Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 163 80
Rank change year-on-year +84 -83 -11
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 154 40 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.03% 1.06% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 1.17% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 118 29 89
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,625 £39,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £51,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,875 £63,000 £60,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +31.87% -9.00% -

All Process & 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 5,433 3,418 3,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.49% 90.26% 83.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,873 1,484 1,817
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

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 15 October 2026. 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
Oxfordshire +11 57 £55,000 +26.44% 31
Berkshire +45 53 £52,500 +61.54% 24
Buckinghamshire +20 44 £62,500 +31.58% 24
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (16.88%) SharePoint
2 20 (12.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.25%) Apache
3 5 (3.25%) nginx
4 4 (2.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 66 (42.86%) Azure
2 48 (31.17%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (22.08%) Entra ID
4 21 (13.64%) AWS
5 12 (7.79%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (5.84%) IaaS
7 8 (5.19%) Cloudflare
7 8 (5.19%) Google Workspace
8 5 (3.25%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.60%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.95%) Datadog
10 3 (1.95%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.30%) PaaS
12 1 (0.65%) GCP
12 1 (0.65%) GitHub
12 1 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.65%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 41 (26.62%) Firewall
2 39 (25.32%) DNS
3 34 (22.08%) DHCP
4 32 (20.78%) VPN
5 20 (12.99%) VLAN
6 19 (12.34%) TCP/IP
7 10 (6.49%) WAN
8 9 (5.84%) LAN
8 9 (5.84%) Wireless
9 7 (4.55%) Network Security
10 5 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.60%) SSL
12 1 (0.65%) IPv4
12 1 (0.65%) IPv6
12 1 (0.65%) NAS
12 1 (0.65%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.65%) SAN
12 1 (0.65%) SSH
12 1 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.60%) JIRA
General
1 22 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.79%) Retail
3 11 (7.14%) Finance
4 9 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.84%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.60%) Law
6 4 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.95%) Legal
8 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.30%) Police
9 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 128 (83.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (25.97%) Senior
3 28 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (16.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (16.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (11.69%) Support Engineer
6 17 (11.04%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (11.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
7 14 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 14 (9.09%) IT Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) IT Support
8 11 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Network Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) Security Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.90%) Terraform
3 2 (1.30%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.04%) Onboarding
2 12 (7.79%) PKI
3 8 (5.19%) Replication
4 5 (3.25%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.30%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.65%) Robotics
6 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (42.86%) Windows
2 40 (25.97%) Linux
3 28 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.19%) Rocky
4 8 (5.19%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.60%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (11.69%) DevOps
3 18 (11.69%) High Availability
4 17 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 17 (11.04%) ITIL
4 17 (11.04%) Zero Trust
5 14 (9.09%) Migration
5 14 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (8.44%) Customer Service
7 11 (7.14%) Business Continuity
7 11 (7.14%) SIEM
8 10 (6.49%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (6.49%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (6.49%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 9 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (5.84%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (5.84%) Project Delivery
9 9 (5.84%) Vulnerability Management
10 8 (5.19%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.22%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.14%) Bash
3 9 (5.84%) Python
4 7 (4.55%) Go
5 5 (3.25%) Bicep
6 2 (1.30%) SQL
7 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.25%) Degree
6 5 (3.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.60%) CCNA
7 4 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CCA
8 1 (0.65%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.65%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 45 (29.22%) Active Directory
2 29 (18.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.39%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.19%) KVM
5 7 (4.55%) Docker
6 5 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.25%) vSphere
7 2 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.65%) Firmware
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (18.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.84%) Proxmox
4 8 (5.19%) Graylog
4 8 (5.19%) ZABBIX
5 5 (3.25%) HAProxy
5 5 (3.25%) SCCM
6 3 (1.95%) Ansible
6 3 (1.95%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.65%) Grafana
Vendors
1 72 (46.75%) Microsoft
2 41 (26.62%) VMware
3 22 (14.29%) Veeam
4 8 (5.19%) Dell
4 8 (5.19%) Google
5 7 (4.55%) Oracle
6 5 (3.25%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.60%) IBM
8 3 (1.95%) Cisco
8 3 (1.95%) Juniper
8 3 (1.95%) Meraki
9 2 (1.30%) Brocade
9 2 (1.30%) Citrix
9 2 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.30%) Ruckus Wireless
10 1 (0.65%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (0.65%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.65%) NetApp
10 1 (0.65%) NETGEAR
10 1 (0.65%) SonicWALL