IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Watford

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in Watford is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 0.73% - 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile - - £51,000
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £31,833 £51,250
% change year-on-year +72.78% -37.89% +20.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Watford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Watford. 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 Watford with a recognized job title 129 265 339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 92.01% 88.74%
Number of salaries quoted 73 215 211
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,763 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £30,000 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £55,250 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £86,250
Hertfordshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +9.52%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Job postings that featured IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in Watford

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Watford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Infrastructure Engineer in Watford.

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in Watford

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, IT 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 Watford region featuring IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Nimble Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Nimble Storage