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 17 July 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 5 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 3.21% - 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.50% - 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5 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 £58,750 - £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 143 265 262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 92.98% 87.63%
Number of salaries quoted 98 209 198
10th Percentile £32,125 £25,000 £32,475
25th Percentile £38,750 £30,000 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -25.00% +11.63%
75th Percentile £55,188 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 17 July 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (40.00%) Server Building
4 2 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Change Control
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (40.00%) IaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (40.00%) Puppet
4 2 (40.00%) WhatsUp Gold
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (40.00%) IaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) PKI
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Server Building
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (20.00%) SAP