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 13 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 54 115
Rank change year-on-year -37 +61 +22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 105 168 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.79% 4.79% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 5.14% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 71 112 102
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,174 £36,275
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £60,000 £59,750 £73,375
South East median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,654
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.29% +1.31%

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 3,384 3,270 5,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.81% 93.32% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 2,145 3,486
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,350 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -0.91% -

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 13 December 2024.

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 13 December 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
Buckinghamshire -30 43 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Berkshire -28 39 £47,500 -9.52% 9
Oxfordshire -6 23 £56,500 +18.95% 6
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 10 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.86%) CloudStack
3 3 (2.86%) IBM Notes
3 3 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.90%) IIS
5 1 (0.95%) Apache
5 1 (0.95%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.24%) Azure
2 19 (18.10%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (17.14%) AWS
4 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.81%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.81%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.90%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.95%) IaaS
9 1 (0.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (23.81%) DNS
2 20 (19.05%) Firewall
3 17 (16.19%) TCP/IP
4 16 (15.24%) LAN
4 16 (15.24%) WAN
5 14 (13.33%) Network Security
6 13 (12.38%) VSAN
7 12 (11.43%) DHCP
7 12 (11.43%) HTTP
7 12 (11.43%) SMTP
8 5 (4.76%) iSCSI
8 5 (4.76%) VoIP
8 5 (4.76%) VPN
9 3 (2.86%) SAN
9 3 (2.86%) Softphone
10 1 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.95%) MPLS
10 1 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.81%) Power BI
3 1 (0.95%) MySQL
3 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
General
1 32 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (2.86%) Finance
4 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.95%) Back Office
5 1 (0.95%) Games
5 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 19 (18.10%) Senior
4 14 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 14 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) IT Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) Network Security Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Senior VoIP Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) VoIP Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) Web Services
2 5 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (0.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 14 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.76%) Replication
4 4 (3.81%) Clustering
5 3 (2.86%) EMC VNX
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.95%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (61.90%) Windows
2 45 (42.86%) Linux
3 31 (29.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.71%) CentOS
4 6 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.86%) Debian
5 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.90%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.90%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.95%) Android
7 1 (0.95%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (19.05%) ITIL
4 16 (15.24%) Change Management
5 13 (12.38%) Information Security
6 10 (9.52%) Customer Service
7 9 (8.57%) CI/CD
8 6 (5.71%) Agile
8 6 (5.71%) Change Control
8 6 (5.71%) Data Protection
8 6 (5.71%) Project Management
9 5 (4.76%) Data Acquisition
9 5 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (4.76%) Service Management
9 5 (4.76%) Software Engineering
10 4 (3.81%) Mentoring
10 4 (3.81%) Server Management
10 4 (3.81%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (2.86%) Contract Negotiation
11 3 (2.86%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.76%) C#
1 5 (4.76%) C++
1 5 (4.76%) Java
1 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
1 5 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (0.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.76%) Degree
3 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.95%) CCNA
4 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) SLA
2 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 30 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (13.33%) Hyper-V
5 9 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (5.71%) pfSense
7 4 (3.81%) Docker
8 3 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.90%) vSphere
10 1 (0.95%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (9.52%) Terraform
2 9 (8.57%) vCenter Server
2 9 (8.57%) WSUS
3 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.76%) SCCM
5 3 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (2.86%) Nagios
6 2 (1.90%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.95%) Ansible
7 1 (0.95%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.95%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.95%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 43 (40.95%) VMware
2 34 (32.38%) Microsoft
3 16 (15.24%) Cisco
4 14 (13.33%) HP
5 13 (12.38%) CheckPoint
5 13 (12.38%) Palo Alto
6 9 (8.57%) Forcepoint
7 8 (7.62%) Veeam
8 3 (2.86%) Brocade
8 3 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.86%) EMC
8 3 (2.86%) IBM
8 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.90%) Apple
9 2 (1.90%) Citrix
10 1 (0.95%) Brio
10 1 (0.95%) Meraki
10 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.95%) Veritas