 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 30 181 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.98% 2.69% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 2.84% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17 169 70
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,875 £35,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,275 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,000 £59,150 £67,500
South East median annual salary £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,511 6,377 5,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.90% 94.70% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 4,541 3,210
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 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
Buckinghamshire +6 14 £55,000 +29.41% 5
Berkshire -19 11 £50,000 -4.85% 12
Oxfordshire -10 5 £45,000 - 6
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Thames Valley region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (96.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (76.67%) Windows
3 20 (66.67%) VMware
4 19 (63.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (63.33%) Microsoft
5 18 (60.00%) Linux
5 18 (60.00%) Windows Server
6 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
7 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
8 13 (43.33%) Terraform
9 12 (40.00%) Ansible
9 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
9 12 (40.00%) Azure
10 11 (36.67%) Firewall
10 11 (36.67%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (36.67%) Python
10 11 (36.67%) vSphere
11 10 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
12 9 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (30.00%) NB-IoT
12 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (30.00%) Asset Management
12 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
12 9 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
12 9 (30.00%) Project Planning
12 9 (30.00%) Degree
12 9 (30.00%) LTE
12 9 (30.00%) Bluetooth
12 9 (30.00%) Electronics
12 9 (30.00%) Bash

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 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.67%) AWS KMS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Serverless
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) Firewall
1 11 (36.67%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (30.00%) 5G
2 9 (30.00%) Bluetooth
2 9 (30.00%) LTE
3 8 (26.67%) WAN
4 7 (23.33%) DNS
5 6 (20.00%) LAN
6 5 (16.67%) DHCP
7 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
7 2 (6.67%) SSL
8 1 (3.33%) VPN
8 1 (3.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Electronics
2 9 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.33%) Back Office
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) JSON
1 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) IoT
1 9 (30.00%) NB-IoT
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (76.67%) Windows
2 18 (60.00%) Linux
2 18 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.33%) CentOS
5 1 (3.33%) Debian
5 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (96.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (30.00%) Asset Management
2 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
2 9 (30.00%) Project Planning
2 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.33%) Change Control
4 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (13.33%) Patch Management
5 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.00%) DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security
6 2 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (6.67%) Key Management
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (6.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (36.67%) Python
3 9 (30.00%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
2 9 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 9 (30.00%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) MCSA
5 1 (3.33%) MCSE
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
3 11 (36.67%) vSphere
4 6 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (10.00%) Docker
5 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.33%) pfSense
7 1 (3.33%) Squid
7 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Terraform
2 12 (40.00%) Ansible
3 9 (30.00%) Puppet
4 4 (13.33%) vCenter Server
4 4 (13.33%) WSUS
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.67%) Nessus
5 2 (6.67%) Proxmox
5 2 (6.67%) ZENworks
6 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.33%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.33%) PowerCLI
6 1 (3.33%) vRealize
6 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) VMware
2 19 (63.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) Juniper
5 2 (6.67%) Meraki
5 2 (6.67%) Veeam
6 1 (3.33%) Dell
6 1 (3.33%) HP