Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Gloucester is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 7 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 79 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 10.23% 12.22% 4.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.48% 12.64% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 34 8 6
10th Percentile £40,000 - £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +72.97% -14.35%
75th Percentile - - £61,813
90th Percentile £75,000 - £67,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +77.78% -19.64%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Gloucester with a recognized job title 754 87 219
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.67% 96.67% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 373 59 111
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £72,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year +23.81% -0.10% -4.45%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucester

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucester over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 11 October 2026, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucester region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (36.71%) Security Cleared
3 22 (27.85%) Ansible
3 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (27.85%) Kubernetes
3 22 (27.85%) Python
4 20 (25.32%) Linux
4 20 (25.32%) Terraform
5 19 (24.05%) Containerisation
6 18 (22.78%) Agile
6 18 (22.78%) Bash
6 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
7 13 (16.46%) AWS
7 13 (16.46%) Collaborative Working
7 13 (16.46%) Docker
7 13 (16.46%) Grafana
8 12 (15.19%) Collaborative Culture
8 12 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (15.19%) Git
9 11 (13.92%) OpenShift
10 10 (12.66%) GitLab
10 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
11 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (11.39%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (11.39%) High Availability
11 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
11 9 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (11.39%) Test Automation
12 8 (10.13%) DevOps

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 5 (6.33%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.06%) Apache
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.46%) AWS
2 11 (13.92%) OpenShift
3 7 (8.86%) Azure
3 7 (8.86%) GCP
4 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (5.06%) OCI
5 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) DHCP
1 2 (2.53%) DNS
1 2 (2.53%) Firewall
1 2 (2.53%) LAN
1 2 (2.53%) NAS
1 2 (2.53%) SAN
1 2 (2.53%) VPN
1 2 (2.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Git
2 10 (12.66%) GitLab
3 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.59%) Cypress.io
4 6 (7.59%) Robot Framework
4 6 (7.59%) Selenium
4 6 (7.59%) TestRail
5 1 (1.27%) JIRA
General
1 21 (26.58%) Finance
2 6 (7.59%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.06%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.32%) Terraform
2 9 (11.39%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (7.59%) Playwright
3 6 (7.59%) pytest
4 2 (2.53%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.53%) Replication
4 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.32%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Windows
3 6 (7.59%) CentOS
4 3 (3.80%) Unix
5 2 (2.53%) Rocky
5 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (24.05%) Containerisation
4 18 (22.78%) Agile
4 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.46%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (15.19%) Collaborative Culture
6 12 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (11.39%) High Availability
7 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (11.39%) Test Automation
8 8 (10.13%) DevOps
9 6 (7.59%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (7.59%) Project Delivery
9 6 (7.59%) Software Testing
9 6 (7.59%) Test Management
10 5 (6.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.85%) Python
2 18 (22.78%) Bash
3 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (36.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) QA
System Software
1 13 (16.46%) Docker
2 7 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (27.85%) Ansible
1 22 (27.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.46%) Grafana
3 7 (8.86%) Prometheus
3 7 (8.86%) vCenter Server
4 6 (7.59%) Kibana
4 6 (7.59%) logstash
5 5 (6.33%) Puppet
6 4 (5.06%) Argo
6 4 (5.06%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (5.06%) Istio
6 4 (5.06%) linkerd
6 4 (5.06%) Mesos
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) Red Hat
2 7 (8.86%) VMware
3 6 (7.59%) Atlassian
3 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.59%) Splunk
4 4 (5.06%) Oracle