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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 8 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 80 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 11.38% 11.96% 6.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.59% 12.36% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 34 8 9
10th Percentile £40,000 - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +100.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile - - £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 - £65,600
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £44,036
% change year-on-year -18.75% +81.67% -21.36%

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 690 89 261
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.15% 96.74% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 361 58 145
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -6.82% -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £68,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 80 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (38.75%) Security Cleared
3 28 (35.00%) Linux
4 24 (30.00%) Ansible
4 24 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (30.00%) Kubernetes
5 22 (27.50%) Terraform
6 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
6 21 (26.25%) Python
7 20 (25.00%) Agile
7 20 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 17 (21.25%) Bash
9 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (20.00%) Docker
10 15 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (17.50%) AWS
12 13 (16.25%) Grafana
13 12 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
13 12 (15.00%) Git
14 10 (12.50%) Azure
14 10 (12.50%) DevOps
14 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (12.50%) GitLab
14 10 (12.50%) High Availability
14 10 (12.50%) OpenShift
14 10 (12.50%) Windows
15 9 (11.25%) DV Cleared
15 9 (11.25%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Automation
15 9 (11.25%) Jenkins

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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.00%) Apache
2 4 (5.00%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.75%) Confluence
4 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.50%) AWS
2 10 (12.50%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 8 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (5.00%) OCI
5 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) DNS
1 4 (5.00%) Firewall
1 4 (5.00%) LAN
1 4 (5.00%) WAN
2 2 (2.50%) DHCP
2 2 (2.50%) NAS
2 2 (2.50%) SAN
2 2 (2.50%) VPN
2 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Git
2 10 (12.50%) GitLab
3 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.50%) Cypress.io
4 6 (7.50%) Robot Framework
4 6 (7.50%) Selenium
4 6 (7.50%) TestRail
5 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 20 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) Terraform
2 9 (11.25%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (7.50%) Playwright
3 6 (7.50%) pytest
4 2 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.00%) Replication
4 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (35.00%) Linux
2 10 (12.50%) Windows
3 6 (7.50%) CentOS
4 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.75%) Unix
6 2 (2.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
4 20 (25.00%) Agile
4 20 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (12.50%) DevOps
8 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (12.50%) High Availability
9 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
10 8 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (10.00%) Project Delivery
11 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (7.50%) Dashboard Development
12 6 (7.50%) Software Testing
12 6 (7.50%) Test Management
13 5 (6.25%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Python
2 17 (21.25%) Bash
3 6 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) DV Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Docker
2 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (30.00%) Ansible
1 24 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.25%) Grafana
3 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
3 7 (8.75%) vCenter Server
4 6 (7.50%) Kibana
4 6 (7.50%) logstash
4 6 (7.50%) Puppet
5 4 (5.00%) Argo
5 4 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (5.00%) Istio
5 4 (5.00%) linkerd
5 4 (5.00%) Mesos
6 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
1 9 (11.25%) VMware
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) Atlassian
3 6 (7.50%) Splunk
4 4 (5.00%) Oracle
5 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.50%) Veeam
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco
6 1 (1.25%) Dell