Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineering
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 39 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 +19
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 13 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 3.66% 2.83% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 3.50% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile £54,625 - £32,511
25th Percentile - £43,449 £34,843
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -5.06%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £40,500
90th Percentile £56,907 £61,925 £51,450
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +34.21% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 286 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 71.83% 81.02% 90.43%
Number of salaries quoted 176 177 305
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,122 £67,375
90th Percentile £78,551 £79,600 £73,750
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +0.22%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cardiff over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Cardiff

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Datadog
2 1 (7.69%) dbt
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 1 (7.69%) JMeter
1 1 (7.69%) Locust
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (7.69%) FinOps
3 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (7.69%) Observability
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) RBAC
3 1 (7.69%) Runbook
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Veeam