Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Cheltenham

Infrastructure Engineering
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 24 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 33 1 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 5.95% 0.96% 9.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 1.06% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 21 1 21
10th Percentile £50,000 - £33,750
25th Percentile - £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 - £70,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £80,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -31.25% +60.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 448 94 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 80.72% 90.38% 90.85%
Number of salaries quoted 302 53 293
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.50%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Cheltenham

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) Azure
3 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
1 7 (21.21%) LAN
1 7 (21.21%) Unified Communications
1 7 (21.21%) VLAN
1 7 (21.21%) WAN
1 7 (21.21%) WebEx
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (12.12%) DHCP
3 4 (12.12%) DNS
4 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.03%) VPN
General
1 6 (18.18%) Banking
1 6 (18.18%) Marketing
1 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 6 (18.18%) Retail
1 6 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Senior
2 9 (27.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Collaboration Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) IT Support
6 1 (3.03%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) FlexPod
1 7 (21.21%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (21.21%) Onboarding
1 7 (21.21%) Replication
1 7 (21.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Windows
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (18.18%) Data Management
3 6 (18.18%) Performance Management
4 5 (15.15%) Cloud Operations
4 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
5 1 (3.03%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (3.03%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (3.03%) DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (3.03%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (21.21%) vSphere
3 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) Cisco CUCM
2 7 (21.21%) Grafana
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.03%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Cisco
2 8 (24.24%) VMware
3 7 (21.21%) Fortinet
3 7 (21.21%) NetApp
3 7 (21.21%) Palo Alto
3 7 (21.21%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Dell
4 1 (3.03%) HP
4 1 (3.03%) Juniper
4 1 (3.03%) Veeam