Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Gloucester

Infrastructure Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Gloucester is £41,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 31 0 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 10.44% - 10.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.95% - 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 22
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.76%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £50,000
90th Percentile - - £60,225
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -0.90%

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 283 81 444
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.29% 97.59% 96.94%
Number of salaries quoted 149 55 284
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,113
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,875 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,900 £67,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 3 May 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 31 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (74.19%) Linux
3 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
4 12 (38.71%) Ansible
4 12 (38.71%) Kubernetes
5 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
5 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
5 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (35.48%) Terraform
5 11 (35.48%) VMware
5 11 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (32.26%) Docker
7 9 (29.03%) Agile
7 9 (29.03%) Collaborative Culture
7 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
7 9 (29.03%) Windows
8 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
8 8 (25.81%) GitLab
8 8 (25.81%) Python
9 7 (22.58%) AWS
9 7 (22.58%) Azure
9 7 (22.58%) Bash
9 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (22.58%) DevOps
9 7 (22.58%) Firewall
9 7 (22.58%) High Availability
9 7 (22.58%) LAN
9 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
9 7 (22.58%) vCenter Server
9 7 (22.58%) WAN

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 (16.13%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) OpenShift
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Firewall
1 7 (22.58%) LAN
1 7 (22.58%) WAN
2 5 (16.13%) DNS
2 5 (16.13%) VPN
3 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (9.68%) DHCP
4 3 (9.68%) NAS
4 3 (9.68%) SAN
5 2 (6.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) GitLab
2 5 (16.13%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) Cypress.io
3 4 (12.90%) Robot Framework
3 4 (12.90%) Selenium
3 4 (12.90%) TestRail
4 3 (9.68%) JIRA
General
1 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Aerospace
3 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (12.90%) Playwright
2 4 (12.90%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Replication
2 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (74.19%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Windows
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.90%) CentOS
5 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
2 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Collaborative Culture
4 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) High Availability
5 6 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.90%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (12.90%) Patch Management
7 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
7 4 (12.90%) Test Management
8 3 (9.68%) Analytics
8 3 (9.68%) Data Management
8 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (9.68%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) Bash
3 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.45%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (32.26%) Docker
3 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
4 5 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
5 4 (12.90%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Ansible
1 12 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (35.48%) Terraform
3 7 (22.58%) vCenter Server
4 6 (19.35%) Grafana
5 4 (12.90%) Kibana
5 4 (12.90%) logstash
6 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.45%) Puppet
7 1 (3.23%) Argo
7 1 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (3.23%) Istio
7 1 (3.23%) linkerd
7 1 (3.23%) Mesos
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) VMware
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
3 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
4 4 (12.90%) Atlassian
4 4 (12.90%) Splunk
5 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.45%) Veeam
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco
6 1 (3.23%) Dell