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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 25 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 +16
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 6 10 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 3.14% 7.25% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 7.81% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 18
10th Percentile £39,700 £50,625 £47,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £57,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +29.55% +18.28%
75th Percentile £64,375 £82,188 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,500 £86,875 £66,010
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 134 128 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 70.16% 92.75% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 98 63 250
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £31,463
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,000 £83,875
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 25 January 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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Electronics
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam