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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 59 11 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 10.71% 11.22% 9.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.93% 11.58% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 21 8 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +113.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile - - £42,003
90th Percentile £75,000 - £60,050
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 540 95 327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.00% 96.94% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 271 62 199
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,150 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,375 £67,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -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
Salary Histogram in Gloucester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Gloucester over the 6 months to 26 August 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 26 August 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 59 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (44.07%) Security Cleared
3 25 (42.37%) Linux
4 19 (32.20%) Ansible
4 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (32.20%) Kubernetes
5 18 (30.51%) Terraform
6 17 (28.81%) CI/CD
6 17 (28.81%) Containerisation
7 16 (27.12%) Agile
7 16 (27.12%) Python
8 14 (23.73%) Bash
8 14 (23.73%) Collaborative Culture
9 13 (22.03%) Docker
10 12 (20.34%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (18.64%) AWS
11 11 (18.64%) VMware
11 11 (18.64%) VMware Infrastructure
12 10 (16.95%) Grafana
12 10 (16.95%) OpenShift
12 10 (16.95%) Windows
13 9 (15.25%) Azure
13 9 (15.25%) DevOps
13 9 (15.25%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (15.25%) Git
13 9 (15.25%) GitLab
13 9 (15.25%) High Availability
14 8 (13.56%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (13.56%) 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 4 (6.78%) OpenStack
2 3 (5.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.39%) Apache
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) AWS
2 10 (16.95%) OpenShift
3 9 (15.25%) Azure
4 5 (8.47%) GCP
5 4 (6.78%) OCI
6 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
1 6 (10.17%) LAN
1 6 (10.17%) WAN
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) VPN
2 4 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.39%) DHCP
3 2 (3.39%) NAS
3 2 (3.39%) Network Security
3 2 (3.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Git
1 9 (15.25%) GitLab
2 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) Cypress.io
3 6 (10.17%) Robot Framework
3 6 (10.17%) Selenium
3 6 (10.17%) TestRail
4 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 15 (25.42%) Finance
2 7 (11.86%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.39%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.51%) Terraform
2 8 (13.56%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (10.17%) Playwright
3 6 (10.17%) pytest
4 1 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
1 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.78%) Replication
3 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (42.37%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Windows
3 6 (10.17%) CentOS
4 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.39%) Unix
6 1 (1.69%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (28.81%) CI/CD
3 17 (28.81%) Containerisation
4 16 (27.12%) Agile
5 14 (23.73%) Collaborative Culture
6 12 (20.34%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.25%) DevOps
7 9 (15.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (15.25%) High Availability
8 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
9 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (11.86%) Project Delivery
10 6 (10.17%) Dashboard Development
10 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (10.17%) Software Testing
10 6 (10.17%) Test Management
11 4 (6.78%) Microservices
11 4 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.12%) Python
2 14 (23.73%) Bash
3 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (44.07%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (10.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (6.78%) GDPR
1 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.03%) Docker
2 11 (18.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.17%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (8.47%) Active Directory
5 4 (6.78%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Ansible
1 19 (32.20%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.95%) Grafana
3 7 (11.86%) vCenter Server
4 6 (10.17%) Kibana
4 6 (10.17%) logstash
5 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.78%) Puppet
6 2 (3.39%) Argo
6 2 (3.39%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (3.39%) FortiGate
6 2 (3.39%) Istio
6 2 (3.39%) linkerd
6 2 (3.39%) Mesos
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) VMware
2 8 (13.56%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.17%) Atlassian
3 6 (10.17%) Splunk
4 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.78%) Oracle
6 2 (3.39%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.39%) Veeam
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco
7 1 (1.69%) Dell