Senior IT Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Senior IT Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior IT Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 249 269
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 8 9 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.15% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.16% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £34,250 £31,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +25.00% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69,375 - £63,750
90th Percentile £69,750 £53,750 £66,000
South East median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,373 5,528 6,493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.94% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,571 3,223 4,190
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,725
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Senior IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the Thames Valley

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Senior IT Engineer in the Thames Valley

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the Thames Valley

Senior IT 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 Senior IT Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 -14 4 - -
Berkshire - 3 £58,750 - 1
Oxfordshire -2 1 £32,500 -
Senior IT Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior IT 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 Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Software Distribution
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) Email Management
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (12.50%) Ticket Management
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture

Senior IT 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) Email Management
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Software Distribution
3 1 (12.50%) Ticket Management
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) COBIT
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) NETGEAR
3 1 (12.50%) Ubiquiti