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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 25 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 63 1 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 7.52% 0.74% 9.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.22% 0.87% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 47 1 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,500 £80,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -24.38% +77.78% -19.64%

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 683 115 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 81.50% 85.19% 92.74%
Number of salaries quoted 478 72 203
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -8.70%

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 8 August 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 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) AWS
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.52%) Azure
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.59%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.59%) Route 53
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) Firewall
1 8 (12.70%) LAN
1 8 (12.70%) VLAN
1 8 (12.70%) WAN
2 7 (11.11%) Unified Communications
2 7 (11.11%) WebEx
3 6 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (9.52%) DHCP
3 6 (9.52%) DNS
4 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.76%) VPN
6 1 (1.59%) BGP
6 1 (1.59%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.59%) MPLS
6 1 (1.59%) Network Security
6 1 (1.59%) OSPF
6 1 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 6 (9.52%) Banking
1 6 (9.52%) Marketing
1 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
1 6 (9.52%) Retail
1 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.17%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (73.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (15.87%) Senior
2 10 (15.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Collaboration Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) IT Engineer
7 1 (1.59%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.59%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.11%) FlexPod
2 7 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 7 (11.11%) Replication
2 7 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (34.92%) Linux
2 11 (17.46%) Windows
3 7 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Infrastructure Automation
2 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (15.87%) Project Delivery
4 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (9.52%) Cloud Operations
4 6 (9.52%) Data Management
4 6 (9.52%) Performance Management
5 5 (7.94%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (4.76%) DevOps
6 3 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (3.17%) CI/CD
7 2 (3.17%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (3.17%) High Availability
7 2 (3.17%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (1.59%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (1.59%) Network Virtualisation
8 1 (1.59%) Presales
8 1 (1.59%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) Python
2 6 (9.52%) Bash
2 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.59%) Go
3 1 (1.59%) Java
3 1 (1.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 21 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 16 (25.40%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.11%) vSphere
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (4.76%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.59%) KVM
6 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (25.40%) Terraform
2 13 (20.63%) Ansible
3 7 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
3 7 (11.11%) Grafana
4 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.17%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.59%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.59%) Puppet
6 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) VMware
2 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.87%) Cisco
4 8 (12.70%) Fortinet
5 7 (11.11%) NetApp
5 7 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 7 (11.11%) Splunk
6 3 (4.76%) Juniper
7 2 (3.17%) Dell
7 2 (3.17%) HP
7 2 (3.17%) Veeam
8 1 (1.59%) Arista
8 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds