Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 77 64
Rank change year-on-year -53 -13 +90
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 46 223 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.48% 3.33% 4.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 3.91% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 30 202 83
10th Percentile £40,750 £36,313 £35,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,275 £60,000
90th Percentile £86,350 £60,000 £68,950
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £49,625
% change year-on-year -10.00% +0.76% +4.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,902 5,700 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.07% 85.11% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 3,989 3,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,587 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,688 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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 +5 22 £50,000 +17.65% 5
Berkshire -27 17 £50,000 -4.85% 21
Oxfordshire -18 7 £45,000 - 11
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
3 1 (2.17%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) SAP Business One
2 1 (2.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (41.30%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) AWS
3 11 (23.91%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.70%) AWS KMS
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.70%) Serverless
4 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.52%) IaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.78%) Firewall
2 12 (26.09%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (19.57%) 5G
3 9 (19.57%) Bluetooth
3 9 (19.57%) LTE
3 9 (19.57%) WAN
4 8 (17.39%) DNS
5 7 (15.22%) LAN
6 6 (13.04%) DHCP
6 6 (13.04%) Network Security
7 4 (8.70%) SSL
8 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
8 3 (6.52%) VPN
9 2 (4.35%) SAN
10 1 (2.17%) DMZ
10 1 (2.17%) DWDM
10 1 (2.17%) Internet
10 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (2.17%) MPLS
10 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (19.57%) Electronics
4 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Back Office
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (63.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (32.61%) Lead
3 10 (21.74%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Security Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Systems Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) .NET
1 2 (4.35%) SAML
2 1 (2.17%) JSON
2 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) IoT
1 9 (19.57%) NB-IoT
2 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.70%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) PKI
3 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (69.57%) Windows
2 25 (54.35%) Windows Server
3 21 (45.65%) Linux
4 6 (13.04%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.17%) CentOS
6 1 (2.17%) Debian
6 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (19.57%) Asset Management
2 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (19.57%) Penetration Testing
2 9 (19.57%) Project Planning
2 9 (19.57%) Software Testing
2 9 (19.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
3 7 (15.22%) Data Protection
3 7 (15.22%) DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) Agile
4 6 (13.04%) Customer Service
4 6 (13.04%) Patch Management
4 6 (13.04%) Project Management
5 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
5 5 (10.87%) Resource Allocation
6 4 (8.70%) Budgeting
6 4 (8.70%) Key Management
6 4 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (8.70%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) Python
2 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
3 9 (19.57%) Bash
4 4 (8.70%) C#
4 4 (8.70%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Degree
2 10 (21.74%) Network+ Certification
3 9 (19.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (10.87%) MCSA
5 5 (10.87%) MCSE
5 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
6 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (6.52%) CCNA
7 3 (6.52%) CCNP
7 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
7 3 (6.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
8 2 (4.35%) CISSP
9 1 (2.17%) CCIE
9 1 (2.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) SLA
2 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (23.91%) vSphere
4 8 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (13.04%) Docker
6 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
7 4 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
9 1 (2.17%) pfSense
9 1 (2.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Terraform
2 14 (30.43%) Ansible
3 9 (19.57%) Puppet
4 4 (8.70%) Nessus
4 4 (8.70%) Proxmox
4 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
4 4 (8.70%) WSUS
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.35%) ZENworks
6 1 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.17%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.17%) vRealize
6 1 (2.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 24 (52.17%) VMware
3 7 (15.22%) Cisco
4 5 (10.87%) Juniper
5 4 (8.70%) SAP
5 4 (8.70%) Veeam
6 2 (4.35%) Meraki
7 1 (2.17%) Dell
7 1 (2.17%) HP