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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 -3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 18 5 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 6.74% 5.68% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.57% 6.25% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 17
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £49,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,625 £85,500 £58,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £90,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -38.89% +63.64% -

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 210 80 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 78.65% 90.91% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 153 49 288
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,300 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £92,000 £85,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £54,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.66% +5.20% -9.09%

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 10 March 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DHCP
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
1 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
1 5 (27.78%) VLAN
2 4 (22.22%) LAN
2 4 (22.22%) Unified Communications
2 4 (22.22%) WAN
2 4 (22.22%) WebEx
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
4 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (33.33%) Marketing
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 6 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Electronics
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Collaboration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) FlexPod
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
1 4 (22.22%) Replication
1 4 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) CentOS
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Data Management
5 3 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 3 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 1 (5.56%) Agile
6 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.56%) Converged Infrastructure
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (5.56%) Identity Management
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
6 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Bash
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) DV Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) vSphere
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (22.22%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
3 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
4 4 (22.22%) NetApp
4 4 (22.22%) Splunk
5 3 (16.67%) SAP
6 1 (5.56%) Dell
6 1 (5.56%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) Juniper
6 1 (5.56%) Veeam