Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Cardiff is £51,398 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 39 65
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 6 25 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.19% 3.73% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.24% 3.97% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 0
10th Percentile £46,860 - -
25th Percentile £47,535 £37,101 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,398 £42,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.94% - -
75th Percentile £57,068 £50,766 -
90th Percentile £58,827 £62,500 -
South Wales median annual salary £51,699 £41,067 £40,000
% change year-on-year +25.89% +2.67% -5.60%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 185 630 504
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.40% 93.89% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 133 547 389
10th Percentile £24,600 £27,157 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,383 £67,070
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £48,500 £46,099 £45,498
% change year-on-year +5.21% +1.32% -9.00%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 Cardiff region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Local Government
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Business Development
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) NHS
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (50.00%) Line Management
3 3 (50.00%) Due Diligence
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) OLE

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Local Government
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Business Development
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Due Diligence
3 3 (50.00%) Line Management
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform