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 17 January 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 81 177
Rank change year-on-year -15 +96 -37
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 90 140 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.64% 3.13% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.06% 3.28% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 55 122 60
10th Percentile £36,875 £37,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,625 £41,670 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £59,900 £67,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,654
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.29% +1.31%

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 2,941 4,272 5,381
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.35% 95.49% 93.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,458 2,883 3,239
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,911 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,009 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +8 45 £50,000 +10.87% 3
Berkshire -2 33 £47,500 -9.52% 5
Oxfordshire -19 12 £60,000 +17.07% 1
Infrastructure Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 January 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 90 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (71.11%) Windows
3 51 (56.67%) Linux
4 48 (53.33%) VMware
5 36 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 36 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 32 (35.56%) Windows Server
7 30 (33.33%) Microsoft
8 24 (26.67%) Azure
9 22 (24.44%) Active Directory
10 20 (22.22%) DNS
10 20 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (21.11%) Terraform
11 19 (21.11%) Firewall
12 18 (20.00%) ITIL
12 18 (20.00%) Data Centre
13 17 (18.89%) VMware ESXi
13 17 (18.89%) LAN
13 17 (18.89%) WAN
14 16 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
15 15 (16.67%) Change Management
15 15 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (15.56%) HP
17 13 (14.44%) CheckPoint
17 13 (14.44%) TCP/IP
17 13 (14.44%) Information Security
17 13 (14.44%) Network Security
17 13 (14.44%) Palo Alto
17 13 (14.44%) Self-Motivation

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 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.33%) CloudStack
2 3 (3.33%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) Azure
2 12 (13.33%) AWS
3 9 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.11%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.11%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.11%) Serverless
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.22%) DNS
2 19 (21.11%) Firewall
3 17 (18.89%) LAN
3 17 (18.89%) WAN
4 13 (14.44%) Network Security
4 13 (14.44%) TCP/IP
4 13 (14.44%) VSAN
5 11 (12.22%) HTTP
5 11 (12.22%) SMTP
6 9 (10.00%) 5G
6 9 (10.00%) Bluetooth
6 9 (10.00%) LTE
6 9 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (8.89%) DHCP
8 5 (5.56%) iSCSI
8 5 (5.56%) VoIP
9 3 (3.33%) VPN
10 2 (2.22%) SAN
11 1 (1.11%) SSL
11 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (10.00%) Electronics
3 9 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.11%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (14.44%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (10.00%) IoT
3 9 (10.00%) NB-IoT
4 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.33%) EMC VNX
5 3 (3.33%) Replication
6 2 (2.22%) Clustering
6 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.11%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (71.11%) Windows
2 51 (56.67%) Linux
3 32 (35.56%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.78%) Ubuntu
5 6 (6.67%) CentOS
6 3 (3.33%) Debian
6 3 (3.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.22%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (20.00%) ITIL
4 16 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (16.67%) Change Management
6 13 (14.44%) Information Security
7 9 (10.00%) Asset Management
7 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
7 9 (10.00%) Project Planning
7 9 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 9 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 7 (7.78%) Change Control
8 7 (7.78%) Customer Service
9 6 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 6 (6.67%) Project Management
10 4 (4.44%) Mentoring
10 4 (4.44%) Service Management
11 3 (3.33%) Business Continuity
11 3 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.22%) PowerShell
2 10 (11.11%) Python
3 9 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) Degree
3 10 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
4 9 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CCNA
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 36 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (24.44%) Active Directory
3 17 (18.89%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (12.22%) vSphere
5 8 (8.89%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (6.67%) pfSense
7 3 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.11%) Docker
8 1 (1.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Terraform
2 11 (12.22%) Ansible
3 10 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 9 (10.00%) Puppet
5 7 (7.78%) WSUS
6 3 (3.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.33%) Nagios
6 3 (3.33%) SCCM
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.11%) Nessus
8 1 (1.11%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 48 (53.33%) VMware
2 30 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 14 (15.56%) HP
4 13 (14.44%) CheckPoint
4 13 (14.44%) Palo Alto
5 11 (12.22%) Cisco
6 9 (10.00%) Forcepoint
7 4 (4.44%) Veeam
8 3 (3.33%) Brocade
8 3 (3.33%) EMC
8 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.11%) Citrix
9 1 (1.11%) Juniper
9 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow