Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in South Wales is £41,067 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 97 75
Rank change year-on-year +32 -22 -16
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 34 9 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.36% 0.78% 3.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.61% 0.87% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 32 5 40
10th Percentile £37,101 - £36,250
25th Percentile £37,400 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £40,000 £42,371
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -5.60% +21.06%
75th Percentile £47,900 £42,500 £46,028
90th Percentile £62,500 - £49,250
Wales median annual salary £41,067 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -11.11% +28.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,303 1,029 1,398
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 89.40% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 862 587 863
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,552 £45,456 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -7.23% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in South Wales

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cardiff +26 25 £42,500 - 3
Bridgend - 5 £40,500 -
Newport +7 4 £40,000 -
Infrastructure Engineer
Wales

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 South Wales region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (94.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (55.88%) SAN
3 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
3 15 (44.12%) Linux
4 13 (38.24%) VMware
4 13 (38.24%) Ansible
5 12 (35.29%) AWS
5 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
6 11 (32.35%) Windows
6 11 (32.35%) Windows Server
7 10 (29.41%) Hyper-V
8 9 (26.47%) Veeam
8 9 (26.47%) Terraform
9 8 (23.53%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (23.53%) Azure
9 8 (23.53%) Migration
10 7 (20.59%) CMDB
10 7 (20.59%) Change Management
10 7 (20.59%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (20.59%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (20.59%) Line Management
10 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
10 7 (20.59%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (20.59%) Slack
11 5 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
11 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
11 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) IIS
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (20.59%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (20.59%) Slack
4 1 (2.94%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (55.88%) SAN
2 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 4 (11.76%) LAN
2 4 (11.76%) VoIP
2 4 (11.76%) WAN
3 3 (8.82%) HTTP
3 3 (8.82%) NAS
3 3 (8.82%) VPN
4 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.94%) DHCP
5 1 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Redis
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Law
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) CMDB
1 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) iPad
3 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.94%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (44.12%) Linux
2 11 (32.35%) Windows
2 11 (32.35%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.94%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (23.53%) Migration
2 8 (23.53%) Proactive Monitoring
2 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.59%) Change Management
3 7 (20.59%) Line Management
3 7 (20.59%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (11.76%) Business Continuity
4 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
4 4 (11.76%) Network Architecture
4 4 (11.76%) Project Management
4 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.82%) Storage Management
6 2 (5.88%) Agile
6 2 (5.88%) Coaching
6 2 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (5.88%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (5.88%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.88%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) A+ Certification
2 4 (11.76%) CCNA
2 4 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Hyper-V
2 7 (20.59%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (11.76%) Firmware
5 3 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Ansible
2 9 (26.47%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) VMware
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (26.47%) Veeam
4 4 (11.76%) Acronis
4 4 (11.76%) Aruba
4 4 (11.76%) Datto
4 4 (11.76%) Mitel
4 4 (11.76%) Sophos
5 3 (8.82%) Oracle
6 2 (5.88%) Cisco
6 2 (5.88%) Meraki
7 1 (2.94%) Dell
7 1 (2.94%) HP
7 1 (2.94%) IBM