Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Gloucester is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 13 0 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 5.35% - 11.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.63% - 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 18
10th Percentile - - £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 - £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.76%
75th Percentile £42,500 - £51,875
90th Percentile - - £60,075
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

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 231 90 385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 97.83% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 132 68 239
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,425 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,875 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +22.45% -5.77%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,250 £67,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -9.09%

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

For the 6 months to 29 March 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 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
3 7 (53.85%) Linux
4 6 (46.15%) Ansible
4 6 (46.15%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
4 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
4 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
4 6 (46.15%) VMware
4 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (38.46%) Agile
5 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 5 (38.46%) Docker
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (38.46%) Terraform
6 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
6 4 (30.77%) AWS
6 4 (30.77%) Azure
6 4 (30.77%) Firewall
6 4 (30.77%) GitLab
6 4 (30.77%) LAN
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 4 (30.77%) Python
6 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
6 4 (30.77%) vCenter Server
6 4 (30.77%) VPN
6 4 (30.77%) WAN
6 4 (30.77%) Windows
7 3 (23.08%) Bash
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement

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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) LAN
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) NAS
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Robot Framework
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 2 (15.38%) TestRail
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (15.38%) Playwright
1 2 (15.38%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) CentOS
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Collaborative Culture
2 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Patch Management
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (15.38%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (15.38%) Network Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (15.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (38.46%) Docker
3 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
4 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
3 4 (30.77%) vCenter Server
4 3 (23.08%) Grafana
5 2 (15.38%) Kibana
5 2 (15.38%) logstash
6 1 (7.69%) Argo
6 1 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (7.69%) Istio
6 1 (7.69%) linkerd
6 1 (7.69%) Mesos
6 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Dell